From Your Center -Movement & Yoga with Shana Celnicker-Chong

10/02/2025

Please join us for an evening mini retreat of precious self-care for parents.

We will circle together for an intentional opening. We will then start to move and breathe with an emphasis on grounding, soothing our nervous systems and moving with strength from our center. There will be a lovely restorative to relax and renew you back into your very full lives.
We end will informal conversations and treats.

This mini-retreat will take place at Lajja Space in downtown Milwaukie, Oregon at 10851 SE Main st.

*This event is for those who have birthed children.

Next one will be Friday December 5th.

09/23/2025

Restore Your Core® is an exercise program that uses a whole-body approach to retrain your core and pelvic floor muscles to be more functional, reflexive, and supportive.
Restore Your Core® is to help you find and use your reflexive core. If you are having back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, diastasis recti, or tightness in your shoulders and neck, it could be that your core strength needs some attention. Using alignment, yoga and movement exercises, we will learn to restore your core and pelvic floor function.

The Restore Your Core® program is designed to move through 4 Stages over 12 weeks. This fall I am offering a 6 week series that will cover Stages 1 and 2. And another 6 week week series to continue on with Stages 3 and 4.

We have class together once a week for 6 weeks. During each class, we will bring awareness to your movement and alignment patterns as we create new ones that better support your body. Each class will build on the previous class, and a short practice will be given to practice each week outside of class.

Two 6 week series:
Thursdays 6-7:15pm

Stages 1-2: 9/25 - 10/30
keep going with
Stages 3-4: 11/6-20 & 12/4-18

Classes held at Milwaukie Pilates.
Link in bio

09/22/2025

WHAT IS RESTORE YOUR CORE®?

Restore Your Core® is an exercise program that uses a whole-body approach to retrain your core and pelvic floor muscles to be more functional, reflexive, and supportive.
Restore Your Core® is to help you find and use your reflexive core. If you are having back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, diastasis recti, or tightness in your shoulders and neck, it could be that your core strength needs some attention. Using alignment, yoga and movement exercises, we will learn to restore your core and pelvic floor function.

The Restore Your Core® program is designed to move through 4 Stages over 12 weeks. This fall I am offering a 6 week series that will cover Stages 1 and 2. And another 6 week week series to continue on with Stages 3 and 4.

We have class together once a week for 6 weeks. During each class, we will bring awareness to your movement and alignment patterns as we create new ones that better support your body. Each class will build on the previous class, and a short practice will be given to practice each week outside of class. Two 6 week series:
Thursdays 6-7:15pm

Stages 1-2: 9/25 - 10/30
keep going with
Stages 3-4: 11/6-20 & 12/4-18
Classes held at Milwaukie Pilates. Link in bio

09/04/2025

09/03/2025

RETURN TO CENTER EVENING MINI RETREATS

Are you ready for some YOU time? Please join us for an evening of precious self-care. We will spend our time in the company of other parents to reconnect with ourselves and our bodies, moving and breathing with an emphasis on moving from your center.
This class will focus largely on grounding, soothing our nervous systems and moving with strength from our center. There will be a lovely restorative ending to relax and renew you back into your very full lives.

This mini-retreat will take place at Lajja Space in downtown Milwaukie, Oregon at 10851 SE Main st.

We meet on First Fridays (except November). Come when you can.

Friday September 5th at 6-8pm
Friday October 3rd at 6-8pm
Friday December 5th at 6-8pm

$30 each, or bring a friend (2 for $50)

www.fromyourcenter/workshops

*This event is for those who have birthed children.

07/21/2025

Our teacher training begins in September! We are counting down the days! If you are interested in joining us, please apply soon and take advantage of the early bird discount that ends on August 1st. Reach out with any questions and we hope to be learning with you soon! yoga

05/02/2025

SPACES OPENED UP FOR TONIGHT!!!
Friday May 2nd 6-8pm
Discount if you come with a friend!

RETURN TO CENTER EVENINGS

Are you ready for some YOU time? Please join us for an evening of precious self-care. We will spend our time in the company of other parents to reconnect with ourselves and our bodies, moving and breathing with an emphasis on moving from your center.

This class will focus largely on grounding, soothing our nervous systems and moving with strength from our center. There will be a lovely restorative ending to relax and renew you back into your very full lives. You might want to bring your own mat, blocks and a bolster or pillow if you have it.

This mini-retreat will take place at Lajja Yoga and Community Studio in downtown Milwaukie, Oregon at 10851 SE Main st.

*This event is for those who have birthed children.

AVAILABLE DATES
Friday, May 2nd, 6-8pm
or
Friday, June 6th, 6-8pm

$30 each, or Bring a friend who has never come before for $50 for 2 of you!

05/01/2025

04/29/2025

WHAT IS RESTORE YOUR CORE®?

Restore Your Core® is an exercise program that uses a whole-body approach to retrain your core and pelvic floor muscles to be more functional, reflexive, and supportive.
A 5-week Restore Your Core® series to help you find and use your reflexive core. If you are having back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, diastasis recti, or tightness in your shoulders and neck, it could be that your core strength needs some attention. Using alignment, yoga and movement exercises, we will learn to restore your core and pelvic floor function.

We have class together once a week for 5 weeks. During each class, we will bring awareness to your movement and alignment patterns as we create new ones that better support your body. Each class will build on the previous class, and a short practice will be given to practice each week outside of class.

2 OPTIONS:

5 Thursdays: May 1 - May 29: 6-7:15pm

5 Saturdays: May 31 - June 28; 9-10:15 am

Class size limited. Classes held in downtown Milwaukie

04/26/2025

We’re hosting another free info session in June! Please join us :) DM us with your email or send us a message at hello@nextwavebirth.com and we’ll send you all the details!

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So much has also shifted in the world and in this country that has inspired us even more to commit to cultivating equitable, trauma aware, compassionate spaces for pregnant and postpartum families. We’re excited to be putting more time, energy and love into our Next Wave Birth Teacher Training program.

We’ve changed a few things in hopes of making our training more accessible, both financially and in terms of time commitment.

If you’ve been interested in studying with us, please join our in-person info session on Sunday, June 8th at 3 PM in SE portland. DM us here with your email or send us an email at hello@nextwavebirth.com and we’ll send you all the details.

Lots of love,
Megan, Shana and Margot

04/05/2025

Enjoy.

Unwinter
A hundred, a thousand things on the list and all while the day hangs outside on a single silken thread,
and if you look up, if you go out, all will be resolved, each salt grain dissolved, the day given freely to every early fool out in the yard, bare-headed, bare-footed in the newly arrived, newly loved blur of time in which all nouns are capsized and all requisite forms are abandoned in this, the full tilt, first telegraphic sprint, great god of heat, feasting fête, this good glorybody come of the sun.

By Annie Lighthart