I hope you all made it through the holidays unscathed!
I am planning to offer my Fertility Yoga as an ongoing class, Sunday afternoons at Mind Body Yoga Therapy, aka the new Center for Mindfulness, in NW Austin starting very soon. Stay tuned for more information, or email me if you're interested in learning more.
I witnessed a lot of heartache and a lot of miracles this past year, as head Fertility Goddess. My fertility students are very dear to me, and it's a special bond we all create together as we share and support and shepherd one another through the sacred fire of this decidedly challenging path. I am so proud of my "fertility warriors" for all the work and love they put into themselves, and to becoming parents, this past year. (And even before that).
Since I began teaching "Fertility Enhancing" Yoga, I have seen everything from twin births from IVF procedures, as well as from "natural" fertility practices; I've seen families formed through fostering, adoption, using a donor egg, going through both Eastern and Western fertility treatments, and I've seen couples finally decide they were not going to become parents at this time, if ever. The bottom line is: this process is highly individual. Few walk the same path here. Many never know exactly why they are unable to get pregnant, or hold a pregnancy. There are miscarriages along the way for some. Some never conceive. But all of the work they do, above and beyond the yoga -- from changing diets to adding nourishing herbs, supplements, massage, meditation, and acupuncture -- has the sole purpose of putting the body, mind, and spirit back into balance. No matter what.
On this path no effort is wasted,
no gain is ever reversed;
even a little of this practice
will shelter you from great sorrow.
Bhagavad Gita 2.40 (Stephen Mitchell translation)
