Pink Iris Yoga

🌿 A reminder that Perinatal Yoga classes are back this week:

🪷 Prenatal Yoga & Birth Prep — starting Thursday (3 spaces available)
🪷Postnatal Yoga Mum & Baby — starting Friday (a few spaces left)

If you’re still thinking about joining, you’re very welcome. Bookings are open via my website (see comments

Helen x

I've noticed quite a few new faces here recently, so I thought I'd say hello 👋

I'm Helen, a yoga teacher specialising in pregnancy, postnatal & restorairve yoga and birth preparation here in Bangor, North Wales.

Most of my work centres around creating supportive spaces for women during times of transition, whether that's preparing for birth, navigating the early months with a baby, or simply finding opportunities to rest and reconnect.

If you're new here, I'd love to know:

Are you interested in prenatal or postpartum yoga or simply interested in yoga and wellbeing?

One of the most common things I hear from new mums thinking about coming to Postnatal Yoga is:

💭 "I'd love to come, but what if my baby cries?"
💭 "What if I need to feed them?"
💭 "What if I spend the whole class settling my baby?"

A recent mum who attended my classes shared this afterwards on my Google page:

✨ "The highlight of my week! I was a bit worried about attending a yoga session with my then 10 week old baby, but immediately Helen created such a calm and inclusive atmosphere that I felt more relaxed.

Helen creates an environment where baby noises are just part of the yoga practice, where you can feed, settle or change your baby whilst being within the session and part of a community of other mums who are in the same boat."

This is exactly what these classes are about.

Not having a perfectly settled baby.
Not getting yoga poses right.

Just having a welcoming space where you can support your recovery after birth, spend time with your baby through movement and connection, and meet other local mums who understand this stage of life.

My next Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga series starts on 12th June at Garth Community Centre, Bangor.

If you've been thinking about joining but aren't sure, feel free to send me a message

Helen x

One of the things I often hear from mums before joining postnatal yoga is a quiet worry about what the class will actually be like

Whether their baby will cry, need feeding, or need constant attention.

And honestly, that’s exactly what the space is designed for.

One mum recently shared on my Google page this after completing the course:

“I really liked that baby feeding, changing, holding upright or cuddling when necessary didn’t interrupt the flow of the class and was integrated and supported.”

This is something I care deeply about in my teaching, creating a space where you don’t have to hold everything together or feel like you need to “manage” your baby to be there.

Just come as you are, with whatever kind of day you and your baby are having

My next Postnatal Yoga Mum & Baby Yoga course begins 12 June in Bangor. I'd love to welcome your and your baby there. If you have any questions please drop me a comment, message me or all the details and booking are on my website (see bio)

Helen x

No two of my prenatal or postnatal yoga classes are ever the same

And that’s one of the things I love most about teaching them.

Some weeks everything feels calm and steady.

Other weeks there’s a baby who needs feeding for half of the class, someone arriving late because the morning has been chaos, or a mum who just needs to lie down and rest instead of moving.

And we adjust. Sometimes my class plan goes out the window!

Pregnancy and early motherhood aren’t predictable either, so the space shouldn’t be either.

Over time, I’ve realised it’s not about creating a “perfect class” at all.

It’s about creating a space where:

no one cares how you turn up, only that you're there
your needs change from week to week so the class will adapt
you're with women in the same stage as you

That’s where the real shift happens, not in doing things perfectly, but in being somewhere that meets you where you are.

There are a handful of drop-in slots at this weeks Prenatal Yoga & Birth Preparation and Postnatal Mum & Baby Yoga classes at Garth Community Centre in Bangor.

We would love to welcome you there🙂

If you’d like more details, my website link is in the comments or feel free to send me a message👇

Does this resonate with you at all in pregnancy or postpartum?

One of my favourite moments in postnatal yoga classes is very quiet.

It usually happens about halfway through the class.

A mum has been feeding her baby, rocking them, or settling them on the mat beside her. We start moving slowly again and she takes a long breath without even realising it.

Her shoulders soften.

Her body drops out of that constant “holding everything together” feeling that so many new mums carry.

And for a few minutes she isn’t only responding to everyone else’s needs.

She’s just in her body again.

Not trying to get back to who she was before pregnancy.

Just reconnecting with herself in the middle of this huge transition into motherhood.

That small moment, a breath, a stretch, a quiet pause can change how the whole week feels.

My Postnatal Yoga (Mum & Baby) classes are really about creating more of those moments.

A safe space to move your body again, ease the tension that builds from feeding and holding your baby, and be around other mums who are in the same stage of life.

The next series begins this Friday and there are just 3 spaces left at the moment.

If it feels like the kind of space that might support you right now, you’d be very welcome.

Check out the comments for the link to learn more/book.

Drop me a message if you have any questions🙂