SELF-CULTIVATION
Qigong for fertility support
8 week programme (£199)
October - Now fully booked. If you would like to be the first to hear about the next programme dates please contact me below. I also offer one-to-one support to a small number of people. Please get in touch!
“The sessions with Kate were great and were just what I needed in the midst of a sometimes stressful fertility journey (let alone a global pandemic!).
Her calm and relaxed manner helped to make me feel supported. I’m really glad I did the programme and would highly recommend it.”
Anna B
INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMME
Help build emotional resilience for the journey ahead
Cultivate your health and fertility
Develop a mindfulness practice that you can do daily in just 10-15 minutes
Gentle enough to do at any time of the month, through fertility treatment and pregnancy
The missing link in fertility self-care
Lower stress and balance emotions
Learn a moving meditation form
Practice sitting meditations and breath techniques
Find out about the five elements and how they support you
Use affirmations to strengthen positive neural pathways to promote wellbeing
Most of us are aware that mindfulness and meditation practices are good for us, but we don’t always find it easy to sit still and often our good intentions go out the window when we are busy or stressed, which is when we need it most!
In my experience, gentle moving meditations are a beautiful way to integrate your mind, body and breath so that you can mindfully seek calm and self-healing when you are trying to conceive.
I firmly believe that Qigong is the missing link in fertility self care. With a little regular practice, you will become aware of how you can cultivate your health as well as reduce your stress levels to mindfully support your fertility journey. It gives you the tools to be more equipped to handle the challenges of the road ahead.
In this programme I will teach you the ‘Cultivations form’ that I have developed specifically to support you where you are now. It is a short 15 minute form of gentle moving meditations that you can practice daily. Rooted in the five elements you will learn affirmations to strengthen key neural pathways to promote wellbeing, connect you to your inner healing potential and reconnect you to the power of nature and a meditative sense of calm.
How the programme works
Each session will go little like this. We will start the session with a 15 minute catch up to allow everyone to arrive and have an informal chat to see how we are all doing.
I will then do a short introduction about what we are doing in the session. The first week it will be about connecting and cultivation through the ancient practice of qigong for health, then in the following weeks we will focus on one of the five elements and how this impacts our energy, emotions, health and fertility. (read my blog post for more information on the five elements)
We will then practice the moving meditations, each week building on the last so that by the end of the 8 weeks you will have a beautiful 15 minute practice you can do regularly to mindfully connect, reduce your stress and cultivate your health and fertility.
You will be given lovely affirmations to work with alongside your moving practice.
In the last couple of weeks we start working with ‘still’ meditation practices and consider how we can use heart-mindfulness to support our journey too.
(If you would like to find out more about cultivating the five elements to support health and fertility please go to the next section down)
What you need and when you can do it
The great thing is that you need no extra equipment, perhaps a chair and some comfortable clothing. You can do these practices at ANY time during your monthly cycle, fertility treatment or if you are pregnant. The meditations are very gentle and you should not consider them as exercise but mindfulness movement instead.
Additional materials
At the beginning of the programme you will be given course notes if you want to do some background reading (this is not essential!!). Then each week you will receive a 10 minute video of moving meditations that reflects what you have learnt in the session so that you can practice in your own time.
Can’t make a session? No need to stress! You will also receive a copy of the full session each week.
There are also additional meditations and practices in the members area that you will have access to.
Once you have completed this programme you can join me weekly for on-going sessions and also join my heart-mindfulness programme if it feels right for you.
If you would like to register your interest
for future programmes and courses please click the button below.
Want to learn about the five elements
If you would like to read more about cultivating the five elements, lowering stress and supporting fertility please go to my blog post here.
Qigong to support your fertility journey
Online courses, workshops and retreats
I offer a range of qigong and heart-mindfulness programmes throughout the year, including online courses and ‘in-person’ workshops and retreats. If you would like to register your interest in any of my courses and for information on future courses please do so below.
Heart-Mindfulness for fertility
6 week programme (£149)
This programme is only available for those who have completed the Moving Meditations for fertility programme. (maximum of 10 people)
This is a six week programme focussing on heart-mindfulness meditation. It is a great segue programme for those who would like to learn more about a still practice.
Each week we will start with ‘the cultivations form’ to integrate the mind, body and breath and allow us to begin mindfully accessing a place of conscious presence. We will then continue with a seated guided practice using the attentional style of meditation to support stillness and welcome heart-mindfulness.
These are beautiful and gentle practices but they are also powerful, therefore you will need to have spent some time practicing the moving meditations first. You will receive an invitation to join following completion of the first programme.
TESTIMONIALS
Bridie and I work together with acupuncture, herbs and Harmony qigong. She explains how it has supported her fertility journey and helped regulate her cycles.
I have been working with Sinead for years with acupuncture and she has recently decided to start on her journey to solo motherhood. She talks about how she finds Harmony qigong a wonderful support on her journey.
FEEL YOU MIGHT PREFER A MORE 1-2-1 APPROACH?
I also offer bespoke programmes. Please go to my bespoke programmes page, by clicking here.