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WHY IS OUR WORK IMPORTANT?

In many cases families and communities are now displaced across long distances. Societies and communities have changed the world over and along with that many early parenting skills and supportive baby know-how has been lost. New parents often find themselves holding a newborn for the first time when they hold their own baby at birth.

Birthlight practices, classes with trained teachers and the connections made through them help prevent and reverse the negative aspects of all these trends and combat the global surge in depression, anxiety and the loneliness that women are increasingly feeling at the great transitions in their lives.

Originating in direct learning from indigenous Amazonian people as well as in the yoga tradition, our practices are based on the collective experience of tutors over the past 30 years. Across all boundaries, racial, social and cultural, Birthlight practices support women, babies and parents to find joy and connection, ease and grace in body, hearts and minds.

The pandemic has particularly affected pregnant women and new families. This has motivated an ever-greater commitment to our objectives. Facilitating embodied relationships with self, baby and family is possibly the best seed that our small group can plant at this time.