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Postnatal Pilates – my new book is out now!
My new book Postnatal Pilates comes out today! And it’s #1bestseller in Family and Lifestyle Physiotherapy on Amazon!! Whoop! It’s your...
Anya Hayes
Mar 5, 20202 min read
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Pelvic flaws: Part 2 of my talk at the Birth trauma conference.
The link between mental and physical health is inextricable, arguably. But never more so than in pregnancy and motherhood. In the second...
Anya Hayes
Jan 25, 20194 min read
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Pelvic flaws – the link between pelvic floor dysfunction and postnatal mental health issues
My talk at the Birth Trauma Conference earlier this month focused on the link between maternal mental health and pelvic floor...
Anya Hayes
Jan 24, 20194 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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