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Pilates for Body–Mind in Pregnancy
Pregnancy isn’t an illness: it’s a natural, normal and healthy state – even if that first-trimester permanently hungover feeling makes...
Anya Hayes
Jan 24, 20193 min read
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New year – same you! Why we should ditch new year’s resolutions
It’s that time of year again, where fitness advertising cashes in on the fact that we’ve all eaten too many biscuits and have been...
Anya Hayes
Dec 30, 20182 min read
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The Supermum Myth – how to overcome anxiety, ditch guilt and embrace imperfection
Motherhood is the one thing able to send you from feeling like a million dollars to a piece of poo, in one swoosh of a baby wipe. It...
Anya Hayes
Dec 9, 20185 min read
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Anxiety in motherhood – why you’re feeling anxious, and how to make friends with it
What is anxiety? What is its purpose? Anxiety organises our responses to threats to our life, health and wellbeing. Focuses on our escape...
Anya Hayes
Dec 7, 20184 min read
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Mindfulness for pregnancy, birth… and motherhood
Mindfulness is definitely a buzzword, like many a new fad in the wellness industry we may have reached peak saturation in terms of...
Anya Hayes
Dec 4, 20184 min read
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Your pelvic floor – how to build pelvic floor rehab into your day to day
I’m doing two FREE workshops next week: Your Confident Mothermorphosis for you beautiful bumps, and a pelvic floor restore workshop at...
Anya Hayes
Nov 30, 20183 min read
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Perinatal anxiety – what it is, and tips for how to manage it
Perinatal Anxiety Pregnancy The Naked Truth by Anya Hayes What is it, and why am I feeling it? We’ve all heard of ‘postnatal depression’...
Anya Hayes
Nov 21, 20184 min read
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What is “the postnatal period”? How long am I “postpartum”?
I’ve just finished writing Postnatal Pilates – I cannot wait for this to be available as a resource for mums to take ownership of their...
Anya Hayes
Nov 17, 20182 min read
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Abdominal Massage – why it’s so important for your postnatal recovery
If I could have known the power of JUST ONE THING postnatally first time round, it would have been the immensely healing and restorative...
Anya Hayes
Nov 16, 20183 min read
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Pregnancy and Postnatal mindfulness and core strength workshops
I’m excited to be adding two monthly workshops to the schedule in the new year. I’d love to hear your thoughts, and if you’re in south...
Anya Hayes
Nov 15, 20181 min read
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Diastasis recti – how to strengthen your separated abdominals post-birth
Around the second trimester, depending on the size of your bump, you will have experienced some degree of abdominal separation: diastasis...
Anya Hayes
Nov 15, 20184 min read
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Stretches for feeding mums
Forward leaning when feeding your baby is literally a pain in the neck. In some ways aches and pains are inevitable as a new mum, but...
Anya Hayes
Nov 14, 20182 min read
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Post birth healing tips
In the first few days and weeks after giving birth you’ll probably feel bruised and sore, whatever birth experience you’ve had. We’re...
Anya Hayes
Nov 14, 20184 min read
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How to restore your pelvic floor, in less than 3 minutes a day
One of the things that new mums tell me almost more than than anything else, is that they wish they had fully understood how important...
Anya Hayes
Nov 1, 20183 min read
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Welcome to Motherhood
I did a lovely live chat last night with Lauren, an inspiring author and motivational speaker, on her Facebook page This Girl is Enough....
Anya Hayes
Oct 18, 20182 min read
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The art of breathing
It all begins with the breath. Did you realise that, although breathing is a natural reflex that all living animals perform, newborn...
Anya Hayes
Oct 18, 20182 min read
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Build the right foundations
I’ve just taught my Pelvic Floor Health and Wellbeing course at Market Studios in Greenwich. It’s my favourite course to teach – and...
Anya Hayes
Oct 7, 20182 min read
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Pilates for Pregnancy
Pilates for Pregnancy covers the fundamentals of Pilates and includes a progressive Pilates programme tailored for each trimester –...
Anya Hayes
Oct 7, 20181 min read
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Pelvic floor meditation
The pelvic floor – it’s the seat of our power, the fulcrum of our energy balance, the gatekeeper to our pelvic organs, the key to your...
Anya Hayes
Oct 7, 20183 min read
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Matrescence – the second adolescence?
Emerging into motherhood is an intense time for body and mind ❤️ it’s a passage through a one-way turnstile. When we become adults, we...
Anya Hayes
Sep 8, 20181 min read
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