Moments Together

I am a parenting coach supporting the mother-child relationship, a functional movement prenatal yoga teacher, and a parenthood educator offering parenthood prep for expectant couples.

I trained with Brea Johnson of Heart & Bones Yoga whose foundation of movement and yoga is based on biomechanics via Katy Bowman. Prior to this training, I soaked up heart-centered wisdom from Hannah Muse at Mount Madonna Institute's prenatal yoga school in the Santa Cruz Mountains.  I offer prenatal functional movement sessions for optimal pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Aside from my movement training, I have dived deep into postpartum care and parenthood preparation via Kerry Ingram's Community Supported Postpartum training and Elly Taylor's Becoming Us training specifically for expectant couples. The parenthood prep for expectant couples series I offer based on Elly Taylor's approach to the transition into parenthood is so important and special and one of my favorite offerings.

When I first opened my heart to this work, I completed a postpartum doula training via Cornerstone Doula Trainings and took a birth doula intensive with Janine Maitri from Sierra Childbirth Institute. Janine gave me the opportunity to see birth differently and we welcomed our second child into the world in our home. Beautiful. Life changing. Transformative!

To supplement my training, I completed Postpartum Support International's Perinatal Mental Health certification.  My background is in Behavioral Psychology, as I served as Board Certified Behavior Analyst for many years, serving families with children with special needs.  I continue to support families with young children via Behavior Support Coaching to provide strategies and tools to navigate behavioral challenges at home.  This certification in perinatal mental health allows me to support the mother as well as the mother in relationship with her child. I truly love this part of my work and bring a big dose of mindfulness and nervous system regulation into my practice as well to further support the family.

Aside from these special one-on-one offerings and workshops, I hold weekly community gatherings at The Meadow Connect in Placerville.