This past weekend I had the pleasure of completing a Mystical mama yoga teacher course. As an add-on to the 200h certificate I have for teaching vinyasa and hatha flow yoga, I now can teach post natal yoga, and I am so excited about this! I practiced yoga throughout my pregnancies and afterwards, and I recall how great it felt to slowly get my body 'back' after carrying my precious cargo. The work also inspired a poem, as I reflected on my own first experience of becoming a mother.
Life
© Tara Klassen, June 2020
I opened up
his soul found me
I expanded, nurtured, loved, dreamed
Anticipated
Now
He lays in my arms
At my breast
The most beautiful, perfect human
In the universe.
There has never been another
baby like mine,
I am sure of this.
This love
Spills out of my heart,
Flows through my body and mind,
flooding my senses,
knocking me off my feet.
To think,
I thought I knew
what love was
before.
I had no idea.
My universe expands and shifts
Turning me upside down
Making me dizzy…
My perception is forever altered
By the arrival of this tiny angel
The world will just have to
Manage without me
For a little while.
I am busy
Holding my new universe in my arms.
