Austin Prenatal Yoga

Hello Mamas!

There is no Wed. Prenatal Yoga class tonight, 8/30.

The Wed. class will resume next week 9/6 at 6:15pm at the new hOMe studio.

See our full fall schedule launching after Labor Day!

Tues. 6:15pm
Weds. 6:15pm
Thurs. 6:15pm
Sat. 9:30am AND POSTNATAL 11:15am
Sun. 10am

All classes are held at the hOME studio except the Sunday class is held at Shirley McPhail School of Dance.

Weekend Prenatal Yoga is here! See you soon, mamas. Find your Strong and Calm

Postnatal Yoga is back!

Saturdays 11:15am in north Austin.

Starting Sept. 9.

Can't wait to see and support you mamas on the other side.
Note: Class is for moms (babies stay home).

Sunday 10am Prenatal Austin Prenatal Yoga
at 8018 Mesa Dr. Austin 78731

Put on your oxygen first mask, dear mama.

No pre-registration. Just show-up. $20 to drop-in. See you soon!

www.austinprenatalyoga.org

Prenatal Yoga Schedule:

Sat 9:30am 1300 Morrow St 78757, inside Violet Crown Church
Sun 10am 8018 Mesa Dr 78731, inside Shirley McPhail Dance
Wed 7pm 8018 Mesa Dr 7873, , inside Shirley McPhail Dance

Just show up! No registration required. Please bring your own water! Mats, blocks, and blankets are available to borrow if you don't have your own.

Questions? Text or call Lisa: 512-876-9517

We are open! Please see our new website
www.austinprenatalyoga.org

Check out our new website and url!!

Austin Prenatal Yoga Austin Prenatal Yoga is an affordable yoga studio specializing in yoga classes for pregnancy in all trimesters and for all levels.

Hello Yoga Mamas!

The website is down. YES, we are open! Just show-up to class! No registation required.

Prenatal Yoga Schedule:

Wed. 7pm Prenatal Yoga 8018 Mesa Dr 78731 inside Shirley McPhail School of Dance

Sat 9:30am 1300 Morrow St 78731 inside Violet Crown Church

Sun 10am 8018 Mesa Dr 78731 inside Shirley McPhail School of Dance

Rates: Drop in rate $20 and 5 class pass $90. You can pay at class.

Class Info: Please bring water! Bring your own yoga mat and props (blanket, block) or borrow what we have.

Call Lisa for help or info #512-876-9517

Hello Yoga Mamas!

The website is down. Yes, we are open! Just show-up to class. No registation required. You can pay at class. Drop in rate is $20 and 5 class pass is $90.

Wed. 7pm Prenatal Yoga inside Shirley McPhail School of Dance 8018 Mesa Dr 78731 Call Lisa for help #512-876-9517

Merry Christmas 🎄 Holidays are hard, complex, and weird. Let’s not pretend.

And, let’s allow ourselves to hold space for the good, some hope, strength, forgiveness, and resilience along side any grief, pain, regret, disappointment, expectations, messiness that this time of year can bring to the surface.

No matter what your family looks like or isn’t what you thought it would be, I hope you know you are part of the human family and belong. You are important and loved.

Wishing you contentment, presence, enough ness, and healing. See the face of God in everyone and in the least expected people and places.

I’m into my dog ❤️🖤❤️

Juliet Autumn 🍂

Photos by Alexandra .guerrer0

I became a dog mom on the Full Moon Eclipse 11/8!!!

Meet Juliet Autumn ❤️🍂

She is a 3yo dachshund. Very sweet, smart, energetic, and cuddly. We are excited and in love!

Will she be a yoga dog and/or astrology dog? 🧘🏻‍♂️🌙🪐

👩‍🍼🐕‍🦺👩‍🍼🐕‍🦺👩‍🍼🐕‍🦺😴🐕‍🦺👩‍🍼🐕‍🦺👩‍🍼

It does feel like bringing home a new baby, being vulnerable, getting to know and learn about a new being, buying new things for her and the home, not knowing what I’m doing, yet being open and receiving help/tips from so many loving, kind dog ppl.

Getting Juliet was all so “sudden” and expected (Uranus involved in this lunation), and Not, bc this doggie energy had been percolating and culminating in me, the home, and in the field of potentiality for the past two months. We are happy Juliet is home and hope she can start to settle in and relax after the upheaval she’s been through recently.

✨🐶✨🐶✨🐶✨🐶✨🐶✨

We rescued Juliet from and had the most wonderful, positive experience! Thank you for your support, thoroughness, and care 🙏

Family ❤️❤️❤️ We had a blast! Thank you to the fabulous Aneta

This is who you want taking your pregnancy, birth, baby, + family photos, mommas 🙌

Aneta has strong Pisces in her birth chart. Pisces ♓️ makes the BEST photographers bc it governs photography/film/a picture says a million words! 📸

Oh, and Aneta can be your doula, too! Strong Aries energy in her chart 💪Aries make the BEST doulas, too. Will fight and advocate for you and your family 🔥

Austin Prenatal Yoga is coming back to offer the pregnant humans more in-person prenatal yoga!!

This banner hasn’t been up since March 2020 outside of our old location

The pole was damaged in a bad storm right around that time and I never got it replaced bc of well..

I found a replacement pole this week which; aren’t easy to come by without buying a whole new banner. I had to jimmy rig it a bit; it makes me happy 😊

The wind in my sails is slowly picking up again. It’s been quite the struggle keeping it alive, and we did, kept going, learning, adapting, pivoting, trusting, surrendering, and accepting that now is not forever. All is change.

Thank you for showing up and being apart of this beautiful yoga momma community. You belong and are so loved and appreciated. The best part of motherhood is the other moms 🥰

Join us for Prenatal Yoga 🤰🏽🧘🏽‍♀️🦋 It’s more than just a yoga class 💗

Current Prenatal Yoga Schedule/Link in bio to sign-up!

Tues 6pm virtual
Wed 7pm in-person
Sat 9:30am in-person
Sun 10am in-person
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Birth is a mindset.

Change the narrative of birth.

Childbirth is safe, natural, normal, an every day miracle and phenomena. It’s like taking a p**p 💩 (Virgo talk) 😜

Birth is powerful, beautiful, and you. You bring everything to your birth. Say, YES, to the opportunity of a lifetime.

Shift the narrative from fear to love, mystery, expansion, wonder.

Yes, it hurts. A lot.

And, yes, you can manage the intensity and sensations. The pain is information. Not bad or wrong. It’s there to help you. Listen. Drop in. Go with it. Soften and let go. Surrender control.

I believe in you and your body. It knows how and it knows when.

With Mercury (our mind) shifting back into Virgo ♍️ 9/23-10/10 and w/ the Messenger still being retrograde til 10/2, we are thinking a lot about the editing the narratives that no longer serve and replacing them with healthier, more productive ones so we create the reality we want. With Mercury in Virgo we can hone in on the details of the birth we want, edit the old stories, and craft ones that align with our dream birth.

You are worthy and it’s your birth right to experience a mind body spirit transformation at childbirth.

Birth Mantras:

I am bigger than birth.
I am strong and capable.
It is ok to let go.
I am powerful and fearless.
I am opening.
I choose love and embrace the unknown.
Birth is a love event.

You got this 💪

Fall prenatal yoga schedule!! We just added a Saturday morning IN PERSON prenatal yoga class! More LOVE and community for the mommas 🤰🏽🧘🏽‍♀️💗 Great place to meet other expecting people in Austin!!

Can I ask a favor please? Will you please share or tag a pregnant friend or family member? Thank you so much for your support 🙏 We couldn’t do it without YOU ♥️

Yoga in pregnancy is the best. Bonus: the other moms you meet in prenatal yoga will forever impact you and often these human connections are life long 😭🥰

Please go to link in bio for the details!

We did it!! Congratulations to the Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training class that completed their 8 weeks of course study today 7/24!!

I’m very proud of each of them for showing up - receptive, willing, & open week after week on Zoom, replays, and in-person.

You will each be thoughtful, kind, responsible and inspiring prenatal yoga teachers! You are here to shine, share your gifts (and even your limitations which can be transformed into gifts), and to be of service, uplift, support, and empower one another.

Thank you for pushing me to grow as a teacher of prenatal yoga. Truly. I received so much. It was a great honor and privilege. Deep bow 🙏

B - you are badass for joining a yoga TT as a birth worker 👊 That took guts. You should be very proud for stepping out of your comfort zone and taking a leap of faith into the unknown. Thank you for always keeping me/us in check on inclusivity, consent, yoga alignment questions, birthy things, & you staying the course & doing the work, despite being out of the country at one point & life!

K - you, too, stepped out of your comfort zone and DID IT despite being out of the pregnancy & birth world for some time. That took a lot of courage. Thank you for educating me/us on kundalini yoga things, your twins stories, and showing us how to mature w/ humor and grace.

J - you engaged with us near and far on Zoom, in the car, from all the rooms in the home, ha! With two small children in tow! You are a rock star! Thank you for your independent, inquisitive mind and questions, saying YES to teaching for me your first prenatal yoga class 1/4 into the training, & learning/unlearning w/ thoughtfulness & patience.

We missed you J & D! Praying for your healing and peace! Thank you for your light and being apart of PYTT; I look forward to when you can resume your studies.

I appreciate you choosing me to study with; it means a lot. I’m so lucky I get to do this deeply rewarding work. I couldn’t do it without you 🙏

Go shine your light and lead by loving, & caring for yourself and each other. You got this!

Next Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training starts Sept 22 - Nov 13. Save $500 if you sign up before Aug 15!! DO IT! Link in bio.

We did it!! Congratulations to the Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training class that completed their 8 weeks of course study today 7/24!!

I’m very proud of each of them for showing up - receptive, willing, & open week after week on Zoom, replays, and in-person.

You will each be amazing prenatal yoga teachers. You are here to shine, share your gifts (and even your limitations which can be transformed into gifts), and to be of service, uplift, support, and empower each other.

Thank you for pushing me to grow as a teacher of prenatal yoga. Truly. I received so much. Thank you. It was a great honor and privilege. Deep bow 🙏

B - you are badass for joining a yoga TT as a birth worker 👊 That took guts. You should be very proud for stepping out of your comfort zone and taking a leap of faith into the unknown. Thank you for always keeping me/us in check on inclusivity, consent, alignment questions, and you staying the course & doing the work, despite being out of the country at one point.

K - you, too, stepped out of your comfort zone and DID IT despite being out of the pregnancy & birth world for some time. That took a lot of courage. Thank you for educating me/us on kundalini yoga things, your twins stories, and showing us how to mature w/ humor and grace.

J - you engaged with us near and far on Zoom, in the car, from all the rooms in the home, ha! With two small children in tow! You are a rock star! Thank you for your independent, inquisitive mind and questions, saying YES to teaching for me your first prenatal yoga class 1/4 into the training, and learning/unlearning w/ discernment and patience.

We missed you J & D! Praying for your healing and peace! Thank you for your light and being apart of PYTT; I look forward to when you can resume your studies.

I appreciate you choosing me to study with; it means a lot. I’m so lucky I get to do this deeply rewarding work. I couldn’t do it without you; we need each other!

Next Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training starts Sept 22 - Nov 13. $500 early bird discount if you sign up before Aug. 15. Link in bio.

We are in the final days of Cancer season.

Cancer has the memory of an elephant. Its feeling waters run deep especially when it comes to the past, family of origin, childhood, home, & roots. Cancer is a beautiful caring, sentimental, & sensitive energy that intuitively knows just what everyone needs to feel safe & nourished. It remembers your favorite dish from childhood & cooks it for you, and remembers every emotional slight, too.

One of the lessons for Cancer energy is to deal with the wound from childhood & to get it off them – this requires hard inner work, feeling, therapy, tears, & ultimately, forgiveness.

In these final degrees of Cancer (Monday through Thursday), allow yourself to feel deeply - don’t fix it. Instead sit with the discomfort & witness, be with the pain without numbing, distracting, or denying it. Accept that it is an integral part of the healing & growth process - Cancer is also a healer & the mother & understands this viscerally.

We are each personally in a very deep time of letting go. It is hard. And you are doing it. Keep breathing, softening, surrendering control, and doing whatever you need to care for yourself during this uncomfortable portal of release. Focus on what you are opening to and the amazing new life you are making space for (instead of what you are leaving behind – this doesn’t mean you cannot mourn it, too, just don't get stuck there).

We will be feeling lighter by this Friday when Leo season begins! The spontaneous crying outbursts of Cancer season will be done, & your tears will dry as we shift from water to fire.

Themes of fun, children, play, sovereignty, courage, & opening our hearts will pull focus from July 22 – August 22. All the painful feelings felt around family, home, childhood, and/or relationships dug up over the last four weeks will now turn into new soil. Your heart will be lighter & happier. Your heart may even grow three sizes like the Grinch's.

Sending so much comfort & gentleness as you FEEL the lessons of forgiveness, healing, & caring for your tender heart in the final days of Cancer season. Cry it out today sweet thing knowing a Leo party atmosphere arrives this weekend - Roar queen!

Don’t beat yourself up.

Permission to feel how you feel without condemning yourself. Pregnancy comes with many feelings that are not tidy.

Let go of any guilt or shame for not feeling a bond to your baby in the womb.

It’s OK.

You get to bond w your baby when you’re ready - it’s a process. Don’t push the river, it flows on its own.

Instead of forcing it or thinking something is wrong w/ you for not feeling connected w/ baby inside, get curious.

Is there something I need to address before I open to this bond w my baby?

Is there a disconnect in my relationship to self, my body, maybe another human in my life, a parent, society? If so, how can I heal and bridge the disconnect?

Is there something in my environment that needs adjusting or stabilization before I can feel secure in my attachment to my baby? My work, home, relationships, money, health?

The outer world is chaotic, changing, and destabilizing, and there is plenty to be worried and distressed about. Is fear holding me back from bonding? Or, not wanting to expose my baby to these fears, so I may have walls up? And, hormones like cortisol and adrenaline that are keeping me in fight, flight, or freeze instead of the hormones like oxytocin flooding my body that support tending and befriending? How can I relax more to promote positive hormones? (Yoga, rest, nature, be w/ trusted good people, have a boundary w/ media).

Affirm you are safe, your body is safe, and your baby is safe.

You get to go at your pace. You are a good momma. Trust the connection will come. Give it space, time, and allowance.

What my yoga practice has looked like the past 10 days. I got a tattoo from my son to cheer me up! So cute 🥰

Yoga is not just poses or asana. That’s just one limb of yoga. The one the west is obsessed with and the perfect gateway for us busy minded and bodied folks bc it gets us ‘in the door’.

I have nerve inflammation, so extra painful and uncontrollable, in my hip crease and sciatic nerve. I’m slowly, slowly on the mend.

I’m leaning into the other limbs of yoga - Yama, niyama, pranayama (breath control), dharana (meditation). I’m practicing self love, acceptance, kindness, gratitude, slowing way down, patience, simplicity, presence, humility, forgiveness 🤍

Though it sucks to be in pain and so limited physically, it has many gifts - if we are open, willing, receptive, curious.

Limitations can become gifts. We can heal if we don’t mask the pain and engage with it and tolerate the discomfort healthily, skillfully. Show ourselves equal parts compassion and equal parts accountability.
Ask, What do I need to address here?

And,

Yoga is initially an experience when you first come to it, eventually it becomes an understanding.

Understanding that I have a body, but I’m not the body.

Understanding I have issues, neurosis, pain, desires, character flaws, limitations and I’m not those things either.

I am love, spaciousness, vast, fearless, free.

The mind and body are limited. Remember the innermost self. The sun is always there shining even when there is cloud coverage or stormy weather.

Sending love and gratitude to all the fathers. And to all the broken hearts who don’t have one, lost a child, it’s complicated, are estranged, can’t be one or long to be one, you are loved and not alone ❤️

Being a father is complex, just like it is being a mother, so holding loving space for all the feelings this day conjures up for you - even if that’s no feelings, numbness - that’s a feeling and information, too. Take care of your tender heart and give it what it needs. Cancer season is coming..🦀

Partner’s Childbirth Class. NEW DATE: Aug 13, 1-4pm on Zoom or get the Replay.

All birth preferences, trimesters, and pregnant people welcome. No yoga experience necessary.

Get fortified, confident, and calm for labor and birth.

Learn labor and birthing positions, massage, breathing exercises, visualization, and mindset tools for the big day.

Happy 14th Birthday to my amazing daughter. May laughter, knowledge, song, heart-centered connection, and the animals (they do follow her/she every where bc of a 6th sense for them) follow you every where you go, Gemini ♊️ 🥳😎

We love you. You be you.

Happy Pride Month from Austin Prenatal Yoga 🌈 ❤️

All pregnant people are welcome at APY regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or race. All are included, loved, and celebrated for our differences.
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Kicking off summer w my babies at the pool for first time this season. Unofficial homeschool graduation 🙃 Every day we have together is a blessing and gift.

Don’t over tone your abdominal muscles in pregnancy 🤰🏽 (or, ever). If your abdominal muscles are too tight and taut when it comes time to let go in childbirth, your ab muscles (and, brain) may not know how.

We want ab muscles that are tone and supple, balanced. So when it comes time to let go those muscles also know how to soften.

Balance is key. That is are whole prenatal yoga practice.

If we put so many demands on our bodies in pregnancy (rigid action plans like I will swim, lift, do Pilates and yoga, take xyz classes) we can end up contracting the body more than creating space in it. We want to create space in the body, mind, psyche in pregnancy.

Start loosening the grip of control in your pregnancy now e.g. rigid exercise or food rules, so as you approach labor you will be able to soften your core, open your cervix, and let the baby out come out your incredibly intelligent body. Your body is pregnancy is growing big in an incredibly right way!

My daughter is an artist and activist now. She/her wanted to go to an abortions right rally today. First mother/daughter peaceful protest we have done together. I never did anything like this w my mom! Today’s youth blow me away with their awareness and wanting to get involved.

I hope my daughter has the right to a legal and safe abortion if she ever needs or wants one. It seems backwards and sad that I even have to write that in this point in history.

Choice is power. Power is freedom.
May all human beings be safe, free, and at peace.

**kthepatriarchy

to be a physical gateway for these souls to move through me, who chose me. I know not everyone gets to do this. It is an honor and gift to be a mother to humans in this lifetime.

They are ultimately Goddess’s children. And, not mine. I’m just a humble, temporary trustee. Figuring it out as I go, learning about my limitations and weaknesses, and potential and capacity to love, give, and surrender control.

Alexandra, the first born, almost 14, is the reason, catalyst for the work I do today. Forever grateful to her for choosing me despite our differences and challenges. All part of the mothering journey to healing ourselves and relationships to our own mother/childhood and becoming the wise, compassionate parent to ourselves and children.

Mother yourself, each other, and Mother Earth with fierce love, shelter, protection, gentleness, nourishing input, deep listening compassion, and mercy.

Happy Mother’s Day to my late mama, Kathleen, and late grandmothers Erma and Madeleine. Thank you ancestors. There is still much work to do, and I’m here to help clear and heal the maternal pain, injustice, and lineage.

Deep bow to all the mothers grieving today, single moms, dads who mother, humans who are aching to have a baby or lost a baby or child..to all the women every where who are afraid and outraged that they can’t get an abortion or may not be able to soon, even though their survival is dependent on one. To the people who don’t want to be human mothers, you are included, too. There are many ways and things to mother 💗

And, a big thank you to all the yoga students who have come into my life. Each and everyone of you has made me a better mother 🙏💖

Happy baby pose, rock left and right so you don’t compress the vena cava staying in one position.

Great to relieve lower back pain, hip tightness, and to feel the breath going deep down into the pelvic floor muscles to lengthen them. Nice also for getting the uterus off the bladder for a little bit, especially in the 3rd tri.

Try not to round your back too much. If so, bring hands behind the knees or shins, you don’t have to force it by taking the feet.

If the pose doesn’t feel good, skip it.

Be like your curious baby rocking and discovering their legs or feet for the first time.

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course starts June 3. Yoga Alliance certified. Get your RPYT certificate with YA. 100% virtual.

Yoga Buddy discount for Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training. You each save $499 if you sign up with a Yoga Buddy!!

Perfect for Gemini ♊️ season which is two’s, buddy’s, pairs..which is when TT starts June 3, Gemini season and the same day Mercury goes direct 🙏🙂

There will be some astrology in this course! What the moon sign says about your mothering style and your child’s physical and emotional needs. As well as how the planets 🪐 are represented in pregnancy and childbirth.

And, of course tons of materiel on how to teach safe, skillful yoga to pregnant 🤰🏽 humans.

Yoga Alliance certified. Get your 85 hour RPYT certificate with Yoga Alliance!

Fear is excitement without breath.
- Fritz Perls

This reminds me of childbirth or any intense experience. We tend to hold the breath when we are afraid. The same mechanisms that elicit excitement also produce fear. They are on a continuum. That implies fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.

What if you could breathe fully with the fear, anxiety, and sensation in a contraction or hard challenge, and transmute it breath by breath to excitement and aliveness?

Your breath is a powerful ally. What if things we fear are also exciting, powerful, and beautiful - you can still be afraid, and try staying with yourself and breathing fully with it.

Let’s take care of our home, Mother Earth.
Be kind to Her; she literally gives us everything.

Love that Earth 🌍 day lands in Ta**us season which rules agriculture and nature. And, on Venus’s day (Friday); Ta**us is ruled my Venus which is about what we value.

Consider if what you value is in alignment w/ the environment, love, and sustainability. And, recalibrate if necessary. How can you incorporate our beautiful planets needs into your every day life/awareness? My latest obsession is picking up random litter, even if it’s out of my way.

This image reminds me that the whole universe lives in you ✨✨✨ not just when pregnant 😉 though I love this visual.