Welcome to Matre Yoga
A soft, intentional space for your journey through motherhood.
Four-week series for just a handful of mums - purposeful movement, actual rest, and a pot of tea afterwards.
Prenatal, to give you room to breathe before it all changes. Postnatal, to help you find your feet again after it has.
Four weeks. Five mats. One small circle.
An intimate prenatal yoga series in a calm home studio in Marrickville. Each week we move through the five koshas - preparing your body for birth and giving your mind somewhere to land - then stay for tea and honest conversation with the other mums in the room. No rushing in and out. Real connection, started during pregnancy rather than months after.
After birth. The circle continues
Bring your baby to mums and bubs, where feeding, rocking and settling are all part of the practice. Gentle strength for a body that's been through one of the most extraordinary things it will ever do, followed by tea and honest conversation with women in the same season. Babies from 6 weeks after birth to crawling.
The prenatal sangha
In yoga philosophy, you’re more than a physical body. You're a layered map of physical tissue, flowing breath, emotional currents, inner wisdom, and pure joy - the five koshas. Pregnancy shifts all of them at once.
Over four weeks we move gently through each:
Week 1 Annamaya Kosha - physical grounding
Week 2 Pranamaya Kosha - flowing breath
Week 3 Manomaya Kosha - mental space
Week 4 Vijnanamaya Kosha - inner wisdom
Every week Anandamaya Kosha - total bliss
My relationship with movement changed when I became a mother. I'd always been fast-paced - running at thirty weeks, spin classes up and until my daughter arrived - so slowing down to prepare for birth and connect with my baby didn't come naturally. Then she arrived, and movement became my moment: time for my body, for her, and for other mums in it with me. That's why Matre doesn't stop at birth - the weeks and months after are when we most need somewhere to come together as a village.
Matre came straight out of those needs - the honest, low-sensory space I wish I'd had. I can't wait to share it with you.
Hayley, certified pre/postnatal yoga teacher (Yoga Nidra trained)
The face behind Matre
