Yoga, doula, space holder and holistic health practitioner.

Supporting you with traditional ways for these modern days.

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Yolande

Yolande is a London-based yoga teacher, doula, holistic therapist and ritualistic space holder specialising in pregnancy, postpartum, womb health, rites of passage and earth and moon honouring ceremonies. Yolande has over 15 years of working with individuals holistically and offers accessible in-person and online spaces for her clients to practise nourishing and nurturing yoga sequences, deep healing through medicine and ceremony, and has the immense honour to witness life and families being born through her support as a birth doula.

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Why I do what I do

I am a midlife woman living in East London with my partner and bulldog Uno and I am a very proud mother to a grown-up son. I am mainly plant-based but am partial and tempted to a good cheese board. I sit with cacao each day, journal, pull an oracle card or two but also like an americano with oat milk, a Bengal spice tea, and my tipple of choice is a good red. I was a fashion stylist in the 90’s and early 00’s and also hold a certificate in cordon bleu cookery. I like to travel, and be with the sea and talk to trees. I enjoy watching the sunrise and the sunset, the moon’s journey, and the stars. I also love a good book, good telly, and a competitive game of scrabble. Live music and creativity in all its forms I adore. I have a knack for creating warm and inviting spaces and live in a welcoming cosy home. I feel incredibly lucky to do what I do and the life that I live, supporting new families as a doula, active birth and yoga teacher and healer.

Everything that I share and offer here has been part of my own healing journey. I grew up in London to Irish parents so there was always a sense of the mystical in my household. Tea leaf and palm reading were the norms. Going home to visit family every summer formed my earliest memories such as foraging for berries and mushrooms with my granny and collecting water from the village spring.

There was always a traditional remedy to hand a dock leaf for a nettle sting and crossing of gold for a stye on the eye. Storytelling and traditional song filled most evenings, the TV was rarely on. Life in London was a world apart and for me, I felt for a very long time that I did not belong.

I would say that my first awakening was sitting in a circle at the age of 15 in a rehabilitation centre where my mother was being supported. Ths circle offered this space for everyone to be heard uninterrupted and it was my first experience of witnessing adults’ vulnerability. It was humbling. Much later on at the age of 23 I found yoga. Again it was a space to sit in community and speak your name and share a word or two as to how you felt. This is important because it wasn’t very often that anyone really asked me that question let alone myself.

Sure it was awkward but it has become as well as yoga so much part of the fabric of my life that shared space has of course become something that I have wanted to share with others since embarking on my teaching journey.

What I offer is from a place of deep respect and love. With thanks and praise to my many teachers in all their forms, this earth, the  ancient teachings and practices  from this land, my ancestors land of Eire and mother  India and central and south America.   Preserving traditional ways for modern days.

Kind Words

  • Yolande's birth prep sessions were like long, warming chats with an old friend. We explored many aspects of pregnancy and birth, and my partner and I came away from each session with new knowledge and a greater confidence.

    Claire Jamieson

  • As the traffic slowed to a standstill, the baby moved faster and faster, and giving birth in the taxi seemed entirely likely. But what I remember most about that journey is Yolande’s calm instructions to keep breathing and her hand pressing on my back. We were in the hospital for less than half an hour before our daughter arrived and, for me, it was the perfect birth, so very different from the traumatic one I’d had six years earlier.

    Laura Gibson

  • I grappled with a lot of different challenges pre-partum, and she helped me navigate the anxiety by always being there for me and holding space whenever I needed it. It was also amazing how much my husband leaned on her also and we often joke that perhaps Yolande was more for him than me as she was able to guide him to be the best that he could be for me

    Stephanie Kramer