By Kirsteen Ruffell
Kirsteen Ruffell is a Birthlight Perinatal and Baby Yoga tutor. Details of Birth light trainings including CPDs in the UK and many other countries can be found at: birthlight.com/TrainingSearch.aspx
At Birth light we talk about the ‘spirals of joy’ and how the specific yoga we teach and the way we teach it can facilitate our students’ increasing feelings of joy, happiness and contentment. We aim to spread these concrete health and wellbeing effects from pre-conception, through pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal year, with babies and toddlers and into all elements of Well Woman yoga so that her joy will not only touch and nourish her relationship with herself but her relationship to the world and her relationships in it. Of course we have many practices from yoga to help develop this habit of self-nurture. The intertwined principles of Tapas and Swadhyaya help us gain insights about our deeper selves and in which practice direction will we find true benefit and transformation.