Meet Ash Silver Ma Yoga® Instructor Hi MaYogis! My personal journey with yoga began in 1999, when I was blessed by a serendipitous encounter with an older yogi, who taught me how my body and breath were my entry points to freedom. Fast forward ten years and I found myself studying Hatha yoga in a small ashram
Meet Hayley Wilson Ma Yoga® Instructor Hi mamas! My name is Hayley and I grew up in a small, rural town where there really wasn't access to yoga studios or much knowledge in general of the practice, especially for mothers. Pregnancy and motherhood is such an important time to find your tribe, and the Ma Yoga living
Meet Lindy Ker Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor, ERYT, C-IAYT Hey mama, I am so happy you are here! Welcome to Ma Yoga Living, a well-spring of knowledge and support. I am devoted to helping all women gain greater awareness and a deeper understanding inside their bodies. My #1 recommendation for future, present, and experienced mamas is to
Meet Kathy Chu Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor Hi! I'm Kathy and I co-founded a very successful company and found myself stressed all the time. I became a certified yoga teacher through CorePower Yoga in 2018 due to an imbalance of my work and life. While pursuing my yoga certification and during several yoga retreats, I started to
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.
Here's a sample from the Ma Journey of the kind of quick practices we do each week that connects us to our core, our breath, and to our body in a nurturing way.
How Pregnancy Exercise Has Changed in my 20 Years of Teaching Don't do abdominals, don't do twists, and definitely don't do a strong practice that would make you sweat. That's what I learned in my first prenatal yoga teacher training, and many after that. Over the years, I saw first hand how we need our strength when we're pregnant maybe more than any
In this quick video, Colleen and Jamie share 4 Prenatal Yoga Tips for teachers so we can make sure we are guiding, supporting,and inspiring our moms-to-be as much as possible. Also, grab your free ebook, The Yoga of Pregnancy for Teachers! Above are three prenatal yoga tips from Colleen Hieber and Jamie Hanson, both amazing Ma Yoga® Teachers and Teacher Trainers.
When we become conscious of a choice (and many choices that we make throughout the day are automatic, like make the coffee, wake the kids), we can choose to act in the “highest” way. What is the highest way? It is simply acting in the most life-enhancing, beautiful, nurturing, wise and powerful way...
My experience with pregnancy yoga went way beyond the physical. I found myself transforming from a very self-centered person to an open book ready to receive all the love and support from my new community...
While my family and I were living on the small island of Bermuda, I completed my 200 hours of Yoga Teacher Training in Italy in August 2016. Completing my training made me realize this was just the start of a journey and there was so much more to learn and develop. As a highly knowledgeable and experienced school teacher, I had to leave my ego aside, leave my comfort zone, and not listen to the doubts and fears about not being good enough to teach yoga...
One of my great joys is watching pregnant women emerging into motherhood as they go through my Prenatal Yoga and into Mom + Baby Yoga classes. There are so many fears and concerns for most women...
Meet Rachelle Luczynski Birth and Postpartum Doula, Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor I am honored to be an Inspired Anusara therapeutics Instructor, a Certified Ma Yoga® prenatal and postnatal yoga instructor, and a Birth and Postpartum doula. I've helped hundreds of women transition beautifully to motherhood, and I'd love to support you on your "Ma" journey! Jessica Jennings’
Ma Yoga Living Instructor Colleen Hieber Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor, E-RYT 500, RPYT, YACEP I’ve been teaching yoga since 2011, shortly after completing my 85-Hour prenatal teacher training with Jessica Jennings in Los Angeles through Ma Yoga®. I have worked closely with Jessica to build a large prenatal yoga community in Orange County, CA...
Ma Yoga Living Instructor Lauren Horn Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor, RYT-500, RPYT I discovered yoga in 2003 with the intention to relieve chronic low back pain and it worked! Since then I have experienced the benefits of yoga at all stages of life; as a single woman, in marriage, during pregnancy, and now as a mother...
Ma Yoga Living Instructor Jamie Hanson Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor, E-RYT, RPYT I began teaching prenatal yoga with Ma Yoga® in late 2014 after suffering the loss of two pregnancies. In 2015 my daughter Luisa was born and I entered the journey of motherhood at which time I also began teaching Mommy and Me Yoga classes as well...
Ma Yoga Living Instructor Rebecca Hackett Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor and Birth Doula, C-IAYT, YTRx-800C, RYT-500 I have been doing yoga since 2000 after having multiple back surgeries in 1998, 2003, a spinal fusion in 2012, and two abdominal surgeries including a cesarean section. In 2013 I became a yoga teacher so I could to others the many benefits of yoga...
Ma Yoga Living Yoga for Pregnancy Teacher Linda Eifer Certified Ma Yoga® Instructor I’m a native of Los Angeles, mother of two, and more recently, a yogi. I joined the Anusara community in 2000, began teaching yoga in 2004, yoga for pregnancy in 2007. I draw on experiences, family, my students, and the natural world for inspiration in contemporary life...
