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Yoga from Menarche to Motherhood
An Inclusive and Compassionate Approach to Women’s Health

Description

Women possess the wisdom to heal the wounds inflicted by patriarchal norms.'

Yet, traditional healthcare often dismisses women's voices and bodily knowledge. Kylie Hennessy weaves together modern body-mind science with ancient yogic philosophy and practices, to promote a trauma-informed, integrative approach to women's health.

With a blend of theory and practical applications, including class plans, for supporting women during the menstrual cycle, fertility, pregnancy, the postnatal period, and early motherhood, this book is ideal for yoga teachers and therapists alike. Hennessy's book enables you to guide women of all walks of life to find healing and empowerment, by cultivating a deeper understanding of their experiences and needs through yogic practice.
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• Published: Jul 21 2026

• Pages: 288

• ISBN: 9781839977831

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Reviews
Janet Balaskas, Founder of Active Birth, Pioneer of Yoga for Pregnancy
"This book inspires the physical and spiritual practise of Yoga through the journey of womanhood: fertility, pregnancy and birth, until motherhood. I could not recommend it more highly."
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Jane Hardwicke Collings Midwife, Teacher, Author, Founder of School of Shamanic Womancraft
"This book is so necessary for everyone and especially women seeking increased health and wellbeing through their yoga practice. Kylie calls out the western narrative that dangerously separates our mind, body and soul and the dominant western medical perspective that sees and treats women's bodies and their natural processes as unpredictable, inconvenient, messy and seeks instead to control them with medication, intervention and fear. The results of this perspective are the oppression of feminine knowledge, wisdom and power, and what that looks like is systemic injustices in women's health. Kylie, with her decades of experience with yoga, as a practitioner and teacher, and her deep awareness of the life seasons and cycles of a woman's life, brings these two together in this wonderful book, a guide for women from menarche through childbirth and mothering, including the all too often accompanying grief, loss and trauma. Whether you are a yogini or looking for a guide for how to approach your fertile years with the wisdom and practice of yoga, this book is for you!"

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


1st Edition
Understanding Spirituality and the Sacred in Social Work PracticeSpirited Conversations
Edited By Mary Jo McVeigh, Joel Hollier, Jioji Ravulo
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Description 
 
Social work is constantly epistemically evolving and embracing diverse bodies of knowledge to inform its ontology and practice frameworks.
Over the years, the impact of feminist, post-colonial, and queer theory, for example, has broadened the social work lens and invited a welcome departure from dominant Westernised, patriarchal, and positivist paradigms. However, the separation of the spiritual realm from casework, clinical, community, and group work traditions of social work remained steadfast. The last decade or so has seen forages into the issues of social work and spirituality. This examination into spirituality and social work has shown that for many service users, spiritual practices (be they religious or non-religious) are important in their lives and their way out of difficulties. Concurrently, relationships between socio-political movements and global religions have grown increasingly complex. To create a truly holistic approach to the needs of service users it is important that social work policy and practice give voice to these complexities and understand the place of spirituality within service delivery. This book critically reflects upon and discusses the intersecting role of spirituality in the lives of people who access social work services.
By gathering contributions from people with lived experience, practitioners, and academics, this book will explore a comprehensive range of issues, opening the area of spirituality to current critical, socio-political, and cultural thought. It will be of interest to all social work scholars, students, and practitioners.

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