“The Spilt Milk Yoga workshop was an excellent opportunity to put down the everyday stuff and to focus on Motherhood and its challenges in a space that was set aside purely for those thoughts and feelings. The Spilt Milk Yoga day allowed me to see that despite all of the challenges of maintaining ourselves and maintaining our ‘be a good Mum’ aspirations, that I am doing a great job (as are the other mothers) and that I can now tell myself that and feel it to be true. The shared challenges and experiences with the other Mothers in the group…
“This work elevates my reflections, solidifies my dreams and next steps…”
“I really look forward to the sessions with Cathryn. It’s like having a conversation with myself, but having it valued by someone else, and reflected back. It’s something I’m doing in my week that’s purposeful.”
“The workshop helped link my reactions to some habitual judgements and responses, it gave me much needed clarity. I feel closer to my daughter than I have in a really long time.”
“It has been a week since I attended of the Spilt Milk Yoga Weekend Workshop. During the course of the week I have found myself with a smile on my face, reflecting on the warmth and understanding I felt during the the workshop, and personal growth and insight I personally gained. Today it took an hour to walk to Kindergarten, I could have rushed my daughter, told her to hurry, overlooked her observations of the flowers, stopped her from playing in the stones, hiding in the phone box and deterred her from climbing a wall… but I didn’t. When we…
“It’s so great to know that there are other women out there who are thinking and feeling similar things to me.”
“I realised I could still break the chains of trauma that had been passed down through potentially generations and didn’t have to repeat those same experiences with my daughters. This journey also helped me to forgive. Forgive my mother, my grandmother and made me realise that they were just human too, and had their own path to walk.”
“One of the best tools a mother can have under her belt; a space to reflect, unpack, learn and grow as an individual and mother, all in a safe space. And led by a soul you’ll be so lucky to encounter. Cathryn truly understands motherhood in all it’s exhausting monotony through to it’s all-encompassing joy. I enjoyed the structure of the course; the flow, the meditation/mindfulness, journalling, the size of the group (safe, reassuring space). Truly felt like no judgement from other mothers experiencing similar and yet different journeys.”
“A gift for your current and future self, as a woman and as a mother.”
“I grew as a mother; became more self-aware and with that, more confident, proud, accepting, calm and grounded. The work was invaluable for myself as an individual but also in my place in our family journey. The work has brought me to a place I had not yet reached by myself.”
“If you are a Mama who feels a bit overwhelmed and lost every now again (uummmm… I think that is probably all of us), you should check out this workshop. I have attended 2 workshops with Cathryn Monro and have walked away from both of them feeling lighter and more confident in my natural intuition as a Mother. Cathryn has a magical way of helping you to realise that all of the answers to all of the questions are in you, you just need to slow down and listen.”
‘Spilt Milk Yoga’ is an insightful read. It’s heart-warming, funny, brave and thought provoking. I really appreciate the truth of Cathryn’s words. Honestly, I don’t practice yoga (of any kind). But the underlying principles of the yoga Cathryn writes about not only applies to its daily practice / and motherhood, but to daily life – for any parent. It does for me; personally, and as a proud father of two boys: seventeen years and a fourteen-month-old. I truly enjoyed it. The pages in my copy are riddled with pink highlighted areas (from cover-to-cover) that I found relevant not just from…
To set the record straight this isn’t your traditional parenting book. Spilt Milk Yoga is a book to nurture and guide mothers along this beautiful, but also somewhat confusing and frustrating journey by approaching motherhood as a path to greater self-knowledge. Each chapter is short and sweet to meet the needs of the busy mother. Within each chapter the author shares her own honest, down to earth and humorous parenting stories, a practical practice applicable to each experience and a guided self-inquiry for mothers to contemplate, respond to, develop, and record their practice. Questions asked include: Will motherhood ruin my…
I am LOVING the book, truly. Not quite finished yet but loving the short chapters which work perfectly for the tired nights or quick coffee breaks. I especially loved the quote about your child’s behaviour being a reflection of your own behaviour – that has stuck with me this past week as my daughter has been testing. It’s so easy to get frustrated and so that quote helps me check in before my reaction. I also find I struggle with the questionnaires, but in a good way! They make me think, and it will be interesting to go back in…
Thank you Cathryn My hubby ( Mark / Mr Uber) just presented me with your book! You have totally nailed it … I have been a mum since I was 21 -three teenagers later and I’ve never read anything that connected the busy and beautiful struggle of motherhood. Feeling like you have lost your way on the journey and yet continually evolving to cope with the ever changing situation. Crying over the spilt expressed milk brought back so many memories …all the spilt milk over all the years . I look forward to using my book to give me light…
I am loving this book. I love that it gives me permission to pick it up and put it down- it’s not another book dusty on the shelf mocking me for never finishing it. It calls me and encourages me. It challenges me and inspires me. It makes me sigh and realise I’m not alone whilst making me laugh. I love that it’s written by a NZ woman and it fits in our culture. I love that it will be with me for a while. My mother whose youngest child is in her 40’s just asked ” can you make…
I finally picked up Cathryn Monro‘s book Spilt Milk Yoga last night and started reading. It. Is. Awesome. One of the best yoga books I’ve read all year. And if that’s anything to go by… this event will be awesome too. Mothers need this (fathers do to… but for now, we’re focusing on mothers). It doesn’t matter whether you’ve ever been on a yoga mat before, or whether you just hate yoga postures. This is the yoga of self-inquiry. It’s about self-reflection, contemplation and adopting behaviours and tools that support you as a parent.