YOGA
Ceri Baker will be leading and holding the yoga and sound bath within each session. The yoga will be gentle, accessible and designed to support the journey of self-connection, opening, and relaxation in preparation for creative journaling.
Yoga mats are provided or you can bring your own.
JOURNALLING:
Lizzy Humber will share a creative task designed to connect to colour, imagination and identity using collage, mark making and creative writing. Your journal will become filled with colour, stories and power. Journalling can provide an outlet for some of the feelings and challenges you might experience both physically and emotionally in pregnancy and parenthood.
All art materials are provided, you will just need to bring a journal or you can buy one when you book.
Lizzy and Ceri will also hold space for village thinking and discussion around matrescence - the metamorphosis that occurs in m/otherhood, and the current culture we live in.
CERI BAKER
Mother, Yoga Teacher, Poet and Neurodiversity Specialist.
Ceri has recently returned from studying Yoga Teacher Training and Sound healing in Rishikesh, India. Ceri is the former Bard of Exeter and during her Bardship she held a number of ‘Body Writes’ workshops at Exeter Library to explore the use of Yoga influenced breath and movement work to support writing from an embodied place. Ceri is a multi-slam winning performance poet, Mum of three Teenagers (well 1 is now 21…), she is a Neurodiversity specialist and works through her own creative Matrix of ADHD and Dyslexia. Ceri is also now studying Yoga teaching for Peri/menopause.
LIZZY HUMBER
Mother, Community Artist and Producer
Lizzy specialises in curating parent-friendly art and culture. She is a champion of m/other artists continuing to make work professionally on their terms without children being perceived as a barrier. Lizzy is often found dreaming projects into being. She is co- founder of Matrescence Festival (UK and Australia); Daylight Sessions daytime gigs for parents, M/Others on the Mic and Parents on the Mic performance platform. Lizzy’s participatory art projects aim to support mental health, community connection and inclusion in art and culture for parents. She has been running journalling courses for m/others for 5 years. Lizzy is very excited to collaborate with Ceri, as she has a deep-rooted passion for yoga. Lizzy MfA in Theatre Practice where she studied Indian martial arts, Butoh and yoga practices as creative tools for actor training, devising theatre and writing from the body.
Is this course for me?
This 3 part course is designed for m/others and non-binary parents AFAB. The workshops are adult centred but children are welcome with you.
All levels of yoga experiences are welcome. No prior experience needed of yoga or journalling, but all experiences are welcome.
This course is suitable for pregnant people during the first trimester if you have practiced Yoga before and can make adjustments from your own experience and own agency.
This course is therapeutic in nature but it is not therapy. The course is not suitable for anyone with severe mental health conditions. If you consider your mental health to be fragile in a group setting perhaps you might consider booking a 1:1 session with Ceri but we kindly ask you not book onto this course.
Cost:
All places are subsidised by National Lottery Community Fund and Tesco Stronger Starts as part of M/Others on the Mic’s Creativity and Parenthood project, supported by Exeter Phoenix. If cost is a barrier to taking part please contact me (Lizzy Humber) to request a PWYC or payment plan; please selected a fully funded place if you need one, no questions asked. Limited Availability.
Please see terms here.
M/Others on the Mic is a community organisation.
Produced by Lizzy Humber
