Movement for Mamas

Ease back into movement and rebuild your body after baby! Whether you are newly postpartum, 20+ years postpartum, or maybe recovering and cleared to begin movement after abdominal surgery. This class is for you! Prenatal mamas are always welcome as well! This series is progressive with modifications to meet your body that day. Each class offers a combination of movement, mobility, yoga, and gentle exercise.

Level 1 & Level 2 (*NEW)

Both Series offers a balanced practice designed specifically for your postnatal body; if you have a diastasis recti, weakened core, pelvic floor dysfunction or pelvic organ prolapse, back pain and /or hip pain.

• Rebuild strength and stability in your core

• Improve your breathing

• Learn how to connect to your pelvic floor and enhance your pelvic floor function

• Improve Posture

• Mobilize our spine and hips

• Promote Relaxation

• Enhance body awareness

Level 1

Ease back into movement, you will learn the foundations and develop making connections with your core and pelvic floor. In Level 1, you will reset your body and find length and relax muscles that are overworked and tight, and learn how to activate and strengthen muscles that don't often show up when we need them to.

It is important to start at the basics. It can feel slow especially if you are used to active movement. We start slow and purposeful. Our body is only as strong as its foundation.

Your body changed drastically during pregnancy and you grew a baby for 9 months!

It is important to reconnect and start from the ground up. Learning how breathing is connected to your core and pelvic floor. How your posture affects how you breath which then affects how your core and pelvic floor functions. Healing your body postpartum takes time and patience. But will have amazing benefits! When you learn to connect all the dots, you may even feel stronger postpartum than you did pre pregnancy.

Completing Level 1 prior to level 2 will be very beneficial.

Level 2

• You will continue to integrate and build on your core & pelvic floor muscle activation and mobility that you have gained during Level 1.

• You will continue to strengthen your body and posture.

• You will progress and load your body with resistance/weight and more complex movement.

• You will continue to make space in your body and find length/stretch and relaxation as well.

** Remember, a functional pelvic floor is one that can lengthen > contract >and lengthen again. It is equally important to make strides in our strength and our relaxation. A pelvic floor that only contracts will become overworked and tired, which can lead to leaking and incontinence, prolapse, back pain and hip pain. When you work at building a strong foundation and making those connections between breath core and pelvic floor, your body will be stronger and you will have less pelvic floor dysfunction, stronger core, less back and hip pain. You can begin to live your life again running around with your kids, getting back into being active!

Leaking and incontinence is NOT NORMAL. It is common after having babies, but it is not normal and it not a life sentence. Come join me and learn how you body can be stronger after babies!

Our next sessions are with Chantalle Cloutier on:

Level 1

April 23rd - May 21st

Level 2

March 19th - Apr 16th

May 28th - June 25th

Wednesdays 10:15AM - 11:15AM

All classes are baby/toddler friendly & Prenatal Mamas are always welcome!

• CLASS OPTIONS:

  5 Class Session $85+hst - (Includes 30 days access to Online baby & Me Yoga videos you can do from home!)

  Single Class Option $18+hst

All Classes can be attended via ZOOM if you are unable to make it in person.