Balancing Motherhood, Yoga and Writing

A freezing cold blue-sky walk along the seafront with the Pibler today yielded an unexpected visual pleasure: an exhibition by photographer Gill Copeland. I was captivated by her photographs of the coast: they seemed to tell a story that lures one in, and takes the imagination on a journey. My favourite was the pictured ‘Follow Your Heart’.

I miss taking photographs myself: I did a short photography course years ago, back in Cape Town, and had a great time taking psychedelic pictures at psy-trance parties and photo’s of township children clamouring to be included in the shot. Lately, my partner has been taking most of the photographs of the Pibler, including some stunning black and white ones. I have yet to get around to labelling and archiving all the photo’s from the first few months of his life, and would love to get a chance to do some scrapbooking some day!

On the yoga teaching front, a yoga teacher mentor of mine has asked me to cover some of her pregnancy Kundalini Yoga classes - to be her back-up in case she is called away to a birth (she is a doula, or birth assistant). I jumped at the opportunity - I’ve covered classes for her before and enjoyed it, and now that I’ve actually experienced pregnancy and birth I think it will be even better. I’m seriously considering starting my own pregnancy yoga class, encouraged by this teacher, as it has been an interest of mine for a long time.

My sister arrived in the U.K. today and is at a family friend’s. She is coming to my place tomorrow. Even though I spoke to her on the phone, it still seems unreal that she is actually here for the foreseeable future. I’m so looking forward to her and the Pibler meeting for the first time and getting to know each other. She hasn’t met the Pibler’s dad either!