Audrey the Yoga Witch Birthkeeper

18/08/2025

🌀I am an experienced, dedicated, Pregnancy Yoga teacher of 14 years

🌀I believe that yoga is a beautiful gift to yourself during pregnancy & a truly holistic approach to birth preparation.

🌀The practice of pranayama (yogic breathing practice), gentle asana (yoga postures) along which primal movement , guided relaxation & positive affirmation creates a deep connection to your body & your baby and promotes release of stress & anxiety

🌀With a focus on connecting to the energy of your chakras we make our way from the root to the crown exploring the complexities of the emotions & energies of pregnancy & birth along the way

🌀I offer weekly 90 minute, Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Preparation classes on Thursday evenings 7-8.30pm in our gorgeous studio

09/08/2025

This is Noah & I when he was around 2

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In 2008 a series of unexpected events & encouragement from a friend who said i’d be “good at it” prompted me to sign up to a Doula Preparation course led by a Adela Stockton & assisted by . It was life changing and awoke a passion in me that I never knew existed!

In 2009, armed with my new found knowledge and so much clarity about Adam’s birth & my post partum experience I felt confident enough to try for another baby. As soon as I got a positive test I stated planning & preparing for my VBAC! I practiced yoga several times a week & daily once I was on mat leave, I felt connected, strong & ready

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I considered where to birth most of all, I chose the Midwife led unit at the RAH. The team there were exceptional, I felt supported in all my choices & when labour began I was excited to get there.

Noah was born in the water, I breathed my way through, used no pain relief and felt like a fu***ng goddess afterwards. I immediately asked if his birth would be logged as a VBAC 😂 One of the midwives commented on how controlled my breathing was, I remember saying ‘it’s all the yoga’ !

My post partum was a completely different experience, I knew what kind of support I needed to breastfeed, I understood that I needed help, rest & good nutrition. I felt well, capable & confident as I navigated becoming a mother of two boys, a million miles from the shadow I had been before.

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Most of my doula clients come to me after a negative or traumatic birth or post partum experience which of course is so relatable to me. I have also had the privilege of supporting first time parents to experience a powerful, positive first birth.

We need more first births to be positive !

I would love to support you during your pregnancy, birth & post partum with yoga & doula support.

More about my traditional postpartum support offerings coming …….

08/08/2025

My calling is to empower women and birthing people with the knowledge they need for a positive birth and the first 40 days post partum. Everything I offer is from my heart to yours

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This is me almost 22 years ago with my beautiful boy Adam at around 3 weeks old ❤️

I love this photo, a glimmer of peace amongst the chaos that I felt inside of me.

After very little birth education & an emergency caesarean birth I was catapulted into motherhood with pretty poor post natal care, no skin to skin with my boy and exhausted after 5 days on the ward with three other new mothers & babies.

I had never felt so depleted, alone, or helpless despite having Gerrie and my family around me.

I remember missing Gerrie even though he was right there, it was the strangest feeling. It broke my heart.

I cried a lot, struggled to feed from my grazed, thrushy, mastitis ridden breasts and wondered where all the joy & love of motherhood was?

I was filled with fear for my baby, not feeding properly, never contented & at one point pretty sure that a demon was trying to steal his beautiful, pure new soul. (Thanks Skipknot) I encircled his cot with sea salt just in case !

To be honest the first 8 weeks are a blur. I felt lost, incapable and robbed of my life, as harsh as that sounds. I remember clearly the day I managed to wash my hair, although I fell asleep with Adam on the bed in my towel afterwards because he was actually sleeping !!!

It was never picked up that I had any post natal anxiety or depression because I’m great at using humour to deflect but it lingered for years and years and years.

I wish I’d known of Matrescence …….

My personal experience propelled me into the work I do now as a perinatal yoga teacher, birth educator and doula.

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I would love to support you during your pregnancy, birth & post partum

Audrey x

27/07/2025

Just home from witnessing the goddess in human form

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Another beautiful baby born at home into all the power and healing that comes with a completely undisturbed, pure, raw physiological birth

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Leaving a birth where a woman feels more powerful than she did when you arrived should always be the goal.

it was a delight to be in the space with you ❤️

14/07/2025

It’s Monday, need a lie down?

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We’re going restorative at yoga tonight. After the heat of the weekend let’s rest our bodies, cool & calm the mind.

I’m bringing out the bolsters people or as I like to call them, the emotional support props.

Fancy joining us at 7pm ? Get in touch 🙂

Audrey x

13/07/2025

Saturday morning yoga in the garden. The perfect way to ground, connect and be present.

The view from the mat was gorgeous

Classes every saturday 9.15

09/07/2025

Beautiful Jo is always there for you & your b***s !

Night feeding your little one? In desperate need of new bras but think 🤔 ‘ I’ll do something about it tomorrow’.
Feel free to message anytime overnight and I’ll get in touch in the morning…..Jo 😊

09/07/2025

Working through my required reflexology treatment hours

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Not long now until I am officially a Clinical Reflexologist!!

Thank you to all who have given of their time & their feet so far 🙏🏻

30/06/2025

This is a group of happy and relieved women after our Clinical Reflexology exam yesterday!

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We all met in September last year and I’m really going to miss our monthly training days together.

It’s been intense but I’m almost qualified and I cannot wait to add the magic of clinical reflexology to my offerings for pregnancy, birth, post partum, menstruation & peri/menopause

I’m aiming to start treatments in August ❤️👣

24/06/2025

A few days away to rest before back to back ‘on-calls’ over July & August. I’m excited to support two beautiful families planning for home birth ❤️

For now I’m spending some much needed time with my own beautiful people.

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My pregnancy & post partum yoga classes will be running all summer and Moon Maidens returns in August. More on that soon !!

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15/05/2025

A gorgeous post partum yoga for mother & baby class this morning. What a gift to have the glorious Scottish sun shining down on us in the beautiful gardens.

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Classes every Thursday 10-11.30

11/05/2025

This was the view from my Pregnancy Yoga class yesterday morning. We practiced in the garden with our feet on the earth.

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Divinely timed sunshine for our Manipura / Solar Plexus chakra class. The colour of this energy is said to be golden and powerful like the sun.

This chakra is our inner power centre, it is the place of

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☀️of rising above fear and moving forward with love

☀️it’s the hidden treasure of personal power within, more than you ever knew you had.

Isn’t that exactly what you need when birthing your baby ? Each birth I attend I see women dig so deeply into this power, it takes my breath away.

In my class we focus on each chakra as a way to prepare for birth energetically as well as physically and we delve into the psychology of the birthing mind which is massively empowering to understand.

I have spaces on Thursday nights at 7pm and Saturday mornings at 10.30am. I’d love to welcome you in and guide you towards your most powerful self as you prepare for birth.

Audrey x