Welcome to Ma Yoga!
We are yoga teachers, doulas and mamas who enjoy a unique method of alignment-based yoga, developed with Ob’s and midwives for women’s ever-changing bodies and lives. Our nurturing, strengthening live and on-demand classes are open to everyone – from newbies to teachers, pregnant moms to dads & kids.
Our online Prenatal Yoga & mom classes will relieve tension and aches, calm and reset your nervous system and strengthen and open your body, so you can carry baby easily inside or out.
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Alignment Therapy with Jessica Jennings, MS is a personalized, therapeutic 10-min yoga practice that will support healing for your ache or pain, injury or chronic condition. Plus get the video after.
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The Ma Yoga® Prenatal Certification Program (RPYT) is a comprehensive, in-depth online prenatal yoga teacher training that includes therapeutics & Mayurvedic self-care and food-as-medicine for all women. TRY FREE.
Testimonials for Ma Yoga
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Certified Ma Yoga Teachers are
experts in therapeutic, strengthening yoga, as well as all things pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
And they are really caring people, so you’ll specific cues for YOUR body, whatever’s arising today.
For more info on our live classes, go here.
Too Busy for Live? Do Ma Yoga Anytime.
Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga Online
Postpartum or Busy Mom Yoga Online
Ma Yoga Anytime is our library of amazing Ma Yoga classes.
- Download our Ma Yoga Anytime Prenatal app an the appstore or playstore to get 5 trial classes.
- Become a Ma Member and access 400+ nurturing, strengthening opening classes.
- Filter by duration (10-60min), style (Prenatal Yoga, Mom, Anyone, Therapeutic and Restorative), and emphasis (birth prep, aches & pains, stress).
I was catching up on watching all of the masterclasses and have really loved them. I have taken so many notes and wish I could share the videos with everyone I know that has babies or plans to. Having this information as a yoga teacher has made me feel confident and capable.
I love Ma yoga classes, they’re exactly what I want to calm my body, soul and mind.
Highly recommend these classes and all the trainers are so experienced and empathetic.
Jessica is such a wonderful teacher.
The alignment-based yoga she teaches coupled with her extensive knowledge from decades of teaching bring such depth and compassion to her teaching. I intend to take her classes for as long as she is teaching.
Please give yourself the gift of taking a class with Jessica.
I have taken many different yoga classes and these are by far the best.
I highly recommend Melanie for pregnancy yoga. She explains everything clearly and brings you into deep concentration during class.
Also, she knows a lot about pregnancy and birth and it’s very calming hearing her advice.
During my pregnancy Rachelle was my savior! It was my first baby, and my first time doing yoga.
I used so many techniques during my labor and they actually helped! I could hear her calming voice in my ear during contractions. There aren’t any words to express my gratitude for her class.
Rachelle is so knowledgeable and welcoming and I am so thrilled my sister told me about this gem!
She beams warmth and passion for what she does.
On Wednesdays, I feel less physical pain, I always feel more grounded.
It’s easier to attend all the needs of my kids.
Your class is truly nurturing my soul and my body.
I took two abSOULutely fabulous classes today!
Lindy was my first class after a long hiatus, she was so soothing and healing for me. I went in feeling rusty and a bit “off”, I left class feeling safe and nurtured. Melanie’s class was also exceptional; her pelvic openers really soothed my lower back; it is tingling now in a state of ultimate relief!
Great class with Hayley! She is a confident calming teacher. I really enjoyed her flow and the pace of the whole class.
Practicing yoga with my baby next to me is such a rewarding experience – even if I only get to do a few poses, a little goes a long way.
Jessica is an amazing yoga teacher, especially for pre and post natal women who need a little extra care from an experienced teacher.
Her class is challenging, but gentle, and I leave feeling like I’ve had a spa day.
I started going to Ma Yoga when I was 16 weeks pregnant. It was the best thing I could have done for myself!
Prenatal yoga helped a lot with the normal aches and pains of pregnancy.
I felt myself getting stronger and overall feeling much better each time I went. It also helped me deal with the stress of being pregnant.
Rachelle is so knowledgeable and welcoming and I am so thrilled my sister told me about this gem! She beams warmth and passion for what she does.
She’s an incredible resource and she’s very attentive to everyone’s movement within the class.
I’m very excited that I found Rachelle and this class so early in my pregnancy so that I can make it a part of the rest of my journey.
I can’t tell you enough how much yoga helped me, not only through my pregnancy, but also through labor.
I know that it made all the difference for my health, and also for my body & mind through pregnancy and when I was laboring and pushing.
Can’t thank you guys enough!
I am so thankful for my experience with yoga and I am so excited to continue my practice now that my baby is here.
I love having dedicated ‘me time’ in the calendar. Yoga definitely changed my life.
I am more at peace with myself now than I ever have been before.
Love the side and back rib inhale! Totally changed how I breathe and how I will teach deep breathing during meditation!
This has been great for me! I’m very happy to say I’ve actually done this every day since you first posted this session, and usually in the mornings (which I didn’t think I’d be able to because I am NOT a morning person).
But the brevity of it really makes it doable for me, a usually non-exercise-liking sort of person.
When I saw the online Membership that offers a community, advice and videos I immediately signed up.
I’ve watched a couple videos… great success in reducing lower back pain!!!!
I think this will be a huge benefit to my life as well as my baby.
Colleen’s yoga class is wonderful! She is a terrific yoga instructor. It’s tough to find a good prenatal videos -hers are the best. You will feel better- more balanced!
Thanks so much for developing this program and making it accessible online! I loved that it was so specifically tailored to the needs of pregnant women and moms. To be honest, I forget how I even heard about the program. Obviously a gift from the universe!
I honestly wouldn’t be painting right now if I hadn’t taken Happy Back.
Jessica walks you through each step so it’s so easy. Now I do simple things to change how I’m standing while I’m doing my work, and I’m pain free.
At night I do the Rescue Poses just because they feel so good and relaxing.
I loved that it was broken down into small sections, and that it was a combination of videos, reading material and assignments. I printed out a few of the PDFs and keep them in my meditation spot. I really enjoyed the guided meditation about stepping out of the river. The program was immensely helpful and reassuring to me.
I’d give 10 stars if I could! Ma Yoga was a lifesaver to me during the last trimester of my pregnancy last year.
I had pretty intense lower back pain and used the ‘Happy Back Practice’ routine to help relieve the pain and regain mobility.
Jess was SUPER helpful, followed up and provided additional recommendations on how to get relief.
I want to say how much I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the Ma Yoga program!
I love its flexibility, and the mix of focus and intensity.
My first video was a simple 15-minute moon salutation and, on a night where something longer felt overwhelming, having that option to do just a little helped so much.
When I became pregnant a second time, as a working mom with a 1 year old at home, I knew there would be no chance of making it to 5:30 yoga practice so I joined the Ma Yoga Living community so I could practice at home after my son went to bed.
I really appreciated the ability to pick a session based on length of time I had to practice, and being able to participate in prenatal yoga from home.
I am a mom of a toddler and “trying” for my second child now.
I love how there are classes for every stage… strengthening for moms, yoga for fertility, and there are so many more classes for pregnancy and preparing for labor!
But ALL classes are great for tuning into your body, heart, breath, openness, peace, and gratitude…so they are really for every woman.
Just did Colleen’s Open Shoulders/Heart video. It’s a nice length — long enough to feel like I actually did something but not overwhelming, especially as I’m diving back in.
I really appreciate the guidance/reminders about alignment and what each part of the body is supposed to be doing in each pose.
I have been committing to a few minutes of meditation and pranayama each morning and I’ve noticed that it really helps keep me calm during the morning chaos of trying to get the kids out the door.
I really like Rachelle’s class because I find that the exercises she focuses on are really helpful for pregnancy and for labor prep, plus she’s really attentive to different people’s bodies and their varying needs based on belly size and stage of pregnancy.
It’s also cool because she’s a doula so her insights to birthing and labor have been really valuable.
Love Ma Yoga!
It’s individualized, calming, balancing, strengthening and nurturing…
for both body and the nervous 1st-time mom soul.
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Give a mama a life-changing Ma Yoga Gift Certificate
Ma Membership Gift Certificate
- weekly schedule of
Prenatal, Postpartum, Restorative and Anyone Yoga Zoom sessions, customized for her with expert Ma Yoga teachers - 400+ Ma Yoga video classes, from 10 to 60 minutes
self-paced programs in meditation for busy moms and back pain relief - Doula check-ins
- Guidance, support and inspiration in our nurturing Ma Circles
- Masterclasses with global experts in women’s wellness for the childbearing years
- 50% off The Yoga of Birth comprehensive labor prep class (free with year-long)
- 3 months or 1 year
- Receive a personalized Gift Certificate to print or email
From our Google Listing: My class with Elizabeth today was just what I needed.
She helped me to find stillness in the middle of a hectic day and I came out of it feeling more spacious and supported.
Thank you!
Welcome! I’ve been teaching prenatal yoga for more than 20 years.
Over the years, we’ve had thousands of moms-to-be come through our in-person and online “Ma Circles.”
After getting my Masters in Kinesiology and becoming certified in alignment-based yoga, I created Ma Yoga to address the specific needs of women during their childbearing years.
The syllable “ma” means mother in every language. And in Sanskrit, the language of yoga, it also means the highest, most powerful, wise, and nurturing.
Ma Yoga is based in the idea that when we learn how to mother ourselves – to truly take care of and love ourselves – we step into our highest, most powerful and wise “Ma” Self.