Body and Birth

 
 

Body and Birth

A weekend retreat with Alex Newton and Independent Midwife Phoebe Pallotti.

I am so excited to offer this weekend workshop with my good friend Phoebe - an Independent Midwife based here in Sheffield. Phoebe has been a qualified midwife for 16 years and has worked in large teaching hospitals, small district hospitals and has spent several years working abroad. She’s incredibly warm and welcoming as well as being hugely knowledgeable. She has supported many LGBTQIA+ families, neurodiverse families and also has a decade of experience in active allyship in anti-racism in pregnancy and birth services. You can read more about Phoebe here https://www.phoebethemidwife.org/about.

Phoebe will be our birth rights and midwidery guide and I’ll be supporting with movement, body centric practices and supporting deep rest and relaxation. This is an embodied workshop and we will be working with all of this rich information and knowledge by dropping into our bodies, leaning into our needs and our courage to voice them; how it feels to have them heard and how it feels to be in community with each other.

This is a pilot weekend for us so it will be a very small group that we are welcoming and we’ll be working at a reduced price. With such a small group we’ll be able to really delve into each topic.

Where is it?

This is an opportunity to delve into all things birth in a cosy home setting - my home here in Meersbrook! We’ll be predominantly chatting, moving and resting in my small home studio at the top of the house but we’ll have the whole house for the weekend to use - we’ll have a delicious vegan lunch together and provide nourishing snacks and hydrating and soothing teas throughout the weekend as well. If it’s a nice weekend we may be able to venture out into the garden too. I hope you can make yourself at home for the weekend.

This is a pilot weekend for us so it will be a very small group that we are welcoming and we’ll be working at a reduced price. With such a small group we’ll be able to really delve into the topics.

Who is this for?

Anyone who is thinking of becoming a parent as well but not currently pregnant, as well as those who are pregnant now and/or are already parents.

What to expect?

  • What does birth and becoming a parent mean to you?

  • Human Rights, Consent and the importance of ‘No!’

  • Fear and Vulnerability, Trust and Power

  • Stepping into our authority about our bodies and birth

  • Developing a birth plan

  • The Mechanism and Magic of Labour and Birth

  • Working with Health Care Professionals

  • Beyond birth - birth as part of an ongoing family journey - so important but also only one element of a lifelong family journey.

  • Gentle movement to support the biomechanics of birth

  • Pregnancy Yoga

  • Yoga Nidra and Deep Rest

Timings

Saturday and Sunday the 7th and 8th June 2025

10am-5pm

A long lunch around 1pm-2.30pm with lots of movement breaks and rest. Food and snacks are provided.

Please email info@alexnewtonyoga.com to find out more or to talk through your needs/what to expect etc/if you have any questions.

We have limited spaces available to this so please get in touch to let me know your plans!

Price:

£290 per person