Covid has changed so much – let’s talk about pregnancy, labor, & postpartum with OB/Gyn Revana Lukman from UCLA. She’ll answer questions like What happens if I develop Covid-19 while I’m pregnant? and How has Covid-19 changed prenatal visits, labor and delivery care, and postpartum care? Plus hear from doulas about what it’s like supporting mamas in Covid times.
Pelvic floor issues don’t get the attention they deserve, but they are super common. Yet there are things you can to do prevent and treat leakage, prolapse, and tightness. Pelvic Floor expert Physical Therapist Whitney Sippl provides tips for pregnant mamas and new moms for keeping pelvic floor happy.
Being a new mom is not easy. Postpartum comes with many challenges, and Covid has only added to them. Get some tips from pediatrician Dr. Jeon, UCLA to make it a little easier.
Empty presence is a way to show up for our little ones so that they can explore life without our constant input and explanations.
When we lengthen and expand our breath – especially the exhale – we return to a natural rhythm, ground our energy and reset our nervous system.
I so enjoyed this conversation with my yoga friend, Lauren, on how to get healthy foods into our bodies without leaving the kitchen! We chatted about everything from ways to make quick and easy breakfasts
Why try this pregnancy and postpartum tea recipe? Here is one of my favorite thoughts that comes to me now and again: what if the earth has everything we are looking for? I mean, what
A fabulous, passionate yoga mom who took my prenatal teacher training this weekend happens to have 11 children. Not 11 kids in her class or anything, 11 of her own children. I was having a hard time imagining
I know it sounds crazy, but that’s the kind of thing I’m asking myself lately, and it’s been kind of fun. How to sit so I can feel deeply nurtured? If my chair isn’t helping me sit
Often pregnancy back pain, hip pain, and nerve-y pain that goes down your leg – often lasting or even starting after giving birth – is caused by Pelvic Instability. So what causes Pelvic Instability? Pregnancy, for one.
What do you do to get present? Walking, closing our eyes and following our breath, doing yoga, journaling, and making healthy food in a meditative way are all great ways to get out of our
How do we find balance when we are being pulled in all sorts of different directions? To find balance, yoga suggests we can act in seemingly opposing ways simultaneously. Yoga could be defined as the
Last year I ate some serious humble pie. As you probably know by now, I teach alignment-based yoga to keep muscles and bones moving in optimal directions, and to keep my students out of pain
Yoga is the practice of going in two directions at once: to yoke, front and back, up and down, and pretty much any other opposites you can think of. I like this Balancing Breath Exercise.
I’m kinda embarrassed to admit it, but here it is: I haven’t been to yoga class in over a year. And I’ll confess this too: I’m actually a bit proud of this fact. You see,
The goal of prenatal yoga is not to have a shiny happy pregnancy, or to become the perfect super mom. It is not to make sure you have the 2-hour, natural, pain-free birth of your
In just about every Ma Yoga class I teach, pregnant women and new moms introduce themselves and say: I get shooting pains down my leg My low back hurts My wrists hurt And usually, they’ve
I never really learned about self-care practices before I became a mom, and so I really felt un-moored as a new mom. I felt like I was floating on an inner tube in a sea
Someone asked me last week why I teach pregnant women, and I said “because it’s a time of such change, it’s so much easier for them to be in growth mind.” If you are thinking “things
When Vata is grounded, the channels holding postpartum anxiety can clear out, and we become more open-minded, and openhearted. Recently on NPR, I heard an interview with a guy who’d written a book on anxiety
Covid has changed so much – let’s talk about pregnancy, labor, & postpartum with OB/Gyn Revana Lukman from UCLA. She’ll answer questions like What happens if I develop Covid-19 while I’m pregnant? and How has Covid-19 changed prenatal visits, labor and delivery care, and postpartum care? Plus hear from doulas about what it’s like supporting mamas in Covid times.
Pelvic floor issues don’t get the attention they deserve, but they are super common. Yet there are things you can to do prevent and treat leakage, prolapse, and tightness. Pelvic Floor expert Physical Therapist Whitney Sippl provides tips for pregnant mamas and new moms for keeping pelvic floor happy.
Being a new mom is not easy. Postpartum comes with many challenges, and Covid has only added to them. Get some tips from pediatrician Dr. Jeon, UCLA to make it a little easier.
Empty presence is a way to show up for our little ones so that they can explore life without our constant input and explanations.
When we lengthen and expand our breath – especially the exhale – we return to a natural rhythm, ground our energy and reset our nervous system.
I so enjoyed this conversation with my yoga friend, Lauren, on how to get healthy foods into our bodies without leaving the kitchen! We chatted about everything from ways to make quick and easy breakfasts
Why try this pregnancy and postpartum tea recipe? Here is one of my favorite thoughts that comes to me now and again: what if the earth has everything we are looking for? I mean, what
A fabulous, passionate yoga mom who took my prenatal teacher training this weekend happens to have 11 children. Not 11 kids in her class or anything, 11 of her own children. I was having a hard time imagining
I know it sounds crazy, but that’s the kind of thing I’m asking myself lately, and it’s been kind of fun. How to sit so I can feel deeply nurtured? If my chair isn’t helping me sit
Often pregnancy back pain, hip pain, and nerve-y pain that goes down your leg – often lasting or even starting after giving birth – is caused by Pelvic Instability. So what causes Pelvic Instability? Pregnancy, for one.
What do you do to get present? Walking, closing our eyes and following our breath, doing yoga, journaling, and making healthy food in a meditative way are all great ways to get out of our
How do we find balance when we are being pulled in all sorts of different directions? To find balance, yoga suggests we can act in seemingly opposing ways simultaneously. Yoga could be defined as the
Last year I ate some serious humble pie. As you probably know by now, I teach alignment-based yoga to keep muscles and bones moving in optimal directions, and to keep my students out of pain
Yoga is the practice of going in two directions at once: to yoke, front and back, up and down, and pretty much any other opposites you can think of. I like this Balancing Breath Exercise.
I’m kinda embarrassed to admit it, but here it is: I haven’t been to yoga class in over a year. And I’ll confess this too: I’m actually a bit proud of this fact. You see,
The goal of prenatal yoga is not to have a shiny happy pregnancy, or to become the perfect super mom. It is not to make sure you have the 2-hour, natural, pain-free birth of your
In just about every Ma Yoga class I teach, pregnant women and new moms introduce themselves and say: I get shooting pains down my leg My low back hurts My wrists hurt And usually, they’ve
I never really learned about self-care practices before I became a mom, and so I really felt un-moored as a new mom. I felt like I was floating on an inner tube in a sea
Someone asked me last week why I teach pregnant women, and I said “because it’s a time of such change, it’s so much easier for them to be in growth mind.” If you are thinking “things
When Vata is grounded, the channels holding postpartum anxiety can clear out, and we become more open-minded, and openhearted. Recently on NPR, I heard an interview with a guy who’d written a book on anxiety
