Barefoot Movement

After a Leah class in the courtyard (every other Saturday) we gathered to potluck and honor the river of impermanence as Barefoot evolves from Barefoot Movement to an adventure of your choosing...check teacher bios on webpage to see your choices....pre/post natal with Leonora, Tako and Gordon in Oakland studios, Disha in Berkeley, Zoom with Hanna, vital bones with Mary Beth, & teeny yogini kids yoga with Karen.

Postpartum class tomorrow! And every Friday in the courtyard! Babies welcome… and our wonderful assistant to soothe the wee ones. Come practice with 10:30-11:45. Preregistering appreciated.

Postpartum Support Group (In Studio, babies welcome)

Led by + Katherine Mancera

Six Tuesdays 2:00 - 3:30 | 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/29, 12/6

The experience of birthing a child and caring for a newborn is profound and intense. In one moment you might marvel at the beauty and deep connection you feel with your child, the next you are hopeless and sobbing; and the next you are shoving a bagel into your mouth while trying to get baby to sleep. You deserve support as you navigate this remarkable new journey.

This postpartum support group, facilitated by a therapist and a birth/postpartum worker, offers space for you to:

Build community with other postpartum parents who understand what you’re going through

Feel held and supported as you share the gorgeous, painful, confusing, lonely or sweet parts of your journey

Explore a variety of topics including postpartum nourishment, sleep, nursing, infant care, identity, self care, recovery, and partner intimacy – any aspects of this new role in your life that need processing and untangling

Get support from a trained and experienced birth and postpartum worker and lactation educator on how to care for your healing body, troubleshoot nursing issues, etc.

Practice taking your baby out into the world

Postpartum parents with babies ranging from 2 weeks to 6 months old are welcome. We will cap our participant number at 12 and hope that each of you will be able to attend every session of the support group.

This group will run for six sessions on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:30 pm on the following dates: October 25, November 1, 8, 15, & 29, & December 6th.

Cost: $300
There are several sliding-scale spots/scholarships available. NOTAFLOF Please email [email protected] and [email protected] to inquire. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Location: Inside the Barefoot Movement studio. There are plenty of props, bolsters, and blankets to help make you and baby comfortable. Bring whatever you need to do the same, including water and snacks.

Required: vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours. Masks optional.

Partner Yoga with Pregnancy + Comfort Labor Measures (In Studio)

Sunday, October 9
4:00 – 6:00 PST

Led by: Melissa Reyes

No experience necessary.

This workshop is for expectant people and a labor support partner. The class focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, internal breath awareness and attuning to another's breath movement, visualization and meditation with affirmations and some partner yoga poses. Some poses and techniques learned will help alleviate pregnancy discomforts and can also be used during labor as comfort measures. Support partners will also learn easy massage techniques that will support relaxation during pregnancy and labor.

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. Masks are optional, social distancing encouraged.

Cost: $125/couple
20% off for those with a Prenatal Membership
Email [email protected] for the discount code.

The last day to withdraw from Partner Prenatal is one week prior to the date of the workshop. No refunds for cancellations within the 6 days prior to the workshop date.

Partner Yoga w/ Pregnancy + Labor Comfort Measures

Led by Leonora Willis + Melissa Reyes

Sunday, September 11
1:00 – 3:00 PST

No experience necessary.

This workshop is for expectant people and a labor support partner. The class focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, internal breath awareness and attuning to another's breath movement, visualization and meditation with affirmations and some partner yoga poses. Some poses and techniques learned will help alleviate pregnancy discomforts and can also be used during labor as comfort measures. Support partners will also learn easy massage techniques that will support relaxation during pregnancy and labor.

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. Masks are optional, social distancing encouraged.

Cost: $125/couple
20% off for those with a Prenatal Membership
Email [email protected] for the discount code.

The last day to withdraw from Partner Prenatal is one week prior to the date of the workshop. No refunds for cancellations within the 6 days prior to the workshop date.
rience necessary.

This workshop is for expectant people and a labor support partner. The class focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, internal breath awareness and attuning to another's breath movement, visualization and meditation with affirmations and some partner yoga poses. Some poses and techniques learned will help alleviate pregnancy discomforts and can also be used during labor as comfort measures. Support partners will also learn easy massage techniques that will support relaxation during pregnancy and labor.

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. Masks are optional, social distancing encouraged.

Cost: $125/couple
20% off for those with a Prenatal Membership
Email [email protected] for the discount code.

The last day to withdraw from Partner Prenatal is one week prior to the date of the workshop. No refunds for cancellations within the 6 days prior to the workshop date.

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I’ll be teaching the Tuesday noon classes at starting tomorrow, alternating weekly with 🙌🏻

It’s a 60 min fundamentals classes held outdoors at the courtyard (📍1919 Market st), so come join for a gentle flow in the sun ☀️

Restorative Prenatal Yoga + Acupuncture

Led by +

Sunday, August 7 | 5 - 7p | In Studio

Please join Leonora Willis and Gabriela Curbelo, L.Ac., prenatal specialist at Raven and Wren Wellness, for an evening of restorative yoga and acupuncture – for prenatal students only!

Leonora will begin with a dynamic practice, moving through a sequence including postures that aid in stabilizing, toning, strengthening and balancing the body to alleviate and prevent some of the common aches and pains of pregnancy. The second half of our time together will be spent in longer held restorative poses, incorporating breathwork strategies as well as labor visualization, meditation and affirmation recitation, during which students will also receive personalized acupuncture treatment from Gabriela.

You will be asked to complete online intake forms for your acupuncture care in advance of the workshop - this will give you the opportunity to inform Gabriela how she can best serve your individual needs. Post-workshop, Gabriela will share a personalized treatment plan with you outlining recommendations for ongoing prenatal support through acupuncture, herbal medicine and supplements, nutrition, and prenatal massage.

What to wear: Loose fitting comfortable pants or capris; What to bring: Water and snacks

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. As per Alameda county guidelines, masks are required, social distancing strongly recommended.

Cost:
$150
20% Discount for Prenatal Members

The last day to withdraw from Restorative Prenatal Yoga w/ Acupuncture is one week prior to the date of the workshop. No refunds for cancellations within the 6 days prior to the workshop date.

On-Demand Postnatal Classes NOW AVAILABLE!!

$8/class gets you 48hrs access. Tap the link in our bio, or visit the ‘Perinatal’ page of our website, to view our ever-rotating library of classes with your favorite teachers.

Asana in Stillness and in Motion
Led by Leah Gillman

Sunday, June 12 | 1:00 - 3:00

Ever feel like you’re really in ‘it’ while in an asana but then you leave ‘it’ while transitioning to the next? Let’s take a look at the through lines, the actions that need to stay alive so you can get from one place to another without ever ‘leaving’. This workshop will be a regular class format with extra time allotted for pauses and repeats so we can explore this idea in depth.

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. Masks are optional, social distancing encouraged.

Cost $40
20% discount for Members

The last day to withdraw from Asana in Stillness and in Motion is one week prior to the date of the workshop. No refunds for cancellations within the 6 days prior to the workshop date.

*DONATION-BASED YOGA*

Saturday, May 28 | 10:30 - 11:45a (outdoor)

Led by

Proceeds go towards , whose mission is to end school shootings and create a culture change that prevents violence and other harmful acts that hurt children.

$10 - $30 suggested donation.

Visit the link in bio to sign up.

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Today we highlight and honor,
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Birth & postpartum doula & Yoga teacher. With over ten years of teaching and training experience in all levels of Yoga asana, including prenatal & postpartum yoga, Yin. She teaches at &
co-owns Barefoot Movement,
a Yoga studio located in
West Oakland, Ca.
As a birth & postpartum doula, she works to help each client envision & experience the kind of birth they deserve, helping to inform, prepare & support them throughout their pregnancy journey into empowerment
as a parent.

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Please join Leonora Willis and Gabriela Curbelo, L.Ac. of Raven and Wren Wellness for an evening of Yoga and acupuncture – for prenatal students only!

Leonora will begin with a dynamic practice, moving through a sequence including postures that aid in stabilizing, toning, strengthening and balancing the body to alleviate and prevent some of the common aches and pains of pregnancy.

The second half of our time together will be spent in longer held restorative poses, incorporating breathwork strategies as well as labor visualization, meditation and affirmation recitation, during which students will also receive personalized acupuncture treatment from Gabriela.

You will be asked to complete online intake forms for your acupuncture care in advance of the workshop - this will give you the opportunity to inform Gabriela how she can best serve your individual needs.

Post-workshop, Gabriela will share a personalized treatment plan with you outlining recommendations for ongoing prenatal support through acupuncture, herbal medicine and supplements, nutrition, and prenatal massage.

What to wear: Loose fitting comfortable pants or capris

What to bring: Water and snacks

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. Masks are optional, social distancing encouraged.

Cost: $150

Learn More: https://www.barefootmovement.com/workshops/

Postpartum yoga every Friday in the courtyard, led by 10:30-11:45. Come to be in community with other new parents, rebuild your strength and work out those new parent care-giving kinks and tensions. We’re here for you.

Looking for a more economical way to include yoga into your schedule? We’re in search of work-trade students to help with cleaning around the studio in trade for unlimited yoga. Shifts are flexible and require 2hrs of work a week.

Send us an email to inquire 📧

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Newly added outdoor postpartum yoga class starting tomorrow in the courtyard every Friday 10:30-11:45. Bring your wee ones and discover your transformed self in movement, in breath, through awareness - in community. We will focus on rediscovering the pelvic floor & core, healing and strengthening the body while working out the new parent kinks and knots, both within the physical body 🧘🏽‍♀️ and subtle body. ☸️. $20 drop in, mini-membership with 5 classes/month at $70, or class packs. Can’t wait to see you there.

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There’s a prenatal class every day! All levels welcome, second and third trimester recommended.

Inner & Outer Harmony
Led by

Sunday, January 23 | 1:00 - 2:30

Bathe yourself in healing sounds created by yourself and others in this experiential workshop led by Barefoot instructor and former choral director, Tako Oda. In this session, we will learn about and focus on what is arguably the original chant syllable, ॐ (Om). Come sing, move, learn. Experience a stillness and joy unique to singing with others.

No yoga experience necessary; ability to sing in tune helpful.

$30
20% discount for Members

Vaccination card (physical copy or photo) or negative Covid test within the last 72 hours required. As per Alameda County guidelines, masks are required for all unvaccinated students and optional for those vaccinated.

Partner Yoga with Pregnancy & Labor Comfort Measures (Online)

Led by Leonora Willis

Sunday, January 9 | 1:00 - 3:00 PST

This virtual workshop is for expectant people and a labor support partner. The class focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, internal breath awareness and attuning to another's breath movement, visualization and meditation with affirmations and some partner yoga poses. Some poses and techniques learned will help alleviate pregnancy discomforts and can also be used during labor as comfort measures. Support partners will also learn easy massage techniques that will support relaxation during pregnancy and labor.

**Helpful tools to have on hand for the workshop are a couple of yoga mats and/or a soft cushiony surface for the two of you to work on on the floor, a bolster or sturdy cushions of varying sizes, at least a couple of Yoga blocks, a birth ball, 2 tennis balls, a rebozo or long scarf, essential oils and massage oil.**

Cost: $75/couple
20% off for those with a Prenatal Membership

Interested in attending but won’t be able to make it? Workshop recording will be available for 48hrs after workshop takes place for all registered students.

The last day to withdraw from Partner Prenatal is 48hrs prior to the date of the workshop. Partial refund is available for cancellations up to 24hrs prior to the start time, and no refunds for no shows.

Prenatal Community Gathering
Led by Leonora Willis + Hanna Malm

Wednesday, October 20 | 5:30 - 6:30 PST

In this event we will gather in community to build more resiliency, share knowledge and resources to support pregnancy, labor, birth and parenting empowerment. Join with other pregnant folks to listen, share and talk about all things related to your journey in pregnancy.

Facilitating is Leonora Willis and Hanna Malm, professional doulas and two of your friendly prenatal Yoga teachers at Barefoot Movement.

Donations welcome on a sliding scale of $5-$25 but no one is turned away for lack of funds.

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I’ll be leading the Barefoot Movement] Partner Prenatal Yoga Workshop this month! Limited space available, so sign up soon! I plan on leaning into teaching comfort measures for labor, like the counter pressure sacrum massage/press you see imaged here. To help train up your partner, get there there! Register Barefoot Movement]
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Saturday, October 9
4:00 – 6:00 PST
Led by: Leonora Willis

No experience necessary.

Partner Prenatal Yoga is a practice for expectant people and a partner. The class focuses on side-by-side yoga poses and partner yoga poses. The poses help alleviate pregnancy discomforts and some poses can also be used during labor. This practice explores breath awareness, meditation, and comfort measures for labor. Your partner will also learn easy massage technique that will support relaxation during pregnancy and labor.

Cost: $75/couple
20% off for those with a Prenatal Membership

Interested in attending but won’t be able to make it? Workshop recording will be available for 7 days after workshop takes place for all registered students.

Singing Lessons for Yoga Practitioners: 2-Part Series
Led by Tako Oda

Sundays | October 10 (virtual) + November 14 (in studio)
11:00 - 12:30 PST

Improve your vocal technique applying skills from yoga! Take one or both of these 90min workshops - While each session will have its unique focus, both will include practical exercises as well as theory. Tako Oda earned his MFA researching the acoustic properties of the human larynx.

Workshop I - Breathe (Online)
Vocalizing is closely related to yogic breathing and has similar beneficial effects to the nervous system. Diaphragmatic control is essential to healthy singing and expressivity.

Workshop II - Pitch Perfect (In Studio)
Chanting is often part of the yoga practice. Understand the science of why singing in tune is both soothing & healing. Learn to tap into your innate ability to align your sung frequencies much as you might your joints in a pose.

Interested in attending but won’t be able to make it? Workshop recording will be available for 7 days after workshop takes place for all registered students.

Cost
$60 for both dates
20% discount for Members

The last day to withdraw from Singing Lessons for Yoga Practitioners is 2 weeks prior to the date of the workshop. Full refund is available up to that date, no refunds after that date.