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Brenda Hardy

To book email hello@brendahardy.com Initially I just did't get it. I thought it was boring and pointless. My flexibility and posture improved dramatically.

I qualified as a physiotherapist in 2007 and was introduced to pilates the following year, whilst attending a colleague, who was treating me for chronic low back pain. I wasn't out of breath and didn't know what I was meant to be feeling while contracting my 'core.'

My physio soon realised that I wasn't doing my exercises and basically gave me a telling off! From this point I started to apply myself and completed around eight one to one sessions of supervised pilates and was prescribed a progressive exercise programme. Around two months later I was pain free and able to return to camogie. For the first time, following my injury, I was able to play pain free and avoid taking painkillers to play a match. Prior to this I had even resorted to playing with a heat wrap around my lower back. I was able to bend forwards with ease, a movement that I previously avoided due to pain. As pilates had worked so well for me, I started to use it as a treatment adjunct for patients with musculoskeletal problems such as low back pain, sciatica, postural problems and much more. Over the years I've attended pilates and yoga classes both locally and in Australia, which has improved my knowledge and ability. In November 2012 I started formal training with the APPI (Australian Physiotherapy & Pilates Institute) and I have completed the instructors course and advanced movements courses. I currently work in the fracture gym in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and I continue to use pilates as part of functional rehabilitation.

02/09/2025

✨From Disconnection to Connection through Birth

✨My first birthing experience was so traumatic that I remember looking in the mirror after my daughter’s birth and I genuinely didn’t recognise myself in the reflection. I was so detached from my body, that I was touching my own skin, to see if I could feel it, to make sure it was me, that I was seeing in the mirror.

✨My daughter carries the imprint of her birth too - a forceps delivery, heading straight to surgery for a 9 hour operation at birth and then being ventilated in ICU for a week - where no one held her the entire time. I didn’t know I was “allowed” to and I didn’t ask. 😢

✨ It’s taken me a very long time to realise, understand and ultimately accept (I’m almost there), that this birth didn’t happen to me, it was generated from me. Beyond the necessary lifesaving operation for my daughter - Yes, I experienced coercion, gaslighting and was mistreated…. And what is also true, is that the disconnect already lived within me. I could not use my voice. I already had embodied ruptured boundaries. This birth met me where I was at, as painful as it is to say that. My work has been to take responsibility for my experience, without blame, guilt or shame.

✨And I did. I dug deep and did so much internal work…moving through many layers. By the time I had my third daughter I experienced an uninterrupted and healing birth. I used my voice, had solid boundaries and trusted myself and my body deeply.

✨This pregnancy – something has shifted. I’m being asked not to have a certain type of birth/ take back my power - thats been done….but instead, to go back and heal what was broken. To meet the gripping and protection that I still hold. To move through the next layer and to really allow myself to be held and supported. This time I being asked to let LIFE in: surrender, let go and trust.

Love Brenda ❤️x

21/08/2025

✨Creating space and time to be with yourself - to go onwards and listen, really listen, without distraction…..is one of the most precious and loving acts one can do for themselves. The guidance we seek is within and will be unique to you.

✨Over and over what I think women need isn’t actually what they end up needing. I too have to step back - be a deep space and trust that whatever they connect to, is exactly what’s needed. I have had to slow right down, and bring pauses and invitations to my work.

✨Women are returning to the magic of their internal landscape, their inner wisdom and deep trust of themselves. This is the aliveness and vitality that this work brings.

✨The expert or guru what never “out there” - she is within your sacred body. Can you return to her? Can you listen and honour her?

Brenda x ❤️

17/08/2025

✨Conscious Conception✨

✨In the past, I found it so difficult to be in the unknown. I would scramble, seek out evidence, clarity and a way to “know.” Unknowingly I was searching for a way to control, to manage fear because I didn’t feel safe in this place.

✨Allowing for a baby asks us to be in the complete unknown. I remember when I was in that place. I longed for clarity, for something to hold onto, in the unknown. What I eventually found was that the deepest guidance didn’t come from outside of me — it came from within. It came when I learned to slow down, to listen, and to trust myself and my body.

✨I stumbled upon conscious conception when I began to connect with a baby who wanted to be my child, long before I conceived them. I felt their presence, knew them, and anchored in the trust that they were coming. That experience showed me that conception is more than physical….I didn’t know something like this was possible until it happened.

✨My Conscious Conception offerings were born from my own journey. Now, I hold space for others to prepare their body, heart, and spirit with love and intention, so they too can connect with the possibility of life in a deeper way.

🌿 1:1 Conscious Conception Session
This is a sacred pause — a place where you can lay down the weight of fear, grief, or stories that no longer serve, and reconnect with your Essence. Together we create space for you to:

✨ Listen deeply to your own truth
✨ Reclaim trust in your body and intuition
✨ Open up communication and build a relationship to the life waiting to be welcomed

✨Preconception Acupuncture
Through Five Elements acupuncture, we restore balance in body, mind, and spirit. These 60-minute sessions calm the nervous system, regulate energy, and support fertility on every level.

💫 This is an invitation into a healing space of deep love and connection, where you are supported in aligning with your soul’s destiny and the possibility of new life.

📍 Learn more through the link in bio.

Or reach out via DM

Brenda ❤️

14/08/2025

✨In my first pregnancy I was so disconnected from my body and my baby that I found it difficult to feel her kicks and movements. My second pregnancy wasn't much better - I was in complete survival.

✨In this picture I’m pregnant with my 3rd daughter Nancy - in the isolation and quiet of covid I was able to see her many times in meditation. This wasn't something I set out to do but visuals of her kept appearing - I think because for the first time, I had to completely pause and there was space for connection.

✨I seen her feet a lot! I seen her umbilical cord connected to the earth. I seen her hands on her face and so many more images. I wish I could have been guided to speak to her and to listen to what she might be telling me. This is what we are bringing to you.

✨Imagine a world where this deep connection begins at the earliest opportunity. This connection is the 'anchor' that we unknowingly seek in pregnancy. Where we can go inward and be guided by the wisdom of our bodies and our babies. Our entire pregnancy and birth is a co-creation WITH our baby - you are in this together.

✨ This work brings you towards your baby, building intimacy, connection and deep trust ❤️

✨Join .keller and I for a special Pregnancy Retreat Day 10.30-1pm Sunday 31st August in Arcadia Portrush…. Inner Ocean. All the details are in the bio. DM me with any questions - we would love to hear from you.

Return to your body, your breath, your baby. Deeply trusting yourself, your intuition, your inner knowing ❤️✨

Love Brenda x

13/08/2025

✨Sometimes I wish I could be a “normal” practitioner! But I have a deep deep listening - that I ignored for many years that goes beyond spoken words, body language and goes straight to the truth of what the body is really carrying.

✨It feels really vulnerable for me to share the shifts that have happened and partly it’s because they might seem a bit “out there” or “woowoo” - there’s a fear of ridicule.

✨But my desire to help others experience the freedom this work brings - is bigger than my fears.

✨BodyMind maturation is a process where we guide you to dissolve what is held in your body. Instead of focusing on talking about the problem you may have, the cycle that keeps repeating or eliminating / fixing symptoms, it takes us to the root and dissolves what is held there.

✨Our bodies keep the score and no amount of trying and doing and working harder can unravel what is held there.

✨This work will invite memories, sensations and experiences within the body to come to the surface so they can be felt and integrated. This brings you choices, a different way of seeing and ultimately freedom.

✨Freedom isn’t the new job/car/house / relationship - although this may be part of your growth. Freedom is found through feeling and dissolving what is held in your Body and outgrowing the problems rather than fixing them.

✨I’ve allowed some of these practices to gently come in - when I go really slowly with hands on pelvic and body work such as womb Hara massage - women are remembering sensations/experiences that are held there and memories are coming to the surface - that have been waiting to dissolve.

✨This work brings you back to YOUR body, it brings you HOME

✨My current availability for womb Hara massage (for all women except in pregnancy) and pre conception acupuncture are detailed in my bio. I am at capacity for bodymind maturation for now but spaces will open next year and this is a really beautiful way to begin. Reach out to speak more. ✨

🤎Brenda

04/08/2025

🎼 Sound just does something to me - I can’t explain it 🎼

✨I experienced my first sound bath in Ibiza October 2023 with - it’s like I was transported somewhere else. I felt my body float from the floor and felt bliss.

✨In June 2024 I had a 1;1 womb and sound healing session with the beautiful in Ibiza. Josie used a tuning fork on my body - when she placed it on my throat I felt my entire pelvis “let go” and soften onto the bed.

I’ve experienced a whole new magic in these experiences with sound….it prompted me to buy my own Alchemy Bowl this year and I have since been weaving sound into my 1:1 work ❤️✨ I’m love seeing what unfolds in women’s journeys with sound.

Brenda x

02/08/2025

✨Womb Hara Massage ✨

I can’t really describe or predict the journey that women go on in this sacred 2 hour journey - it will be unique to you…but I’m in awe of what moves and so honoured to hold these spaces……words shared with consent from a beautiful clients experience:

“At that moment I had an overwhelming vision that made me very teary. I saw my daughter as a blooming flower in my womb, however she wasn’t a baby, she was a little girl, the age she is now.

I had a very strong sense that this was my body's way of telling me that my space belonged to both me and her and that it had been her home.

I also saw another flower and felt that this was my daughter's way of communicating that someone else would be welcome in that space. Until then I was quite confused about whether or not I wanted to continue on my fertility journey and perhaps another baby wasn’t in my path but this made me feel very content and very relaxed as if my body was saying ‘the possibility is there if you want it’.

I then saw my womb as a warm nest with a little light inside it, which again made me feel very content because I had previously seen it as inhospitable."

Dani✨

01/08/2025

✨Pregnancy Yoga Flow✨

✨Come to Remember,
✨You are not just carrying a baby,
✨You are creating LIFE
✨You are POWER embodied

✨This is your sacred space…. To rise, to soften, to remember. You are not alone, you are not small. You are everything and have everything you need within you and more.

✨I’m really looking forward to beginning our new 5 week block tomorrow 10-11.15am in Ahoghill - just x 1 space left! (Link to book in bio) Catch up recordings sent out weekly for more practice or if you miss a session.

✨These classes are a journey - and I’m so grateful to be taking it with you ❤️

Brenda x

31/07/2025

✨Preconception can be a time of deep hope, uncertainty, grief, and longing—all at once.

In my sessions, I try to create space for the full range of what you might be carrying. It’s not just about needles or protocols—it’s about being met where you are, without pressure or expectation.

A special lady recently shared this after our time together, and it really speaks to what I hope to offer in this work:

🧡 “Brenda created a safe and supportive space where I could truly sit with my feelings. I felt heard, cared for, and gently guided through the process. Highly recommend her compassionate and intuitive approach.”

If you’re on the path to conception and looking for support, I’m here. You don’t have to navigate it all on your own.

DM to speak more ❤️

08/07/2025

INNER OCEAN — a pregnancy workshop by The Rooted Heart 🌊

Birth is not just physical. It is emotional, energetic, ancestral.
Before the waves of labour begin, there is a stillness — a sacred pause. A threshold.
This is the realm of Water, where you are invited to let go, trust, and listen deeply.

In this workshop, we’ll weave the Water Element from Traditional Chinese Medicine with Irish ancestral birthing wisdom — exploring how to soften into the unknown, connect with your baby, and prepare not just your body, but your whole being for birth.

🌿 Led by .keller & .hardy_
🌀 For all those preparing to cross the threshold
📍 Saturday 26th July 10.30-1pm Ahoghill.

Dm to book
More info in bio ❤️

14/06/2025

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17/03/2025

✨I was scrolling on Instagram in 2021. At the time I was looking after my 3 small kids, while running a charity. I was working as a pelvic health physio and feeling unfulfilled. I knew there was more beyond the physical issues women were presenting with. I felt something was missing in my life and in my work.
✨Life was extremely busy and hard. I was constantly overwhelmed with no time for myself. I seen that Ria had shared a post about working with a new mentor. I don’t know what made me stop as I was constantly rushing, but I did. I booked a discovery call with her mentor, Emma. I don’t know how Emma managed to communicate with me on the call, as I was talking so fast and jumping from one conversation to the next. But thankfully I took the leap and we began working together in bodymind maturation 1:1 and I trained to become a coach myself in 2022.
✨It’s hard to describe the place I was in at this time. So tightly bound, so highly self-protective. Fearful, not trusting. I was carrying so much shame. I had not had the time or space to feel what I was carrying – but more than that, I didn’t even know that at that time. Just like a fish doesn’t know its in water – humans beings cannot see themselves or what they are in.
✨BodyMind maturation has changed everything for me and I want to share it with you…this approach provides you with a space to be with and see how trauma and past experiences are frozen in your body, while simultaneously held as memories in your mind. Maturation is not about making you feel better but inviting you to bring awareness to the story you are telling yourself about who you are and what life is. Through feeling, leaning into your experience, becoming intimate with your unique story and by befriending the unknown, real freedom becomes possible. It is an opportunity to outgrow the past, revealing the ways in which we generate our experience from within the BodyMind, continually playing out the past in the present and calling this reality.
✨I am offering unique opportunity of x 1 hour BodyMind Maturation sessions to anyone seeking the deepest healing. Come and experience this profound work in my deep holding. DM me to speak more. Brenda❤️

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Tuesday	9am - 1pm
Wednesday	9am - 2pm
Thursday	9am - 11am

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