Tag Archives: Pregnant Women

Prenatal Yoga comes to Ishta Yoga Studio

Yesterday, Monday September 14th, prenatal classes began at Ishta Yoga Studio. Class runs from 12:30-1:45pm on Mondays and Thursdays. Ishta is located at 56 East 11th St…in the heart of coffee-shop-ville. I must say, there seem to be more college students than pregnant women floating around the immediate neighborhood. However, I know they are out [...]

Help for your belly-Julie Tupler comes to Brooklyn!

Today I attended a great workshop on the Tupler Technique here in Brooklyn. Lululemon’s Brooklyn Showroom had Julie Tupler, creator of the Tupler Technique, come and speak about her program, and check out all of our diastases. If you don’t know what diastases is…keep reading–this is super important for pregnant women as well as postpartum [...]

Birth as a Rite of Passage?

What a concept. I am reading Robbie E. Davis-Floyd’s book, “Birth as an American Rite of Passage”. It is really fascinating. She is a social anthropologist, or at least this book is about social anthropology. Not exactly light reading, and not really one that I would recommend to all pregnant women, but many of the [...]

Natural Birth V.S. The Epidural (Part 2)- The Hormonal Blueprint of Labor

Think twice about getting that epidural…it interrupts the body’s own natural cycle of pain relief. Discusses the “Hormonal Blueprint of Labor”

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