Sweet Pea's Studio

07/13/2025

06/18/2025

Join Jenny Barron Fishman, Owner of Sweet Pea’s Studio, for her Yoga Alliance 85 Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training this Fall! Module One: September 18-21
Module Two: November 6-9
www.sweetpeasstudio.com

04/15/2025

We are looking for someone to share a treatment room space here at Sweet Pea’s Studio. The community is focused on Perinatal and women’s health and wellness services. Please reach out if interested.

02/04/2025

New Prenatal and Baby and Me Yoga classes starting February 26th!

01/18/2025

It’s really not so hard to make support available for parents in this world! Public libraries for the win, once again!!

A Virginia library is leading the way in making public spaces more accommodating for parents of small children with its innovative parent-child computer workstations! Located in the children's room at Henrico County Public Library's Fairfield branch, the 'Parent & Child Carrel' feature a computer workstation alongside an enclosed safe play area for babies and toddlers. The design was the brainchild of library staff who had observed that the standard computer lab model didn't work well for parents of young children. "We've seen parents and caregivers who would need to do adult work, like apply for a job or create a document for community college and so on, and if they had little infants and toddlers, we saw that it was very tricky to do," says Barbara Weedman, the Henrico County Public Library Director.

When the library was remodeled, the staff asked the architects if they could include ready-made furniture that addressed this need in the final design. When the architects couldn't find any good options, they asked a small children's furniture company, TMC, in Ann Arbor, Michigan to create a new kind of work carrel that could accommodate both parents and young children. Since the 'Parent & Child Carrels' were unveiled, they've been a tremendous hit with library patrons. As Weedman observed: "Librarians love to help, and we love to give access to people, and it can be tricky when you have little ones. And I think this has resonated with many people, because they can relate, juggling all these things in our busy lives."

For several inspiring children's books about librarians who made books more accessible to people in their communities, we recommend "Junia, The Book Mule of Troublesome Creek" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/junia-the-book-mule), "How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/miss-moore-thought-otherwise), and "Library On Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/library-on-wheels)

For two fun kids' books about Mighty Girls who share their love of reading by building their own libraries, we recommend “The Library” for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-library) and “Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree” for ages 3 to 7 (https://www.amightygirl.com/red-knit-cap-girl-tree)

If you or your Mighty Girl want to create your own at-home library, we recommend the 'Personal Library Kit' at https://amzn.to/4d1eDfQ

For more Mighty Girl stories that pay tribute to the wonder of libraries and librarians, visit our blog post "Celebrating a Love of Reading: 35 Mighty Girl Stories about Books, Libraries, and Literacy" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11656

01/17/2025

Please join us for this gathering of support for all of you Birth Support Folks! You do so much for others, let us support you for a couple of hours!

For all you doulas, midwives, and birth support persons, please join me, Christine & Jenny for an afternoon of community and nurturing!

Registration is via the qr code in photo. Hope to see you there!

09/08/2024

A mis bisabuelas, a mis abuelas, a mi madre, a mis ancestras quienes se entregaron a la vida, a quienes nadie celebró por construir la historia.

A todas las incluyo en mi corazón.

A quienes no fueron celebradas en la llegada de su primera luna, a quienes levantaron la humanidad desde el silencio.

A todas las incluyo en mi corazón.

A quienes ahora hablan, dicen, gritan su libertad.
A quienes celebran desde el corazón a todas las que somos.
A quienes irrumpen en el sistema para ver los derechos de todas cumplidos.
A quienes lo hacen desde la crianza.
A quienes lo hacen desde el arte y la creatividad.
A quienes lo hacen desde su soledad.
A quienes hacen revolución desde su evolución personal.

Gracias 🙏🏽🌹⚜️

04/12/2024

So sad to hear of the passing of this beautiful soul, Penny Simkin. Her work, co-founding Doulas of North America, authoring The Birth Partner, training thousands of Doulas, positively influenced millions of people. I know that she directly impacted my life, inspiring my births, educating me as a Doula and Childbirth Educator, and I am so grateful that I was able to meet her in person several times. She was a true light in the world. May her memory be a blessing. Her life surely was.

In Memoriam: Penny Simkin May 31, 1938 – April 11, 2024 Penny’s heartbroken family shares this sad news of our beloved Mom/Gummy/sister Originally posted by DONA International Social Media Channels; reposted here with permission. With profound sadness and a heavy heart, DONA International announ...

04/01/2024

Happy 22 years of Sweet Pea’s Studio! What a joy and a privilege serving this community for all these years! So much gratitude for everyone who has ever been a part of my little Family Yoga Center on Ravenswood. Still going strong. Thank you!

02/22/2024

So excited to bring Lillian Lennox back to Sweet Pea’s Studio for this important work. To register or for more information, visit www.lifebreathinstitute.org or contact me here at Sweet Pea’s, jenny@sweetpeasstudio.com.

02/09/2024

Beautiful mural in Pilsen.