#53 Dance in Motherhood; An Interview with Tara Choudrie

Mums F**king Matter

Heading into my 53rd week of podcasting with a bang! Today's topic is (another!) one that is close to my heart; DANCE.

In this episode I'm speaking to Tara Choudrie. Tara is a dance teacher, facilitator, and educator who is currently studying for her MA at Rambert Dance School. Her research area is supporting mothers working in the dance sector, with a specific focus on maternal mental health and dancers. She is a Mother of two boys whom have a dual heritage.

In this episode we speak about:

• being a Mother of boys and raising dual nationality children
• showing our emotions and being advocates for our feelings, whatever our age
• Tara's varied work as a dance teacher
• Tara's MA studies and incredible research into Mothers returning to dance as a career
• going through Matrescence in the dance world
• preparing for motherhood better and really knowing our boundaries as Mothers
• how the mindset and qualities of a dancer can impact motherhood
• Matrescence/Patrescence awareness and why it matters
• how maternal mental health can be pathologised instead of recognising MATRESCENCE
• the pressure to always do/be more that we can so often feel
• how motherhood can 'upgrade' us, our skills and CV — BIG time!!

Themes: parenting boys, mothering, dance, matrescence, hinduism, baby reflux

You can connect with Tara and her work here on Instagram. And you can find a link to Tara's MA studies here.

At the end, I share a poem by Mata Hari.

I mention Shahroo Izadi.

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