Daughter of Samoa

Hey all, w/babies tomorrow 10:30-11:45 am followed by class 12:15-1:15 pm each and every Monday and Friday. Also, heads up that I’ll be teaching a free two hour yoga class Tuesday Oct 8, 10am - 12 pm. Registration links in my story or my website. Happy fall all! Please share and get the word out about my yoga classes and workshops if you’ve ever benefitted from them, the movement, the healing, the time spent with yourself and your body, your breath, your baby, the community, the support and let others know, tag them, dm them.

My beautiful, sweet, kindhearted niece, the first grandchild of my mother, Ilove’a Tamaseu Willis was married this past Saturday and I couldn’t be more proud of her. Her and her husband, Dante, chose to hold their wedding at my sister’s house, a sweet, special, intimate backyard wedding. We love you Nini. Grandma would be so proud and so happy to see you so happy. I love you! 😘❤️💕 Congratulations, bby!

Prenatal yoga classes help you feel embodied for this pregnancy experience while also readying you for the rite of passage of labor and parenthood. Learning about your body through movement, breath, visualization, meditation… all of which you can harness during labor… it’s all opportunity to meet yourself, know yourself before meeting and knowing your child.

Prenatal classes every: Monday 12:15-1:15 pm, Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm Friday 12:15-1:15, Sunday 10:30-11:45 am.

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SisterWeb San Francisco Community Doula Network is turning 5!💐 We’re pleased to invite you to “Honoring Roots, Flourishing Futures: SisterWeb’s 5th Year Birthday Party & Fundraiser” on Saturday, August 24th from 12PM-3PM at the SisterWeb Cottage.

Register today with the link in our bio!⬆️

As we reach our 5th year of supporting Black birthing families and creating a professional home for Black doulas in San Francisco, we are celebrating our community, raising funds to sustain our culturally congruent community doula model of care, and fostering a world where ALL BLACK birthing people experience safe, respectful and joyous births. After a complex year of loss, change, and opportunities, we’re celebrating a new era of rehabilitation, fortification, and deep focus on our core values.🌻

We will have a DJ, food, beverages, a bouquet-making station, a photo booth, face painting, entertainment for children, a community mural, and so much more. We will also hear from SisterWeb’s Co-Executive Directors, honor our Co-Founder, and introduce our new SisterWeb Advisory Committee members. We hope to see you there!💙

We love providing high-quality, culturally congruent community doula care to Black individuals and families in San Francisco at no cost. Your ticket purchase is a form of mutual aid, a way to give back to our organization through mutual support. Please select the option that feels most accessible for you at this time. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.🌟

Postpartum yoga Monday, Tuesday and Friday this week! Come and love up on yourself with your baby there, seeing how you care for yourself - with some movement - core work and working out the kinks from repetitive movements that I know you all are doing. Class Monday at 10:30am, Tuesday 3:30 and Friday at 10:30. See you there! Links in story. Baby wranglers and holders in each class to help out.

Tuesday July 9th, 10am - 12pm I’m teaching an online zoom Baby and Me class sponsored by
This class is free and occurs monthly for all you parents and caregivers out there with little ones. The class is designed to assist new parents with recovery after birth, provide a supportive community-centered environment and and create an awareness and opportunity for self care. With your babies present, focus on easing bodily tensions, restoring balance and helpful alignment throughout the body, creating energy for you tired parents out there and for strengthening the core. Class only runs if we have 3 students minimum, so please, if you think you can make it, sign up and register now and I’ll see you there! link in stores and on my website.

This month’s workshop with and is Sunday, June 16, 1-3pm. Sign up today by visiting my website or your Momence account to reserve your spot.

This workshop is for pregnant 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, suggestions and aids for visualization and meditation with affirmations and some partner yoga poses as warm-up.

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.  

Masks are optional.

Cost: $125/couple
15% 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.

Join AAPI Women Lead on Friday May 24th for an in-person community gathering in Oakland, CA for “Our Stories. Our Healing. Our Power.” This year, AAPIWL dedicates ANHPI Heritage Month to our communities’ longstanding stories and histories of resistance, power, and healing. This celebration will be a major stop on AAPIWL’s “Naming our Rage, Building Our Power” research tour with the LAUNCH of their research report, food, healing offerings, and more! Register at www.imreadymovement.org/anhpihm-2024.

Here’s a new postpartum support group resource for new mamas in Berkeley.

If you are a new mom or know a new mom, please forward this post to her.

This support group intention is to provide a welcoming and safe space to women who are going through the same experience so they can hear each other and share their challenges and learning experiences. It is also a place for self care, growth, and community building.

Excited to build this new community of conscious mamas!

Link to sign up in story.

The cost is for the 4 sessions per month.

Georgia Young

See all you pregnant folks for a class tomorrow, A*o sā (Sunday 10:30-11:45)

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Tālofa lava everyone🌺

Here are some greetings to share with your Mom or the Mom-like women in your life this Mother’s Day.

Ia Manuia le A*o Sā o Tinā

🌺Christina

FREE Baby and Me YOGA class on zoom tomorrow with me, Leonora as facilitator. sponsors these every month and tomorrow’s the day! Register asap (registration link in my story).

This class is designed to assist new parents with recovery after birth, provide a supportive community-centered environment, and an opportunity for some self care, at home over zoom. Modifications and suggestions for modifications will be offered wherever you are on your postpartum journey.

New postpartum class on the schedule! Every Tuesday 3:30-4:45 pm, starting May 7.
This is an all levels postpartum yoga class, to help all practitioners in their postpartum journey. These classes focus on the specific needs of postpartum for parents who lift, carry and feed their babies, those who often feel the pain of the repetitive and long-held positions. We focus on restoring alignment in the body, strengthening and toning while increasing flexibility of muscle and the mind. We sing and bounce babies and play and support one another in this community environment. Pre-crawling babies welcome.

I’m baaack!

Thank you to all my brilliant subs who kept classes going for me while I was in Samoa. Looking forward to seeing everyone in class!

Thursday (tonight!) 5:30-6:45 pm prenatal yoga
Friday: the postpartum class is full with a waitlist but there is one more spot available on Monday and all next week is open! Sign up! Get on the waitlist!
Friday prenatal yoga 12:15-1:15pm
Sunday prenatal yoga 10:30-11:45am

And more… 🧘🏾‍♀️🤰🏽 let’s get to class everyone and get moving!

Savai’i

Leah will be subbing the this week’s Tuesday and Thursday evening classes, 5:30-6:45.

Leah (she/her) has been practicing vinyasa yoga since 2001 and instructing since 2015. She initially took up yoga to supplement her training in ballet and modern dance. The attention to alignment, breath, and building strength and flexibility was great cross training and injury prevention. Over the years Leah has deepened her practice beyond just a physical expression - using yoga to work through life’s ups and downs, manage anxiety, and prepare for and rehabilitate from the birth of her three children. She has found a passion in teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga, which she began in 2015 while pregnant with her first kiddo. Leah loves nourishing bodies and spirits during and after pregnancy. She initially trained in yoga instruction with Barefoot Movement, has a personal training and nutrition certification with an emphasis in pre and post natal fitness, and has taken several courses specifically focused on pelvic floor health. Leah’s classes incorporate strength training, flexibility, relaxation to help nurture a person through the process of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum transition to parenthood.

Thank you Leah!

Do I need a doula if I’m having a c-section? Yes!
Can I get a doula if I’m having a hospital birth? Yes!
Will a doula take my husbands job? Nope!
Is a doula really worth it? Yes!

Let’s talk about the different types of doulas:

Birth Doulas- they are going to educate you prenatally on comfort measures, help you informed choices, support you during labor & provide comfort measures.

Postpartum Doulas: work with you during your postpartum period. They may focus on nutrition, some help with lactation, herbs or other postpartum needs. They also assist with light household chores.

Abortion doulas, death doulas, full spectrum doulas & more.

Some of my favorite ATL doulas:

Yael Martinez is teaching this evening’s 3/21 prenatal class 5:30-6:45pm, tomorrow’s Friday 3/22 postpartum 10:30-11:45 class (only one spot available now) followed by prenatal yoga 12:15-1:15. Lastly this week, she’s teaching Sunday 3/24 prenatal yoga 10:30-11:45.

We’re so fortunate to have such a skilled, experienced and knowledgeable Birthworker and yoga instructor for our perinatal community. Head to class to have the opportunity to learn from Yael. You really don’t want to miss out. Thank you
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Yael Martinez is a q***r Latine mother living in Oakland. Yael has 20 years of combined experience in social work, education, and perinatal health services. Over the past six years, she has been supporting families through intensive case management, education, advocacy, health promotion, lactation, and mental health services with the Starting Out Strong Perinatal Support Programs of Alameda County Public Health.



Yael has a Masters in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Mills College. Yael is certified as a Lactation Educator and Counselor from UC San Diego Extended Studies. She is also a certified Birth Doula through Doulas of North America (DONA), and a trained Childbirth Educator through The International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA). Yael is currently seeking to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and working towards a Perinatal Mental Health Certification with Postpartum Support International (PSI).

Yael has offered birth support, childbirth education, and lactation consultation to many diverse families in the Bay Area. She has assisted births at various hospitals, birth centers, and home births. She has also taught private and group classes on childbirth, infant care, lactation, pre and postpartum yoga.

Join us for baby and me yoga! FREE and on Zoom!

Tuesday March 12, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.
It’s a great way to release the stress that can come with parenting little ones.

Registration closes the day before the event, but if you want to join us the day before, contact Cathy at [email protected]

This class is designed to assist new parents with recovery after birth, provide a supportive community-centered environment, and an awareness of self-care. With their babies present, parents can focus on easing tensions, restoring alignment in the body, creating energy and re-strengthening the core. After a brief check-in, we’ll center, breathe, move and support one another. Modifications and suggestions for yoga props will be offered, and specific care needs during the postural movement portion of the class.

Partner prenatal yoga workshop for pregnancy and labor comfort measures coming up!

Sunday March 17, 1-3 pm. Link to register in my stories or head to my Momence booking or website. $125/birthteam duo

No experience necessary.

This workshop is for pregnant 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 as warm-up. 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.

We’ll also have a special guest photographer Rebecca Deutsch Caine taking photos of the class. 📸🤰🏽

Yin Yoga class tonight, 7-8:30 pm. Yin Yoga focuses on the deep tissues in the body, the ligaments, joints, bones, deep fascia - all within a meditative practice of long holds of the poses that are largely seated or lying. This style of practice offers you the opportunity to go deep, to quiet the chatter and clamor in your mind, to open energetic channels throughout the body following in its roots from TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) meridian pathways wisdom and the yogic system of the nadi energetic Chanel’s, namely the shushumna nadi along which the chakra reside. Taoist philosophy of opposing and complementary energies also informs this practice, and within a world of Yang energy run amuck, here in this practice, you can get clarity. Class meets weekly and is counter indicative for pregnant people. Sign up link is in my story or head to my website or Momence booking page.