Birth trauma in me was subtle. There was no big bang, no sudden onset of chaos after the event, and I didn’t have any classic symptoms of PTSD. I have since learnt that, like everything in life, trauma exists on a continuum from severe trauma and PTSD, to milder trauma with a more subtle impact. To me birth trauma was like ivy; it weaved its way into my brickwork quietly and unnoticed, and slowly but surely it was bringing down my house. Rewind 8 years. My son’s birth was tra

I first started yoga at 18. I was at university and drunk alllll the time when my friend and I had the winning idea to start yoga at 9am on a Saturday morning - honestly I don’t know what possessed us. We both went along every weekend, hung-over to the absolute max, head pounding, poison sweating from every pore, and trying not vomit through the class. I look back now and I wonder if somehow even then I was trying to save myself from the serotonin crisis of crap diet, crap sl