Twenty-six of the many reasons I love teaching yoga in no particular order:

1.  Meeting lots of cool people from all walks of life.

2.  Making a difference, if only a wee bit, in the lives of new moms.

Hillary Easom and me...When we're not looking goofy at Giants games, we're looking goofy teaching yoga. (Check out her classes at Blossom and Samyama.)

3.  Hanging out with that gal on the left.  Best teacher training partner evah!

4.  Supporting women as they become mothers.

5.  Moving my…

When a mom comes to my class in the postpartum period, I always ask if she has a diastasis recti (DR). "A what?!" is the most common response. What the heck is "diastasis recti"? If you have never been pregnant, chances are you've never heard this term. Let's be honest- even if you have been pregnant, you may not know what this means! According to biomechanist, Katy Bowman, a DR is "an unnatural distance between the right and left halves (of the rectus abdominis), meaning that one (or both) of the halves has pulled away from the midline of the body." We often hear an explanation of a "split between" or "separation of" the ab muscles, but given that the rectus abdominis is…

Recently during the conversation portion of my Prenatal Yoga class, it occurred to me that the anticipation of teaching my daughter to drive was kind of like the anticipation of labor. Lots of people tell you it's awful. They say, "Just get the epidural!" Every TV drama rushes mom to the OR and every comedy has mom yelling at her partner, "YOU did this to me!!!!" Of course expectant mamas are terrified!

Also on January 13, the second annual Lotus Blossom Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training started. (What a busy day filled with new beginnings!) Training new teachers is a lot of fun and I am really enjoying the time spent getting to know our new trainees! I think I learn as much from them as they do from my co-lead trainer, Hillary Easom and me. You may meet some of our trainees as…