Fiona Donohoe-Bales

Bachelor of Arts, Diploma of Health (Yoga Teaching), Dip. Comm, Certificate Holistic Counselling and Life Coaching.

Fiona is a Yoga teacher, writer and broadcaster. For over ten years she has run a busy and vibrant yoga practice on Sydney 's Lower North Shore teaching Prenatal Yoga and Birth Skills to hundreds of pregnant women. Fiona holds a Diploma of Health (Yoga) from Nature Care College and has been a past teacher trainer at the College. She regularly conducts Active Birth Workshops For Couples to help prepare mums and dads for child birth. 

Fiona and partner, Dr Mark Donohoe, are the founders of Ripe & Real Pty Ltd, and produce podcasts for the Health and Wellness industry, including some of Australia 's best known companies. She is the host of 'Womb in Bloom' a weekly pod cast for new mums and has written a number of articles for various publications including Wellbeing Magazine.

She is passionate about sharing the joy of yoga with her students. "Yoga is a wonderful way to celebrate a woman's rite of passage into motherhood.  Not only is yoga a gentle and effective form of exercise, it also develops inner resources that can awaken the new mother to her true birthing potential. Regular practice will help the becoming mother build greater confidence, calm and ease. Every new mother brings something special to motherhood. Yoga helps us cultivate those unique gifts. Through meditation and prayer we can create a safe space to nurture and honour  the sacred relationship between a mother and her unborn child".

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new" Ragneesh.

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