Yoga for Pregnancy
With Gillian @drgillianevans
Nurture Strength, Harness the Breath, and Rest Deeply on the Journey to Motherhood
This 90-minute prenatal yoga course is for pregnant people in their second and third trimesters. Taught by Gillian, a mother and grandmother with decades of parenting experience, each session features intentional breathwork alongside alternating weeks of gentle sun salutations and her unique restorative yoga practice called Spinal Release.
The extended format ensures an unhurried pace with plenty of time for careful exploration and gradual practice evolution. You'll build strength and stamina whilst reducing stress and preparing your body and mind for labour and birth. Gillian has given birth twice using yoga breathwork techniques and brings this lived experience to every class.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Build and maintain strength and mobility throughout pregnancy, increasing awareness of how best to navigate changes in your weight, body, and centre of gravity.
Discover the power of breath and explore how you might use breath and movement to encourage your baby into the optimal position for labour and birth.
Reduce stress and cultivate an environment of nurturing, respect, and connection as a secure foundation for parenting.
Day: Fridays
Time: 17.30–19:00
Duration: ongoing
NB. Please check Bookwhen for dates as there may be some weeks when the course isn’t running.
Book a 6 week course or drop-in session. If a course is full, a waiting list will automatically become available via Bookwhen.
Week 1
Grounding
Gentle sun salutations paired with mindful breathwork to explore alignment and build foundational strength safely.
Week 2
Flowing
Restorative yoga paired with calming breathwork to fully release the spine and soothe the nervous system.
Week 3
Connection
Flow movements and sun salutations paired with focused breathwork to strengthen the legs and ease lower back pain.
Week 4
Strengthening
Restorative stretching paired with soothing breathwork to decompress the spine and carefully open the hips.
Week 5
Releasing
Modified standing poses and sun salutations paired with core-centred breathwork to build stamina and steady control.
Week 6
Arrival
Restorative integration paired with grounding breathwork to deeply lengthen the spine and cultivate full-body relaxation.
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Gillian has been practising yoga for over thirty years. She is passionate about the transformational potential of yoga and leads yoga classes and workshops in London and Manchester.
Inspired and trained at Triyoga by Anna Ashby and Joey Miles in the alignment-based method of hatha yoga, Gillian guides students through 90-minute classes that conquer fatigue, cultivate strength, vitality, and good posture, improve mood and increase body and mind awareness.
Gillian is also a social anthropologist and psychotherapist. She is preoccupied with the question of what it means to be human and lends this question to her enquiry into the yoga tradition, and brings a unique anthropological perspective to her teaching practice, summer and winter yoga retreats and to workshops for fellow yoga teachers. She is a member of the teaching faculty of the Advanced Teacher Training programme led by Anna Ashby at Triyoga.
Gillian would love to show you how yoga can transform your life.
Pricing
6-Week Course: £108
Book the full course for all 6 sessions (Fridays 5:30pm–7pm). Each session is 90 minutes.
What to Bring
Please bring your own mat if you have one.
Class Details
We have showers and toilets available.
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We have a strict latecomers policy. Latecomers will not be admitted any later than 5 minutes after the commencement of the session. Past this point, it will be disruptive for you to enter the room, and since you will not have warmed up properly, heading into class this late may also be damaging for your body. We recommend you arrive 5-10 minutes early so the class and your day can run on time.
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Cancellations within 72 hours of the course starting will not be refunded.
Cancellations outside of 72 hours of the course start will be refunded upon request, otherwise, the passes can be transferred to another course (or a later cohort of the cancelled course).
There is no refund offered for missed sessions within the course.
If we are required to cancel a class due to teacher illness, we will offer a make-up session the week following the last session of the course.
The teacher may choose to cancel a course if a low number of people sign up. Please book in as early as you can to stop this from happening! Your pass will automatically be returned to your Mindbody account in this incidence. You can request a refund if you want one, otherwise, the passes can be transferred to another course (or a later cohort of the cancelled course).