Held: Navigating the Journey into Motherhood
Led by
Devon Parish
Devon Parish has always been expressing herself through movement. She trained in classical ballet and modern dance for over twenty years, at times performing professionally, and loves it still. It took a persiste...Held: Navigating the Journey into Motherhood
Sundays, 2:00-3:30pm, April 6th to May 4th 2025
with Devon Parish
Blossom Main Studio 2nd floor
Sliding scale: $80-100 for series
Hybrid option available!
with Devon Parish
Blossom Main Studio 2nd floor
Sliding scale: $80-100 for series
Hybrid option available!
Held: Navigating the Journey into Motherhood is a 5-week series of gatherings incorporating yoga, somatic exercises, reflective writing, and conversation to help those in the first tender years of motherhood to restore, reclaim, orient and integrate in the face of this dynamic life transition.
New parenthood is challenging as it is, and society’s expectations when it comes to mothers’ bodies, careers, and relationships magnify that challenge. Part gentle yoga, part women’s circle, this series will use Jessie Harrold's Four Elements of Radical Transformation as a foundation to understand the matrescence journey and will take an embodied approach to rebuilding the lost art of “the village”.
In our five weeks together, you can expect to:
- Unpack the difference between mothering and capital "M" Motherhood, a social construct that comes with a long history and all kinds of conscious and subconscious expectations
- Assess where you are on your own matrescence, i.e. mother-becoming, journey (though it's not a linear path)
- Learn how to map the phases of this journey onto the four elements, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, as a framework for traversing its challenges
- Practice using tools like movement, visualization, and journaling to dive deeper into self-knowing and self-tending
- Connect with other m/others at similar life stages, undergoing similarly cataclysmic shifts
- Begin to tap into the gifts that motherhood unlocks when you are able to see through the false version of it that society promotes
- Gain access to additional reading and resources for further exploration
- Escape your child(ren) for 90 minutes of YOU TIME every week! (I jest, but it's no small thing)
This series is for anyone who is a parent and is facing the social pressures of motherhood regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or genetic connection to their child. "New parents" typically applies to those with any children under five years old, but the series is open to those at any stage of parenting who are curious about how motherhood impacts and changes us.
Questions? Contact Devon at dparishyoga@gmail.com
To join this series virtually, select “Register for Video Call”. Recorded replays will be available for all participants, so if you miss a class you can still take the class on your own time!
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