Mom & Baby Yoga

Mom & Baby Yoga is a wonderful & safe way to get back into a mindful healing movement practice while having your little one join you in the experience. In this class, we include baby as much as possible with a baby engagement routine at the start of class and bringing them into specific yoga postures & movements as well. This helps to develop a very positive physical connection between you and your baby.  During class you have the freedom to meet your babies’ needs with feeding and changing whenever it is needed. Annie offers you feeding positions and breath techniques which you can use during those times that will help support your posture and calm your nervous system. We begin each class with a check-in & sharing time for momma’s to get to know one another and share in an open and non-judgmental environment. Allowing you the space to be real and raw is so important for your mental health and well being. Then we spend 10 mins with baby engagement exercises a fun routine you can learn and bring home with you. Spending the rest of the class moving through a balance yogic practice with postures to help open up tight sore areas of the body which momma needs to release (shoulders, chest, the back & hips); rebuild physical strength and connection to the new core body with patience and acceptance; various techniques are shared and practiced each week to help bring you into a more balance sense of self. Several breathing techniques are taught to help release all kinds of tensions that can be held in the body from the demands of motherhood physically, mentally and emotionally. Mom & Baby yoga is also a wonderful place to meet other moms building your mom & baby network and life long friendships.

Benefits for Postnatal (Mom & baby) Yoga:

• • A positive low impact practice to assist the body into its new post-pregnancy state with love and acceptance.
  • Helps to relieve postpartum depression symptoms, helping to improve your mental, emotional and energetic states.
  • Mothers are giving time to share openly with one another in a 15+min check in during each class. This helps for each woman to feel supported by and surrounded by others who get it, a chance to be raw and real as they move through similar experiences realizing they are not alone. A very important mental & emotional health part of this practice.
  • Increase the physical and emotional connection between you and your baby. Excellent time for mother and child bonding.
  • The physical aspects of yoga can calm the nervous system and bring you into the balanced state of being in the present (something baby does naturally).
  • Baby engagement exercises will enhance babies’ emotional, physical and energetic growth.
  • Mom & Baby Yoga offers a safe and nurturing environment fostering growing confidence in movement & body awareness. The ability to attach and then separate is achieved in this practice because the baby is involved in but is not the absolute focus of the mother’s activity. Within this type of communication, the baby has room to develop both connection & independence.

2020 Sept – Dec  Mom & Baby Yoga Group Offerings

Due to COVID-19 classes offered this fall I will be offering some in person class space along with the option to join via zoom. I am available for prenatal and postpartum support via email, phone or video chat.

Here is the Fall Mom & Baby Support and Yoga Groups schedule:

Mom & Baby Tuesdays :

10:30am-11:45am Mom & Baby Yoga (4months post birth up to crawling – this will depend on moms comfort level) I have 6 in person spaces at The Yoga Studio (with Covid guidelines in place) and you will also have the option to join via Zoom from home if that works better for you and your little one.

Registration 3 separate 4 week sessions $50/session Sept 15 – Oct 6, Oct 20 – Nov 10 & Nov 24 – Dec 15

1pm-2pm 4th Trimester Mom & Baby Support (first 3 months post birth) This practice is done via ZOOM and upon registration you will receive your zoom link for the 4 weeks.

Registration 3 separate 4 week sessions $40/session Sept 15 – Oct 6, Oct 20 – Nov 10 & Nov 24 – Dec 15

*To keep the feeling of building a strong supportive motherhood community registration for a 4 week session at a time is advised as I will not be doing drop ins. Also due to Covid this works better for the in person Mom & Baby Yoga Class to keeping things consistent and safe for all those who participate. If we have to go back to lock down mode all offerings will switch to Zoom so that we can still keep connect each week in support of each other. Each week you will receive an email with supportive tips and tools to guide you along your motherhood journey as well as any important things we discuss in our sessions each week.