This course has been 10 years in the making.

I was hiking into the Desolation Wilderness, pack on my back, Lake Tahoe just coming into view. I had recently finished a Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training in San Francisco and was thinking about how little support there really was for pregnant folks navigating a changing body.

I was mulling over how ideas from that training connected with what I already knew from years of studying the Alexander Technique — a somatic practice that explores posture, ease, and nervous system safety. It's also a practice folks with low back pain come to when they've exhausted other options. I remember thinking: Why aren’t we talking about these things in pregnancy? That would help! But also: Maybe I should wait until I’m pregnant...

Five years passed. In that time, my yoga teaching was thriving. My classes were full, I was leading retreats in far-off places, and working privately with people who win music awards. A Korean princess once called me a national treasure.

Then came the pandemic. Everything fell apart. And I got pregnant.

That old question — about how best to support pregnant folks, particularly with low back pain — came rushing back. 

I created a series of prenatal yoga classes, but it didn’t get at it. I couldn’t yet wrap my mind around how to translate what my body already knew. It wasn’t until my second pregnancy that it began to come into focus.

Around that time, I started noticing more yoga teachers talking about “somatics,” and physical therapists talking about “movement retraining” — which was beginning to get closer to it. But no one was bringing these things together and no one seemed to be speaking directly to the deep, persistent low back pain that so many pregnant folks experience.

So I decided: if no one else was going to help, I would.

The missing piece came when I began to link deep core support with deep ease — the kind cultivated through the Alexander Technique — and to weave both into a short, repeatable, yoga-inspired routine. That progression became the heart of this course.

I’ve spent my adult life learning how to listen to the body — in myself, in my students, and now through the shifting terrain of pregnancy and postpartum. And I’ve distilled the essential parts of that into this course.