This is Me...Becoming a Mama

Hi, I’m Emma — founder of Becoming Mama Yoga, yoga teacher, and mother of four. Long before I ever held a baby of my own, I assumed motherhood would come naturally. Women had been doing this forever, right? Pregnancy, birth, raising a tiny human… it all looked so effortless on everyone else.

Then I fell pregnant for the first time in 2014 — and discovered very quickly that “effortless” was not going to be my story. I was thrilled, terrified, nauseous (all day, all night, for 40 weeks and 5 days), and suddenly aware of just how many emotions can coexist in one body. Joy and fear. Hope and grief. Comparison and pride. The full cocktail of matrescence — the profound, messy, beautiful process of becoming a mother.

Birth brought its own mix of magic and heartbreak. I experienced two caesareans and two VBACs, each with their own lessons, triumphs, and tears. I learned that a “big head, small pelvis” isn’t always the full story, that empowered birth can look many different ways, and that recovery — physical and emotional — deserves just as much care as the birth itself.

Early motherhood was no less complex. I navigated post‑natal anxiety and depression, endless questions about feeding and sleep and safety, and the wild emotional swings that come with loving someone so fiercely while feeling so unsure of yourself. And yet, woven through the overwhelm were the sweetest moments: tiny fingers curled around mine, midnight feeds where the world felt still, first smiles that cracked my heart wide open.

Yoga became the most powerful tool in my maternal toolkit. Not because it fixed everything, but because it helped me listen. It helped me soften where I was gripping, breathe where I was bracing, and reconnect with myself when my body and identity felt unfamiliar. Yoga supported me through pregnancies, through recoveries, through the chaos of raising little humans — and through the heartbreak of four consecutive first‑trimester miscarriages after my third child. Those losses reshaped me in ways I’m still discovering. They softened me, strengthened me, and deepened my understanding of what women carry as they move through motherhood.

Somewhere in the middle of this big, beautiful, bewildering and sometimes downright chaotic life…I trained as a yoga teacher. I had already completed my 200‑hour training with InSync Yoga (Canberra, ACT) around the pregnancy and birth of my third baby. In the mess of an interstate move with a four‑month‑old (a car-screamer who wouldn’t nap), the pandemic lockdowns with a baby, toddler, and school‑aged child, and the indescribable pain that came with each pregnancy loss, I upgraded to a 350-hour qualification with InSync Yoga. Later, I completed my 65-hour pre‑ and post‑natal training with Bliss Baby Yoga (Bellingen, NSW) - during and after my final (and most stressful) pregnancy and birth. That blend of lived experience and formal study changed the way I am, the way I teach. It made me more compassionate, more attuned, and more determined to support women in ways I wish I had been supported.

And that’s how Becoming Mama Yoga was born.

This space gathers everything I’ve learned — from a decade of motherhood, from my wise yoga teacher trainers, from conversations with women’s health professionals, from my own healing, and from thousands of hours on the mat — into one nurturing, accessible home. A place where you can find movement, meditation, education, and reassurance - without having to sift through a hundred tabs or wonder whether you’re the only one feeling this way.

Motherhood is big. Beautiful. Overwhelming. Transformative. And you deserve support that honours all of it.

Yoga has been my anchor, my medicine, and my way home. My hope is that it becomes a steady companion for you too — wherever you are on your journey into motherhood.