Daughter of Samoa

07/24/2025

Join Leonora for this essential workshop designed to help you better understand your rights, options, and choices within the hospital setting. We’ll explore:

* Common labor and postpartum interventions—what they are, how they’re used, and why they’re often routine

* The evidence behind practices like induction and augmentation (especially in light of the ARRIVE Trial)

* Tools for informed decision-making and advocacy, so you and your birth team can confidently navigate your care

* What to expect as labor nears (around 36 weeks onward), including:

* Cervical exams and fetal heart monitoring

* Saline locks and artificial rupture of membranes

* Pain relief options (epidural, nitrous oxide, IV meds, and more)

* Early newborn care decisions—cord cutting, skin-to-skin, and routine wiping of the baby

Whether you’re a first-time parent or a doula, this workshop supports you in reclaiming consensual, respectful, evidence-based care at one of the most significant times of your life.

Sliding Scale: $45–$95 per individual for this 2-hour offering.
Please register each individual.

Unlimited Members of DoS receive a 15% discount. Please contact Leonora to find out your code leonora@daughterofsamoa.life

Refund/Cancellation Policy:
50% refund if canceling 2 weeks or more before the workshop.
25% refund if canceling within 2 weeks of the workshop.
No refund if canceling within 48 hours of workshop.
Possibility of a transfer of funds from workshop registration to your Daughter of Samoa Momence account if you miss because you are in labor. Please plan mindfully.

07/18/2025

Come as you are—pregnant, postpartum, partner of or simply present in your body as it is today. This monthly Yin and Restorative Yoga workshop offers a sanctuary for deep rest, renewal, and reconnection. The world we’ve been living in has been a higher level of challenge than ever before to live in, and we need a moment — a moment to be, to reset a nervous system in overdrive, to ground, to soften, and to allow for ourselves to rest and heal from the trauma-inducing every day world we live in. In this month’s workshop, we will be focusing on the Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians within our poses, restorative for the pregnant and newly post-partumed folks and Yin for everyone else. Melt into the moment - and the moment calls for connecting to the foundations of life, easing fear and anxiety, restlessness and feelings of isolation, low energy and persistent negativity. We’ll have an immersive sound bath led by with crystal bowls, chimes, and other healing tones to help the nervous system unwind and the body access and integrate its own healing. Pay what you can on the sliding scale and enjoy the company of others in the community looking to connect with themselves, others and this healing practice.

06/20/2025

Last time this workshop will be offered for now.. link to register in stories

Dance Baby Down is a 90 minute workshop experience that integrates breath, connection, movement, affirmations, reflections and community. This class is ideal for anyone in their pregnancy journey from 10 weeks to 40+ weeks all the way up to your Labor Day! Birth partners are welcome to register and join to Dance Baby Down as a couple or birth team duo.

Students with Unlimited Memberships receive a 15% discount. Contact Leonora for your code.

We look forward to moving with you and your baby! Dance with JOY! Birth with JOY! Dance Baby Down!

Jazz-Ylaine does not offer any refunds for cancellations for this workshop. In the event that you are unable to attend, Jazz-Ylaine can transfer you to a workshop on a different date or perhaps set you up with a postpartum offering. For any workshop cancellations that cannot be rescheduled or transferred, Jazz-Ylaine also offers a postpartum movement class titled Ease Body Back, which you are welcome to inquire about. Please inquire directly to Jazz-Ylaine for your questions: dancebabydown@gmail.com

06/16/2025

According to the Listening to Mothers in California survey, while 74% of birthing people agreed that childbirth should only be medically intervened with when necessary, only 5% actually gave birth without major intervention. Many common hospital practices during labor and birth may be unnecessary, and in some cases, increase risks to both birthing parent and baby.

Join Leonora for this essential workshop designed to help you better understand your rights, options, and choices within the hospital setting. We’ll explore:

* Common labor and postpartum interventions—what they are, how they’re used, and why they’re often routine

* The evidence behind practices like induction and augmentation (especially in light of the ARRIVE Trial)

* Tools for informed decision-making and advocacy, so you and your birth team can confidently navigate your care

* What to expect as labor nears (around 36 weeks onward), including:

* Cervical exams and fetal heart monitoring

* Saline locks and artificial rupture of membranes

* Pain relief options (epidural, nitrous oxide, IV meds, and more)

* Early newborn care decisions—cord cutting, skin-to-skin, and routine wiping of the baby

Whether you’re a first-time parent or a doula, this workshop supports you in reclaiming consensual, respectful, evidence-based care at one of the most significant times of your life.

Sliding Scale: $45–$95 per individual for this 2-hour offering.
Please register each individual.

Unlimited Members of DoS receive a 15% discount. Please contact Leonora to find out your code leonora@daughterofsamoa.life

Refund/Cancellation Policy:
50% refund if canceling 2 weeks or more before the workshop.
25% refund if canceling within 2 weeks of the workshop.
No refund if canceling within 48 hours of workshop.
Possibility of a transfer of funds from workshop registration to your Daughter of Samoa Momence account if you miss because you are in labor. Please plan mindfully.

06/08/2025

New newsletter alert!!

We're thrilled to announce new offerings at Daughter of Samoa this June! Join us for our Prenatal Yoga classes every Thursday, designed to foster connection and support for expecting parents. Additionally, we are hosting comprehensive Childbirth Education Workshops that explore the anatomy and physiology of birth, informed decision-making in hospital settings, and personalized yoga practices. These offerings are crafted to empower and educate, ensuring a respectful and informed birthing experience. Don’t miss out on these enriching opportunities.

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06/06/2025

In collaboration with Leonora, this workshop invites you to choose the type of practice your body and spirit need most—whether that’s the gentle stillness of Restorative Yoga or the meditative depth of Yin Yoga. All props are provided to support you in sinking into each posture with comfort and intention.
Restorative poses are ideal for anyone in need of nervous system support, including pregnant and newly postpartum folks. These shapes guide you out of fight-or-flight mode and into a state of rest and repair—nourishing for both you and baby. Yin Yoga complements this by working deeply into your joints, ligaments, and fascia, inviting a quiet inner focus that restores balance and vitality. Leonora will have a sequence in mind that attends to both the Yin and Restorative yoga practice for you to choose from.
Each class concludes with a long, soothing savasana and sound bath led by Victoria Liu.

These classes are on a sliding scale $35 - $75/class. Class held once per month, third Tuesday each month.

06/05/2025

New prenatal yoga class offered by every Thursday 5:30-6:45 pm. After over a year of mentoring Sofía, in all her attentiveness, careful observation of my classes, notetaking and study, practice and learning about sequencing, the asana, all the nuances of how yoga can help pregnant people - mind, body and spirit, she’s ready to put their study and observation into regular teaching practice with her own ongoing class series. 🪽The class rate is based on a sliding scale, $18-35. Come experience the caring, thoughtful instruction of Sofía tonight and on each Thursday night continuing.
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Centered and connected: movement and visualization in pregnancy
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Offering a grounding space, this prenatal yoga series led by Sofía aims to foster connection, inclusivity, and care—to your baby, your breath, and others on the same journey. This first part of the series is specially designed for expecting parents seeking a grounding visualization practice that helps prepare pregnant people for labor and birth. This full-body flow of movement increases circulation, strength while promoting one’s ability to regulate the nervous system. All trimesters welcome. No prior yoga experience required.

05/27/2025

The next Partner Prenatal Yoga Workshop is June 10th 12:15-1:45 pm and has only two birth team duo spaces left! That’s four spots remaining. When you register, make sure to get both you and your partner on the roster.

This workshop is for pregnant people and a support partner. In this 90 minute workshop, participants of a birth team duo will learn how to center and support the birther in focusing, movement, breath and connection to the process of labor. The workshop focuses on body scanning to read a birthing person’s body cues, guiding breath, practicing movement through partner yoga poses. Some poses, movement and support techniques learned can help alleviate pregnancy discomforts and aid in moving through labor sensations and the process of labor.

Please make sure to come healthy and dress comfortably so you are able to move.

It’s a super sweet moment for you and your partner to connect, for them to learn how better to support you during labor and leading up to it and a sound education in comfort measures for labor. Bring a if you have one.

Cost: $60- $120/couple sliding scale. Please register each participant.
15% off for those with the Unlimited Monthly Membership

Email leonora@daughterofsamoa.life for your discount code.

Cancelation Policy:
Full refund if canceling more than one week before the workshop.
50% refund if canceling within 1 week.
No refund if canceling within 24 hours of workshop.
Possibility of a transfer of funds from workshop registration to your account if you miss because you are in labor.

05/23/2025

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Plan for your postpartum, like your mental health depends on, cause it does. If the postpartum parent isn’t catered to, the child also suffers. Postpartum is the whole time the brain, body, spirit, and lifestyle is (continuously)changing and adapting to met the needs on some level to another human being.

It’s exhausting, time consuming, and a freaking joy of pains. Plan for it like your life depends on it. Let’s see you thrive in postpartum with attachment parenting, rest, rejuvenation, proper nutrition, and community support.

05/21/2025

Ancestor points. thank you for opening the portals to them.

05/10/2025

More from our class today with the babies! We sing, we hold your babies, they play and meet one another and also, hang out close to you as you practice. Thank goddess for baby holders like that make the class possible! see you Monday!

05/08/2025

Post our class. Just me and .yoga hanging out with the babies. Thank you moms for taking class with us, for bringing your babies for us to love up while you practice. Every class is a joy and pleasure. Hope we’re helping out with those baby holding, baby feeding muscles that are getting worked! Class every Monday and Friday 10:30-11:45. We got you! And we love holding your babies while you practice.