Rosanne AustinDiscovery Hub
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Kerry Hinds

Fertility Yoga Expert

Specialty: Fertility-focused yoga and nervous system regulationTopic: How restorative yoga supports conception through feminine energy and stress reduction

Key Insights

  • Studies show fertility yoga decreases depression/anxiety and increases IVF success rates
  • Body always chooses survival over reproduction when stressed
  • Restorative yoga conserves energy needed for conception vs. depleting hot yoga practices
  • Major fertility clinics refer patients because of measurable improvements in outcomes

Actionable Advice

  • Replace intense yoga with restorative fertility-focused practices
  • Use props and gentle movement to reconnect with your body lovingly
  • Focus on nervous system regulation over physical achievement
  • Join fertility yoga communities for support and connection

From This Conversation

Teachings 8

Perspectives 2

  • Western fertility culture operates in masculine energy - counting rounds as failures, agonizing over time, trying to do the most feminine thing like men

    Rosanne notes how women try to conceive and carry life using masculine paradigms of force and control rather than feminine receptivity

    10:35
  • Women resist slowing down because we've been brainwashed to be little men in a patriarchal system that undervalues feminine energy

    Kerry explains that reproduction falls in the feminine realm but we live in a masculine world where feminine qualities are devalued, creating disconnection from what we need for fertility

    27:01

Episode

EP290: Fertility Yoga Is Awesome AF: A Conversation with Kerry Hinds

2024-09-16 · 40 min