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Be the mum you want to be
Hello, my name is Anya. Lovely to have you here. Body image is so intrinsic to our sense of identity and self-esteem – and inner power!...
Anya Hayes
Oct 19, 20181 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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World Mental Health Day – how are you?
It’s World Mental Health Day today. You wouldn’t feel ashamed to tell anyone you had sprained your ankle or had a sore throat. Yet we...
Anya Hayes
Oct 10, 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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Caesarean birth: tips for immediate after care
Caesarean birth (these tips are mostly all also applicable to vaginal birth, particularly if you’ve had surgery with episiotomy) after...
Anya Hayes
Sep 8, 20183 min read
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A gratitude attitude – mindfulness and #everydayjoy
I recently recorded a podcast with the gorgeous Tamu Thomas, founder of Three Sixty and one half of the founders of Motherhood...
Anya Hayes
Jul 12, 20184 min read
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Brain gym – exercise to tone the brain
I’ve just had the great fortune to have been to a wonderful Mindfulness and Yoga retreat, where we had daily guided meditation and...
Anya Hayes
Jul 11, 20184 min read
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Yoga and Mindfulness – Retreats for the mind, body, soul
I have been on a few yoga retreats in my life…and looking back, they’ve always been at transitional or turbulent moments of my life. My...
Anya Hayes
Jul 10, 20182 min read
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Birth Trauma Awareness Week
This week is birth trauma awareness week. Fittingly, it’s also my due date week of my first (rainbow) baby. I had no idea about birth...
Anya Hayes
Jul 4, 20182 min read
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The Elastic Brain – benefits of meditation
“Mummy I never change my mind. I always keep the same mind.” Maurice said this to me yesterday, when I suggested that he *might* change...
Anya Hayes
Jun 1, 20183 min read
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Make Birth Better
Two years ago I birthed my my book Pregnancy: The Naked Truth. A doula in your pocket. Non-judgmental preparation for pregnancy and...
Anya Hayes
May 31, 20182 min read
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Once postnatal, always postnatal
There’s a general misconception about the “postnatal period” – differing opinions that it lasts from around 6 weeks…some say 9 months,...
Anya Hayes
May 30, 20186 min read
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You’ve just had a baby! What now?!
It’s a rollercoaster time, the newborn phase. It’s a watershed of all of the anticipation of the past nearly-year, finally holding your...
Anya Hayes
May 22, 20183 min read
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What I’d Give a New Mum
This week has been maternal mental health awareness week. The fact that there even IS a week dedicated to maternal mental health...
Anya Hayes
May 4, 20182 min read
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Perfect Night’s Sleep
Sleep. The number one thing that most mums yearn for more of. What if you could bottle it, hey? Well…I think that NEOM Organics are...
Anya Hayes
Apr 23, 20185 min read
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Returning to “normal” post-baby
You have a baby. You take it relatively easy for the first 6 weeks, maybe doing the odd squeeze of your pelvic floor (clenching your...
Anya Hayes
Apr 11, 20188 min read
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Rebirth post-caesarean
This month is Caesarean awareness month. First time round, I had that blissful naivety that as long as you “planned” your birth, in the...
Anya Hayes
Apr 11, 20184 min read
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