Zendaze Yoga

Postpartum bounce back culture is one of

the most unhelpful things

ever sold to new moms.

Your postpartum body grew and birthed a human.

Your joints are still affected by relaxin.

Your postpartum core is rebuilding from the inside out.

Your nervous system has been running an

emergency broadcast for months.

There is no back to normal after having a

baby.

There’s only forward.

And postpartum recovery looks different for

every single body.

That’s the whole anti-bounce-back premise

of From Here,

my postnatal yoga guide built for where

your postpartum body actually is right now,

not where someone else thinks you should

be by now.

Go grab it

First link in my profile.

I’m going to keep saying this until it lands for

every postpartum mom who needs to hear

it. . The things that feel like personal failures

in postpartum are almost always

physiological realities.

Postpartum jaw clenching.

Tight hips after pregnancy.

Shoulders that won’t drop.

Full body flinch at every sound.

Can’t relax even when you finally get a

moment alone.
That is a postpartum nervous system that

got trained to stay on high alert and never

received consistent enough safety signals

to come back down.
That is not a character flaw.

That is postpartum nervous system

dysregulation doing its job in an

environment that never let up.

You are not broken.

You are under-supported.

And that is a fixable problem.

Grab The Soft Reset, first link in my profile

when you’re ready for actual postpartum

nervous system support.

Can we talk about how pelvic floor PT gets

reduced to “just do your Kegels” when there

is a whole world of holistic bodywork that looks at why your core feels disconnected,

why your hips are compensating, why your

posture shifted, and how all of it is

connected.

My pelvic floor therapist doesn’t just work

on one muscle in isolation.

She looks at the full picture.

How I’m moving,

where I’m bracing,

what my body learned to do during

pregnancy to cope and is still doing now

even though it doesn’t need to anymore.

That’s the piece nobody talks about.

Your body adapted.

Beautifully and intelligently.

And now some of those adaptations need to

be gently unwound.

That’s also exactly why the movement in

From Here is built the way it is.

Not isolated exercises.

Not generic stretching.

Whole body reconnection that works

alongside the kind of care you’re getting in

rooms like this one.

First link in my profile.

“Sleep when the baby sleeps” was written

by someone who has never tried to fall

asleep the second a newborn closes their

eyes only to have their brain immediately

start running through every worst case

scenario known to mankind.

Here’s what nobody talks about:

your nervous system is so dysregulated in

the newborn stage that even when you

HAVE the chance to sleep, your body

physically can’t do it. You’re wired. Flooded

with cortisol. Running on threat-detection

mode 24/7 because that’s what keeping a tiny human alive requires.

It’s not a willpower problem.

It’s not anxiety (well, not JUST anxiety).

It’s your nervous system doing exactly what

it was designed to do

and it needs more than a nap to come back down.

The good news is there are things you can

do in 5-10 minutes that actually help your

body remember it’s safe enough to rest.

No hour-long yoga class required.

No silence required.

Just some intentional movement and breath

that tells your system it can exhale.

If you’re in the newborn trenches right now

and running on empty, follow along.

This is the page nobody told you that you needed.

First link in my profile. 💛

Nobody prepares you for the part where you

love your baby more than anything and also

feel completely trapped in a body that

doesn’t feel like yours anymore.

The shoulders that won’t unknot.

The jaw you’ve been clenching since 2023.

The way a loud noise makes you want to crawl out of your skin.

That’s not you falling apart.

That’s a nervous system that never got the
memo that the emergency is over.

Most postpartum advice skips straight to “get back to exercise”

and completely ignores what’s happening underneath.

Which is honestly criminal.

You don’t need to push harder.

You need a reset.

The Soft Reset is the first link in my profile. 💛

No one tells you the disconnection you feel after childbirth isn’t a character flaw.

Losing your identity to motherhood happens

when your nervous system stays in survival mode after growing and birthing a human.

Survival mode doesn’t leave enough bandwidth to take care of yourself-

which is why pulling out your yoga mat feels like climbing mount everest in flip-flops.

The good news is, your body just needs you to meet her where she is right now

with gentle movement and discernment.

That’s why I built the Soft Reset.

So you can trade the overstimulation for presence no matter how crazy your life is rn.

Click the first button in my profile to get yours

we interrupt your regularly scheduled mommy yoga content for: bearded dragon vet visit

she’s been throwing up and I brought her on her little tie-dye blanket like the feral pet mom I truly am

nervous system regulation? not today. today we regulate for the reptile.

this is fine. we’re fine.

send her good vibes. her name is Lizzy Pumpkin and she deserves the world.

yoga will resume when my reptile child is thriving 🦎

You don’t need better sleep.

You need better recovery FROM the sleep you’re getting.

Co-sleeping isn’t ruining your body not moving after is.

Your side-lying position all night compresses one hip,

rounds your upper back,

and shortens the muscles on your nursing side.

Five minutes of targeted stretching after you escape the baby trap changes everything

hip opener,

thoracic rotation,

shoulder roll.

That’s it.

Saved me from the 9am hunchback walk every single day.

Save this post, share it with a co-sleeping mama who needs it

Then DM me SOFT to get my Soft Reset sent to you

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Hot take: the problem isn’t that you co-sleep.

It’s that you crawl out of bed like a crime scene survivor

and go straight into mom mode without resetting your body first.

Your side-lying position all night compresses one hip,

rounds your upper back,

and shortens the muscles on your nursing side.

Five minutes of targeted stretching after you escape the baby trap changes everything

hip opener,

thoracic rotation,

shoulder roll.

That’s it.

Saved me from the 9am hunchback walk every single day.

Save this post, share it with a co-sleeping mama who needs it,

and then DM SOFT for my Soft Reset guide

I wasn’t having panic attacks.

I wasn’t scared.

I was just… ragey.

Irritated.

Touched out.

Done.

My skin was crawling.

Everyone needed something.

And I felt like the worst mom alive for feeling that way.

That’s not a personality flaw.

That’s a nervous system that never got to come down.

Your body has been in survival mode since before your baby was born.

Comment SOFT and I’ll show you how to actually come down from it.