Using the practices of yoga, meditation and mindfulness and much more, in a modern and simple way to nourish yourself and feel more empowered.
✨ Feel better connected to your body in a loving way.
✨ Know simple effective ways to dial down overwhelm and stress.
✨ Sleep better and feel well rested.
✨ Feel more connected to your intuition, trust your inner mothering wisdom more.
✨ Feel inspired as a mother.
✨ Have a selection of yoga movement practices you can practice anytime - ones for strength, for gently energising, for greater calmness, and for rest.
✨ Feel less overwhelmed by multitasking, spinning thoughts, and reactive emotions?
✨ Work out self-care that feels right to you.
✨ Have proven ways to rest and relax, especially when actual sleep is sketchy.
✨Have all of this at your fingertips to access anytime, anywhere.
You’ll be able to learn what true self-care is, and how as a busy mother you can build this into your day and week, creating your own unique plan for you. One that leaves you feeling empowered, not overwhelmed. Help you to trust your mothering instincts more, and be less critical of yourself.
This isn’t me giving you a blueprint to follow.
It’s me guiding you to gently create your own way to be more connected and feel better in yourself. I am here to support you as you tune into what you truly need for your wellbeing, and so help you look after your family better too.
This course is supportive, uplifting, inclusive and encouraging.
Including:
mindful movement practices (including sessions for - energising, tension releasing, calming, bedtime sequence)
short ‘quick fix’ yoga practices for when time is scarce
restorative yoga practices (to allow your body to deeply rest)
yoga nidra deep guided relaxations
breathing practices
beautiful guided meditations
self-massage techniques
All specially created to nourish and nurture mothers.
These are practices I use myself every week, my children are now seven years old and they help me HUGELY!
You’ll have lifetime access to the practices and resources and the convenience of access anywhere too. So you’ll have support and nourishment always at hand.
A whole toolkit of techniques, inspiration and self-care practices including:
journaling
affirmations
creating self-care rituals
letting go of your inner critic
inspiring poetry and wise words
Learn ways to bring yourself into a calmer state. I’ll show you different techniques to change your nervous system state from the ‘stress response’ to the ‘relaxation’ response. Through yoga and breath work, and simple psychological hack you’ll always have to hand simple ways to short circuit your stress response, and bring yourself back to calmness.
Sleep is always a big one for mothers, new and not so new. Even if our child sleeps - we can find it so hard to switch off, our minds still race, we are still on high alert. So I have a whole practice section specifically for before bed - a little stretch, some breath work, and a dedicate guided relaxation yoga nidra too for sleep (also great if you wake in the night and can’t get back to sleep too). Plus some brilliant tips and tricks to help soothe you ready for sleep.
Even if sleep is patchy, learning to take some rest can help the mind and body to recharge. It’s important for the body to rest and release tension - sometimes we don’t even know we’re holding so much physical tension in our bodies until we release it and notice the different. I have a couple of beautiful ‘restorative yoga’ practices that will help you let go of deeply held tension in an effortless way - how good is that? Using some cushions, pillows and blankets you’ll create cosy support for your body to rest, release and relax deeply. Ahhhhhhhh.
Find you own self-care practices that really work for you as a busy mother. The beautiful guide booklet is super practical, non-patronising and authentic. Broken down into easily to read and and sections. Unpatronising, friendly and supportive yet an absolutely no bulls**t approach - giving you guide to introduce pockets of self-care into your life, at the times as a mother that you need it the most.
By better looking after yourself well, by taking time and by understanding your stress triggers and your inner critic you can be in a more empowered place to care for your child too.
With some mindful movement you can stretch out your body, and gently re-energise. There are some longer and shorter practices to help you do this, and some more ideas for energising yourself kindly in the accompanying guide booklet yoo.
As mothers we can find that a tight, tense body has become the ‘new normal’ - we need to find ways to tease out the tension and so we feel better in ourselves, and our energy and mood can lift.
Who doesn’t crave and actually need more rest. Who doesn’t feel a little bit, or more likely a lot, disconnected from their body. Who’s mind is not a little bit, or a lot, frazzled.
This course is full of simple yet effective and powerful practices and knowledge to support you through the ups and the downs. To bring you back into your amazing body, to feel more connected, and to help keep you on a more even keel. These are practices that will benefit you and you can use every single day.
Taking some time for yourself is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. Because You deserve this and so do those you hold. You deserve to remember how powerful and beautiful you really are. It is my deepest honour to guide you back home to yourself with this course. To give you that encouragement to keep calm and relax due to the demands of a new baby, an older baby or a child.
From as soon as baby is born onwards. As I said before I still use these practices every single day, every single week, as I mother my 7 years olds. These are lifetime practices for all mothers. I come back to them constantly.
Designed for mothers who want to live well in their body and mind, Calm & Empowered Motherhood helps you increase your self-care vocabulary - no matter how old your child. Building your self-care wisdom is essential for living well in your body in all stages of life.
Calm & Empowered Motherhood is for any mother who feels she has lost touch with her true essence, and her innate inner knowing. Women who feel burned out, that their time is so stretched with family and other commitments, who’s own self-care falls to the bottom of the list. It is for woman who’s daily life is incessant busyness, stress and is always ‘doing’. Women who have been left feeling out of touch with their body, their sense of self and the world around them. It is for any woman who longs to dive a little deeper into her self, to be curious but fears she doesn’t have sufficient time or knowledge because her days are already so full. It is about carving out little pockets of time for yourself, and about coming back to ‘being’ not ‘doing’.
I truly feel it is a course for ALL mothers. To help you come back to yourself in a loving way with these simple yet effective practices.
“Gentle reminders that no matter how busy and crazy life is, that coming back to your body, your breath and yourself is so important. This course has made me appreciate and care for myself more, to allow me to take the time to pause and notice. Thank you so much Susan”
“The course was exactly what I needed. I have had a really hard time since my baby arrived, I’ve felt disconnected from my body and my real self and sometimes so empty. The course helped me to reconnect and to find peace and trust in my heart. I am very grateful to Susan for the course. It has truly helped me such a lot”
“I thought that I might be beyond the course, my ‘babies’ are definitely not babies anymore! But the course showed me so much that I had frankly neglected, and how to learn to bring small bits of time of me into my day. I loved the movements, as well as the rest and the guided relaxations too - hugely recommended to ANY mother”
Susan Bradley is the founder of For Modern Mothers. She works with women from pre conception with Fertility Yoga, through pregnancy with her Pregnancy Yoga and Hypnobirthing and Birth Preparation Courses, and onward once they have children with Mum & Baby Yoga, Baby Massage and her Mothers Yoga Socials. She has taught and supported many hundreds of women.
A teacher, mentor and community builder, with a focus and passion on empowering women to have the best possible experience into and through the life changing transition to and through motherhood. She is known for providing a inclusive, nurturing, supportive yet pragmatic and no BS approach. She roots her classes, workshops and courses in science and deep knowledge alongside ancient and personal wisdoms to give you an all inclusive holistic approach. Learn more about Susan here.
