Meet Your Teacher
Welcome!
I’m so glad you’re here. I’m Fern: senior yoga teacher, pre- and postnatal movement specialist, FEDANT-accredited birth educator, and mum of two beautiful boys (and our dog Polly).
Yoga and movement are a way of life for me: they bring me joy, purpose and support me through the ups and downs we all have to navigate.
My practice has supported me through many highs and lows: from anxiety and depression; career changes (I was a journalist and editor for over a decade prior to making the switch to teaching yoga); knee surgeries and slipped discs; to being an anchor during pregnancy, birth and postpartum, helping me recover from diastasis recti and prolapse.
I’ve been teaching yoga since 2015, and practising since my early twenties (I first stepped on the mat in a council gym in north London - I was working on a national newspaper at the time), and I’m passionate about anatomy and physiology, mental health and women’s health, and supporting women during this incredible, transformative and often challenging season of life.
My classes fuse modern movement science with the ancient wisdom of yoga, and it’s my mission to offer you nourishing, embodied and empowering practises that support your own path of self-enquiry, encouraging you to meet yourself where you’re at physically and mentally.Â
Read on for more information on what's inside your Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Preparation Course, and I look forward to guiding you.
Fern
About The Course
Welcome to your Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Preparation course. I’ve been teaching pregnancy yoga for over 10 years, and am passionate about helping women have empowered births. I created this online prenatal yoga course so you can take my classes wherever you are, at a time that suits you. In it you’ll find over 20 prenatal yoga classes to help ease common pregnancy aches and pains, breathing techniques to use during labour, guided relaxations and affirmations, evidence-based birth education, positions to help open the pelvis for a smoother birth, plus early postnatal rehab and guidance to help you have a more informed and empowered pregnancy, birth and postpartum. All for £47, with 9 months' access.
Pregnancy Yoga Classes
Pregnancy yoga has so many benefits for both mum and baby, such as improved strength, mobility and posture, helping ease common prenatal aches and pains, as well as reduced stress, anxiety and improved sleep, oxygen levels and baby positioning. This course features over 20 on-demand prenatal yoga classes of varying lengths, so you can practice with me anytime, anywhere.
Breathwork & Relaxation
Practising breathing and relaxation techniques during pregnancy has so many benefits for both mum and baby. These benefits carry over into labour and birth, acting as a natural pain management tool, increasing oxygen flow to both parent and baby while reducing adrenaline and stress, allowing oxytocin and endorphins to flow and labour to unfold with more ease.
Birth Education & Preparation
As a FEDANT-accredited birth educator, your course contains a library of pregnancy and birth education lectures, practices and tools for you to return to as often as you need, including: the stages of labour and hormones of birth; how to make the most of your birth environment to support physiology; positions and movements for labour and birth; methods of pain relief and more.
Example Curriculum
- Breath-Focused Flow 35 Mins
- UFO! 35 Mins
- Connecting To Your Core 22 Mins
- Releasing Your Pelvic Floor 15 Mins
- Strong Lower Body 20 Mins
- Making Space Flow 20 Mins
- Hip Opening Flow 20 Mins
- Releasing The Ribs 20 Mins
- Chair & Wall Based Practice 20 Mins
- Yoga For Nausea & Fatigue 20 Mins
- Calming Flow 20 Mins
- Lower Body Release 20 Mins
- Flow For Oxytocin 20 Mins
- Sciatica Relief 10 Mins
- Upper Body Release 15 Mins
- Stages Of Labour
- Hormones Of Birth
- Birth Environment
- Benefits Of Being Upright
- Birth Positions: Standing (3:39)
- Birth Positions: Seated (5:08)
- Birth Positions: Ground (12:56)
- Birth Ball Tips (3:01)
- Birth Ball Positions (12:44)
- Sit & Rest Smart For A Smoother Birth (6:34)
- Pain Relief
- Affirmations For Pregnancy and Birth
- B.R.A.I.N
Testimonials
'Fern's classes really supported me and my baby through pregnancy, and I found the yoga positions and breathwork so helpful [during birth].' - Shoba
'Thank you so much Fern. We used so much of what we learned in the yoga and birth preparation classes, especially the breathing and loads of the yoga poses! Even while hooked up to CTGs and all sorts. I'd highly recommend hiring a TENs machine, they had to pry it out of my hands at one point!' - Kat
'Thank you Fern, your classes were such a valuable part of labour. All the movement practice made making space for baby instinctive in the moment.' - Jenny
