Hello…

I’m Clare Maddalena LushTums Founder

I was only 23 when I found yoga and trained as a teacher. I was lucky. I had found my passion and loved it! A few years later in 2006 I found out I was expecting. It was a huge surprise. I needed yoga more than ever to help me cope with all the stressful changes happening in my life and in my body!

I put everything into practice; breathing, movement, relaxations and mindfulness to help me each day. I was using all these techniques to prepare for birth as I was terrified. After having my son, I wanted to share these amazing practices to help others and so, when he was only 6 months old, I returned to teaching and LushTums was born!

Classes were popular straight away and I knew that giving women the time to enjoy their pregnancies, connect with their babies and prepare for birth was a really important thing. It was really helping people.

I became well-known Brighton UK for being friendly and accessible for all. Soon the local midwifery team contacted me to say that they could tell when a woman in labour had been to my classes and how well she was coping. It was amazing to receive the validation I needed to know I was on the right track with my offering.

A few years later, thousands of women had been to my classes and I felt called to share my knowledge further afield; in doing so this would help more pregnant women in different parts of the country and maybe even abroad and helping more people felt really important to me. I created the LushTums Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Preparation Teacher Training Course and launched, training others to become pregnancy yoga teachers too! This was in 2013 and many of those original teachers are still successfully teaching LushTums classes today!

Welcome to Clair McGill

Having done so much on my own, in 2019 I welcomed Clair McGill as my business partner. I had trained Clair too, a few years previously, and she was already busy and set up as a LushTums teacher in Bristol!

Together we have continued to grow and nurture LushTums to where we are today. Our 50+ active teachers run classes in towns and cities all over the UK, in the USA, Canada, Ireland, France, Hungary, Iceland and Kenya!

And now pregnant people & new mums can enjoy all our signature practices via our new app & online yoga platform, LushTums Yoga. We want to make our empowering and much loved LushTums practices, accessible to everyone from anywhere in the world! The platform has beautifully filmed premium videos (of course, no ads!) especially created for you, plus invites to Live Stream Classes when we can, and a whole fabulous online Community to tap into! Come join us!

We also love to keep in touch and hear how you are doing! So please like and follow us on socials or sign up to our newsletter or app. Do feel free to reach out if you have any questions at all or wish to collaborate in some way. We’d love to hear from you and as we say at LushTums, the door is always open and you can out anything on the table!

We look forward to welcoming you to the mat soon,

Much love,

Clare & Clair

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