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Mother Birth010. How to Cultivate a Spiritual PracticeThere is no way we can get to a place of accepting and embracing our full Selves with one hour of [fill in the blank] per week. Instead we need consistency, patience, reverence, and ritual in the ways we learn to be in the not doing.
That's Sadhana. Sadhana means daily spiritual practice.
It's the point of yoga and meditation, because yoga is inherently about honoring your whole being - body, mind, and spirit. And, we have to cultivate this type of practice every day. Maybe not an hour everyday. Maybe it's...2022-10-2906 minMother Birth009. Season 1 Wrap-Up and a RequestThat's a wrap on Season 1! Thank you for listening, sharing, and taking in Mother Birth.
I also share a summary of what we've discovered, uncovered, grappled with and celebrated during Season 1 of Mother Birth.
In order to put together a beautiful Season 2, I have a request (or two). Would you help me? Listen to see how you can contribute to the podcast, its growth, and expansion; and to get a glimpse of what I would like to talk about next.
Show Notes:
Please write to me at leanne@l...2022-10-1109 minMother Birth008. How to embrace the years of postpartum (and why we resist them)Postpartum isn't six weeks or 12 or even a year. From an Ayurvedic and yoga therapy lens, we expand the definition of "postpartum" to really mean three years post-birth. The true reality, though? Postpartum is for life.
At 10 months postpartum, I share a little of my personal journey, struggles, the way through and hopefully forward as I see it. I also share the phases of postpartum I'm bringing to modern perinatal care as inspired by the ancient wisdoms and the clients I serve. These are:
Initial + Immediate Postpartum
Primary Postpartum
Secondary Postpartum
We talk about ways...2022-10-0248 minMother Birth007. What you can DECLINE during pregnancyDid you know that you have more agency during your pregnancy and birth than you might realize?
Did you know that there are all kinds of procedures and practices that you can actually decline during your pregnancy and your birth experience? And, that doing so doesn't necessarily put you or baby at risk (unless you are high risk or have another medical condition)? And in declining, there are options that still support your health and well-being that simply aren't mainstream...yet.
Many women and birthing people don't realize that they have a CHOICE in what h...2022-09-2528 minMother Birth006. How to Be a Better Birth Partner w/Eugene MatulloBuckle in, dear friends, for a conversation about how to be a better birth partner with my partner, husband, best friend, and co-parent, Eugene Matullo.
What's a birth partner? Essentially, it is whomever is accompanying the mother or birthing person during her labor or birth. Eugene speaks candidly about his role in the labor and birth process as a husband, partner, lover; and also about what it means to consciously show up as a partner throughout the perinatal period.
We really dig into it ALL in this conversation. You'll learn:
What it means t...2022-09-181h 17Mother Birth005. There's Truth in TearsHere's a short, but meaningful conversation about following your instincts as mothers, particularly as our children move into educational settings outside of the home and beyond Pre-K.
How are we denying the wisdom of tears in favor of logic and/or societal norms?
Are our children really ready for Kindergarten as we know it?
Are we pathologizing ourselves? Belittling ourselves?
Why are we measuring our children so early on, and how does this measuring and monitoring affect their adult lives?
Are we attuned to the true needs of our children?
Are we attuned to our own true needs?
2022-09-1115 minMother Birth004. What is Yoga Therapy + How Can It Help Your HealingIn this episode, I share this wisdom tradition as it has been passed down to me and how it can (and does...if you let it) support your healing. Yoga Therapy applied to the perinatal period has the ability to change the health of whole ecosystems, including humanity and the land.
We ask questions like:
What is Yoga Therapy? Is it a new field?
What is Ayurveda?
Who is a yoga therapist? Will a yoga therapist "heal" you?
Is what we doing in the West even yoga?
How is this applied...2022-09-0429 minMother Birth003. How to avoid the Cascade of Intervention (and why you'd want to)Pregnancy and birth are not medical conditions. They are of nature’s design - a natural, physiological process of being human for those in female embodiments.
Do things “go wrong” during pregnancy and birth? Of course. Can we be grateful that those with health conditions can be supported during pregnancy with modern medicine? Of course. Do some births need medical care and attention? Of course.
And yet, the majority of pregnancies and birth experiences do NOT need medical or clinical intervention for the mother and even less so for baby. In fact, interventions often build upon ea...2022-08-2827 minMother Birth002. What is Conscious Conception?What is Conscious Conception? In short, Conscious Conception is the process of learning to receive life. It’s the very opposite of expecting pregnancy to happen. In Ayurvedic medicine and yoga therapy, we recommend three to six months to prepare for pregnancy and to promote fully body healing BEFORE baby.
Why? Because Conscious Conception supports healthy and sustained pregnancies, healthier birth outcomes, and eventually a healthier postpartum experience. This episode will offer practical ways to support healing in the body-mind-spirit continuum on your Conscious Conception journey.
I talk about why we must expand the perinatal de...2022-08-2828 minMother Birth001. How I Healed My Fertility When Docs said I Couldn'tWhen I was 27, I was told that I’d never conceive a baby naturally. After numerous visits with reproductive endocrinologists and specialists, and several diagnoses later (some real, some questionable), I abandoned Western medicine to go on a journey to heal my body.
Innately, I knew that a healthy body would be able to conceive a baby and that pregnancy would be healthier than forcing myself to conceive. Innately, I knew that my body was wise beyond the measurements Western medicine was comparing it to. And, I was 100% correct. Here is the story of my 2.5 year journey to...2022-08-2830 min
This is Yoga TherapyAdvocating for Women's Health and Maternal Well-being with Leanne MatulloIn this episode, I interviewed Leanne Matullo. Leanne is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist in training, Birth Doula, Sleep Consultant, educator, writer and founder of Yoga Dear. She is also a fierce advocate for women's health, maternal well-being, and child welfare. Leanne teaches an awareness of the body, mind, and soul as a continuum - each informing and intertwined with the other and that when we bring balance to each of these layers, we create lasting wellness.Support the showConnect with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Email us: info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com Website Instagram Facebook 2021-10-2236 min
Her Ascension Story30. A Yoga Therapist's Story: Holistic Divine Feminine Healing w/ Leanne MatulloDive deep as we explore feminine healing and embodiment with Leanne Matullo from Rhode Island, USA. Leanne shares with us her story about using yoga therapy to overcome Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, connect with her body after being a performing dancer, open her first yoga studio, loosen her grip on trying to control life, conceive and birth her first child, help other women on their maternal journeys, and so much more. She's a huge advocate for bringing back the feminine for women's health, maternal wellbeing, and child welfare and her story is nothing short of amazing.
Leanne...2021-04-1956 min
The Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Podcast18. Yoga, Acupuncture & Eastern Modalities for Recovering from HA w/ Leanne MatulloLeanne Matullo is a yoga therapist who had HA about 6 years ago. She was on the pill for close to a decade and when she came off to start a family with her husband...she had a feeling it wasn't going to be that simple. And it wasn't. When western modalities didn't work for Leanne, she started to look inwards. She realized that there was some unaddressed stress deep inside that she needed to look at.In this episode Leanne talks about how food rules, over-exercising and orthorexia were something that she needed to address like an...2020-11-0556 min
The Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Podcast18. Yoga, Acupuncture & Eastern Modalities for Recovering from HA w/ Leanne MatulloLeanne Matullo is a yoga therapist who had HA about 6 years ago. She was on the pill for close to a decade and when she came off to start a family with her husband...she had a feeling it wasn't going to be that simple. And it wasn't. When western modalities didn't work for Leanne, she started to look inwards. She realized that there was some unaddressed stress deep inside that she needed to look at.In this episode Leanne talks about how food rules, over-exercising and orthorexia were something that she needed to address like an...2020-11-0554 min