Hi, I’m Dr Malaika Sarco-Thomas — mama, dancer, and movement specialist based in Devon — and I created Movement Matters for Moms to help you rebuild strength, ease, and confidence in your body, no matter how busy life feels.

After years of teaching movement in universities and navigating my own postpartum recovery, I discovered something powerful: you don’t need more time or more effort. You just need the right kind of movement, woven naturally into your everyday life.

This ebook is your gentle guide to reconnecting with your body and feeling energised again — in just minutes a day. No punishing workouts. No impossible routines. Just simple, sustainable movement that fits you.

Inside Movement Matters for Moms, you’ll learn how to:

Reconnect with your body in minutes a day
Wake up your system with simple, powerful practices that improve posture, boost energy, and help you feel grounded and present — even on the busiest days.

Build strength that supports your real life
Strengthen your core, pelvic floor, glutes, and shoulders so lifting, carrying, feeding, and playing with your child feels easier and more supported.

Turn everyday life into effortless fitness
Discover how daily moments — feeding, carrying, playing — can become opportunities to build resilience and strength, so movement stops being another task and becomes a way of living.

This is fitness that fits your life, not the other way around.