MotherLove Yoga

Spring 🌴 Summer DROP-INS are LIVE! 🎉

Prenatal Yoga & Mama and Baby Postpartum Classes and multi-week sessions are available for sign up at Motherloveyoga.com

We typically don’t offer drop-ins so if you’ve been wanting to try one of our classes but not quite ready to commit to 4+ weeks, this is for YOU ✨

Spring in Petaluma!! So much beauty this time of year 🌺🌷🌻

Happy Sourdough Sunday ☺️✨🍞

Yoga Therapy 101: K O S H A S

As yoga therapists, we use koshas as a map to understand the —whole person—and to identify where someone’s imbalance might be coming from.

Koshas are layers of a person ranging from the physical body to the deepest sense of self.

Here’s how each layer works in practice 👇

1. Physical Layer (Annamaya Kosha)

This is the physical body. Think, muscles, joints, mobility, breath mechanics, etc. As a yoga therapist I might look at posture, mobility, strength, breathing patterns, tension, weakness or pain and choose practices to help.

2. Energy/Breath Layer (Pranamaya Kosha)

This layer is all about the breath and flow of energy. We use breathwork for so many things but some of the most important would be to calm anxiety, boost energy, regulate the nervous system, release tension and to prepare the body for and rest.

3. Mind/Emotion Layer (Manomaya Kosha)

This is the layer of everyday thoughts and emotions. We might work with grounding practices, meditation, yoga nidra, relaxation and simple mindfulness exercises.

4. Wisdom/Insight Layer (Vijnanamaya Kosha)

This is intuition, clarity, and Higher Self. We support people in noticing what feelings come up in their body, words are not necessarily needed. We ask people to reflect on what feels good and what doesn’t in their body and in their life. Body awareness, deep inner listening and mindfulness are practiced here.

5. Joy/Spirit Layer (Anandamaya Kosha)

This is true calm, contentment and connection. It shows up when someone feels regulated in their nervous system, grounded, supported, and whole. Practices here are typically quiet: meditation, restorative work, or anything that helps someone connect with love, their personal truth and higher power.

PRENATAL MONDAY MOMMAS REJOICE 🎉

We have a few drop-in Monday Prenatal Yoga classes coming up very soon—

MAY 18th
JUNE 1st
JUNE 8th

Mondays
6:15PM-7:30PM

Lots of new sessions up on the site as well :)

Sign up at
Motherloveyoga.com
(Link in bio)

PETALUMA FRIENDS

We are thrilled to be hosting this lovely event on
Thursday, May 7th with Dr. Anietie (Tia) Ukpe-Wallace!

Are you interested in coming?
Link in my bio to RSVP!

About the Book and the Author—

From her work as a physical therapist specializing in pelvic health as well as her own lived experience with pregnancy loss and secondary infertility, Dr. “Tia” Anietie Ukpe-Wallace understands intimately the dysfunction that arises when we’re disconnected from our wombs. And so Tia empowers women to get personal with their anatomy, learn what’s “normal” for them, and to trust their body’s signals so they can move forward with clarity, agency, and care, and become confident self-advocates in a challenging and impersonal medical system. With a frank, compassionate overview of the female reproductive system and the ways in which fertility and pregnancies can go awry, she offers advice about how to tend to your womb and all its connected systems to support the best outcomes possible.

"This is not another book telling you what to do with your body; it is an invitation to listen, to tend, and to reclaim your womb as a source of wisdom, resilience, and healing" --Pregnancy Magazine

A heart-centered, science-based guide for women navigating fertility, pregnancy, loss, and what might come between and after.