diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir-c/IR.h b/mlir/include/mlir-c/IR.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir-c/IR.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir-c/IR.h
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@
 /** Gets the context that a module was created with. */
 MlirContext mlirModuleGetContext(MlirModule module);
 
+/** Gets the body of the module, i.e. the only block it contains. */
+MlirBlock mlirModuleGetBody(MlirModule module);
+
 /** Checks whether a module is null. */
 static inline int mlirModuleIsNull(MlirModule module) { return !module.ptr; }
 
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp
@@ -2234,6 +2234,16 @@
                 .releaseObject();
           },
           "Accesses the module as an operation")
+      .def_property_readonly(
+          "body",
+          [](PyModule &self) {
+            PyOperationRef module_op = PyOperation::forOperation(
+                self.getContext(), mlirModuleGetOperation(self.get()),
+                self.getRef().releaseObject());
+            PyBlock returnBlock(module_op, mlirModuleGetBody(self.get()));
+            return returnBlock;
+          },
+          "Return the block for this module")
       .def(
           "dump",
           [](PyModule &self) {
diff --git a/mlir/lib/CAPI/IR/IR.cpp b/mlir/lib/CAPI/IR/IR.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/CAPI/IR/IR.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/CAPI/IR/IR.cpp
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@
   return wrap(unwrap(module).getContext());
 }
 
+MlirBlock mlirModuleGetBody(MlirModule module) {
+  return wrap(unwrap(module).getBody());
+}
+
 void mlirModuleDestroy(MlirModule module) {
   // Transfer ownership to an OwningModuleRef so that its destructor is called.
   OwningModuleRef(unwrap(module));
diff --git a/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/dialects.py b/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/dialects.py
--- a/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/dialects.py
+++ b/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/dialects.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
   f32 = mlir.ir.F32Type.get(ctx)
   loc = ctx.get_unknown_location()
   m = ctx.create_module(loc)
-  m_block = m.operation.regions[0].blocks[0]
+  m_block = m.body
   # TODO: Remove integer insertion in favor of InsertionPoint and/or op-based.
   ip = [0]
   def createInput():
diff --git a/mlir/test/CAPI/ir.c b/mlir/test/CAPI/ir.c
--- a/mlir/test/CAPI/ir.c
+++ b/mlir/test/CAPI/ir.c
@@ -67,9 +67,7 @@
 
 MlirModule makeAdd(MlirContext ctx, MlirLocation location) {
   MlirModule moduleOp = mlirModuleCreateEmpty(location);
-  MlirOperation module = mlirModuleGetOperation(moduleOp);
-  MlirRegion moduleBodyRegion = mlirOperationGetRegion(module, 0);
-  MlirBlock moduleBody = mlirRegionGetFirstBlock(moduleBodyRegion);
+  MlirBlock moduleBody = mlirModuleGetBody(moduleOp);
 
   MlirType memrefType = mlirTypeParseGet(ctx, "memref<?xf32>");
   MlirType funcBodyArgTypes[] = {memrefType, memrefType};