The Sacred Window: Ayurvedic Wisdom for Nourishing the Mother

In this workshop we’ll dive into what India’s ancient medicine tradition (Ayurveda) tells us about how to care for Mothers in the postpartum time, which they call “The Sacred Window.” Ayurveda speaks to postpartum as a time of deep healing and pleasure. Bringing this wisdom into our modern lives couldn’t be more essential. A lack of understanding of the special needs of the Sacred Window (which has been known similarly across the world in intact cultures) is what leads many to experience it as so difficult and further leads to long term health consequences for mothers and therefore families.

Mothers are the center of nourishment — when they are not nourished the whole world suffers. This workshop is perfect for those in the process of childbearing to plan their own postpartum, and for anyone else who would like to be better equipped to support their loved ones after birthing.

We’ll cover the basics of Ayurveda, the elemental nature of postpartum, practical tools and directives for supporting a healthy postpartum including in-depth exploration of food as medicine, discussion on how to set up this care, and finally we’ll root this all in an understanding of how important this care is for the health of individual mothers and the world.

You’ll leave this workshop feeling an embodied comprehension of the medicine Ayurveda offers for the postpartum time and the possibility of the Sacred Window as a time of bliss, healing and reverent beginning of life.

$40 (members save 10%). Tickets are non-refundable.

About Hope

Hope came to yoga after a youth full of athletics, seeking a movement practice that could bring her calm in addition to vitality. Yoga led her down a spiritual path ,centered in the endlessly interconnected healing of the body, mind, spirit, the earth, the collective, and the individual. Beyond yoga she is passionate about herbalism, gardening, reproductive health, feminism and community. Her favorite part of yoga is how it is a practice that merges the physical with the etheric — her classes seek to take advantage of this quality and create an offering for students that leaves their body and soul relaxed and uplifted.

Along with teaching yoga she is a birth and postpartum doula and considers building sacred space around new parenthood a necessity for a healthy, thriving world. As a result she is especially passionate about teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga. Her prenatal classes emphasize alignment for preparing the body for labor and seek not just to provide relaxation but also the strengthening and movement that a pregnant body craves. She weaves archetypal themes and tools that aid in the transition to parenthood into the asana practice. Her postnatal classes are anchored around gently and thoughtfully helping the body to come into a new balance and to spiritually close the container of birth. Hope believes these spaces for new and expecting parents are especially important for developing community around this epic and challenging rite of passage. There is always space made to share and make connections!