Daughter of Samoa

Daughter of Samoa I'm a birth and postpartum doula and Yoga teacher. I teach yoga all levels of Yoga asana, including prenatal and postpartum yoga, Yin.

Find out more about Leonora's yoga classes and birthwork along with special guest teachers and wisdom keepers coming through to share about pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum and how to support birthing people. I am also a continued student, practitioner and teacher of meditation, mantra, Yoga history and philosophy -- all rooted in Yoga as a soterological practice. I teach and co-own Barefoot Movement, a Yoga studio located in West Oakland, Ca. As a birth and postpartum doula, I work to help each client envision and experience the kind of birth they deserve, helping to inform, prepare and support them throughout their pregnancy journey into empowerment as a parent.

Daughter of Samoa will be resting the last two weeks of December. 🌙See you in January 2026 for childbirth education clas...
12/22/2025

Daughter of Samoa will be resting the last two weeks of December. 🌙

See you in January 2026 for childbirth education classes, partner prenatal yoga workshops, and prenatal/ postnatal yoga! 🥳

IMPORTANT ➡️ MONTHLY SOUND CEREMONY WITH VICTORIA WILL STILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28TH AT 4:30PM! 🗣️

Link in bio to see learn more and sign up for 2026 offerings. 🪷 💌

Looking for holiday gifts for your pregnant and postpartum loved ones? Or even birthworkers in your community? 🌞Look no ...
12/17/2025

Looking for holiday gifts for your pregnant and postpartum loved ones? Or even birthworkers in your community? 🌞

Look no further: the Red Cupboard at Daughter of Samoa is here! 🌊

Come by the studio and talk to Leonora about these and other amazing items available for purchase. 🪷

The Postpartum Gift Bundle at the Red Cupboard! 🦋Includes: sitz bath herb blend, turmeric and yarrow soap, ni**le balm, ...
12/15/2025

The Postpartum Gift Bundle at the Red Cupboard! 🦋

Includes: sitz bath herb blend, turmeric and yarrow soap, ni**le balm, and two venda elásticas. All for $67! 🪷

Get this for yourself or a loved one for the holidays. Purchase can be made directly at the studio with Leonora. 🥰

The Prenatal Gift Bundle at the Red Cupboard! 😍Includes: rebozo, magnesium oil, onsie, and chamomile and calendula soap,...
12/13/2025

The Prenatal Gift Bundle at the Red Cupboard! 😍

Includes: rebozo, magnesium oil, onsie, and chamomile and calendula soap, all for $110. 🌙

Get this for yourself or a loved one this holiday season! Purchase can be made directly with Leonora at the studio. 💐

As we approach the winter solstice and longest night of the year, we invite you to a moment of pause from the demands of...
12/09/2025

As we approach the winter solstice and longest night of the year, we invite you to a moment of pause from the demands of this season, and tend to your inner landscape. 🌙

Our monthly sound bath guided by Victoria Liu will give you a nourishing opportunity for embodied renewal and rest. 🌱

We’ll tune into the body with gentle movement, using the powerful tool of our breath to find more presence and somatic awareness, and allow the resonant sound frequencies of crystal bowls to give us an inner tune up. 🌬️ The immersive sound savasana will include crystal bowls, chimes, and more. Allow the sound to guide you into states of deep relaxation and to create space for what wants to shift, release, or settle within.

✨ 4:45pm - Gentle Movement & Breath
✨ 5:10pm - Sound Journey
✨ 5:45pm - Optional Journaling / Integration

About Victoria Liu 🪷

Victoria's journey with meditation and movement began 16 years ago first as a student, then in research for mental health at UCLA, and now as a teacher and facilitator in yoga and sound. Victoria is currently deepening her somatic studies in trauma informed teaching and pelvic floor work.

She started an apprenticeship with Leonora Willis as a birthworker in 2023, first in perinatal yoga then transitioning into a doula for both birth and postpartum work. She completes her advanced doula training through Wombs of the World in December of 2025. She trained in traditional yogic pranayama in Guatemala under Jenika Bronson (2024), and completed her 200-hour Kundalini Yoga RYT with Liya Garber (2023).
Victoria brings a compassionate yet poignant tone to her teaching and facilitation, creating spaces that feel spacious, grounded, and warmly held.

If you're feeling in need of inner clarity and alignment—or simply seeking a nourishing evening of deep rest and renewal...
12/09/2025

If you're feeling in need of inner clarity and alignment—or simply seeking a nourishing evening of deep rest and renewal—join us for our monthly sound ceremony guided by Victoria Liu.

This workshop offers a sacred pause from the demands of daily life, using breath, gentle movement, and the transformative power of sound as tools for profound release and restoration.✨

This is an invitation to step out of the thinking mind and into the feeling body—a journey inward that can reveal new dimensions of yourself and open doorways to healing. 🌊

Link in bio to sign up! 💌

About Victoria Liu 🌻

Victoria started an apprenticeship with Leonora Willis as a birthworker in 2023, first in perinatal yoga and eventually as a doula for both birth and postpartum work. She also trained in traditional yogic pranayama in Guatemala under Jenika Bronson, and completed her 200-hour RYT for Kundalini Yoga with Liya Garber. Her personal journey with meditation and movement began 16 years ago as a student, then in research for mental health at UCLA, and now as a teacher and facilitator in yoga and sound. Victoria has deepened her somatic studies in pelvic floor work and trauma informed teaching. Victoria brings a compassionate yet poignant tone to her teaching and facilitation, creating spaces that feel spacious, grounded, and warmly held. 🌱

Come as you are—pregnant, postpartum, or simply present in your body as it is today. 💛This monthly workshop offers a san...
12/02/2025

Come as you are—pregnant, postpartum, or simply present in your body as it is today. 💛

This monthly workshop offers a sanctuary for deep rest, renewal, and reconnection. Through gentle Yin and Restorative postures supported by props, we explore themes of grounding, softening, and surrender. Each monthly workshop session closes with an immersive sound bath featuring crystal bowls, chimes, and other healing tones to help the body integrate and the nervous system unwind.

Theme 🪷 The Gift of Stillness
Inquiry 🌛 "What becomes possible when I allow myself to fully rest?"
Affirmation 🪶 "My rest is sacred. My stillness is expansive."

FYI ⬇️
An informal photoshoot will be held during the workshop and Unlimited Daughter of Samoa Members get 15% off!

Last Partner Prenatal Yoga Workshop of 2025! 😍Participants of a birth team duo will learn how to center and support the ...
11/24/2025

Last Partner Prenatal Yoga Workshop of 2025! 😍

Participants of a birth team duo will learn how to center and support the birther in breath, connection to self, relaxation, movement and positions easing labor pains and comfort strategies conducive to move through labor in all its stages.💐

The workshop focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person's body cues, massage techniques for relaxation and labor encouragement and counter pressure to help ease the sensation of surges.🌊

This workshop is held monthly and is great for birthing folks to take from week 31 onward, but people can take this multiple times whenever they're looking to connect with their partner in pregnancy and in preparation for baby's arrival.🌱

LINK IN BIO TO LEARN MORE & SIGN UP!💌

If you're feeling in need of inner clarity and alignment—or simply seeking a nourishing evening of deep rest and renewal...
11/21/2025

If you're feeling in need of inner clarity and alignment—or simply seeking a nourishing evening of deep rest and renewal—join us for our monthly sound ceremony guided by Victoria Liu. This workshop offers a sacred pause from the demands of daily life, using breath, gentle movement, and the transformative power of sound as tools for profound release and restoration.✨

This is an invitation to step out of the thinking mind and into the feeling body—a journey inward that can reveal new dimensions of yourself and open doorways to healing. 🌊

Link in bio to sign up! 💌 ALL MEMBERS GET A 15% DISCOUNT.

About Victoria Liu 🌻Victoria started an apprenticeship with Leonora Willis as a birthworker in 2023, first in perinatal yoga and eventually as a doula for both birth and postpartum work. She also trained in traditional yogic pranayama in Guatemala under Jenika Bronson, and completed her 200-hour RYT for Kundalini Yoga with Liya Garber. Her personal journey with meditation and movement began 16 years ago as a student, then in research for mental health at UCLA, and now as a teacher and facilitator in yoga and sound. Victoria has deepened her somatic studies in pelvic floor work and trauma informed teaching. Victoria brings a compassionate yet poignant tone to her teaching and facilitation, creating spaces that feel spacious, grounded, and warmly held. 🌱

"PASS ME TO MY YOGA TEACHER" onesies at The Red Cupboard! IYKYK...This little delight fell asleep in the rebozo with me ...
11/19/2025

"PASS ME TO MY YOGA TEACHER" onesies at The Red Cupboard!

IYKYK...

This little delight fell asleep in the rebozo with me in Friday's postnatal class while we walked around the room while I taught and she assisted - and while mom got to practice. (Thanks for your sweetness, Brooke.)

And your little ones can also, while being held by assistants (who are also oftentimes yoga teachers themselves!!) and professional baby holders extraordinaires! It is the sweetest thing to witness your little one being able to be soothed in the arms of another who cares for them while you practice.

And now we have 3-6 month sized onsies in both cream and black colors, for $30/each to acknowledge it. Come to the studio to get yours before or after a class.

Thank you Sofia, Victoria, Mohini, Otito, Nire, Lisbeth, Tiffany for your loving care of our little ones while their parents get the chance to practice.

If you're interested in holding babies during class, please reach out to me. Grandparents are so welcome too!

RED CUPBOARD HIGHLIGHT😍The Red Cupboard at Daughter of Samoa carries Kindred Soul Ni**le Salve and Bergamot Magnesium Oi...
11/14/2025

RED CUPBOARD HIGHLIGHT😍

The Red Cupboard at Daughter of Samoa carries Kindred Soul Ni**le Salve and Bergamot Magnesium Oil Spray!

Get yours next time you visit the studio or by contacting Leonora. 🌟

Gratitude and Grief: "What am I holding in my heart—and how can I honor it all?"Come as you are to explore this question...
11/13/2025

Gratitude and Grief: "What am I holding in my heart—and how can I honor it all?"

Come as you are to explore this question—pregnant, postpartum, or simply present in your body as it is— during our Yin and Restorative Yoga Class + Sound Bath. ❤️

This monthly workshop offers a sanctuary for deep rest, renewal, and reconnection. Through gentle Yin and Restorative postures supported by props, we explore themes of grounding, softening, and surrender. Each monthly workshop session closes with an immersive sound bath featuring crystal bowls, chimes, and other healing tones to help the body integrate and the nervous system unwind.

LINK IN BIO TO RSVP!

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3645 Grand Avenue Suite #205
Oakland, CA
94610

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 1:15pm
Tuesday 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Thursday 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Friday 10:30am - 1:15pm
Sunday 10:30am - 11:45am

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I teach in the Vinyasa Flow Style, which is rooted in the Ashtanga (8-limbed) Yoga philosophy, made popular by Patabhi Jois, passed down to him by Patanjali. Unlike Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow is not a set system; it does not operate within a certain set sequence of poses but instead, allows for some creativity on the teacher's part to devise sequences of poses that fluctuate, depending on the needs and abilities of the students, the time of day, year, weather, etc. Some focuses of Vinyasa Flow Yoga is to transition fluidly from one pose to another, with the breath, for a full, body opening and unveiling, ever-mindful of proper alignment in the transitions and within the poses themselves to aid the release of the blockages of prana (energy in the body), specifically in the nadis (channels where energy flows). Core engagement is important for the body's stability and safety, and some aspects of instruction, concerning the body's subtle energies, from a non-Western perspective, including doshas, bandhas, nadis, chakras, are often incorporated into a Vinyasa Flow class. I move students through sequences of poses that are designed to help deepen the connection with the body, to still the mind, aiding in the balancing of the mind and spirit. In a Yoga class with me, students are physically challenged while also feeling a sense of being nurtured, safe and supported, which encourages the connection between body and mind, self and universe.