3-Week Series with Nicole Blackwood

Sunday, Nov 8 – 22

10:30am (90 min)

In Studio & Online

A 3-week series to release tension, receive support, and replenish your inner resources while trying to conceive.

When you’ve been struggling to get pregnant for a while, the weight of navigating this experience begins to wear you down.

This unseen struggle impacts your whole life – work, relationships, priorities, and  energy. You may no longer have the capacity or interest to show up in your life like you once did.

Our view of the body also becomes distorted. Why isn’t it doing what it is designed to do? Why is it so easy for so many other people? What is wrong with me? 

This inner dialogue in itself is exhausting.

Then there’s the “fertility admin” of tracking cycles, scheduling intercourse, or managing the myriad of medical appointments and medications. All while trying to “just relax”.

On top of this we’re trying our best to move through our normal responsibilities while carrying the weight of not being able to have a baby.

This time in your life is asking a lot of you. And yet you keep going because of how deeply you want to grow your family.

As someone who walked this path for more than a decade, Nicole understands the burden of not being able to conceive. She also knows that giving ourselves grace and deeply caring for ourselves is essential for being resourced along the way.

In this 3-week series, Nicole will share with you the practices, tools, and rituals that helped bolster her through years of fertility struggles.

These 90-minute small group classes will include:

• Yoga postures that emphasize releasing tension in the pelvis, creating space to connect with and nourish this part of your body in a tender and kind way.
• Movements that help dispel pent up stress.
• Soft, supported restorative postures that allow you to be free from effort and settle the nervous system.
• Guided awareness practices for deep rest and rejuvenation.
• Pranayama utilizing the breath to enliven and soothe your whole being.

Nicole hopes these practices can offer refuge to steady, settle, and resource yourself as you navigate your winding path to growing your family.

This series is appropriate for all levels of fitness and experience as well as any point in a natural or medicated fertility process. In the event you do become pregnant during this program, it is also suitable during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Taught in person at Embody and online via Zoom*. Recordings of the classes will be available within 24 hours of the live class for access through the holidays.

*While this series is also offered online via Zoom, students joining from home will need to have the necessary props available. In-studio students will receive hands-on support from Nicole, and she may step away from the camera at times to provide this assistance. Please email us if you have questions.

Investment: $90+HST