3 minute yoga practice to connect to body, breath, and core
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.
7 Ways To Get Your Child To Love Yoga
Empty presence is a way to show up for our little ones so that they can explore life without our constant input and explanations.
How Prenatal Yoga Has Changed in 20 Years
Don't do abdominals, don't do twists, and definitely don't do a strong practice that would make you sweat. Over the years, I saw how we need our strength when we're pregnant maybe more than any other time: when else are we carrying an item around that weighs as much as a bowling ball, 24/7? But it wasn't until I asked myself, "What is
Three Questions to Ask Your OB or Midwife About Your Upcoming Labor
Empty presence is a way to show up for our little ones so that they can explore life without our constant input and explanations.
Empty Presence
Empty presence is a way to show up for our little ones so that they can explore life without our constant input and explanations.
4 Natural Nausea Remedies
4 Natural Nausea Remedies I spent most of my entire first trimester on the floor because of nausea, watching my husband renovate our bathroom. Naturally, I remember loving it there - it was just my happy place. If you’re feeling out of it, and finding yourself staring at the open fridge wondering what you wanted - I want you to know that’s
Wave Breathing for Moms and Moms-to-be
When we lengthen and expand our breath - especially the exhale - we return to a natural rhythm, ground our energy and reset our nervous system.
How Two Minutes of Daily Meditation Can Change Your Life
Mama Talk: Sharing Yoga with Kids is about simple ways to playfully share yoga with kids. In this chat with Ma Yoga teacher and Mom Jamie Hanson, we share games to teach kidsto use their breath, their bodies and their minds to discover who they are and how powerful they are to change themselves and the world.
Postpartum: A Celebration of the Birth of YOU
Mama Talk: Sharing Yoga with Kids is about simple ways to playfully share yoga with kids. In this chat with Ma Yoga teacher and Mom Jamie Hanson, we share games to teach kidsto use their breath, their bodies and their minds to discover who they are and how powerful they are to change themselves and the world.
Pregnancy and Exercise: Is it Safe?
Mama Talk: Sharing Yoga with Kids is about simple ways to playfully share yoga with kids. In this chat with Ma Yoga teacher and Mom Jamie Hanson, we share games to teach kidsto use their breath, their bodies and their minds to discover who they are and how powerful they are to change themselves and the world.
Tips on Dealing with Anxiety During Pregnancy
We worry about things we did, about things that might happen, and then about the worry itself. Thankfully, there's an easy way to let anxiety during pregnancy go!
4 Prenatal Yoga Tips for Yoga Teachers
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.
Sharing Yoga with Kids
Mama Talk: Sharing Yoga with Kids is about simple ways to playfully share yoga with kids. In this chat with Ma Yoga teacher and Mom Jamie Hanson, we share games to teach kidsto use their breath, their bodies and their minds to discover who they are and how powerful they are to change themselves and the world.
Are You Playing Small or Choosing the Highest?
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...
Easy Meditation for Moms
Whether you're a new mom whose life is in chaos, or a mom-to-be running from doctor's visits to Target, or just someone who's super busy, it's easy to live life from task to taskfor days on end, without connecting to our big picture. We all know that meditation is a great way to calm our mind and body down. It's like pressing the
Finding Community Through Prenatal Yoga
My experience with prenatal 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...
Pairing Yoga Practice and Motherhood
As a mama of two littles, it is HARD to find time for my own yoga practice. While it is still a dream to make it to a studio and take a full yoga class with no children in tow, it does occasionally happen but doesn't do much for me day-to-day. I realized early on, that developing ways to incorporate yoga at home was key...
My Ma Yoga Teacher Training Experience
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...