Welcome to LetsYogandBirth!
My name is Daniela, I am 37 years old, married and mother of three beautiful children.
Yoga “happened to me” when I was pregnant with my first baby and in search for online birth preparation.
And came across prenatal yoga. Which I just started doing and loved immediately. It helped me feel so empowered and strong in both my body and my mind, that I was able to have my first birth intervention free.
For me, that was exactly what I wanted.
I never stopped doing yoga after that, but on the professional level it took me a while…
After 10 years of working as an accountant I finally decided to take the step and become a yoga teacher and childbirth educator.
Going through both the joy and difficulties of giving birth and breastfeeding, I just felt a strong need to help and encourage other moms to have more positive experiences, too.
I teach prenatal yoga and offer a birth preparation course that intends to help women have a more positive birth experience through empowering information, yoga and meditation practice.
My purpose is to lead women to believe in the abilities and strength of their bodies.
To trust that they are born and built to birth and feed their babies.
And that this is possible without intervention.
My own Mom had me and my sister without pain relief- she used to say that she wanted to feel and experience everything.
She had much rely and belief in God and Nature. And that`s how she raised us.
She was never the anxious mother who would be afraid we could get ourselves dirty or get in touch with germs. She was also not the kind of Mom to run around the house cleaning after the mess we would make… No, our mother was relaxed about that but would concentrate on things like making sure we were educated about the importance of healthy food and lifestyle, reading books and believing in God and the power of nature. She would also take us to an alternative physician and we would get natural medicine when we were sick.
Naturally I grew up developing great interest in those things myself and went on reading and researching as I got older.
My mother sadly died at early age from an aggressive brain tumor, about five years before I had my first child.
Raising my own children, I have so much to ask my mother and nobody to answer my questions. But I certainly inherited her way of living and believing, and I try to bring up my children the same we grew up. Things like breastfeeding, healthy nutrition and lifestyle are timeless and even getting more and more important in today` s life.
Becoming pregnant with my first son, I was already sure that for me, motherhood and nature is strongly connected. That`s why it just seemed so right to me when I started practicing yoga and meditation to prepare for childbirth.
And today, more than nine years of motherhood later, I am so glad Yoga is part of my daily life, as it helps me calming, reconnecting and gaining the strength I need to be a mom…