Birthing Mama: Your Companion for a Wholistic Pregnancy Journey

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Yoga teacher, doula, and wholistic pregnancy expert Corinne Andrews offers her popular Birthing Mama program through this colourful, inspiring guided journal, which includes weekly reflections, creativity prompts, and empowering self-care practices related to diet, yoga, and natural healing. Birthing Mama offers a wholistic approach to the transformative experience of pregnancy. Author Corinne Andrews, a yoga teacher since 2003 and creator of Birthing Mama Prenatal Yoga and Wellness, guides women through each week of the nine-month journey, integrating body, mind, and spirit through reflection, yoga postures and breath practices, self-care activities, and creative projects. Whether expectant mothers are setting up a Pregnancy Altar to focus their hopes and dreams for the baby-to-be, writing a Pregnancy Affirmation Statement, blending an herbal tea formula, or breathing into mountain pose for strength and healing, they will find a blend of self-nourishment and self-discovery, contemplation, and celebration through Andrews's gentle, empowering style. AUTHOR: Corinne Andrews is co-owner/director of Yoga Center Amherst in Massachusetts and leads the 200-hour Embodyoga Teacher Training in addition to teaching weekly classes. She is the developer and lead teacher of the Birthing Mama Online Program, 90-hour Prenatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Training, and she teaches Birthing Mama classes and workshops locally and online. She has been teaching yoga to people of all ages and abilities since 2003. Andrews is trained in classical hatha yoga and Ashtanga yoga, advanced levels of Embodyoga, prenatal and postnatal yoga, meridian yoga, shiatsu, and as a birth doula. She holds a BA in Cross-Cultural and Alternative Health and Healing. In addition to all she has studied, her greatest teachers are her two beautiful children, and the profound spiritual journey of mothering them from pre-conception through to the here and now.

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"Birthing Mama is a heartfelt offering of compassion, wisdom and solace for expecting mothers. I highly recommend this book." --Ananta Ripa Ajmera, Co-founder CEO, The Ancient Way

"Birthing Mama is a treasure; an accessible and spiritual approach to integrating yoga into the pregnancy and postpartum journey." --Amy Wright Glenn, founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death

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Corinne Andrews is co-owner/director of Shraddh Yoga and leads the 200-hour Embodyoga(R) Teacher Training in addition to teaching weekly classes online and locally in Massachusetts. She is the developer and lead teacher of the Birthing Mama(R) 90-hour Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Training, and she teaches Birthing Mama classes and workshops locally and online. She has been teaching yoga to people of all ages and abilities since 2003. Andrews is trained in classical Hatha Yoga, advanced levels of Embodyoga(R), Mindful Grieving Yoga Therapy, Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga, Ayurveda, Meridian Yoga, Shiatsu, and as a birth doula. She holds a BA in Cross-Cultural and Alternative Health and Healing. In addition to all she has studied, her greatest teachers have been in the many sacred moments in India, her spiritual teacher GurujiMa, her marriage with Matthew and their two awesome children. The profound spiritual journey of mothering from pre-conception through to the here and now is in, and of itself, the best teacher.