Birth Moves

Join me and Daniele Strawmyre at for our most favorite labor or love:

Embodied Birth Preparation: Hands-On Partner Support

This class is a fun and uniting experience for birthing people and their birth partner!

We will guide you and your birth partner to explore comfort and coping techniques to manage pain through labor with movement, breathing, vocal toning, positions, massage and relaxation. Explore the nervous system and how to support your body through the varying states as we practice coping strategies and discover helpful tools for your birth journey.

This workshop is designed for pregnant people at all stages of pregnancy and their birth partner to take time to prepare for the experience of birth and to foster deeper intimacy and confidence as you journey toward parenthood.

*This workshop is limited to 8 couples to ensure

Upcoming dates:
Sunday, April 14, 3-6pm
Tuesday, May 28, 5:30-8:30pm

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I’m expanding my offerings to reach more of the perinatal population in and around Portland, Oregon! If you live in or near Happy Valley, join me in April/May for a spring prenatal yoga series at !

Ease Pregnancy Discomforts: This series is designed to alleviate the common discomforts of pregnancy while nurturing the mind, body, and spirit in preparation for childbirth.

Holistic Approach: We go beyond basic yoga modifications, fostering a supportive community environment and integrating childbirth education into our practice. Addressing pregnancy-related aches and pains, we aim to make your journey as comfortable as possible.

Physical Preparation: Through tailored yoga practices, we help your body adapt to the changes of pregnancy, encourage optimal fetal positioning, and prepare you physically for childbirth.

Mindful Exploration: Cultivate mindfulness, focus, and positivity to support you mentally and spiritually on the path to parenthood. Each session offers a space for inner reflection and emotional empowerment.

Comprehensive Topics: Our series includes dedicated segments such as welcoming the pregnant body, embracing change, and labor/birth preparation, ensuring a holistic approach to your prenatal experience.

Tuesdays
April 16 - May 21
6-7pm

The yoga of parenthood is something I am passionate about facilitating, holding space for, and being in my own personal practice with. These early parenthood days are challenging. I’ve been in conversations with other parents lately about the challenges of my current stage and it helps so much to hear their challenges, struggles and triumphs and to share my own. Let’s take this journey together. We need each other.

If you are interested in supporting the postpartum population with yoga, join me live online Feb 16-18 for 20 hours of continuing education.

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Prepping for the new year and facilitating more trainings! Next up is:

SACRED BIRTH PRENATAL & POSTNATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

This 85+ hour prenatal and postnatal yoga training that provides you with mentorship and education to support pregnancy and beyond. (Yoga Alliance is offering the unique opportunity to complete your certification online during this time of social distancing.)

This interactive and live training will equip you with tools to empower and support pregnant people throughout their pregnancies and equip them with powerful practices and tools for labor which we believe is very needed in this world. This interactive in-home retreat will provide you with a framework to deepen your own connection to your body, support your yoga students or launch a career in the field of birth work.

ONLINE PROGRAM: 3 WEEKENDS JAN 14 - 29

Jan 14-15 (Sat & Sun)
Jan 20-21 (Sat & Sun)
Jan 27-29 (Fri-Sun)

Time: 9-1 PT

*with LIVE VIRTUAL DATES & Recorded Content to watch on your own time

More info and registration at: https://www.awakenedspirityoga.com/online-85-hr-prenatal-postnatal-yoga-teacher-training

*register with the code ALEXAMOVES for a discount!

Teaming up with this beautiful, wise, knowledgable human for WOMB WISE YOGA! An 85 hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training.

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Pregnancy, Birth, Yoga, the Nervous System!…and Life!!

The connection between our nervous system and labor initiates a shift in hormones in the body to increase cortisol, oxytocin and what’s known as a “cocktail of hormones”.  Being in a healthy relationship with your NS during this transformational time in life impacts our experience.  The makeup of our NS imprints our unborn babies, our relationship with ourself and others and impacts our birth and postpartum time. 

Years ago I was in deep grief, not getting enough sleep, living with emotional and work stress which all led to an overwhelmed nervous system.  It started with my breath.  I could not take a deep breath and felt at times I would just stop breathing.  It was scary.  Since then I have learned so much about grief, stress, my nervous system, ways to support myself and creating healthy boundaries (still working on that one:) 

And so it was yoga that I took my first steps on my path to healing.  From immersions and yoga teacher trainings; restorative yoga, trauma informed and pelvic floor yoga, prenatal yoga and meditation.  These paths brought me back to myself and my breath which is where it all starts.  Like the first breath a newborn takes at birth, but it actually starts before that. Development of the autonomic ns and vagus nerve begins with our own mothers and their nervous system, environment and social network and our own birth. What is amazing though is we can repair and rewire our brain and NS, but it takes time.

How might my births and postpartum been different if I had known then what I know now.  And yet it was all a part of my personal healing that led me to where I am now.  

Tips for self regulating in pregnancy and life:
•Feel your feet ( grounding )
•Breath ( pranayama )
•Movement (asana )
•Walk in nature ( connect to the elements )

More to come…

Womb Wise Yoga 
85 hr Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Bend, Oregon
October 13 - November 13