Infertility is more than just “stressful”. Working too much is stressful, not having enough money is stressful, moving is stressful. If you’re dealing with infertility, you might be willing to trade infertility for many of the life stressors. Infertility is not only stressful it can be traumatic! Finding support to overcome this trauma will have a lasting impact on your fertility. And, yoga is uniquely suited to helping.

Yoga reduces anxiety by activating the parasympathetic nervous system — the branch responsible for rest, safety, and recovery. Slow breathing lengthens the exhale and stimulates the vagus nerve. Gentle movement helps complete the body's stress response. These practices work with anxiety at the level where it actually lives: the nervous system, not the mind.

When we bring mindfulness into our day-to-day life we begin to peel away layers of our physical, emotional and spiritual being. We become more aware of our true Self and we begin to make meaningful and long lasting lifestyle changes that lead away from suffering and towards pure happiness.

There are many ways that Yoga and Yoga Therapy can support women as they travel this path - it can help manage stress, process grief/loss and improve increase blood flow to reproductive organs to name a few. It is also very beneficial for preparing the body and mind for pregnancy (if that is part of your journey).

What a “spiritual heart” means is completely individual but what I know is, it revolves around healing emotional wounds that are interrupting your ability to find meaning and purpose and feeling whole.

Breaking the bad ones can be one of the biggest challenges life can dish up. Although you may be conscious of a habit not serving you it takes a lot of courage to make the decision to break it and A LOT of discipline to stick through the very tough early stages of getting out of it's grip.