Welcome to Baby & Me Yoga with Erin. This session is designed for the afternoon, but can be practiced at anytime throughout the day. Repetition of this sequence will be grounding for both you & for baby.
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Welcome to Baby & Me Yoga with Erin. This 20-minute session is designed for the morning, but can be practiced at anytime throughout the day. Repetition of this sequence will be grounding for both you & for your baby.
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Are you watching the third & final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty? I'm watching, and I'm obsessed. I'm also unabashedly Team Conrad - FYI.
Something else I am unabashedly doing? Hoping onto the Instagram trend that is creating a The Summer I Turned Pretty esque graphic. My inspiration?
The Summer I Turned Pregnant
I was pregnant in the summer of 2020. My son was born August 20, 2020, meaning I spent all of June, all of July and most of August very, very pregnant.
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I teach yoga at a beautiful private studio - many of you have joined me there. It’s everything you’d expect from an ideal practice space - vaulted ceilings, wide-planked bamboo floors, an abundance of props, thoughtfully placed altar, soft lighting. Windows serve as a transparent boundary on three sides, offering views of a small pond and a parade of chickens and peacocks.
The peacocks are of particular interest to many of us, and we spend large swaths of time devoted to peacock pondering before and after practice.
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One day a few weeks ago I had a radical thought. Me, Stephanie, a wife and mama to 5 decided that I was going to be intentional about operating in gratitude. I envisioned myself as one of those gracious women, that walk on air and their spirit of gratefulness and gratitude emanate from me. In that moment I had chosen to appreciate all of life, small and large. I had made up my mind that this is who I was going to be, and it was effective immediately. No, I wasn’t joking, but I may have been a bit delusional about the ease of it all…
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We’ve partnered with Xero Shoes to bring you Lauren’s favorite, safe & effective yoga poses for prenatal yoga. Lauren offers her favorite poses for each trimester, as well as several poses that may ease a few common side effects of pregnancy.
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I was born in 1978, part of an often-uncategorized generation born between the late 70s and early 80s. I grew up without the internet, like all of Gen X, but the world wide web debuted as I entered high school.
The Dave Matthews Band also debuted more widely at this time and their 2001 song, The Space Between, has been playing through my head for the past several weeks. About emotional space between two people, it also prompts contemplation of the many in-between spaces we inhabit. Having been born during a liminal time, perhaps I feel a sort of camaraderie with all things nebulous and peripheral.
As Alexandra steps away from her leadership role at Whole Mama Yoga, we thought you’d be curious to know what’s next for her & how to stay connected!
Keep reading to find out!
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We want you to meet Melissa, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members. Melissa wears many hats! She is a Licensed Psychologist, a Holistic Integrative Wellness Coach, a Trauma-informed Mindfulness, Meditation, & Yoga Teacher, and an Ayurvedic Doula. Keep reading to learn more!
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Although I do NOT support the idea of “bouncing back” after labor & delivery, I knew that returning to a few familiar parts of myself was important as gradually moved into motherhood. For me, one of those parts was my yoga practice. I had to figure out how to integrate yoga into a new version of my life. One that involved a seemingly permanent (albeit tiny) ride along (I’m referring to my infant son…). And even though I have a partnership that strives for parental & domestic equity, and I already had a well established at home yoga practice, and my baby napped really, really well…I still couldn’t figure out how to make time for this important part of my life.
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Allow us to introduce you to Erin, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members & our Media Manager. Erin is a kids yoga & mindfulness instructor, a perinatal yoga teacher, a drama teaching artist, a freelance marketing professional & a mother. Erin is passionate about enabling children to stand tall, feel confident in their body and find their own unique voice, and she works most regularly with postpartum birthing folks in a weekly Baby & Me Yoga class and a weekly online class called Embodied Mothering Yoga. Keep reading to learn more!
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What a ride y’all. Being pregnant, giving birth and coming into motherhood - all during a global pandemic. I’ve been trying to make meaning out of it all, and part of my way of doing that has been to plan and lead pandemic grief support groups and workshop series for fellow “pandeparents.”
I have learned a lot along the way. And it’s left me with more questions than answers. But that in itself is an answer.
Let me explain.
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We want you to meet Jenna, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members. Jenna is a trauma-sensitive yoga teacher as well as a perinatal mental health and trauma therapist. Jenna recently opened her own private practice! Keep reading to learn more!
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Breastfeeding is hard. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It can be both scary and gratifying. If you desire to breastfeed your child, my suggestion is to do your own research and find friends or other supportive individuals in your circle to share their experiences. Find out more about Rebecca’s breastfeeding journey here.
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As a non-pregnant person, I’ve dealt with mental health concerns for most of my adult life. I was prepared for some postpartum depression and anxiety when I had both of my boys. I was not, in any way, prepared for postpartum rage. And I was definitely not prepared for the voice in my head that one night, while washing dishes, said, “they’d be better off without you.”
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Allow us to introduce you to Rebecca, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members. Rebecca is a Public Health Practitioner with a specialization in Maternal and Child Health. She has been in public health for 10+ years & is especially passionate about developing innovative programs to address quality and equity in perinatal healthcare. She is also a pre & postnatal yoga teacher! Keep reading to learn more!
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We want you to meet Stephanie, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members. Stephanie is a wife and Mama of 5. In addition to her work as a perinatal yoga teacher, Stephanie has been a breastfeeding peer counselor for 3 years with LLL USA where she also serves as a Board Member. Stephanie is also the Founder and President of Nourish & Thrive which is a non profit organization that focuses on breastfeeding equity. Keep reading to learn more!
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Allow us to introduce you to Ellese, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members. Ellese is a pelvic floor physical therapist, a new mom & a yoga teacher. Looking for pelvic floor PT, wellness coaching or other perinatal services? Keep reading to learn more!
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Congratulations! You’ve just seen those two little pink lines, or perhaps you are cradling your newborn baby. You want to continue your yoga practice. Or, your midwife told you yoga can be helpful. But what do you need? A group class, or private sessions? Keep reading to find out!
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Molly had been dealing with some heavy stuff since the birth of her second baby. So, Molly booked 4 private sessions with Mary. Keep reading to find out more about Molly’s healing & work with Whole Mama Yoga Collective Teacher, Mary.
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