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Emilie - the body doula

Somatic coach for pregnancy and postpartum, working online and in South West UK.

- doula support
- antenatal classes
- postnatal care
- pregnancy yoga
- postnatal classes
- pelvic wellbeing
- pregnancy and postnatal massage
- biomechanics for pregnancy and birth • optimal alignment and positioning 1-2-1's and workshops

www.thebodydoula.com

02/05/2026

First fruit of the year from the garden in hand. Merry May 🌞

Ginger bug is bubbling in the cupboard and a lilac lemonade chilling in the fridge.

I don’t post much of the garden because it’s not “pretty”. Since we’ve started to think of it more as a shared habitat than our garden, it’s developed more and more piles of sticks and dandelions. Lifting pots to find massive spiders and tiny frogs. The garden furniture is tired but it’s functioning, relatable. And I won’t send it to landfill if it works.

Here’s a picture of an undisturbed pile in the background, hidden from the gram like a furry armpit. It’s sitting on what used to be a path. Quietly hoping for a hedgepig to move in and make a nest… we haven’t had one for a couple of years now.

Mission for weekend is to populate the greenhouse with food things, plant more seeds and pot some stuff up. My bones need the shade of a wood and my heart needs to climb a hill and my muscles want time to stay in place here at home.

Hoping this inspires you to share a pic of your compost heap, or similar beautifully unsightly corner that’s actually brimming with life and hope.

14/03/2026

Beautiful walk on Cley Hill this morning.

Finally out of hibernation. Still 20% more bear than last autumn 🍂

07/03/2026

IWD giveaway ♡ 2 spaces for Soft Return workshop in Bath - Sat 28th March

➡️ Tag the friend you’d bring to share this session with and follow to enter. You and your friend join for free - a morning of space to pause, connect and come back to yourselves.

Winner picked Monday morning - 10am

Or if you know you want to be there - limited book with a sista 2 spaces for £60 (just a couple available) offer closes Monday mindnight (or when those spots sell, whichever happens first).

• soft return
A 2-hour somatic workshop exploring breath, pelvic floor and nervous system. Light-filled studio, central Bath. Saturday 28th March, 10.30am.

For women at all stages who could use some time to reconnect. Especially beneficial if you’re TTC, 3+ months postpartum, deep in the mother juggle or approaching perimenopause.

Link in bio to book or tag a friend here to enter. Not linked to the meta lords, not transferable etc etc.

20/02/2026

If you’re feeling a little lost in motherhood. Busy carrying and never quite having time and space to connect with yourself…

You will love what I have planned for this workshop next month in Bath. We have a gorgeous venue to unwind in and a session that’s all about the connections between breath, pelvis and the nervous system 🌿

Save the date 📅 Sat 28th March
🤍 Early booking link will be with people on my list this weekend
✉️ public waitlist is open (link in my bio)

01/01/2026

Happy New Year 🌟

This is last night’s sun down. A beautiful sight watched with my family from a frosty forest.

This year I’m considering what I can add to life. It feels like this dark part of the year is not the time for taking pleasures away… I advance grew myself a windowsill of pea shoots and am looking at ways to make space for myself to lay down the roots needed for shoots 🌱

No brutalising myself into something smaller here this year thank you ☺️

22/12/2025

Beginning tonight with a free first session ✨

Guided simple practices that are all about taking the pause that’s long been the tradition at these transitional points of the year.   The solstice marks the point where the days are shortest, and the nights are long, here in the northern hemisphere. While we’re still in the depths of the winter it can remind us there is light to come.

Echoing nature, with a gentle call to rest before the big give of xmas comes around.

Everyone who joins for session 1 will also get all the ‘Twixtmas’ tools for surviving the bit inbetween. But really those are just the start of this embodied journey into Winter.

We’ll be whispering a firm FU to the ‘New You’ BS that will be buzzing around January.

The depths of winter are not necessarily the time for big challenge, if we follow the seasons then staying under a blanket, nurturing ourselves with space and time while planting the seeds and tending to the embers could be a more natural start to a year.

Our themes:
22nd December - Slowdown
The Inbetween - practices for balancing slow/go
5th Jan - Embers
17th Jan - Unfurling
2nd Feb - The Spark

19/12/2025

Warmest wishes to all as we approach the solstice ✨

Thanks to and every single one of the delightful humans who joined us tonight to acknowledge the longest night. Nurturing the brightness to come and reflecting on the year past.

It’s Mother’s Night this evening. A time to honour the female line of ancestors (including Mother Earth herself) 🌍 I love how it coincides with this long night and the path of our planetary home. I will be lighting a candle for these guardians, and for all mothers burning the candle at both ends to make the season magical for their families. I see you.

🔥🌿🩵✨

I’m back at Wildcat on Sat 3rd Jan. If you can’t wait til then, see you Monday evening online for a sweet hour of lying / sitting down and not doing whatever is on that list that isn’t as important as resting.

Chloe and I will be hosting again for Imbolc at the start of February. Tickets out for that soon 🤍

15/12/2025

Thanks for inviting me 🌿 What a beautiful spot you have there - really special.

Wonderful to whisk you all ✨

14/12/2025

If the run up to Christmas is feeling like an uphill struggle… like you’re going against nature’s call to slow down and pause, you might like to join us next Monday 🕯️

As my gift to the lovely humans that I get to work with, this session is free. I know how hard it can be to make a little time for yourself amongst the Christmas hustle, but I think you’ll find you’re a little more able to function through the season of neon hyper-giving if you do.

• 75 mins of floor/seat-based movement and mindfulness to help you catch up with yourself and approach xmas with your cup a little fuller ✨

Perfect for busy folk who are doing their best to make Xmas magical for others and need a little for themselves 🌟

Monday 22nd December 7.15pm (recording available for a week after)

Bonus 🎁 you’ll also get a series of twixtmas practices for the hinterland zone. Ideal if you’re travelling, hosting or pausing.

There’s also the option to carry on through to the start of February if you would like to carry on with the winter nurture rather than launch into ‘new me mode’

🌿 signup via my website or send me a message and I can sort you out

12/12/2025

Looking forward to co-creating some solstice sauna magic with at Wildcat Community Sauna on Friday 19th December 🔥

It’s our first evening ritual, perfect for bringing focus to light in the darkness as we mark the turning of the year and the start of gradual return of the light ✨

Chloë will be guiding a sauna journey in one sauna while I offer some whisking and aromas in the other 🌿 Still a couple of spots left if you’d like to join us. Head over to website / bio to get booked in.

22/11/2025

Beaut of a Friday yesterday!

Is it just me that is relieved to see the frost come. Started with getting out for some movement (morning rope flow) rocked some admin, then bobbed out in the afternoon with a bus ride to . Such a beautiful spot and set up at Warleigh Weir 🩵 really special!

✨ Arrived back in Frome in time for the Lantern Parade - feels good when the town comes together. That also means we’re fast heading for 🎄 eeep!

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http://www.emiliejoyrowell.com/

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