‘Women possess the wisdom to heal the wounds inflicted by patriarchal norms.’
Yet, traditional healthcare often dismisses women’s voices and bodily knowledge. Kylie Hennessy weaves together modern body-mind science with ancient yogic philosophy and practices, to promote a trauma-informed, integrative approach to women’s health.
With a blend of theory and practical applications, including class plans, for supporting women during the menstrual cycle, fertility, pregnancy, the postnatal period, and early motherhood, this book is ideal for yoga teachers and therapists alike. Hennessy’s book enables you to guide women of all walks of life to find healing and empowerment, by cultivating a deeper understanding of their experiences and needs through yogic practice.
Yet, traditional healthcare often dismisses women’s voices and bodily knowledge. Kylie Hennessy weaves together modern body-mind science with ancient yogic philosophy and practices, to promote a trauma-informed, integrative approach to women’s health.
With a blend of theory and practical applications, including class plans, for supporting women during the menstrual cycle, fertility, pregnancy, the postnatal period, and early motherhood, this book is ideal for yoga teachers and therapists alike. Hennessy’s book enables you to guide women of all walks of life to find healing and empowerment, by cultivating a deeper understanding of their experiences and needs through yogic practice.
Reviews
This book inspires the physical and spiritual practise of Yoga through the journey of womanhood: fertility, pregnancy and birth, until motherhood. I could not recommend it more highly.
This book is so necessary for everyone and especially women seeking increased health and wellbeing through their yoga practice.
Kylie calls out the western narrative that dangerously separates our mind, body and soul and the dominant western medical perspective that sees and treats women's bodies and their natural processes as unpredictable, inconvenient, messy and seeks instead to control them with medication, intervention and fear. The results of this perspective are the oppression of feminine knowledge, wisdom and power, and what that looks like is systemic injustices in women's health.
Kylie, with her decades of experience with yoga, as a practitioner and teacher, and her deep awareness of the life seasons and cycles of a woman's life, brings these two together in this wonderful book, a guide for women from menarche through childbirth and mothering, including the all too often accompanying grief, loss and trauma.
Whether you are a yogini or looking for a guide for how to approach your fertile years with the wisdom and practice of yoga, this book is for you!