Hi, I’m Sophie Jeffries.
A postnatal doula, pilates teacher, shiatsu therapist, and Mama - with a passion for helping mothers find wholeness - in their bodies, in their communities and in connection with the land on which they live.
I bring a multidisciplinary approach to my work - blending extensive expertise and training in pilates, rehabilitation and bodywork with an intimate knowledge of circle, ceremony and community. In this way, I create spaces that support deep reconnection with the things that help mothers thrive.
My work is rooted in social justice - acknowledging the ways in which mother’s bodies are so often invisibilised, coerced or undervalued in our culture, and the transformational power of reclaiming, reconnecting with and reinhabiting them. In a society that puts knowledge about the pelvic floor and reproductive organs in the hands of 'experts', I help women re-establish trust and connection with their own deep, embodied wisdom.
With a special interest in prevention and recovery of injuries and trauma related to pregnancy, birth and motherhood, I provide mothers with the awareness, practices and care necessary to tend to the Motherbody through pregnancy, the early years and beyond.
The journey of repair and recovery after giving birth offers mothers a unique opportunity to tend to their Motherbody with compassion and care - perhaps for the first time. In this way, my work offers a rare haven where shame and blame give way to understanding, appreciation and deep reverence for all Motherbodies.
My hope is that more mothers walk this path of reconnection and re-embodiment - and in the process they deepen their relationship to themselves, rewrite harmful narratives and ultimately build a more inclusive and regenerative culture that reveres and upholds carework and the individuals that continue to do it.
“I can’t imagine what my postpartum experience would have been like without you, so thank you for your beautiful support – your wisdom and kindness and gentleness, as well as your cooking and massage and all your other skills! I felt so loved and supported and I think it has set me up for motherhood in the most perfect way. I feel nourished, I understand how I need to rest, I feel more confident as a mother.”
– Mama Damaris
Training and Qualifications:
Diastasis Recti Recovery Theory and Practical 2025.
Support Your Floor Pelvic Floor Training 2025.
Rocking and Rolling to Release Myofascial Release Techniques for Movement Specialists. 2025.
Pelvis Pro - Core Exercise Solutions 2024.
Foundations in Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics 2024.
Breathwork Instructor 2024.
Womens Circle Facilitator 2024.
Holding Space Consultant training 2023.
Closing the Bones with Naoli Vinaver 2023.
Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner 2022.
Birth Cartographer Training 2022.
The Body Ready Method 2022.
Physiologic Baby Care Course Innate Traditions.2021.
Postpartum Belly Binding La Matriz 2021.
The Art of Birth; Naoli Vinaver 2021.
Birth Trauma Training for Birth Workers with Dr Erin 2020.
The Shoulder Solution coreexercisesolutions.com 2020.
Trauma-Informed Practice for birth professionals with Nisha Gill 2020.
Trauma-Informed Practice for bodyworkers with Nisha Gill 2019.
Optimal Maternal Positioning workshop with Ginny Phang 2019.
Orgasmic Birth workshop with Debora Pascali-Bonaro 2019.
Pregnancy Corrective Exercise Specialist - Core Exercise Solutions 2019.
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss 2018.
Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist - Core Exercise Solutions 2018.
Advanced CPD in Modern Postnatal assessment, Core Restore and Functional Exercise Programming. 2018.
Newborn Mothers Postnatal Doula training 2017.
Advanced CPD in Modern Functional Pregnancy Exercise Programing 2017.
Spinning Babies Workshop Ginny Phang-Davey 2017.
Creative Ways of Making Space for the Baby Part 1. 2017.
Advanced Diploma in Professional Pilates Instruction National Pilates Training 2015.
Extraordinary Vessels Shiatsu for Pregnancy & Birth Suzanne Yates wellmother.org 2014.
Diploma in Shiatsu and Oriental Therapies Australian Shiatsu College 2009.
Diploma in Professional Pilates Instruction Pilates International Training Centre 2009.
Pilates Matwork Certificate Pilates Foundation UK 2005, Cert IV 2008.
BA in Dance with Honours (WAAPA) 2001.