Awakening Through Pregnancy and Birth
How can you experience awakening through pregnancy and birth? In this episode of Superpower Mommas, host Tatiana Berindei and guest Corrine Andrews share their thoughts on how the journey of pregnancy becomes the perfect vehicle for transformation and awakening. They also discuss practical tips on how to get the most spiritual nourishment out of your pregnancy. You will also learn what happens when we make radical shifts that require a tremendous amount of trust and the yoga of money. Tune in to learn more about the process of awakening through pregnancy and birth.
Tatiana Berindei:
Hello everyone. And welcome to the Superpower Mommas podcast show. I’m your host, Tatiana Berindei, and I’m so thrilled to have our guest Corinne Andrews with me here today. Corinne is a beautiful woman who I have had the good fortune to get to know a little bit in real life in person, live time. And I’m just so thrilled with what she’s up to and that she’s here with us today. We are going to be talking about awakening through pregnancy and birth, which is of course, a very juicy and very near and dear to my heart topic.
Let me tell you a little bit about Corinne before we dive in today. Corinne Andrews is the developer and lead teacher of the Birthing Mama® 90-hour Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga and Wellness teacher training and author of the new book, Birthing Mama. She’s co-owner and director of Shraddha Yoga and leads the Embody Yoga 100-hour in-depth study and 200-hour teacher training. She teaches weekly online and local classes. And she’s been teaching yoga classes and private sessions online and locally in person to people of all ages and abilities since 2003. Her yoga classes are phenomenal. If you ever get a chance to connect with her, I absolutely adore this woman. And I’m just so thrilled that you’re of us today, Corinne. Welcome.
Corinne Andrews:
Thank you so much for that introduction. And I am also just so grateful and excited to be here with you. So thank you.
Tatiana Berindei:
Yeah and it’s fun for me because I’ve gotten to sort of see Birthing Mama and its whole trajectory. It started out as this online virtual sharing for women in their pregnancy and in their preparation for birthing time. And you’ve had just so many iterations with it and it’s just been so fun to watch your journey and watch it grow and now become this book. So I’m just really excited that we get to talk about it today. Before we dive into the conversation, though, will you share with our listeners what your superpowers are in the realm of birth and birthing?
Corinne Andrews:
Yeah. So I guess I might say my first one is realness, authenticity. I come to this work not because I claim to be an expert or that I have something that others don’t or that I have power over something or someone. But more so from a place of, when I went through it, especially being young and unplanned, it was powerful. I had a really deep spiritual experience. So I would say that, if I could call that a superpower it’s that I come to this whole realm of awakening through pregnancy, birth and motherhood from just a place of rawness and realness and authenticity. Because this is what I went through and this is what I want to offer just from the depth of my heart. And I think maybe the other, maybe, superpower would be the gift of, or the invitation, to give back to others in the sense that I’m really just here to serve. And I’m here to serve not only people and the earth but the call of the divine mother.
So I really like to get out of my own way and let the divine mother move through me, let love move through me so that I can actually be here present and in service to others. And then invite you all, whoever I’m interacting with, to also be in that place within themselves. Not to fabricate something, but to really say, well, who are you? And what is your intuition guiding you towards?
Tatiana Berindei:
Yeah. And you do it so beautifully. I can absolutely attest to the realness factor. I think that’s one of the things that I appreciate so much about you, Corinne, that there’s no pretense to the way that you approach yoga and it’s very much an embodied practice for you. And it’s palpable. You can feel it, it shows.
Corinne Andrews:
I’m so glad.
Tatiana Berindei:
Yeah. So we are going to talk about this whole journey of awakening through pregnancy and through the birthing experience. We’re going to talk about Birthing Mama as a resource for birthing mothers. And I don’t want to cut that conversation off. I really love to let these conversations flow. So we’re not going to dive into that until we go to this quick break here. But before we go to break, will you tell our listeners where they can go to find the book, learn more about what you’re up to, and maybe even engage in some of your yoga classes or training?
Corinne Andrews:
Absolutely. Yeah. So for the realms of fertility, conscious conception, pregnancy, birth, and motherhood you’ll want to go to birthingmama.com. And the book itself is also called Birthing Mama: Your Companion for a Holistic Pregnancy Journey. And the book is found, you’ll see it on my website, but it’s also found anywhere where books are sold. So online, in your local bookshop, if it’s not there in your local bookstore, you can ask them to order it. And what I’ve seen is that they do. They love supporting. We love supporting local businesses and the local business loves supporting local authors and artists and all of that. And then as far as weekly classes and teacher training, all of that is hosted through Shradha yoga. So even the Birthing Mama classes, they’re all hosted through Shraddha Yoga, which for now they’re mostly online. Some things are happening locally, where I live in Massachusetts, but that is shraddhayoga.org. And there are a lot of details and information on that website.
Tatiana Berindei:
And it’s wonderful, actually, that it’s being offered online cause we have such a wide birth of listenership here from all over the world. So no matter where you are, you can tune into those and benefit from the magic that Corinne has helped to generate over there in her little hub in Massachusetts and all of the light threads that it touches everywhere. So go and check her out. We are talking with Corinne Andrews about awakening through pregnancy and birth. And if you have not yet come to check us out over at superpowermommas.com. Come and play with us over there. There’s a whole superpower universe that you can come and engage with. I’m offering my new moon virtual circles there. There are courses and programs and all sorts of wonderful, fun, deep, witchy things that you can dive into with us over there. So again and we’re talking with Corinne Andrews and we will dive in more after this break stay tuned. We’ll be right back.
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