New Moms Need Physical Therapy Pregnancy and childbirth exact an enormous toll on a woman’s body. It is transforming and beautiful, but when a mother does not get the physical and emotional support she needs, the effects can be devastating. I am a new mother, three times over. After each birth, I benefited enormously from…
Busy Mom’s Yoga Guide: Get Fit In Less Time How can a busy mom, working both in and/or outside the home, find time for yoga – or any exercise at all? Everyone is busy, especially mothers. Lack of time is probably the most cited excuse for not exercising enough; however, you can fit yoga into…
Your Birth, Your Rights: Making Informed Choices for a Positive Experience As an expectant mother, you likely spend time envisioning the incredible moment when you will finally meet your baby. What will they look like? How will it feel to hold them for the first time? Pregnancy is a transformative journey, culminating in birth—a profound…
A few years ago I traveled to Alaska for work and returned very late on a Wednesday night. Having been surrounded by water while in Juneau, Alaska, in addition to hiking, flying, and driving from 0-3500 feet elevation a dozen times (which means an abundance of air and ether) over the course of teaching the…
The enormous respect and love I have for yoga’s healing power – is the catalyst for all the work I do, and is the same reason I am sharing this sequence with you. I first shared this yoga sequence with all my friends on Facebook just a little while ago – however, the incredible, positive…
Reclaiming Birth: A Call to Empower Mothers A childbirth magazine recently posed a question that stopped me in my tracks: “Why do women in America fear birth?” It’s a tender question, because fear around birth is rarely simple. It is often shaped by stories we’ve heard, experiences we’ve witnessed, care we have or have not…
Juggling Motherhood and Business Conjoining motherhood with running a business is hard. I would insert a more colorful adjective before hard, but this space is rated G. The Backstory Here’s how my morning unfolded. Before 7 AM, the day started with a jolt – as usual. This time, I woke to the sound of my…
Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, during her seven-country tour of Africa, made statements suggesting that women’s rights will be one of her signature platforms. This is a cause for celebration, as women across the globe—and here in America—continue to suffer horrendously and unjustly. In Strength to Love (1963), Martin Luther King Jr….