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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

Daughter of Samoa

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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.

02/13/2026

In many cultures, singing together is how we teach, soothe, remember, celebrate, mourn and belong. This Family Song Circle is a space to gather in that spirit. This is a welcoming space for caregivers, children, aunties, uncles, grandparents, and chosen family to sing simple songs, share movement, and build community. We’ll share lullabies, folk songs, call-and-response chants, and simple rhythmic play inspired by ancestral traditions and contemporary family music. We’ll explore call-and-response, gentle percussion, cultural lullabies, and playful rhythms that invite participation from all ages.

No musical experience is needed — just your voice and your presence.🌺

We’ll be singing songs that Leonora has introduced to postpartum yoga students and their babies from Mothersong.org by Joya Winwood. If you haven’t listened yet, you’re invited to explore the lyrics and chords on the website and listen to Joya’s albums Little Blessings and Tender Souls ahead of time.

Come as you are. Little ones in utero to 5 years old can wiggle, nurse, nap, or play. Grown-ups can soften, breathe, and connect. Come build community. Come make sound. Come remember that we are meant to sing together.

- Registration: $5–$45 per adult, sliding scale — pay what you can.
- Children are FREE.
- NOTAFLOF: No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
- Unlimited Membership or Class Packs accepted for registration

We’ll gather in an event space in Berkeley near Willard Park. The exact address will be shared upon registration. Please come healthy with no symptoms of illness and cancel your registration if you cannot attend so someone else can participate.

By us, for us. All families welcome. Link in bio to sign up! 🥰

02/01/2026

Informed & Consensual Birth: Navigating Your Options in Hospital Settings is part 2 of the six-session childbirth education course at Daughter of Samoa!

A practical, empowering workshop on understanding the modern hospital landscape and how to maintain autonomy within it. Families learn what is routine, what is optional, how to communicate preferences, and how to engage in true informed consent.

You will explore:
~Hospital policies vs. patient rights
~Interventions: what they are, why they’re used, and alternatives
~Consent, refusal, and shared decision-making
~Advocacy tools for birthing people + partners

This holistic and evidence-informed series offers birthing people and their support a grounded and expansive preparation for the rite of passage of labor, birth, and the early postpartum period. Whether you’re a first-time parent or deepening your knowledge for another birth, each session invites you into a place of empowerment—blending practical tools with deep trust in the body’s wisdom.

Link in bio to sign up!

Registration & Pricing Details:
This 6-part series can be taken as a full program or as individual modules. Each workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $45–$95 per person.

The full 6-part childbirth education series is available at a sliding scale of $270–$450 per person.

You are invited to choose the rate that aligns with your access to resources, honoring both the value of this offering and your own financial reality.

Unlimited Members of Daughter of Samoa receive 15% off all sliding scale prices. Please use the discount code provided in your Unlimited Membership welcome email.

01/28/2026

This is an opportunity to tend to the nervous system, to downshift from the demands of our daily lives, and to find a peaceful place to settle within. 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. Following movement, we'll have an extended savanna soundbath experience. We'll bathe in the resonant frequencies of the crystal bowls, chimes, and more. Allow the vibrations guide you into states of deep relaxation, and to create space for what wants to shift, release, and begin anew.

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

This session is an invitation for you 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 transformation.

Optional: bring a journal, comfy socks, an eye mask, water, and whatever makes you most comfortable for a 45 minute sound savanna. The studio has yoga mats, blankets, bolsters, sand bags and yoga blocks available.

** Unlimited members use your discount code for 15% off**

Link in bio to sign up!

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.

01/21/2026

Rebozos rebozos rebozos...

Looking to get one for yourself or a pregnant loved one? 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 rebozos and other amazing items. 🪷

01/18/2026

Led by Chris Rodriguez, this workshop creates a safe and grounded space for BIPOC fathers to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and explore what it means to show up with intention, presence, and purpose for themselves, their children, their partners and their communities.

Through guided movement, restorative sound, intentional writing, and meaningful conversation, fathers create personalized affirmations that foster confidence, emotional resilience, and a healthy identity in fatherhood.

See you on March 7 at 1PM at Daughter of Samoa! Link in bio to learn more and sign up.

01/14/2026

Reminder! Thursday postnatal classes have now have a new time...

See you at 8:30AM for an all-levels postnatal yoga class that builds energy, calms the mind, and gets you and your baby ready for the (rest of the) day.

01/11/2026

The Inner Workings of Birth is part on of the six-session childbirth education course series at Daughter of Samoa!

This foundational session explores how the birthing body works — the physiology, hormones, stages, rhythms, and innate intelligence of labor.

Families learn what supports physiological flow, what can disrupt it, and how to prepare the body and mind for the threshold ahead.

You will explore:
~ The hormonal blueprint of labor
~ Stages & sensations of birth
~ How environment affects the birthing process
~ Intuition as a physiological tool

Registration & Pricing Details:
This 6-part series can be taken as a full program or as individual modules.
Each workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $45–$95 per person.

The full 6-part childbirth education series is available at a sliding scale of $270–$450 per person.

You are invited to choose the rate that aligns with your access to resources, honoring both the value of this offering and your own financial reality.

Unlimited Members of Daughter of Samoa receive 15% off all sliding scale prices. Please use the discount code provided in your Unlimited Membership welcome email.

Link in bio to learn more and sign up!

01/09/2026

🌱This series centers you—the birthing person—and honors birth as both a biological process and a sacred rite of passage by weaving together:

Inner Knowing — intuition, values, embodied awareness, higher‑self guidance//

Informed Action — evidence-based information, practical tools, communication skills, decision-making frameworks//

Relational Support — partner preparation, postpartum design, newborn attunement//

This holistic and evidence-informed series offers birthing people and their support a grounded and expansive preparation for the rite of passage of labor, birth, and the early postpartum period. Whether you’re a first-time parent or deepening your knowledge for another birth, each session invites you into a place of empowerment—blending practical tools with deep trust in the body’s wisdom.🌊

Together, we explore the anatomy and physiology of labor, informed decision-making in birth settings, personal values in planning your birth, restorative care for the tender transition into postpartum life. Each workshop stands on its own, or can be taken as part of the full arc. For descriptions and registration of each individual class of the series of the course, please check the dates of the workshop in Momence.

Registration & Pricing Details💛
This 6-part series can be taken as a full program or as individual modules.

Each workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $45–$95 per person.

The full 6-part childbirth education series is available at a sliding scale of $270–$450 per person.

You are invited to choose the rate that aligns with your access to resources, honoring both the value of this offering and your own financial reality.

Unlimited Members of Daughter of Samoa receive 15% off all sliding scale prices. Please use the discount code provided in your Unlimited Membership welcome email.

Link in bio to learn more + sign up! ⬆️

01/07/2026

We invite you to a serene evening of rest for your mind body and spirit. This is an opportunity to tend to our internal nests, as we are in the midst of the winter season. 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. Following movement, we'll have an extended savanna soundbath experience. We'll bathe in the resonant frequencies of the crystal bowls, chimes, and more. Allow the vibrations 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

This session is an invitation for you 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 transformation.

Optional: bring a journal, comfy socks, an eye mask, water, and whatever makes you most comfortable for a 45 minute sound savanna. The studio has yoga mats, blankets, bolsters, sand bags and yoga blocks available.

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.

** Unlimited members use your discount code for 15% off**

Link in bio to sign up⬆️

01/04/2026

WE ARE BACK and ready for some yoga. PLUS: be on the lookout for upcoming workshops and more! 🥰

Check out the link in our bio to learn more about classes, workshops, and perinatal support. 🌺

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. 🪷 💌

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. 🪷

Address

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

Telephone

+15104737138

Website

https://www.daughterofsamoa.life/

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Our Story

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.