Dr Carla Meijen and Marie-Claire Stanmore will give the audience an insight to how sport psychology and movement can be helpful to consider on the maternity journey. In the session, there will be an opportunity to try out some of the lessons from sport psychology during an interactive seated yoga and breathing practice. They will offer some practical take-home messages that will be beneficial not only to those on their maternity journey, but also those around them including their birth partner, health professionals, and educators.

Carla will set out how sport psychology principles can be applied to the pregnancy, birth, and post-partum experience. You will learn what approaching the maternity journey as a positive challenge could look like, by drawing on and adding to what you already have in your mental skills toolbox, potentially without even knowing it. Carla will also give an insight to some of the psychological strategies that are covered in her book. Marie-Claire will then take the audience through a guided breathing and a seated yoga practice.

Together, Carla and Marie-Claire show how to promote advocacy on the maternity journey. Everyone can participate, and it is not necessary for the audience to have any experience to be able to participate in the session.

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