At Mamaheaven we felt it was necessary to create a one-to-one counseling session, known as Mamatime, which is available to all our mothers during each retreat. Pregnancy, childbirth and relationships bring about a variety of emotional challenges. Other issues could include struggling with guilt when you return to work or, conversely, stay-at-home mums feeling they’ve given up too much. Raising confident children and remaining happy yourself in a culture of conflicting expectations and social pressure is a daunting task and [...]

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Mother 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, [...]

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Natalie 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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