Ma Yoga® for Pregnancy, Motherhood & Beyond:
- uses alignment to relieve aches and pains
- strengthens your core
- tones your muscles
- grounds your energy no matter how busy you are
- prepares you for labor physically and mentally if you’re pregnant
- heals and revitalizes your body if you’re a mom
- connects you to baby whether your little one’s inside or out
- supports you in being present for your loved ones and yourself
- helps you stand strong in who you are
Hi I’m Jessica. I’ve been teaching prenatal yoga since 2001, when I fell in love with this exciting time.
As a Lifestyle Educator in the Kaiser Permanente OB/Gyn department, Certified Feminine Power Transformational Group Facilitator and yoga teacher trainer, I saw clearly that with the right kind of guidance and support, we can learn to change the challenges of this time to opportunities to step into our greatest possibilities.
When I was pregnant, I loved being part of a community of pregnant women in prenatal yoga. Unfortunately, when I became a mom, I couldn’t afford childcare to go to a yoga class.
I felt isolated, depleted and stressed, and I needed my support and strengthening yoga as a new mom more than ever.
That’s why I created Ma Yoga® – so that women could have the guidance, inspiration, and community we all need to have a transformative pregnancy as well as a healing, nurturing postpartum. More than 18,000 women came through our 10 Southern California “Mama Circles”.
Once we created the online Ma Yoga Living Room with our prenatal yoga, birth education, and nourishing and nurturing routines for busy moms, we became a growing, global community of women seeking to embody their highest, most powerful, wise “Ma” Self.
It all starts with saying YES to support, guidance, and inspiration.
And yes, you can have it all – in your pajamas!
Individualized, calming, balancing
Kristina D, New Mom
Best thing I could have done for myself
Kristin L - Occupational Therapist
Such a rewarding experience
Tiffany F. Certified Yoga Instructor
Highly recommend
Trynke DeJong - PHD Researcher, UC Riverside
Ma Yoga was a lifesaver
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 some relief.
I ended up using the short practice almost daily and still go back to it now, more than a year after delivery, whenever my back flares up."
Fatimah
Classes for every stage
Victoria Pecheco
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.
Kristin Rodriguez
Helps Keep Me Calm During Morning Chaos
Jennifer R.
Huge benefit to my life
Anna G.
I wouldn’t be painting right now if I hadn’t done Happy Back
Michelle R.
A Gift from the Universe!
I’m very list-oriented so I loved how the Ma Meditation program listed the steps and then checked them off as you completed them. Very encouraging!
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!
Cate H.
I love its flexibility
Colleen Fitzsimmons
Ma Yoga Living Member Benefits
MA YOGA® ANYTIME
Over 60 Ob/Gyn-approved searchable Prenatal Yoga, Mom Yoga and Mom + Baby Yoga classes are designed for right where you are on your journey. Whether you have 10 minutes or an hour, you’re pregnant or a mom, or you’re just someone who wants to do alignment-based yoga, there are wonderful classes for you. In our Prenatal Yoga classes, you’ll be able to relieve pregnancy aches and pains, support optimal position for baby, make space for baby and open your hips for baby’s exit.
In our Mom Yoga classes you’ll strengthen, heal, release tense shoulders and connect to baby – all in the comfort of your living room.
LIVE ONLINE MA YOGA® CLASSES
Our expert Certified Ma Yoga® teachers are trained doulas, postpartum and parenting professionals, and therapeutic alignment specialists. We’ll guide you step-by-step through strengthening, opening, grounding and super fun practices – all in the friendly, casual, Ma Yoga Zoom Room.
Members receive 40% off Prenatal Yoga, Mom Yoga, Mom+Baby and Kids yoga – and enjoy Ma Yoga for Anyone classes with Jessica for FREE.
CUSTOM PROGRAMS
Select your focus for the week: would you like to relieve your aches and pains? Get stronger and more powerful? Prepare for labor? Feel overall energized and radiant?
Set your intention for the week and you’ll receive specific practices and programs to help you make it happen.
GUIDANCE
More than 40 Pregnancy & New Mom guides for the challenges ahead, as well as Radiant YOU Care Package guides for later – with nourishing food, healthy weight-loss and nurturing self-care routines you can do even on your busiest days.
SUPPORT
Share in our “Ma Circle” when you need a answers or support from yoga teachers, birth and parenting educators, and healthy lifestyle coaches. If you need a little extra support, go to “Ask Dr. Shosh”, our mommy mood expert.
DISCOUNTS ON ALL PROGRAMS
Create your unique Ma Meditation & Power Practice that works for your schedule and needs, keep your back pain-free with Happy Back in 5, and join Jessica for I WILL (Ideal Weight/ Ideal Lifestyle Lab) to create a nurturing relationship with food and your body – all at 20% off the already super affordable costs.
You may cancel any time.
RELIEVE ACHES AND PAINS
Ma Yoga®’s unique, therapeutic, alignment-based yoga teaches you simple, subtle adjustments that make a world of difference for the common pains like back, wrist, shoulder and neck.
PREPARE FOR LABOR
If you’re pregnant, choose Prenatal Yoga and then whatever you need, including “Prepare for Labor”, “Relieve Aches and Pains” and lots more. You’ll receive a Custom Program that teaches you what you need to know before the big day. Using breath, movement, hip and pelvic floor techniques, you’ll move forward with confidence.
CONNECT TO BABY
We know part of your heart is always connected to your little one. In both our Prenatal Yoga and our Mom + Baby classes, you’ll enjoy that connection as you get strong, open, and grounded. You’ll receive so much nurturing so you can keep giving to baby without feeling depleted. And you’ll have a super fun time doing it.
LET GO OF ANXIETY AND WORRY
Whether you’re pregnant or a dad, stress affects every part of you. It makes you more vulnerable to illness and aches and pains, less energized and not present for you or your loved ones. In one hour, you will shift on every level into feeling calm, supported, and connected – so you can step into your greatest possibilities.
You may cancel any time.
Ma Yoga® Anytime clips
Prenatal Yoga practice:
"Optimal Positioning for Baby"
Mom Yoga practice:
"First Time Back as a New Mom"
DO YOUR BIRTH EDUCATION ON YOUR OWN TIME
A bit nervous about labor? Choose the Empowering Birth Bundle membership option, which includes our comprehensive, 6-session, self-paced, birth, postpartum and breastfeeding prep courses plus one month FREE membership.
In this top-level birth class, you’ll learn all the unbiased pro’s and con’s for all the choices you’ll have, whether you’re in a hospital, home, or birth center. You’ll be fully equipped with all the tools and coping skills for labor you need, and have a unique birth plan that’s right for you – so you can have the birth YOU want.
BE READY FOR BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM
Guided by the amazing Stefanie Castro, Labor & Delivery Nurse and birth and postpartum doula, you’ll change your unknowns to clarity and your fear to confidence and calm.
Outer knowledge combined with inner wisdom means your fully prepared in body, mind, and heart for labor and postpartum. Which means you get to enjoy the rest of your pregnancy feeling calm, clear, and excited for your birth!
RECEIVE EXTRA SUPPORT
With Empowering Birth you get a FREE one-on-one birth consult to get all your questions answered. You’ll enjoy support in a private Empowering Birth group. And you’ll have all the benefits of Ma Yoga Living Membership. It’s all you need to create a birth story you’ll love to remember.