✨ Caring for your post-birth body with kindness and reverence.✨
The Motherbody ONLINE MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP will help you to...
1. Recover from Birth.
2. Get out of pain.
4. Feel stronger in your body.
It will also help you to...
- Prioritise yourself when you feel like there's no time for you.
- Learn exercises to release tension and build strength.
- Connect with your body. Trust your body. Feel at home in your body again!
The Motherbody membership is a gentle holding space for tired mamas. Offering really good Pilates, Postpartum Bodycare, and Supportive Community.
It won't turn you into an athlete.
It won't give you a six pack.
It WILL hold you gently through the years of motherhood when you feel vulnerable and tired.
Because movement is like sleep deprivation. It's cumulative. Over time, it adds up. One class a week, or 5 mins exercise a day over a period of years is really different to nothing at all over the same period. The way you move and care for your body now will influence how you feel inside your body in the years ahead. Movement matters. Your body matters.
"I love the way Sophie arms you with this knowledge for life...rather than just delivering a set of movements without explaining the meaning behind them. I feel much more confident that I can develop my strongest body ever whilst being patient and attending to my pelvic floor in the first instance. Thank you Sophie for helping us mamas get our strength and confidence back! " Liz
Tending to and caring for your body through Motherhood.
✨ Do you have ongoing pain in your hips, pelvis or lower back?
✨ Or tightness in your pelvic floor?
✨ Are you struggling to love your postpartum belly pooch?
✨ Or wondering how to do the exercises your physio gave you?
✨ Maybe you're not sure how to unwind those tight, sore shoulders?
✨ Or you can't remember what stretches to do at home when you have a moment?
The Motherbody membership is for you if...
👉🏽 You want to learn about common conditions and injuries related to pregnancy, birth, motherhood.
👉🏽 You want to move through pregnancy, birth and motherhood with more gentleness and consideration for your body.
👉🏽 You want time and space in your very full mama life to learn and practice moving your body safely through pregnancy, birth and motherhood.
👉🏽 You want to foster curiosity, tenderness, and reverence for your incredible motherbody.
👉🏽 You want to be part of a community of women committed to tending too, and caring for, their bodies using movement, bodywork, and simple self care practices.
The Motherbody membership allows you to be Slow. Kind. Gentle.
With your body & with yourself.
You'll get 👇🏽
Postnatal Pilates Class:
- Weekly LIVE Postpartum Pilates class -Online Saturdays, 9 am Melbourne time, all recorded. (4 per month).
- Large library of on demand content. Do as much as you like anywhere, any time.
- Classes cycle through seasonal themes:
- Summer - Upper back, and shoulders.
- Autumn - Breathing, deep core, arms.
- Winter - Alignment, glutes and hamstrings.
- Spring - Side body, deep core, side glutes.
- Every class includes pelvic floor and abs!
Holding Space Circles:
- Monthly LIVE Holding space circles to support you as you move deeper into motherhood.
- Bodycare Circles - guided self oil massage and oxytocin boosting planning for the season.
- Mothercare Circles - exploring the emotions associated with motherhood. Joy. Worry. Grief. Fear. Anger.
- Seasonal Q&A Circles - ask questions and get 1:1 support.
Seasonal Immersions:
- One self care immersion every other season. Guided by the five principles of postpartum care. Six weeks of oxytocin boosting goodness with simple rituals for self care.
- One movement immersion every other season. Develop a daily movement practice to help build strength, mobility and tenderness for your body.
✨ Caring for your body is an ongoing journey. Which is why during each season in Motherbody, we focus on particular movements and areas of the body in relation to the season. And each time you cycle through a season or workshop, class, or intensive, you can explore more deeply how your body understands the information you learn.
- All classes and monthly LIVE sessions are recorded and uploaded onto the membership platform.
- Pilates for Postpartum Classes are 50 mins of movement with time to chat if you join live.
- Pilates for Postpartum classes are taught live each week except for one week holiday break at Summer, Easter, June, September. Actual dates to be advised. It works out to be 48 postnatal classes taught live per year. And about 12 Holding Space Circles. Circles to take you deeper into caring for your mama body.
- There's ALWAYS more to learn about caring for your Motherbody. There is no end point. This work keeps getting deeper and more interesting the further you dive in.
MOTHERBODY
Body. Birth. Movement. Mothering.
Pilates for Postpartum Core Recovery and Bodycare.
KIND. SLOW. GENTLE.
** 7 day free trial. **
Join Motherbody now"The class was so gentle and encouraging and also satisfyingly strong. It cajoled me into moving my body when I didn't really feel like it. And goodness I felt better after. I felt SO much better! I didn't feel exhausted at all. Instead I felt rejuvenated." Olivia
Accountability
After teaching people Pilates for 20 years, I've seen over and over again how booking into a class makes you WAY more likely to tend to your body than just thinking you'll do stretches at home when your baby's sleeping but then can't remember what to do! Join us, and learn easy exercises you can sneak into your day. AND check in with us each week to help keep you accountable to yourself.
Accessibility
In motherhood time just slips away. Tasks get done in small chunks or not at all. So rather than figuring out babysitting, sleep/feed/nappy logistics, and packing ALL the things to get out to a class. Why not send your partner out with the littles on a Sat morning, roll out of bed, stay home in your PJ's, take some time to yourself and feel so much better after moving your Mamabody.
Community
Mothering can be SO isolating! And it can be such a relief to know that other mums struggle to prioritise their wellbeing too. It's not. Just. You. Come and join a live session and connect with us! Let's move our bodies and take care of ourselves together. Even if you pop in just to say hi, or join for 10, or 30 mins, you're SO welcome AND there's always a recording you can do later.
MEET YOUR TEACHER SOPHIE
The Motherbody membership has been carefully and lovingly designed over many years of teaching and working with mums, to meet the specific and changing needs of your Motherbody. You'll learn tools to tend to common postpartum aches and pains, and simple movements to help you feel stronger again.
My mission is to help women prevent and recover from injuries related to pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Specifically core injuries such as Pelvic Girdle Pain. Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Pelvic Floor Dysfunction. Diastasis Recti. Postpartum Depletion.
You need never feel lost or confused about your Motherbody again! You'll have your own mama centred pilates teacher, shiatsu therapist, and postnatal doula, available to you right in your pocket. ✨
It’s a Monthly Membership because...
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Because it takes time and practice to shift movement patterns to build strength and mobility.
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Because we never ‘get’ everything the first time. And each time we revisit a movement, a concept, an idea, we learn something new, or understand something more.
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Because I've cared for thousands of mothers and have seen first hand how a sporadic and erratic movement and body care practice can lead to injury, loss of strength and mobility, and feeling broken.
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Because I've seen over and over again how consistency is key to building long term body resilience. A six week course doesn't provide the ongoing support mothers need to be able to consistently sneak healthy movement into their already very full lives.
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Because Mothering is such a long and sometimes lonely journey, and I want to bring mama's together to support one another during motherhood so that caring for ourselves becomes just normal.
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Because Life is inherently cyclical and our bodies are cyclical by nature.
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And so in Motherbody, we cycle around and around again through the fundamental principles of Motherbody movement and bodycare, deepening our relationship with ourselves, with each other, and with our bodies.
"I’m doing between 1-3 classes/ week and really noticing the difference. I tend to do the core/ lower abs 1hr long classes. And I’m feeling so much stronger and with less lower back pain - hooray! ... I’m really happy with the membership. I access it when I can, and I do which class resonates with me on the day. My time is limited and so it’s nice knowing it’s there when I can get to it... I guess this is why the membership has worked so well for me, because I can get to it whenever I have a gap." Mara
MOTHERBODY
Body. Birth. Movement. Mothering.
PRE & POSTNATAL. MOVEMENT & BODYWORK. PILATES & SHIATSU.
KIND. SLOW. GENTLE.
** 7 day free trial. **
Join Motherbody Now"I have thoroughly enjoyed participating in Sophie’s online pilates. The online platform is easy to participate in, with Sophie providing step by step instructions and clear explanations throughout the class, along with feedback on positioning etc as required. The online access to the recorded version of the class is also an excellent added feature meaning that I can do classes multiple times during the week at times convenient to me and the classes are great value for money. I always feel good both physically and mentally after completing one of Sophie’s classes" Keleigh
"Being a part of Sophie's Motherbody Membership is such a privilege - this is a really special program. Sophie's approach to movement and the maternal body is so incredibly kind, supportive and intelligent. Her guidance has been truly invaluable to me. I'm 2.5 years post-partum and being able to join this program from home every week has been especially appreciated through the chaos of early motherhood! I can't recommend the Motherbody Membership enough." Terri
"After doing a class with Sophie, I always feel relaxed but also like my body has been switched on. The movements are really focused and thoughtful, gentle but strong, and always relevant to how I move and work my body every day as a Mum. I started pilates with Sophie while I was pregnant and have been part of the Motherbody membership for two years now, and I love it. The online content means I can access videos whenever suits me, and I can pick out ones with particular exercises that I know work my body well, but there are also weekly online classes to attend which keeps me accountable and helps me feel like I'm part of a community. Would definitely recommend giving it a go if you've had a baby - even if you had your baby ages ago!" Ruby
