Spilt Milk Yoga
A guided self-inquiry to finding
your own wisdom, joy, and purpose through motherhood
By Cathryn Monro -
RRP $24.99 - Exisle Publishing
Cathryn Monro has practised meditation and yoga for the last 26 years,
but is quick to point out her book is not about how to do physical yoga poses
Rather, Spilt Milk Yoga
approaches motherhood as a path for engagement with our most profound
relationships, offering life’s richest and most confronting lessons on love,
acceptance and joy.
Spilt Milk Yoga is designed
to be mother-friendly. Its 52 short chapters are written in an easy-read font
for sleep-deprived eyes. Each chapter has a quick-grab aphorism. The author
shares her honest and often humorous personal mothering experiences, and
provides a practice applicable to each situation. There is also a page of
guided self-inquiry in each chapter, ensuring that Spilt Milk Yoga is relevant to every reader’s situation.
Spilt Milk Yoga is a
companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and
purpose available in each moment, who want to be more present and connected to
themselves and their children. Spilt Milk Yoga is about thriving, not
just surviving, in motherhood, and finding your own wisdom, joy and purpose
while you are in amongst it all, not in spite of motherhood, but because of it.
About the Author:
Cathryn Monro is a graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts (BFA, MFA) and
trained at the Drama Action Centre in Sydney, going on to work as an artist and
actor across fine arts, theatre, film and television, both in front of, and
behind the scenes.
She has a 30+ year career as a professional exhibiting visual artist
and is best known for her 18 ton sculpture Per Capita, located outside the
Museum Hotel in Wellington, a work she says is designed to “open up the
question of what it means to be a New Zealander and to publicize the importance
of that conversation.”
She wrote Duffy Theatre in Education scripts for 11 years for the
Charity Books in Homes.
She has worked in tertiary education for 26 years, and trained and
worked in group-facilitation processes, two years for the Anger Change Trust,
ten years for Toi Whakaari-NZ Drama School, and for professionals and
government.
She is also mother of two teenagers.
Of all these jobs she has found motherhood the most challenging, meaningful
and rewarding.
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