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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Pelvic Floor Patrol
We, the Pelvic Floor Patrol, are a team of 5 women who are all passionate about empowering women with health and wellbeing postnatally....
Anya Hayes
Mar 29, 20186 min read
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The bounce back – postnatal fitness and health
This week I got together with an amazing group of women to have a very special meeting, with Baroness Cumberlege who is the Independent...
Anya Hayes
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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You’ve got this mamas! The Supermum Myth event in Norwich
You know those days with a small (or even slightly large) baby when you just think, actually it’s so much of a palaver getting out of the...
Anya Hayes
Jan 26, 20182 min read
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Scummy Mummies: How not to feel like a shit mum
Late last year Dr Rachel Andrew and I had the huge pleasure of being invited onto the Scummy Mummies podcast to talk about our book The...
Anya Hayes
Jan 9, 20184 min read
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Control freak? – Motherhood, identity, exhaustion, PND
I’ve never really thought of myself as a control freak, I’ve always thought I was relatively easy going and serene. But I guess, up until...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20185 min read
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New Year Wellness toolkit
New year, new you, all the headlines shout enthusiastically. We might write energetic resolutions in our new 2018 journals, or we might...
Anya Hayes
Jan 7, 20185 min read
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Dry January: The impropriety of sobriety
Dry January – are you doing it? Have you done it? Normally the driest my January goes is a dry white wine. I’ve always been a bit sniffy...
Anya Hayes
Jan 6, 20183 min read
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Umami healing – the power of Miso
I’ve been really interested recently in Ayurveda, living life with an equilibrium with my body and the seasons to try and make sure I’m...
Anya Hayes
Jan 4, 20183 min read
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MuTu Postnatal exercise: Embrace body positivity
This week I had the pleasure and privilege of going to a body positivity event hosted by the MuTu System. It was a screening of the Body...
Anya Hayes
Nov 13, 20174 min read
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Model Method Online: Less Pretty More Sweaty
Fitting it in – How do you make time for for fitness around your kids? Fitness postnatally has been the hardest thing for me to find...
Anya Hayes
Nov 5, 20177 min read
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Let’s Talk Miscarriage
Today I went to a wonderful Gathering of Tribes event at Emma Cannon‘s Chelsea clinic to commemorate Baby Loss Awareness Week. Emma...
Anya Hayes
Oct 31, 20173 min read
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