And yet, there are still days when your body feels like it’s working against you.
When you’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.
When anxiety hums underneath everything.
When you look in the mirror and don’t quite recognise the woman looking back.
When you know, intellectually, that things are shifting, but you can’t feel your way through it yet.
That gap, between understanding and feeling, is where the body comes in.
I founded YogaBellies over 16 years ago because I kept meeting women who needed more than words. Women who needed to move through something, not just talk about it. Women who needed practices – real, specific, deeply researched practices, built around how female bodies actually work, at every life stage.
Over 100,000 women have come through these programmes. And what they say, again and again, is this:
I finally feel like I understand what’s happening to me. I’m sleeping properly for the first time in years. My anxiety has changed, not gone, but different. Manageable. Mine. I feel more like myself than I have in a decade. I didn’t know a yoga programme could do this.
These are not yoga classes. They are immersive, fully accredited somatic programmes built around the female body in transition, with the depth and rigour of specialist professional training, taken entirely at your own pace, for yourself. No teaching. No exams. Just the tools, the understanding, and the practices that change how you live.
Struggling with perimenopause? Mood swings, sleep, energy, weight, anxiety, a body that feels unrecognisable — YogaPause goes deep into all of it and gives you a way through.
Postpartum and not coping as well as you look like you are? Mother & Child is built for the recovery nobody talks about — physical, emotional, relational.
Feeling ruled by your cycle every month? Seasons & Cycles will change your relationship with your own body in ways you won’t believe until you experience them.
Pregnant and wanting to feel genuinely prepared, not just reassured? Birthing the Mother covers the physical, psychological, and identity transformation of becoming a mother — honestly and completely.
These programmes sit alongside therapy in the most natural way. The therapy helps you understand yourself. The YogaBellies programme gives your body a language to match.
If you want to know which one is right for where you are right now, ask me in a session. I know these programmes inside out — I built them — and I’ll point you exactly where you need to go.
Or if you’re ready to explore now: yogabellies.com
Learn how to change your bad habits and adopt new ones for better health and weight management
Reach your weight goals and transform your body through a healthy that will produce lasting results
Get professional nutrition counseling and support to manage health issues and eating disorder problems
Cheryl Kennedy MacDonald MA is a psychotherapist, yoga elder, researcher, and author specialising in women’s life transitions. She works exclusively with women navigating relationships, divorce, motherhood, perimenopause, ADHD, and midlife change — through 1:1 therapy, specialist yoga programmes, and published research.
Founder of the global YogaBellies® movement and the Birth ROCKS Method, author of 10+ books on women’s health, and published in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy and The Practising Midwife. BBC Dragons’ Den winner. Based between Singapore, the UK, and Bali.