Anne Catherine Perinatal Yoga & Doula

01/31/2026

Rest didn’t slow you down.
It prepared the ground.

Save this as you step into February.
🤍 Like & share to carry rest forward.

01/31/2026

“Say only what is well-intended, true, beneficial, timely, expressed without harshness or malice, and — ideally — what is wanted.“ -from the Buddhist Eightfold Path

01/30/2026

Imbolc reminds us that not all beginnings are loud.

This ancient Celtic observance marks a quiet turning of the year—when milk returns, the land stirs beneath the frost, and light begins its slow return.

Imbolc is traditionally observed around February 1, with many folk traditions beginning at sunset on January 31. In older Celtic timekeeping, the day began at dusk, which is why the evening before holds meaning too.

Long before Imbolc became a modern “festival,” it marked a practical moment in winter—when survival softened into hope. When tending the hearth, cleaning with care, mending what was worn, and protecting the body were sacred acts in themselves.

One of the oldest Imbolc customs is leaving something out for Brigid to bless—often a scarf, cloth, coat, or jumper. This is traditionally done on the night of January 31, allowing it to remain out overnight and be brought in on February 1, carrying a blessing of warmth, protection, and care through the coming months.

I just published a new Learning Library article exploring:

Imbolc as a lived, seasonal rhythm

Brigid and her deep connection to hearth, healing, fire, and water

Why choosing less in winter creates more space for comfort and peace

How boundaries and tending our “nest” protect energy rather than restrict it

If you’ve found yourself slowing down, simplifying, or nesting lately—especially in winter or while preparing for a baby—you may already be living the Imbolc way.

✨ Read the full article here:
👉 https://www.annecatherineyoga.com/blog//imbolc-hearth-care-returning-light
LINK

May your hearth stay warm, your home feel held, and your hopes take root beneath the frost. 🌿🔥

01/30/2026

As January closes, remember:
what you allowed had time to root.
That is Year 1 work.

Explore embodied beginnings—link in bio.
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01/29/2026

I’ve officially renamed my “store” — and it feels like a deep exhale.

✨ Support Resources ✨

This page holds the digital guides and educational tools I’ve created to support women’s health across every season of life — pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor healing, hormonal transitions, and beyond.

These resources are:
• educational, not prescriptive
• trauma-informed and body-respectful
• rooted in breath, coordination, and real life
• created to be returned to again and again

When you choose a resource, you’re also supporting the work I do to advocate for better education and care around women’s bodies.

Explore the collection here:
👉 https://www.annecatherineyoga.com/supportresources

01/26/2026

Not urgency.
Not comparison.
Care is the rhythm of this season.

Save this as a January boundary.
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01/23/2026

Yoga doesn’t ask us to escape.
It teaches us how to remain—
with breath, sensation, and truth.

Practice presence with me—link in bio.
🤍 Like & share if yoga helps you stay.

01/21/2026

This is the second “expand time” sentiment I’ve seen recently. And it really is true. ESPECIALLY when we are in the sacred window of pregnancy>birth>postpartum. Even with young kids.
When we do less, we have more time to enjoy life. The days are long but the years are fast.

Sit on your porch, watch your kids play, drink th coffee 💜💜💜

The genuinely happy people? They’re doing less, earning more, living better. They killed their to-do list and kept what matters. You’re still confusing a full schedule with a full life.

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I write a weekly newsletter where I unpack these ideas.

→ newsletter.scottdclary.com

01/21/2026

When we allow, the body opens.
When we listen, it responds.
This is intuitive living.

Save this for moments of self-doubt.
🤍 Like & share with someone learning to trust themselves.

01/21/2026

Expand time, by doing less.

The most successful people I know are never at 100% capacity.

That sounds wrong. We've been taught that optimization means maxing out. Full calendar. Every dollar allocated. Every hour scheduled.

But running at 100% means zero room for error. One unexpected expense breaks the budget. One sick day collapses the week. One difficult conversation and you're emotionally tapped out.

That's not productivity. That's fragility.

The people who stay calm when things go sideways aren't calmer by nature. They just built slack into the system.

→ 15 minutes between meetings instead of back-to-back
→ Money in the account that isn't earmarked for anything
→ Energy reserved for the stuff you can't predict

Operating at 85% feels like leaving something on the table. It's actually the opposite. It's making room for reality.

Because something will break. Someone will need you. An opportunity will show up without warning.

The question is whether you have capacity to handle it or you're already running on fumes.

Margin isn't laziness. It's strategy.

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I write a weekly newsletter where I unpack these ideas.

→ newsletter.scottdclary.com

01/21/2026

It's FINALLY finished! It only took me all day to finish (because naturally I added more content despite saying yesterday I wouldn't, oops).
Pelvic Floor Wisdom: A functional guide for every season of Womanhood is now available for YOU to purchase.

Ladies, this has been a labor of love for MONTHS now. It's 142 pages, and I probably spent at least three times as many hours creating it. It's full of my core teachings for a healthy holistically functional pelvic floor from pregnancy through your silver years.

Designed for easy to understand, not heavy clinical manuals.
For every day women who want to stop the p*e leaks, relieve pain, stop embarrassing pelvic floor things, support a smooth birth, ease postpartum recovery, and address all the stuff that shows up in peri/menopause.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

Much Love!
Time to rest =)

Pelvic Floor Wisdom is a comprehensive, trauma-informed educational guide designed to help you understand how your pelvic floor actually works — not just during exercise, but in daily life, across every stage of womanhood.

01/21/2026

Your pelvic floor is not broken.
It’s not weak.
And it doesn’t need to be “fixed.”

It needs to be understood.

After years of teaching, researching, and living inside this work, I created Pelvic Floor Wisdom — a comprehensive, trauma-informed guide designed to help you understand how your pelvic floor actually functions across every season of womanhood.

This is not a workout plan.
It’s not a list of exercises to “do harder.”
And it’s definitely not about squeezing or gripping your way to healing.

Inside this 142-page guide, you’ll learn:
• how breath and pressure shape pelvic floor health
• why symptoms like leaking, tension, prolapse, or discomfort show up
• how pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause change pelvic floor needs
• what functional core support actually means in daily life
• gentle, essential practices that support lifelong pelvic health

This guide is for you if:
✔️ you want clarity instead of fear
✔️ you’ve tried “doing the exercises” and still feel confused
✔️ you want to work with your body, not against it

Pelvic Floor Wisdom is now available for $59
(link in bio)
https://anne-catherine-perinatal-yoga-doula.kit.com/products/pelvic-floor-wisdom

You don’t need more pressure.
You need understanding, coordination, and care.

Gratefully,
Anne