Episode 11: From apartheid to active birth - questioning the status quo

Lolly Stirk

Lolly Stirk is an active birth pioneer, doula and yoga teacher trainer..

Lolly talked about growing up in South Africa during apartheid and the heady days of living in London in the Sixties and Seventies while running a vegetarian restaurant round the corner from the Abbey Road studios.

She is a pioneer in her field. Her career, spanning 35 years, has been dedicated to creating and developing the ideal yoga practice for pregnancy, labour, birth and beyond. She began studying yoga in 1969 and with the birth of her daughter in the 70’s she was drawn into the world of birth.

She is a doula at hundreds of births, a certified Hypnobirther, and a founder member of YogaBirth (https://www.yogabirth.org/). Find out more about her at http://www.lollystirk.co.uk/ or her classes through https://triyoga.co.uk/

Tessa always asks the same four questions in the Cyclical Creativity & Transformation podcast: 1) what were you like as a girl, 2) how did you come to do what you do, 3) tell me about a transformational moment and 4) how do cycles impact your life and work?