JIMENA tascon STORY
WOMEN’S HEALTH COACH journey
MOTHER - YOGA TEACHER - BIRTHKEEPER
I’m Woomly’s founder MSc Jimena Tascon, mother of 2, Industrial Engineer with 10 years in coaching, breathwork and yoga. I am also a mother of 2 children, and MSc Digital Marketing from The University of Wales a Women’s Health coach and a Birthkeeper (doula). I found my life balance when I discovered yoga and coaching after feeling the need to change an unhealthy and stressful lifestyle.
I decided to mix my passion for creativity, movement and connection and created Woomly in 2013.
I have been coaching and mentoring women / families for more than 10 years. Woomly’s vision is to use divine creative energy, spirituality, breathwork and evidence based wisdom to create powerful connections and transformations during a women’s journey and feminine rites of passage: Maiden - Mother - Maga - Crone
My wellness and spiritual journey began in 2008 when I discovered Yoga, after being diagnosed and treated for Ovarian Cancer and having to get rid off a hormonal IUF Mirena with an emergency procedure. Yoga gave her me a natural sense of health and tranquillity, helped create a much needed mind-body- soul connection. I began my journey within. Looking inside for answers, trusting my inner wisdom & female cycle powers.
In 2009, I fell in love with other many different yoga styles and began to connect with Feminine yoga flows. I went on a deep journey, studying both yoga and traditions from India at Shyam Ashram, as well as shamanic journeying with ‘taitas and abuelas’ from the Amazon jungle in Colombia.
“A stressful corporate life and a time of ill health led me on a spiritual search. I found in yoga a deep connection with myself, creating nurturing self-love and self-care habits that healed me. I transformed my life into a life I truly love. I’ve manifested the conception of my two children, healthy pregnancies, having amazing birth experiences and being a holistic and natural mum to them.”
As I continued practising yoga and following my heart, a positive pattern of joy and wellness emerged. I decided to teach yoga in 2010, after years of being a student and discovering my natural holistic wellbeing. My path has involved extensive studies with brilliant yoga teachers and powerful shamans, many who have had a profound influence on my unique style.
At the time I also discovered holistic somatic coaching and a unique style: fertility yoga. In 2011 after months of practising, detoxifying my body and meditating I was able to conceive and birth Olivia, my first child. Giving BIRTH changed my life forever. I had a spiritual encounter with my powerful energy of creation and physically I discovered muscles and parts of my body I wasn’t even aware of. Having a blissful, natural and easy 5-hour birth felt like a blessing, a blessing I found through yoga and meditation. I studied prenatal & postnatal yoga with several inspiring teachers that guided me through pregnancy, a joyful natural birth, and postnatal recovery. Mentoring and coaching women into a natural fertility journey and a blissful birth became my life’s mission.
I decided I had to share this with other women trying to conceive by mentoritng and coaching THROUGH their fertility journey and having a tracendental birth experience.
In 2013 I trained with Rainbow Kids Yoga and Birthlight along with several inspiring teachers from Birthlight and Rainbow Kids Yoga. Then in 2015 I trained as a Doula with Dr Michel Odent and in 2016 as a Somatic Coach. In 2019 I had the pleasure to do a course with Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer from Red School, deepening my studies on women’s health, Female powers of creation and the baby’s the primal stage.
In 2019 I felt pregnant again and in 2020 I birthed my son Luc in my own terms, in my power, freely, without assistance at home (see photo above). It was in the middle of the pandemic madness so hombirths and appointments where cancelled by the NHS, I also refused some appointments and scans. Altho it felt stressful at times, today I see as a blessing because it helped me connect deeply with my body and my baby. It was my journey to freebirth.
This time around breathwork was a big ally during pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery. So I did a training with Inspirational Breathing to deepen my breathwork studies and continue my deep healing from past trauma.
My work with mothers in the last two years have been mainly focused on supporting their dreamed home birth, to freebirth in their power, and navigate pregnancy both in and out of the system.
NUTRITION
Holistic coaching is essential to improve our life journey. Besides my personal experience, the suffering of severe inflammation and gastritis for 3 years, my extensive research on the science of nutrition, my work at Mucho (grocery shopping app) for 4 years included creating bespoke meal-plans for brands and individuals. I use all of my knowledge and your likes, dislikes and needs to create healthy, yet realistic, meal plans for you. I love providing nutrition recommendations to my clients as part of my coaching programs.
Movement - RUNNING, Swimming & Cycling
I started running a few years ago to improve my health, confront my fears and feel badass. One of my biggest fears is getting outdoors during the cold months. As part of my self-love routine, I know I need to go out and move outdoors, be in touch with nature!
After a hip injury during a Half Marathon I took on swimming and went back into cycling. My body ‘magically’ healed the injury with my second pregnancy so using postnatal recovery breathwork I have got back into running and completed the London Marathon in 2023.
Moving is key for our wellbeing as part of my programs I provide guidance towards your daily or weekly movement and fitness routine.
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Struggling to pronounce my name? Jimena is a Spanish name that means the listener if you’ve met me you’ll understand. It’s pronounced ‘Heh-meh-nah’ or ‘Hi-Men - ah’ like the superheroes. Her close friends call her Jime (Heh-meh).
I speak fluent in both English and Spanish.
I always start my sessions asking ‘how are you today’ and I make space for you to get stuff out of your chest.
I had a natural hospital and a freebirth. Both experiences where very spiritual and changed her life’s mission and vision.
I am a yoga instructor with 8 years of experience in women’s health and mindfulness.
I belong to Yoga Alliance UK: providing the highest standards in the teaching of yoga and yoga therapy.
I am also an Engineer and an MSc Marketing.
I breastfed my two children for almost two years. I offers lactation advice to postnatal mothers.