I will keep your heart with mine

I wanted to share this song with you. I have listened to it many many times and have even played it in my Yoga for Fertility classes. The words "I will keep you heart with mine until you come to me" inspires me and other women to invite their baby-to-be into their heart. The heart is the first womb. Our desire to become a Mother, our desire to have a baby begins within our heart. The desire grows stronger as we align our thoughts, emotions and actions to find the path we need to follow in order to bring our babies home into our arms. Some babies will come through us in the way of a pregnancy, others will be born in our hearts through adoption. Whatever path you take, You will be a Mother! I hope this song will help you realize that. Listen with the intention of forming a connection with the baby that is meant to come to you. Invite your baby into your heart and your life!

Click here to listen.

Namaste
Sue

Exercise & Fertility - What to do!

I wanted to share this information with you. It can be confusing about what you should or shouldn't do when it comes to enhancing your fertility. I have a few articles that can help you. Keep in mind I share this information but the true answer and teacher is within you. Only you know what is best for you. There is no one recipe for conception. Yoga for Fertility can help you look within to find and hear your inner guidance. It is that kind soft loving voice that says "come this way". Remember I have my Yoga for Fertility Handbook and voice guided Fertility Yoga classes you can download to your computer, Ipod or mp3 player which can help you with create a home practice.

Click here to read the article: Can Too Much Exercise Harm Fertility

Another good reference is my article in Creating Families Magazine: Fit to Conceive
Click here to read the article.

Physicians Prescribe Yoga

Finally more health care providers are recognizing the benefits of Yoga for their patients. I have been lucky to connect with such incredible Reproductive Specialists in Vancouver and the lower mainland that believe in the value of Yoga for Fertility for their patients. They have seen the difference when women attend classes. I am deeply grateful to be able to witness such incredible transformations from week 1 to week 6. It is really challenging to capture in words how much the classes help physically, mentally and emotionally. I have begun a research initiative with Clementine Hudson from LifeStreams to begin to measure the positive effects Fertility Yoga classes have on women. It will take some time to collect the data but we will share results as soon as possible. It is exciting! This means more classes will continue to be available all over the world. I will continue to train Fertility Yoga Instructors so that more women have access to these transformational and empowering classes.

Click here to watch the clip on ABC news!

Law of Attraction & Fertility

We are all powerful creators and every day in each moment we create our reality. The Law of Attraction is a powerful universal law. Essentially, what we focus on we will attract more of. Even if what we focus on is what we don't want, more of what don't want will come to us. When it comes to fertility it is common to look at what isn't working, how are body isn't cooperating, how the test is negative and so on. When you focus on what you don't want you will attract more of what you don't want.

Many of my clients begin working with me and complain about how their cycle is irregular. Even after a few months of normal cycles they tend to want to complain or worry about it becoming irregular again. I help them shift their perspective and focus on how the cycle is beginning to regulate. Here is an example:
Me "How many days was your cycle this month?"
Client "It wasn't good. It was still long it was 39 days"
Me "Wow 39 days is better than last cycle which was 49 days. That is great! We are moving in the right direction."
Client "I guess so but it isn't normal. It is still too long!"
Me "It will take some time for your cycle to regulate. There is so much happening in your body - hormones coming into balance, reducing inflammation, restoring homeostasis. We can't see the big picture. Let's focus on the positive and the fact that your cycle is shorter and closer to where we would like it to be."
Client "I guess so but we still have a ways to go. I mean how many more months will it take? I am so frustrated by my body."
Me "Again let's shift the focus to what your body is doing for you today in this moment and let go of the attachment to what it wasn't doing for you in the past. The past is the past. Let's celebrate today and more forward from here."

In many cases, my client's are trying to convince me of what may go wrong in the future, while I help them focus on what is happening in this moment. The present moment is all we know for sure. All our current thoughts and emotions will determine what we will attract in the future. If you believe the world is out to get you, that will become your reality because that is what you are focusing on. When you worry, your energetic vibration will fall to a level that will match the vibration of worry in the universe and as a result you will attract more things to worry about.

Here is a video clip about the Law of Attraction from one of my favorite teachers Abraham-Hicks. Click here to watch it.

Remember you create your reality. No one else does! The good news is that you can change your reality if you change your mind about your fertility and your life. You have the ability to create a life that is extraordinary! All of us are capable of being powerful creators! All of us including you! You are just as capable and deserving of having all your dreams come true! It begins with YOU! It begins with you changing your thoughts and aligning your vibration with what you desire. Focus on your desire to be a Mother or Father. Focus on your dream of a family! Stay in alignment and then open your heart to allow that to become your reality.

Can You Turn Down the Noise?

I received some words of wisdom from Dr Wayne Dyer on Facebook. He has been an inspiration for me for many years now. I have been getting messages lately from different sources to find silence and I have noticed my meditation has been more difficult in the last 2 months. I have been more focused on task and functioning in my left brain. The racket in my mind is back, although not as chaotic as it used to be, it is there. As I find stillness, I close my eyes and look over to the right side of my brain to awaken my ability to be still, be present, be creative, just BE!

Here are some words of inspiration and wisdom from Wayne Dyer.
Click here to read.

New Study - Reduce Stress, Increase Fertility

This is exciting! I wanted to share this with you. I found a new study showing the link between stress reduction and increased fertility.

"The study, funded by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc., and conducted in conjunction with The Domar Center at Boston IVF revealed a pregnancy rate of 52 percent among women who participated in a stress management program as compared to a 20 percent pregnancy rate for women who were not exposed to the stress management program. The program was designed to educate women on the utilization of cognitive, relaxation and lifestyle techniques to manage stress.

Stress management had an even greater impact on pregnancy rates for women who showed higher baselines symptoms of depression. Pregnancy rates jumped to 67 percent for women with signs of depression at the start of the study who engaged in the stress management program versus no pregnancies for those that did not."

Click here to read the study.

My take home message is that stress can affect your ability to conceive but you have the ability to do something about it. Fertility Yoga classes and my Couples Yoga Mind Body Program can help reduce anxiety by teaching you effective stress reduction tools & techniques. Not only will these tools help improve your chances of conceiving they will help transform your experience of your fertility journey and have a positive impact in all areas of your life.

Imagine if your life was no longer "on hold"! Imagine living your life fully! Imagine feeling happiness and joy again! You CAN continue to live your life without feeling overwhelmed and consumed by your fertility challenges. I know because I am doing it and I have seen it over and over again with my clients in the last 5 years.

What are you waiting for? Let me help you get started today! It is time to live! Life is occurring NOW!

Are you breathing?

I have a sense of uneasiness deep within. I am on the verge of breaking through a major self imposed barrier. I keep finding myself breathing very shallow and often holding my breath for moments of time. There is part of me that is ready to let go and there is another part of me that is so afraid.

Anytime you have a negative sensation in your physical body it is an indication that you are having a negative thought or emotion. Remember 95% of our thoughts each day are subconscious/habitual thoughts that we don't hear in our physical ears. It is a tape playing in the background and over time we have tuned it out. What you need to know is that most of our decisions are made from our subconscious mind.

Here is the path:
1) you have a thought about something or someone (conscious or subconscious)
2) you have an emotion that follows the thought (negative thought = negative emotion)
3) the body responds to the emotion (eg. negative emotion = tension in the shoulders or clenching teeth)

Many of us aren't aware of the first 2 steps and even more people are disconnected from their body so they don't notice the signals. The best thing you can do is BREATH! Your breath is your link to the present moment. The breath is real! It is happening in each moment and it is your link to the present moment.

According to Dr. Fritz Perls, psychiatrist and founder of Gestalt therapy, "Fear is excitement without the breath". Think about it. When you are afraid you hold your breath or turn to a shallow breath. The only difference between fear and excitement is that you are holding your breath when you are afraid. Remember fear can be disguised as worry, anxiety, confusion, frustration, anger etc. The good news is all you need to do is BREATH!

It sounds so simple but it is so effective. I have been using this for many years in my own life through meditation and yoga but only recently discovered Dr Perls wisdom and it has changed my experience of fear in the last few weeks. I can separate myself from the fear when I remember that it is only the breath that makes it different than excitement.

FEAR is not real! Many believe it stands for FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL. If fear is not real and the only difference between fear and excitement is your breath, then what will you choose to do? How about taking 10 long deep breaths and see what happens. Imagine yourself giving the fear over to the Universe for healing and breathing yourself back into a sense of calm or even excitement. Excitement for life! Excitement for all the possibilities that you can create in your life when you let go of fear!