Tummy Love, 33 Tuscany Park, Dublin (2026)

06/01/2026

Happy Nollaig na mBan 🌺

A day to celebrate women across Ireland & far beyond.

I’m so deeply grateful for the incredible women in my life, your love, support, laughter & wisdom never go unnoticed and especially over the last 3yrs. You are what keeps me going. I love you all so much. 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

Here’s to the days ahead, when we can sing, dance, laugh, chat, hug, break bread and raise a glass together again soon. One benefit to all the recent 50th’s is we have a good excuse to spend quality time together. More to come 💃🏽

I hope you manage to do something nice just for yourself today, big or small….and if not, there’s still time ❤️

Especially thinking of the women across the world who are just trying to survive every day. We are so incredibly privelaged & must never forget those who aren’t.

06/01/2026

📣Postnatal Recovery Mat Course Coming Soon!!

Your body has created & gone through so much during pregnancy & birth so we have created a course to for you.

Our 6wk Postnatal Recovery Course is back! Created especially for those navigating the postnatal period & encompassing everything your body & nervous system need to recover,rebuild, regain & rest.

Starts Tues,Jan 20th, 820–920pm at Yoga Next Door
 Led by experienced yoga & Pilates teachers specialising in women’s health, pre and postnatal care:
Lisa Phillips .ie & Melissa Curtis

Your core,pelvic floor, posture, breath, energy, confidence & sense of self all deserve care. Knowing where to begin can feel overwhelming. This course gently removes that guesswork & will also build great foundations for your life on & off the yoga mat.

Across six wks, you’ll be guided through practices that help you: 🌼Reconnect with your body
🌼Restore strength with progressions 🌼Calm your nervous system 🌼Build confidence in how you move & feel 🌼Replenish depleted reserves
😌We will even tuck you in for relaxation!

Using small props & techniques from both yoga & Pilates, we support deep healing & full-body recovery. Let us help you feel at home in yourself.

Each session includes: • Pelvic floor & core-supportive practices • Functional movement for posture, strength & daily life • Breathwork & restorative practices for nervous-system regulation • Creative, effective movement that’s supportive, enjoyable & quite different to the norm but with some norm 😄

We’ll use a range of props, such as hand weights, soft spikey balls, resistance bands, Pilates balls, yoga blocks, bolsters & comfort supports to enhance your experience.

Suitable from 6 weeks post-partum Repeat the course as often as you like. Each round offers progressions & fresh techniques Online option available, plus a 7 day recording so you can practise again in your own time

💛 Spaces are limited to keep your experience more personable.

Book via or www.hotyogadublin.ie - Workshops

05/01/2026

Happy New Year,Y’all
Wishing you good health & adventure in 2026

With many years supporting women through pregnancy, postnatal recovery, & every stage before,between & after, as well as training teachers from all over Ireland & beyond, I have so much to share with you on the mat. Here’s what’s coming up, with more details to follow on each

TUESDAYS
Pregnancy Yoga, 7-8pm, Yoga Next Door
Book via hotyogadublin Glofox app
In-studio or online
Recording included

Postnal Recovery Mat Course
Starts,Tues Jan 20th, 820–920pm
Yoga Next Door
With myself & Lisa Phillips .ie Suitable from 6wks post-partum
In-studio or online,plus recording incl
Book via Workshops at www.hotyogadublin.ie

THURSDAYS
Online Pregnancy Yoga
Online Only, 730–830pm Live class & recording included
DM me for booking details
Start back this Thurs!

💗 WORKSHOPS Women’s Mini Retreat – Nourish the Heart
Feb 13th, 730-930pm
Yoga Next Door
With myself & Lisa .ie Details & Book via workshops at www.hotyogadublin.ie

Active Birth Workshop, March 1st, 11am–545pm
Yoga Next Door
Book via Workshops at www.hotyogadublin.ie

📚TEACHER TRAININGS & CPD
All trainings below with
1️⃣ Children’s Yoga Teacher Training (4 months), Starts March 1st

2️⃣ Teen Yoga Teacher Training (3 months), Dates TBA

3️⃣ Advanced Pregnancy Yoga Teacher CPD, March 7th & 8th (Open to pregnancy yoga & Pilates teachers only)
**Only run this every 2 years so don’t miss it!

4️⃣ Mum & Baby Yoga Teacher Training (4.5days, over 2 months), Starts May 23rd

5️⃣ Wise Woman – Yoga to Support Women’s Health, June 17th & 18th

6️⃣ Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training (6 months), Starts October 10th
For full details on all the above trainings go to www.theelbowroom.com or email our course cordinator: moya@theelbowroomtraining.com

📣Also this year
• Teaching Postnatal Considerations on .ie - Doula Training – March 28th, www.dublindoula.com

• Honoured to continue teaching Anatomy on 200hr YTT
Next training starts Autumn 2026, www.yogasanctuary.ie

Get in touch anytime
Melissa 🌺

01/01/2026

A massive thank you to everyone that gave so generously towards my fundraiser for Gaza online yoga class Dec 18th.

Together we raised €560 which has been sent to Nour .nourelnono

A little about this charity….🇵🇸

“Nour Foundation is a licensed NGO in Belgium, committed to fighting poverty worldwide.
Right now, our focus is Gaza — supporting the most vulnerable, those with no one else to turn to.
We are working hard with banks and authorities to ease financial transfers.
With honesty and dedication, we believe things will work out. ❤️🇵🇸”

I had the honour of meeting Nour & got to taste her delicious Palestinian food at another fundraiser in August. Nour comes highly trusted & recommended.

Wishing you all peace & love for 2026.

There is nothing we want more than to see peace in Palestine.

Saoirse don Phalaistin 🇵🇸🇮🇪

Thank you
Melissa ###x

26/12/2025

My eldest is no longer a teen & turned 20yrs old this Christmas day 🥳

A Christmas day water baby, born in front of a christmas tree 🎄& roaring fire, 706pm. A long hard birth but would do it all again in a heartbeat. The most amazing midwife, Kate & doula by my side

Stuffed myself with dinner after & enough brussel sprouts to make up for 3 days birthing her 😂

Two Robin birds flew into my grandmothers house where all the family were gathered less than an hour before she was born. Nobody knew we had already picked her name ♥️

Happy Birthday 🎉
I hope your 20’s is as fun as mine was. Make the most of them.

Love you loads
I’m so proud of you 😘
Mom ###x

11/12/2025

THURSDAY DECEMBER 11th
ONLINE PREGNANCY YOGA
7:30–8:30pm

Join me for a soft, letting-go feminine flow designed to ease stiffness, melt tension & bring you back into your gorgeous, fluid body.

As an early Christmas gift, you’ll receive the class recording for 14 days, perfect for moving gently through the holidays with flow, release, affirmations & deep relaxation.

In the colder weather (and with all the extra pregnancy fluid + joint pressure!) it’s so normal to feel stiff. Tonight’s session is a juicy, mobility-focused flow to create that “internal lotion” and help you head to bed feeling more comfortable & at ease.

Sleep isn’t guaranteed but gentle movement, breathwork & relaxation can spark the hormones that help you drift off & stay asleep. Many say their best sleep is after class!

I fully encourage PJ’s (only socks with grips!), dim lights, candles or fairy lights, soft music etc. Create your cosy cocoon & let this be your wind-down ritual.

Teaching from my home to yours feels incredibly special. Thanks for booking.

Cost: €8 per class.
Booking & Payment
* To book your weekly class, please send payment to Melissa Curtis via:
* Revolut: 086 381 8443
* Bank Transfer IBAN: IE74 BOFI 9006 9092 0231 53
* When booking, please include your email address in the payment notes or email Melissa directly at tummylovewithmelissa@gmail.com.
* If booking multiple weeks, simply pay the total amount (number of weeks × €8). This saves you every week having to book in.
* Melissa will send the class link each Thursday before the session begins for all classes you have booked.
* Each Thursday class may be booked any day in advance, up until 7:15pm on the day of the class.

Additional Requests
* If you would like Melissa to include or focus on anything specific in the class, please feel free to get in touch.

Message me anytime with questions.
Melissa 🥰

27/11/2025

Pelvic Floor Deep Dive Tonight!
Nov 27th 730-830pm
Pregnancy Yoga - Online Only

A class dedicated entirely to understanding, connecting & supporting your pelvic floor throughout pregnancy & birth & life!

Dm to get booking details or if you already have them book soon as you don’t want to miss this.

All bookings receive recording for 7 days.

Please have a small ball (or block or cushion/rolled blankets) & a chair nearby or your birth ball.

In this Deep Dive we’ll explore:
- Breath & Pelvic Floor Connection
- Pelvic Floor as Part of Your Core
- Understanding this dynamic, essential part of your deep core system.
- Toning, Lengthening & Relaxing
- Exploring a full range of pelvic floor movement through pregnancy yoga - each one equally important helping to build awareness & connection.
- Pelvic Floor for Birth
- The role these muscles play during labour & how to support them.
- Everyday Practices -simple tools you can weave into life beyond the yoga mat.

Your pelvic floor is a group of muscle layers forming a strong, springy, hammock-shaped support from the p***c bone to the tailbone & from sit bone to sit bone. These muscles also connect deeply into the inner pelvis.

They help to:
🌺 Support pelvic organs
🌺 Stabilise the pelvis & spine
🌺 Assist bladder & bowel control
🌺 Support sexual function
🌺 Play a key role in birth
🌺 Maintain healthy pelvic pressure
🌺 Work with your breath to circulate blood & lymph

During pregnancy, the pelvic floor adapts to the growing weight of your uterus & baby, reaching its maximum stretch as your baby passes through during birth. Understanding this system helps us appreciate the incredible work these muscles do.

Pelvic floor health isn’t just about “doing your squeezes.”
It’s about moving, breathing, minding your stress levels, supporting your whole body & seeking guidance from a women’s health physio.

18/11/2025

This Thursday, Nov 20th 730-830pm, we will be using the birth ball. A class that combines Pregnancy Yoga & Pilates so you can learn some really helpful & fun practices on the ball to support you during pregnancy. One of my most popular classes!

I hope this post is helpful for anyone that needs to buy a birth ball. Don’t wait til the end of pregnancy. They’re fab.

Buying a good quality anti-burst ball is important.

I would suggest asking around first as I’m sure your friends or family have one in their attic not being used!

When buying a birth ball you will need to check the size guide. Here is a rough size guide for your height:

55cm ball = 155cm-166cm height

65cm ball = 166cm-178cm height

75cm ball = 178cm-2m height

When sitting on a ball your hips need to be higher than your knees for better mobility, space for you & baby & there’s less constant pressure into your lower back & pelvic floor.

If you sit a lot during the day, try alternate between the chair & birth ball to help relieve pelvic and back pain.

You may need to buy a pump separately.

Some of benefits of using a birth ball during pregnancy and birth are:

🌺Helps maintain good posture during pregnancy
🌺Can help baby find a good position the last few weeks of pregnancy for birth.
🌺General comfort
🌺 Can be a huge relief during the stages of birth to sit on, lean into, during back labour, ease discomfort, promotes staying upright, mobile and uses gravity in a way you can still save energy
🌺 can be used for yoga, Pilates & other forms of exercise during pregnancy and after baby is born
🌺It can be a great prop to bounce on to help soothe a newborn instead of wasting your energy pacing the floor & save your shoulders!

For good quality balls check out:

➡️
➡️www.physioneeds.biz (called a fitball here)
➡️
www.pregnancyandbaby.ie
(called gymnic birthing ball)
➡️Decathalon - they don’t always have them in stock but I like the ones I have bought there

To book this weeks class go to www.tummylove.ie or link in bio. Recording sent to all booked in.

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