Katie Wise: Owner, Yoga Teacher, Childbirth Educator, Birth Advocate. Katie's full bio can be found by clicking HERE.
Kelly Roche: In Kelly's prenatal classes, a nurturing, sacred space is created for mama’s-to-be to come and learn breathing, meditation and movement exercises specific to pregnancy and birthing.We focus on cultivating inner body & breath awareness, core and pelvic floor strengthening, physical & mental endurance, as well as relaxation techniques. This class is a place to discover how to best work with the inevitable changes each day brings, and to connect with other women, your Self, and your beautiful growing baby.
Amy DelaTerre: Amy DelaTerre is a Kripalu-certified yoga instructor, specializing in yoga for parents and their babies and children. A long-time preschool teacher, Amy designed her first children’s yoga program in 2002. Amy wrote a book entitled “Education for Wholeness: Exploring Yoga with Children.” After experiencing first-hand the benefits of a pre-natal and postpartum yoga practice, Amy began sharing yoga with pregnant women and with new mothers and their babies. Amy is passionate about honoring and strengthening the deep, heart-centered connection that exists between children and their parents. In her teaching she strives to nurture that bond, and also to encourage and support the sense of wonder, connection and respect for the Earth and all beings that is inherent in every child, regardless of their age.
Nancy Candea is a Certified Yoga Therapist, an experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, the director of Boundless Yoga Center LLC, a Yoga Alliance registered 200hr yoga teacher training school, and the mother of two young adults. Her personal approach to yoga is the product of twenty-two years of her own practice (nineteen of them in Hawaii), and fourteen years of teaching. It's been her great privilege to be taught – and inspired by - fabulous senior level teachers in the Ashtanga, Anusara, Iyengar and Structural Integration styles of yoga. Her classes, enriched by her warm sense of humor, embrace the flow yoga approach, which develops a strong core stability and alignment base. They are designed to be challenging for all levels of experience. Classes consist of dynamic yoga poses for strength, flexibility, balance, breath work and deep relaxation. Hands-on adjustments, understanding of our subtle energy core and vitality, and how the work of our yoga practice translates to our lives are all included in her energizing flow yoga classes. Nancy is also the director of Satellite Yoga,a non-profit company that trains yoga teachers to work in underserved populations, and she is certified as a personal trainer. nancycandea.com
Laura Kupperman: Certified yoga therapist, certified yoga teacher, Yoga for Fertility and other classes. Laura is delighted to be part of the Yo Mama team and offer the first Yoga for Fertility class in Boulder! Laura has completed many teacher trainings, including a 1000 hour advanced certification in Yoga Therapy. She has been practicing yoga since 1995 and teaching since 2002. In addition to teaching classes Laura enjoys working privately with people who have injuries, illness, or disease, including special needs children. Her style is compassionate, encouraging, and attentive. She thanks all of her teachers and all of her students, from whom she learns more every day. Laura is honored to share the healing path of yoga with others! Since 1999 Laura has also been coaching people who are going through life and career transitions. www.laurakupperman.com
Caroline McCauley is a long time student of yoga, nutrition, and anything related to childbirth and pregnancy. She is a certified yoga instructor from Naropa University, with additional study in prenatal yoga. Caroline works as a labor and postpartum doula in the Boulder/ Denver area and is currently attending Birthwise Midwifery School to become a certified professional midwife. For Caroline, prenatal yoga is an opportunity for woman to check in, to take a moment, to invite and connect to the ever fluctuating experience of mind, body, and emotion of pregnancy. Caroline offers woman the space to explore their pregnancy through movement, breath awareness, visualization, and mediation in hopes of providing tools to cope with the sometimes difficult, yet transformative arisings that occur during this journey to motherhood. As, a lover of yoga and and supporter of the natural process of pregnancy and childbirth, Caroline hopes to be a wellspring of practical knowledge, as well as an inspirational guide to the deeply profound, personal birth experience available to every woman.
Brittney Wilburn, Childbirth Education Teacher: Brittney returned home to Colorado in the summer of '06 from Maine where she lived and worked after attending Bates College. She lives in Boulder with her husband, new son and golden retriever. Brittney is passionate about birth and supporting women and their partners without judgment and with unconditional support. With a Birthing From Within background, she encourages introspection, exploration and mindfulness to help you learn about birth and prepare for parenthood. She believes that there are many different paths to parenthood and together we will explore them. She’s excited to be teaching childbirth classes at Yo Mama Yoga.
Darcy Kamin, RN Certified Lactation Consultant, Yo Mama's Milk Club: Darcy Kamin, RN, is a Maternal Child Health Nurse, Certified Lactation Consultant, Parent Educator, and the TARA Approach Family Clinic Outreach Coordinator who has worked with children and their families for over 25 years. She has served in a variety of settings including: Hospital Family Birthing Units, Well Baby and NICU, and has taught Childbirth, Breastfeeding, Newborn Care, Parenting, Infant Massage, Adoption Prep and CPR classes. Darcy is NCAST, PIPE and NP trained, and has received specialized education in nursing support for Parenting the Premature. She has an Advanced Certificate for the Practice of Jin Shin TARA. She is currently in private practice, serving families in and around Boulder. Visit darcy's website for more information on how to get in touch!
Erin Phillip's journey through yoga has been exactly what all her teachers said it would be and an experience that she never thought it could be. She stepped into yoga as a way to try and relieve stress and heal the tension in her neck and shoulders, but from there discovered a whole new world that she had been craving. After a traumatic shift in her life in 2002, what was a physical healing then turned into an emotional and finally spiritual healing and exploration that has opened up infinite possibilities for how to live her life.
Erin went through a major life transformation when her brother passed away and her immediate family was turned upside down and inside out. She suddenly found herself asking: what kind of life did she really believe in living and what kind of people did she want to surround herself with? After losing almost everything she loved, she began to make different life choices and surround herself with authentic individuals who were also on a life path of finding happiness through introspection. Those people and choices have led her down the delightful, winding road of yoga and teaching.
Now, after 11 years of practicing many styles of yoga and teaching vinyasa yoga, she is on the profound path toward Anusara Yoga certification. Erin says, “It’s hard to believe that my life is in a place of actualizing my dreams through teaching and yoga. I believe that through asana, breath and meditation, it is possible to transform your life into the way your heart longs for it to be. It is incredible to witness aligning your mind, breath and body to align your life. Suddenly you find that all the evils of the world start to dissolve into stepping stones towards bathing in wonderment at the divine process of your life.”
Now Erin lives in South Boulder with her husband and son. She has since expanded her Anusara teaching into Prenatal and is so relieved to be involved in the Yo Mama yoga community that understands what it is to be a parent and a yogini!
Deborah McNamara is a mother and certified yoga teacher who has been on the path of spiritual unfolding for many years, having delved into the mystical Christian, Buddhist and Hindu traditions through both academic study as well as time practicing in monasteries and retreat centers in the US, Europe and India. Deborah has been a long time student of Sofia Diaz, a widely recognized yoga teacher influenced by South Indian sacred temple dance, a tradition deeply honoring the profound heart strength of the feminine form. She received her Yoga Teacher Training certification from the Shambhava School of Classical Hatha Yoga in Colorado in 2004. Deb's classes are nourishing and contemplative, offering space to deepen in your journey of embodying what you most love - and a sacred space to attend to your precious human body. She also works for the Northwest Earth Institute (www.nwei.org), an Oregon based ecological non-profit promoting voluntary simplicity and sustainable lifestyle.
Janel Ferrin, Yoga Teacher and Childbirth Educator. Janel began teaching yoga on the shores of the Middle Fork of The Salmon in Idaho in 2001. She recieved her yoga teaching certificate here in Colorado. She furthered her training at the Yoga Institute for Yoga and Ayurveda and recieved a certificate in Yoga Therapy. As a yoga therapist Janel works with people to find balance in their lives to prevent/cure illness and disease and to optimize health. She uses specific breathing, meditation, yoga postures, herbs, and food to accomplish this as a therapist.
Janel is also a Childbirth Educator and is a doula with the Boulder Doula Circle. She adores helping women while they flow into motherhood healthfully, lovingly, and empowered. Janel encourages yoga students to be playful and inquisitive in class.
Yoga provides a wonderful opportunity to discover how capable we are to grow babies and take care of them. As a mother of two she values community support and is delighted to help families find support in their own community here in Boulder.
Mira Gale dove heartfirst into the yoga tradition 17 years ago when she became a full time resident of Shoshoni Yoga Retreat. Thirsty for spiritual growth and understanding, she spent many blissfully long days engaged in seva (selfless service) and the focused practice of hatha yoga, pranayama, and meditation. Slowly the apple ripened, as she continued imbibing the wisdom of yogic and Vedic philosophy, and gaining practical knowledge about Ayurvedic cooking and bodywork. Shortly into her ten year stay there, she completed Shoshoni's Shambhava School of Yoga teacher training certification, teaching yoga and meditation to staff and retreat guests, and eventually went on to assist with yoga teacher trainings and become staff manager. Shambhava Yoga is a heart-centered and joyful approach to hatha yoga which draws on the rich philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism and the grace of a living Siddha lineage. Mira enjoys teaching many types of yoga including foundation, flow, and prenatal. Mira feels especially privileged to work with expectant and new mothers, and serves as a postpartum doula in the Boulder community. A founding member of Shiva's Garden, she has been a kirtan leader in the Boulder community for many years. She maintains a private integrative bodywork practice "Quiet Touch Massage" in Boulder and Lafayette. Mira may be reached through her website: www.everyonedeservesmassage.com
Helene Rose - Helene's intuitive hands on healing sessions bring well being, peace, clarity and health to the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. Initiated as a Reiki energy healer, Helene works to clear the blocks that prevent you from living in your fullest potential. Reiki sessions are helpful for parents before conceiving as well as during pregnancy to create a pleasant, peaceful, and pain free experience. As a birth doula and educator, Helene offers a deep respect and understanding for the natural birth process and a woman’s ability to empower herself in the birthing of her baby by tapping into her own inner resources and inner wisdom. She help parents understand the natural birth design and teach them how to work with the body, the mind, & Spirit during labor to benefit from the natural changes that occur. As a birth doula, Helene offers healing energy as needed and holds the space for parents to tune into the sacredness of natural instinctive birthing. As a result of working with families, Helene has been led by inner wisdom to create meditation classes for mamas, papas, and babies - space to nurture the connection to their own inner wisdom & guidance as well as assist in nurturing the connection to your baby in spirit, womb, & life. Participants are brought into a deep state of relaxation and awareness creating a sacred space around their pregnancy and growing baby. Visit Helene’s website at www.towardthelight.biz.
“Perfectly and ever so softly snuggled in your womb
just as you were some years ago
feeling the warmth and love that embodied your mother ~
Your child prepares.
You wonder about your abilities &
become challenged by certain elements that surround you.
Be True to Yourself
Educate and Empower Yourself
Love and Heal Yourself
Prepare.
Mother & Child
heading toward the Light.
This is my prayer for you.”