Birth Moves, Bend, OR (2026)

05/23/2024

Pregnancy is a time of great change. On this journey of transformation, take time to breathe and focus on all the new beginnings.

Invite courage to ask for help and to receive support any time you need it.

Invite grace for yourself and others. There will be moments of the expected and even more of the unexpected. And grace will be here with you reminding you that you are in the journey of learning.

Invite presence to embrace you. Be here and honor this journey. Your learning. Your journey. Your body. Your ability to experience it all.

Be here.

And embrace every step of the path you are on.

03/25/2024

Join me and Daniele Strawmyre at for our most favorite labor or love:

Embodied Birth Preparation: Hands-On Partner Support

This class is a fun and uniting experience for birthing people and their birth partner!

We will guide you and your birth partner to explore comfort and coping techniques to manage pain through labor with movement, breathing, vocal toning, positions, massage and relaxation. Explore the nervous system and how to support your body through the varying states as we practice coping strategies and discover helpful tools for your birth journey.

This workshop is designed for pregnant people at all stages of pregnancy and their birth partner to take time to prepare for the experience of birth and to foster deeper intimacy and confidence as you journey toward parenthood.

*This workshop is limited to 8 couples to ensure

Upcoming dates:
Sunday, April 14, 3-6pm
Tuesday, May 28, 5:30-8:30pm

Learn more at andreadysetgrow.com

03/02/2024

I’m expanding my offerings to reach more of the perinatal population in and around Portland, Oregon! If you live in or near Happy Valley, join me in April/May for a spring prenatal yoga series at !

Ease Pregnancy Discomforts: This series is designed to alleviate the common discomforts of pregnancy while nurturing the mind, body, and spirit in preparation for childbirth.

Holistic Approach: We go beyond basic yoga modifications, fostering a supportive community environment and integrating childbirth education into our practice. Addressing pregnancy-related aches and pains, we aim to make your journey as comfortable as possible.

Physical Preparation: Through tailored yoga practices, we help your body adapt to the changes of pregnancy, encourage optimal fetal positioning, and prepare you physically for childbirth.

Mindful Exploration: Cultivate mindfulness, focus, and positivity to support you mentally and spiritually on the path to parenthood. Each session offers a space for inner reflection and emotional empowerment.

Comprehensive Topics: Our series includes dedicated segments such as welcoming the pregnant body, embracing change, and labor/birth preparation, ensuring a holistic approach to your prenatal experience.

Tuesdays
April 16 - May 21
6-7pm

01/28/2024

The yoga of parenthood is something I am passionate about facilitating, holding space for, and being in my own personal practice with. These early parenthood days are challenging. I’ve been in conversations with other parents lately about the challenges of my current stage and it helps so much to hear their challenges, struggles and triumphs and to share my own. Let’s take this journey together. We need each other.

If you are interested in supporting the postpartum population with yoga, join me live online Feb 16-18 for 20 hours of continuing education.

Check my highlights for more details!

10/21/2023

It has been a minute. And I have way too much to say for a post.

For now, I will just share that I was entertained by the way my room looked this morning as I started the “Embodied Childbirth Educator Course” with .

I’m always so honored and grateful to join these international training circles and connect with powerful humans doing this vital work.

07/17/2023

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Ever feel inadequate raising your kids, like you can’t quite get it right? Ever feel like you are out of balance and you aren’t sure how to tip the scales to find those elusive moments of equanimity?

Maybe it’s just me - but I don’t think I’m alone. The exhaustion and confusion of being a parent in the early years (Or maybe forever? I don’t know… I’m still in the early years.) can be overwhelming. I often find myself not meeting my own expectations and left feeling deficient.

I often find myself lacking warmth, humor, and kindness as I fumble through learning how to parent these amazing and challenging little humans who call me “Mom.” I often judge myself against a pre-parenthood version of me when my well runs dry. The days can feel long without self-compassion.

Self-compassion helps me be kinder to myself as I navigate the challenges of raising children. And this is good for me and good for my children. When I’m self-compassionate, I’m a good role model for my kids. By role modeling kindness to myself, I’m helping my kids learn that it’s okay to make mistakes, forgive myself and try to do better next time.

It’s a work in progress. I’m a work in progress.

May we all give ourselves the compassion we need as we try to care for our children.

If you are interested in exploring some self-compassion practices, check out Prenatal + Postpartum Yoga Wind Down on Thursday evenings with me (Alexa ) and Daniele

03/12/2023

A lot of students joining me on the mat today. And savasana was spent reading Pout-Pout Fish instead of in silence.

11/23/2022

Prepping for the new year and facilitating more trainings! Next up is:

SACRED BIRTH PRENATAL & POSTNATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

This 85+ hour prenatal and postnatal yoga training that provides you with mentorship and education to support pregnancy and beyond. (Yoga Alliance is offering the unique opportunity to complete your certification online during this time of social distancing.)

This interactive and live training will equip you with tools to empower and support pregnant people throughout their pregnancies and equip them with powerful practices and tools for labor which we believe is very needed in this world. This interactive in-home retreat will provide you with a framework to deepen your own connection to your body, support your yoga students or launch a career in the field of birth work.

ONLINE PROGRAM: 3 WEEKENDS JAN 14 - 29

Jan 14-15 (Sat & Sun)
Jan 20-21 (Sat & Sun)
Jan 27-29 (Fri-Sun)

Time: 9-1 PT

*with LIVE VIRTUAL DATES & Recorded Content to watch on your own time

More info and registration at: https://www.awakenedspirityoga.com/online-85-hr-prenatal-postnatal-yoga-teacher-training

*register with the code ALEXAMOVES for a discount!

11/18/2022

Look at this lovely space created for pregnant people, postpartum people, kids and families!

I started teaching weekly classes at at the beginning of October when I relocated to Portland. Come take class with me (or one of the other awesome teachers) here!

TUESDAYS
-Postpartum Yoga (Babies Welcome!) 1-2:15pm
-Prenatal Yoga 5:30-6:45pm

SUNDAYS
-Prenatal Yoga 9:30-10:45am
-Yoga for Parents (Babies Welcome!) 11am-12:15pm

08/16/2022

Teaming up with this beautiful, wise, knowledgable human for WOMB WISE YOGA! An 85 hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training.

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Pregnancy, Birth, Yoga, the Nervous System!…and Life!!

The connection between our nervous system and labor initiates a shift in hormones in the body to increase cortisol, oxytocin and what’s known as a “cocktail of hormones”. Being in a healthy relationship with your NS during this transformational time in life impacts our experience. The makeup of our NS imprints our unborn babies, our relationship with ourself and others and impacts our birth and postpartum time.

Years ago I was in deep grief, not getting enough sleep, living with emotional and work stress which all led to an overwhelmed nervous system. It started with my breath. I could not take a deep breath and felt at times I would just stop breathing. It was scary. Since then I have learned so much about grief, stress, my nervous system, ways to support myself and creating healthy boundaries (still working on that one:)

And so it was yoga that I took my first steps on my path to healing. From immersions and yoga teacher trainings; restorative yoga, trauma informed and pelvic floor yoga, prenatal yoga and meditation. These paths brought me back to myself and my breath which is where it all starts. Like the first breath a newborn takes at birth, but it actually starts before that. Development of the autonomic ns and vagus nerve begins with our own mothers and their nervous system, environment and social network and our own birth. What is amazing though is we can repair and rewire our brain and NS, but it takes time.

How might my births and postpartum been different if I had known then what I know now. And yet it was all a part of my personal healing that led me to where I am now.

Tips for self regulating in pregnancy and life:
•Feel your feet ( grounding )
•Breath ( pranayama )
•Movement (asana )
•Walk in nature ( connect to the elements )

More to come…

Womb Wise Yoga
85 hr Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Bend, Oregon
October 13 - November 13

08/12/2022

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"The New York Post reported on a study of pregnant people in 2019.⁠
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Researchers studying the limits of human endurance have determined that the physical intensity of pregnancy is basically like running a 40-week marathon.⁠
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“Pregnancy is the most energetically expensive activity the human body can maintain for nine months,” Duke University evolutionary anthropology professor Herman Pontzer, who co-authored the study, tells The Post.⁠
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This study reports to us that pregnant people reach the limit of human endurance. So, go on with your badass, pregnant self! I like to tell my pregnant clients and students that they are multitasking ALL THE TIME. No matter what you are doing to live your life, you are also growing a human!⁠
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An important part of this report is that it proves just how taxing pregnancy can be on the body. No one has to tell endurance athletes that they need recovery after an ultra-marathon. What an achievement! We celebrate them and recognize their need for recovery and rest. How much more should we celebrate what it takes to carry and birth a baby and affirm the need for recovery?!? Instead, all the attention is shifted to new baby and postpartum people get one check up 6-8 weeks after giving birth. Our culture puts pressure on postpartum people to “get their pre-pregnancy body back” and “lose the baby weight” and “get back into shape.” If you take anything away from this post, I hope it is this:⁠
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You are not out of shape. You are in recovery!"⁠
- ASY Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Facilitator (excerpt taken from her recent blog, continue reading on her blog--linked in Birth Moves] bio & in our story highlights!)⁠
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𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿 (Birth Moves]) 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 & 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘂𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹 & 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: ⁠
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Oct 22-Nov 6 - ONLINE⁠
Dec 1-6 - in California + ONLINE (hybrid option)⁠
Jan 14-29 - ONLINE

07/31/2022

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WOMB WISE YOGA, 85 HOUR PRENATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

BIRTH MOVES AND RADIANT GRACE YOGA

WITH BACKGROUNDS IN BOTH BIRTHWORK AND YOGA, OUR APPROACH GOES BEYOND THE DEFINITIVE GUIDELINES TO HELP STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY AND NUANCE OF A PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM PERSON. WE HOLD SPACE WHERE PREGNANT STUDENTS CAN TRUST THEIR BODY AND POWER, AND WRITE THEIR OWN STORY. WE BELIEVE IN CREATING SPACES WHERE PREGNANT PEOPLE ARE CONTINUALLY SEEN, ENCOURAGED AND LOVED WHILE DOING THEIR OWN POWERFUL WORK ON THIS BIRTH JOURNEY.

FACILITATORS: Dana Johnson] +
LOCATION: Bend, Oregon
DATES: October 13th - November 13th (2 weekend intensives)
MORE INFO IN BIO

Space is limited and a beautiful training cohort is already beginning to form. Please let us know if you have any questions or would like more information!

Best to you,
Alexa + Dana
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