Good to try yoga again – really feel my body alive again and want to keep it that way. Erika is really a first class teacher.
— L W, Hereford
This was our first review about our inaugural Mamaheaven back in 2005, where Amy Raphael joined us on retreat with her young daughter Bonny. Since then over 300 mothers and babies have ventured to our retreats to enjoy the Mamaheaven experience. If life was fair, Mamaheaven would be offered on the NHS. As it is, this country’s first weekend retreat for mums with babies up to the age of 18 months doesn’t come cheap. But it’s worth it for a [...]
Read MoreMother of two, Erika Tourell has been teaching yoga for over 15 years and working as a holistic massage therapist for over 20 years. She is presently studying cranio-sacral therapy and chi nei tsang – a deep abdominal massage which is a form of Taoist healing. She also holds a passion for singing/chanting/voice-healing and has been studying Hindustani vocal training with a senior Indian teacher for the last year. From 1992-95 she lived in Thailand and India studying meditation, Buddhism, [...]
Read MoreNatalie Keegan trained at the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust and has since specialised in working with pregnant mothers and babies, visceral intelligence and neurology in practice. Craniosacral therapy is a gentle hands-on therapy which has its roots in osteopathy and can help with many physical and emotional problems in mothers and in babies. As a practitioner, Natalie is deeply holistic and intuitive. Her treatments are one-to-one with mothers and/or babies – usually involving home visits – and she works in [...]
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