Lolly Stirk - "Active Birth Movement and Prenatal Yoga"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Lolly Stirk, teacher at Mothertime and teacher trainer at YogaBirth, talks with J about the history of the active birth movement and prenatal yoga classes. They discuss her arrival in London during the summer of love, opening one of the first vegetarian restaurants down the street from Abbey Road, hanging out with the Beatles and making dinner for BKS Iyengar, softening practice, how Vanda Scaravelli taught, studying with Sheila Kitzinger and Michel Odent, and the power of learning to surrender to the process of life.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.7	If you happen to be someone who's listening to the show for the first time today,
0:22.7	let me welcome you.
0:24.6	Everyone else, what's up?
0:28.5	How are we doing?
0:30.5	How are we doing?
0:31.6	That's a good question.
0:32.6	How am I doing is really what I'm asking because I'm the only one sitting here right now.
0:37.0	But I know that you're listening, somebody's listening to this,
0:39.5	and I am genuinely curious how you are too.
0:44.3	I'm wondering if you're feeling the same malaise setting in that I'm feeling.
0:53.1	I was just sitting here trying to find a bit of inspiration to bring to
0:57.8	this intro and I'm not going to lie, I wasn't not finding it. I don't think sitting there any longer
1:03.5	is going to make a difference. So here I am in a very uninspired state.
1:19.0	And I guess I'm trying to understand what are the obstacles or what's, what's keeping me from feeling inspired.
1:21.4	Well, one, I just, I'm spent, I'm spent, I think, all this recent talks about higher powers
1:28.3	and whether or not matter comes first or consciousness comes first.
1:34.1	I think I'm just a little tapped out maybe.
1:38.4	But also, it's hard to stay attuned to that current of feeling okay and everything happening in its natural progression
1:55.9	when it feels like there's clearly disturbances in the force,
2:03.7	or there's things that are awry, you know, you can feel it.
2:09.2	I can't be the only one who has that nagging feeling.
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