Shelley McCarten Movement

10/04/2023

This course was fully booked but I have just had two last minute cancellations!

This 4-week Pregnancy Movement Course prepares your body and mind for birth as well as giving tools to navigate the postnatal period. Fusing together 10 years of teaching pregnancy movement to hundreds of pregnant bodies this course:�-�

✨ Explains the brilliance of your body, and the magic of ALL births; vaginal and belly.�

✨ Trains your core safely and optimally relieving common issues such as hip pain, pelvic pain and back pain.�

✨ Supports the beauty and validity of ALL BIRTH OUTCOMES, and YOUR birth and parenting choices.�

✨ Offers specialised tools to understand the core and pelvic floor and the difference in their role and use in pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery.�

✨ Empowers you with education in the body’s design and its innate wisdom for pregnancy and birth.

�✨ Provides a safe COMMUNITY of pregnant bodies to share your journey and experiences - the bliss and the grit.�

✨ Encourages you to move well now, and for the years to come, so you can keep up with your children and future grandchildren in the playground.�

Sat 15 April to Sat 13 May at , Level 4, 40 Taranaki Street, Wellington, 10:30am - 12pm $100. No class Sat 29 April.�-�Book via bio on Instagram or via Enrolment on booking page at www.tiaki.net.nz or https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=146255&stype=-8&sTG=60&sView=day&sLoc=0�

�“This has been by far the most informative yoga I have done to date, really glad my friend put me on to it and I was able to find you. I am feeling more in-tune with my body and equipped with the tools to birth my bub after taking your course." - Maeve�

�More testimonials in comments.�

02/03/2023

Public health announcement!
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Got a cervix?
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Get it checked! ✅
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23/02/2023

This was a sequence that I created for one of my prolapse clients.
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Some might look at these exercises and think there’s too much load for someone that has a prolapse BUT slow progression and optimal core control is KEY.
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The client knows her core compensation patterns, and we have built her strength and endurance to a level so that her core can be safely challenged.
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We need to train our muscles and tissues to adapt too all kind of load, tension and pressure.
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Here for any questions!
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07/02/2023

Do you know I have a newsletter?
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I love to be kept informed by organisations I love, but I don’t like getting emailed all the time, so….my email is a sporadic little offering where a few times a year I alert you to what has been inspiring me of late.
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I like to include a free movement video. The latest newsletter is all about deep core integration - a simple exercise which you don’t have to even get up off the ground for!
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Want in?
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Visit my bio on Instagram or sign up at link found of bottom of my home page www.shelleymccarten.com.
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Pssssst: there’s a special offer for new clients in there too 😊
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21/01/2023

This 4-week Pregnancy Movement Course prepares your body and mind for birth as well as giving tools to navigate the postnatal period.

Fusing together 10 years of teaching pregnancy movement to hundreds of pregnant bodies this course:


✨ Explains the brilliance of your body, and the magic of ALL births; vaginal and belly.

✨ Trains your core safely and optimally relieving common issues such as hip pain, pelvic pain and back pain.

✨ Supports the beauty and validity of ALL BIRTH OUTCOMES, and YOUR birth and parenting choices.

✨ Offers specialised tools to understand the core and pelvic floor and the difference in their role and use in pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery.

✨ Empowers you with education in the body’s design and its innate wisdom for pregnancy and birth.

✨ Provides a safe COMMUNITY of pregnant bodies to share your journey and experiences - the bliss and the grit.

✨ Encourages you to move well now, and for the years to come, so you can keep up with your children and future grandchildren in the playground.


Saturday 4 February to Saturday 25 February at , Level 4, 40 Taranaki Street, Wellington, 10:30am - 12pm $100.


Book via bio on Instagram or via Enrolment on booking page at www.tiaki.net.nz or https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=146255&tg=60&vt=&lvl=&stype=-8&view=day&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=1%2f21%2f2023&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=1


“This has been by far the most informative yoga I have done to date, really glad my friend put me on to it and I was able to find you. I am feeling more in-tune with my body and equipped with the tools to birth my bub after taking your course." - Maeve


More testimonials in comments.



20/01/2023

BACK IN STUDIO for 2023 ☺️
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Pregnancy Yoga + Movement 4-Week Course
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Private sessions for Restore Your Core®, Sustainable Movement, Pain + Injury Recovery, Pregnancy, Postnatal Recovery.
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✨ 2023 New Client Offer - 20% off your first initial assessment for private sessions ✨
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Pregnancy Yoga + Movement 4-week Course at :
Term 1: Sat 4 Feb - Sat 25 Feb
Term 2: Sat 11 March - Sat 1 April
Term 3: Sat 15 April - Sat 13 May
10:30am - 12noon, $100
Booking via bio on Instagram or https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=146255&tg=60&vt=&lvl=&stype=-8&view=day&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=1%2f21%2f2023&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=1
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Private Sessions:
Wednesdays + Thursdays (some availability Mondays and Tuesdays) 9am - 5pm at home studio in Waterloo, Lower Hutt or via Zoom.
Booking via bio on Instagram, DM me or email me@shelleymccarten.com

16/01/2023

It’s 2023 😊 (in case you didn’t know 😉).
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I am back after taking a wee break and what a better way to restart the new year than by sharing my two favourite reads from 2022.
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme was the most heart-aching book I have ever encountered, and yes it took me until 2022 to finally read it (the novel was published in 1983)! I have never felt such conflict for characters, so much care and love but also so much disdain. You could smell, feel and taste Aotearoa’s landscape through Keri Hulme’s words. It was incredible.
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How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid was also phenomenal. So much so that once read, I started it again! Three wāhine toa navigating a changed landscape in a suburb in Tāmaki Makaurau affected by gentrification and colonisation. It was powerful, vibrant, so very topical and gave a much needed perspective for this Pākehā woman.
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Both these books reminded me how the stories of our ancestors and our histories are stored in our bodies, bones, cells (and particularly within these two books the generational trauma for indigenous cultures).
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Understanding somatic memory is an area which is important to my work. More and more I come to realise that there is so much wisdom in our bodies and the stories we hold within. There is empowerment when we allow time to connect and tune in. That’s the joy of movement for me. The felt sense, those moments that we can’t describe with words. It’s not always pretty and positive, but neither is the roller coaster of life. We love, we grieve, we laugh, we cry.
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There is a running theme in the way I work. Whether you are working with injury or pain, whether you are preparing for or recovering from birth, whether you are looking to build sustainable strength, you will always be encouraged to tune in. Because that’s where change happens.
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DM me for private session availability. My next 4-week Pregnancy Movement course starts Sat 4 Feb, booking via bio on Instagram or bia Enrolments tab on https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/asp/main_enroll.asp?fl=true&tabID=8

21/11/2022

LAST COURSE FOR 2022!
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This 4-week Pregnancy Movement Course prepares your body and mind for birth as well as giving tools to navigate the postnatal period. Fusing together 10 years of teaching pregnancy movement to hundreds of pregnant bodies this course:

✨ Explains the brilliance of your body, and the magic of ALL births; vaginal and belly.

✨ Trains your core safely and optimally relieving common issues such as hip pain, pelvic pain and back pain.

✨ Supports the beauty and validity of ALL BIRTH OUTCOMES, and YOUR birth and parenting choices.


✨ Offers specialised tools to understand the core and pelvic floor and the difference in their role and use in pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery.


✨ Empowers you with education in the body’s design and its innate wisdom for pregnancy and birth.


✨ Provides a safe COMMUNITY of pregnant bodies to share your journey and experiences - the bliss and the grit.


✨ Encourages you to move well now, and for the years to come, so you can keep up with your children and future grandchildren in the playground.



Saturday 26 November to Saturday 17 December at , 10:30am - 12pm $90.


Book via bio on Instagram or via Enrolment on booking page at www.tiaki.net.nz.


“This has been by far the most informative yoga I have done to date, really glad my friend put me on to it and I was able to find you. I am feeling more in-tune with my body and equipped with the tools to birth my bub after taking your course." - Maeve



More testimonials in comments.


Sat 26 November to Sat 17 December 10:30am - 12pm $90 BOOK VIA ENROLMENT TAB ON WWW.TIAKI.NET.NZ or https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=146255&stype=-8&sTG=60&sVT=258&sView=day&sLoc=0 This course blends whole-body functional movement,

09/11/2022

Pain is complex and the language that we use to describe our is super important in making positive changes in our nervous system.
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Seek out practitioners that recognise this and practice from a biopsychosocial framework that treats the whole person, not just the symptom.

03/11/2022

Me staring up with relief at my amazing LMC (Lead Maternity Carer) when she found Alex’s heartbeat. It was probably only for several seconds that there was silence but for any parent that time can feel like a life time.
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As time stopped still while my midwife calmly found my baby’s heartbeat it made me think about the different levels of care that our LMCs provide.
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LMCs are ESSENTIAL to our health system. Aotearoa’s LMC care model is world-leading. Our midwives nurture and support birthing people in various ways that is critical to the health of parents and babies.
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If we lose LMCs then the health system will be negatively impacted. It’s time for the Government to recognise this. That’s past, current and future Governments.
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Give them the respect and pay that they deserve.
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Please sign your support. www.standupformidwives.nz

14/10/2022

Fully booked! 😊
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Bookings are already coming in for my next 4-week Pregnancy Course Saturday 26 November - Sat 17 December, 10:30am - 12pm at .
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Book via link in bio or via Enrollment tab on the booking schedule at www.tiaki.net.nz.

13/10/2022

Love a bit of a movement coordination challenge. It’s so, so, so great for the brain. This is how we play in my Core, Floor and More class (fist pumps are optional) Get involved this Saturday at 9:15am at . Class pack and drop ins available. Book via Enrollments on www.tiaki.net.