{"product_id":"breathing-space-for-new-mothers-isbn-9781623173425","title":"Breathing Space for New Mothers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gentle and novel guide to new motherhood\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eone that encourages women to take time to breathe, embrace their experiences, and be \"good enough\"—one yoga minute at a time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoga instructor Alison Rogers and coauthor Erin O. White forge a new path through contemporary motherhood with their collection of gentle suggestions for beginning and deepening a home yoga practice for new mothers. From the warm-up of first days with a newborn to the wobbly-but-standing postures of confident new motherhood, \u003ci\u003eBreathing Space for New Mothers \u003c\/i\u003eencourages women to notice and nurture their feelings and foster self-compassion to approach motherhood with curiosity instead of fear, improvisation instead of rigidity, and humor instead of worry. The authors offer mothers a singular message: your well-being matters as much as your baby’s. Each chapter ends with a one-minute mindful yoga practice, which can be done in a sequence to create a relaxing and balancing support for the incredibly demanding first nine months with a baby.“If you’ve just given birth—for the first time or the eighth time—you can exhale now. \u003ci\u003eBreathing Space for New Mothers \u003c\/i\u003eis exactly what you need as you stumble into this messy, chaotic, beautiful, sleepless, joyful, and confusing time called motherhood. No judgments, no hard-and-fast prescriptions. Just compassionate wisdom and practical suggestions on how to truly care for yourself.”\u003cbr\u003e—LINDA SPARROWE, author of \u003ci\u003eYoga Mama \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eYoga At Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This is a wonderful gift to any new mother. When we cultivate inner warmth, kindness, and health it not only helps us as mothers, but also helps everyone around us, including the new life we bring into the world. This book will help you care for your body with gentle yoga poses, and to relate to yourself with more wisdom and compassion so that your experience of motherhood is as fulfilling as possible.”\u003cbr\u003e—DR. KRISTIN NEFF, author of \u003ci\u003eSelf-Compassion \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBreathing Space for New Mothers \u003c\/i\u003eis not just a parenting guide, it’s a life guide. It is about cultivating a quality of being that allows us access to our deepest wisdom and intuition as mothers.”\u003cbr\u003e—HALA KHOURI, MA, cofounder and director, with Seane Corn and Susan Sterling, of Off the Mat Into the World and creator of the Radiant Pregnancy yoga video program\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I’m so grateful to have mindfulness resources like \u003ci\u003eBreathing Space for New Mothers \u003c\/i\u003eto recommend to my patients. As a reproductive psychiatrist, I’malways looking for ways to support women in their body-mind emotions and remind us all about the healing power of breath.”\u003cbr\u003e—ALEXANDRA SACKS, MD, reproductive psychiatrist and author of \u003ci\u003eWhat No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBreathing Space for New Mothers \u003c\/i\u003eoffers new mothers a mental shift—one that creates more room to trust ourselves, look after ourselves, and be ourselves even as we settle into this new role. It’s a slowing down for our racing minds and our wild expectations, and it is truly a gift.”\u003cbr\u003e—KJ DELL’ANTONIA, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Happier Parent\u003c\/i\u003e and former editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e“Motherlode” blog\u003cbr\u003e ALISON ROGERS trained as a Kripalu Yoga instructor at Kripalu Center for Yoga and earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from Harvard and a doctoral degree in Cross-Cultural Child Development from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After more than thirty years of clinical work as a therapist and educator, she shifted her focus to create the Yoga of Parenting workshops, a practice and philosophy that integrates principles from cutting- edge Western psychology with mindful yoga to help parents as they practice caring for their children with confidence, authenticity, and pleasure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eERIN WHITE received her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGiven Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, including several anthologies: \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch is Back\u003c\/i\u003e, the sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch in the House\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eUse Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eOh Baby: True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Labor and Love\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305287209189,"sku":"NP9781623173425","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781623173425.jpg?v=1767723060","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/breathing-space-for-new-mothers-isbn-9781623173425","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}