“Kari’s prenatal yoga class is 10,000 times better than anything else I did during my pregnancy. It’s really the best thing that happened to me during my pregnancy journey." 

– Wen G

PRENATAL
YOGA 

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POSTNATAL &
BABY YOGA

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PRENATAL YOGA

 
 

Join me For Prenatal Yoga
TWO SUNDAYS PER MONTH
(Upcoming: 5/5, 5/19, 5/26, 6/9, 6/30)
at 10:30am
at JCCSF

Class is free for members, $50 for non-members, or $35 when accompanied by a member. Includes full fitness center access including pool. Register at front desk. Drop-in only.

Book a Private Session or subscribe below to stay up to date on my offerings.

Through practicing yoga during both of my pregnancies, and working with thousands of pregnant women over the past 20+ years, I have witnessed and experienced the tremendous contribution that yoga can make for a healthy, enjoyable pregnancy and a conscious and positive birth and parenthood experience.  

Pregnant people in our culture tend to have very limited birth preparation, often just a one-day intensive course on birth preparation and perhaps a half day course on newborn parenting and breastfeeding. Most are in their third trimester by the time they take these classes, and have missed the opportunity to learn valuable tools earlier that could greatly enhance and empower their experience of pregnancy and birth. Prenatal and postnatal yoga can provide these tools and education about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care throughout the childbearing year.

Along with poses to safely open, strengthen, stretch and relax the body and the mind, prenatal yoga practice includes special meditations, breath practices, visualizations, affirmations, and pain management techniques. The practice builds focus and resilience, and enables women and pregnant folks to feel a greater sense of strength, vitality, grace, calm, confidence, and playfulness.

Class discussion may also include recommendations of excellent prenatal, birth prep, and baby care resources, and discussion around topics such as doulas, the mind in labor, managing stress, and birth choices. Many find the camaraderie with other pregnant people to be a deeply nourishing highlight.

Yoga practice during pregnancy can prepare you in labor to be able to breathe down to your baby, to focus, visualize and vocalize through contractions, and to trust in your body's knowing. It helps you better understand how to move, stretch and rest your body in alignment with gravity to work with labor and help baby move down. Yoga can help you to come back to your center over and over, stay connected with your baby, and tap into and trust the power of birth. Yoga training can also help you meet the moment with more presence and less fear when labor is challenging and takes unexpected turns.

 
 

  • I count my prenatal yoga classes with Kari as one of my life’s great blessings!” — Kelly R.

  • “Kari’s classes were central to my pregnancy. Even years later, I remember how much I looked forward to them and how they gave me such a sense of preparedness, body awareness, calm, and community.” — Megan D.

  • "Kari has the most calming, confident energy -- she is so knowledgeable and insightful. She has definitely found her gift and calling working with pre- and post-natal women!” — Jody L.

  • "Kari is an amazing prenatal yoga teacher and a person overall. She is very professional, kind, intuitive and gentle. I love her energy and calm. I took Kari's prenatal yoga class many years ago which was the best thing I could have done. Two beautiful childbirth experiences later, I am forever grateful to have found Kari. Her classes inspired me to take the path of empowered pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. I loved how she would do a circle at the end of each prenatal yoga class where women would share plans for their childbirth. That experience forever changed me! I am happy to see she still offers prenatal classes and highly recommend her work." — Marija

  • “Kari is the absolute goddess of all things involving pregnancy and babies! When I was pregnant with my twins I went to her yoga class every week up until the day before I delivered.” — Alison L.

  • "Best prenatal yoga classes in the Bay Area. The helped me feel grounded, energized and connected to my baby." — MM

  • "Kari made my pregnancy 1,000 times better than I had ever hoped it could be. I did not particularly love being pregnant, and missed being my normal active self--after a mid-pregnancy complication, I had to stop my favorite hobbies, like running and 90 min vinyasa yoga classes. It's thanks to Kari that I was able to adjust to a "new normal" of being pregnant… " — Rose G.

  • “Kari is a great guide and resource for pregnant mamas. Her prenatal yoga classes create a warm and accepting community and her preparation for childbirth classes are very informative. Kari takes an active interest in informing new moms about the pregnancy and childbirth process and hers is a calming voice that is very welcome in what can be a confusing and…” — A. P.

  • "I love Kari. Her prenatal yoga class was my first ever yoga class and she crafted an environment truly conducive to learning and bonding with baby. I doubt I would have stayed with yoga, I went into it thinking it was kind of hippie-dippie, but Kari's classes were so wonderful I kept coming back. Towards the end of pregnancy, I was doing yoga 2-3 times a week." — Lizzie H.

  • "Kari has been both an inspiring and a steadying presence in my life. I am so grateful to have connected with her during my first pregnancy, and to have stayed connected since then. I hope to be lucky enough to keep learning from Kari for years to come.” — Laura B

  • "I cannot speak highly enough of Kari. Intuitive, gentle, wise, strong, empowering. Meets you where you are. I have mainly done postnatal yoga with Kari, and have greatly benefitted from her presence, teaching, thoughtful instructions and modifications, attention to detail and energies, listening to preferences, and validation of experiences. I have not (yet!) treated myself to a Kari massage, but have heard from a dear friend who is a massage therapist herself that Kari gave her the best massage she's ever had. I am not surprised. Whatever your need or interest, go see Kari; your body and whole life will benefit from her work." — Katie

  • "I have enjoyed participating in Kari’s prenatal and postnatal yoga classes, which are truly exceptional. They have been a tremendous source of community and encouragement. She incorporates “baby yoga” in the postpartum yoga class, which has been an absolute delight for my baby (and inquisitive toddler). Her graceful and compassionate approach to teaching baby yoga has changed how I interact with my kids and encouraged me to incorporate them in my home yoga practice." - Rachel R.

POSTNATAL & BABY YOGA

 
 

Join me For Baby & Me Yoga
Wednesdays at 10am
(6 Week Series Options :
2/28 - 4/3 and 4/17 - 5/22)
at JCCSF

Pre-register online. $180 for series.
Limited single class drop-ins available for $30.

Book a Private Session or subscribe below to stay up to date on my offerings.

​Postnatal & Baby Yoga classes are focused on breath practices and yoga poses to help you feel restored, energized, relieved, connected, strong, seen, loved, open and ready for the joys and challenges of the day.

We always include core and pelvic floor work and also practice about 10 minutes of sweet developmental yoga movements for baby, accompanied by songs and rhymes. Babies 6 weeks to pre-crawling are welcome in group classes.

I also offer private postnatal yoga sessions, baby yoga and baby massage workshops, and training modules in prenatal, postnatal, and baby yoga for yoga teacher training programs. Please contact me for further information. 

For additional time and neighborhood options for prenatal and postnatal yoga classes around San Francisco, please see www.sanfranciscoprenatalyoga.com.

Listen to Kari’s Feature on “The Power of Touch in Supporting Infant Development”
in The Fourth Trimester Podcast with Sarah Trott.

 

 
 

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  • "Kari is an amazing prenatal yoga teacher and a person overall. She is very professional, kind, intuitive and gentle. I love her energy and calm. I took Kari's prenatal yoga class many years ago which was the best thing I could have done. Two beautiful childbirth experiences later, I am forever grateful to have found Kari. Her classes inspired me to take the path of empowered pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. I loved how she would do a circle at the end of each prenatal yoga class where women would share plans for their childbirth. That experience forever changed me! I am happy to see she still offers prenatal classes and highly recommend her work." - Marija

  • “I just want to thank you for all the wonderful practices you offered before my second birth and in the long postpartum phase. I benefited immensely from your wisdom and from spending that time with you. Thanks for always being flexible with whatever was going on with my babies.” — Robyn

  • “The wonderful practices Kari shared with me over the past few months during my postpartum journey have been both mentally and physically nourishing to me. It brings me so much joy to see my baby smile and relax when we do yoga or massage together. Thank you for sharing these gifts with us!” — Hannah L

  • “Kari has wisdom, ability and passion for sharing yoga. She empowers mothers to listen to their inner guidance and to their babies and to grow. She offers beautiful nuggets of breathwork and yoga teachings that helped me cope with this amazing time of having two babies” — Katie R.

  • “ Our son's birth turned out to be quite an event because he descended in the posterior position, he was large, and labor was long. Kari and Craig’s support, advice, and knowledge during my pregnancy helped us to have a natural birth.” — Anna H.

  • “ Kari is a true gift to all pregnant mamas and will always hold cherished memories for me when thinking of both of my pregnancies.” — Robyn W.

  • “Thank you for bringing so much beauty, meaning and serenity to my pregnancies.” - Erica L.

  • “Thank you for providing so much comfort, strength, and advice through your class. I look forward to that class every week and my body always feels so relaxed after I leave. It's incredible. You are very inspirational!” - Jessica K.

  • “Just being in a room full of pregnant women is enough to help me wrap my head around and embrace my own experience. While I love my regular Iyengar yoga practice, it’s challenging to be singled out much of the time based on what I cannot do or specific modifications that are geared toward me. It’s really special to be in a class specifically geared to what we all can do, especially at this stage in the transformation to mamahood.” - Julie R.

  • “Kari’s classes were central to my pregnancy. Even years later, I remember how much I looked forward to them and how they gave me such a sense of preparedness, body awareness, calm, and community.” - Megan D.

  • “Kari says the most calming and truthful and empowering things that are so valuable to me and I'm sure, the entire class.” - Valerie C.

  • “Kari has been the biggest support of all in my process of pregnancy and new motherhood. I don't know what I would have done without her! The world is a far better place because of her.” - Kelly M.

  • "Kari has been both an inspiring and a steadying presence in my life. I am so grateful to have connected with her during my first pregnancy, and to have stayed connected since then. I hope to be lucky enough to keep learning from Kari for years to come.” —Laura B