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Heather Acomb Nourishing Life

MFA, E-RYT 500, RPYT, Postpartum Doula… all things nourishing life 🪷

09/27/2025

Molly and I really do have the best job! Our next embodied childbirth preparation prenatal yoga series begins November 4 and there are only four spots left! If you or someone you know is pregnant, reach out and sign up! Links in bio.

Winter and spring 2026 dates coming soon!

09/21/2025

This feels post-worthy on the last day of summer. I grew sunflowers this year for the first time ever, and they are just so happy growing growing growing toward the sky as the leaves around them start to change!

So long summer, welcome fall!

09/03/2025

📣 ATTENTION, ATTENTION! 📣

Calling all yoga teachers, doulas, nurses, and anyone interested in perinatal health!

Ready to deepen and expand your offerings as a prenatal yoga teacher? Already teaching prenatal yoga, but aren’t certified yet? Let us check that box for you! Join us for this Yoga Alliance approved 85-hour prenatal yoga teacher training and become a registered prenatal yoga teacher(RPYT) in 2026!

✨ That’s right. Rochester finally has an IN PERSON PRENATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING! ✨

👉 Co-trainers Heather Acomb and Molly Deutschbein will be your guides and mentors as you dive into the art of teaching prenatal yoga and refine your understanding of the physiology of birth.

👉 Learn from several guest superstars (stay tuned for names) working in women’s perinatal health.

👉 Dates: March 13-15, March 20-22, April 17-19, April 24-26, May 1-3

👉 Location: in Fairport, NY

👉 Full registration information on mine and Molly’s websites. Links 🔗 in bio.

🤨 Questions? Reach out to us!

✨ We can’t wait to train with you! ✨

08/28/2025

And we’re back!

I have been mostly quiet about some big changes this past year. A major plot twist brought me back to SUNY Brockport last year, and I am loving being there more than words can express. 💚

Excited to teach the freshman, excited to nerd out in movement analysis, excited to re-stage a work I made 13 years ago, and excited to teach some students about teaching dance. 😊

I have a feeling it’s going to be a great year!

08/15/2025

Another beautiful summer dancing with Bill Evans! I have been studying and dancing with Bill since 2006, and demonstrating for him since 2010. This year, I was honored beyond honored to teach the daily modern technique classes in his annual summer workshop for dance teachers. I believe so strongly in the transformative power of his technique, and it was pure joy for me to teach teachers this week!

Bill Evans Dance

07/13/2025

I finally did it. I read my first book in almost three years. It took me that long after my daughter was born to find my way back to this routine. Postpartum struggles are so real, and it really does take time to find balance again after childbirth. I saw Memoirs of a Geisha in a little free library and on a whim was compelled to read it because I remember it being so popular. Such a beautiful story about destiny and acceptance.

“Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”

Arthur Golden

06/11/2025

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣
We are SO EXCITED to collaborate on a BRAND NEW prenatal offering for the Rochester community: Embodied Childbirth Preparation with Prenatal Yoga!

👉What it looks like:
•A community prenatal yoga class

👉What it is:
•Embodied childbirth education with functional movement safe for all three trimesters
•An opportunity to connect with self and baby in grounded loving presence
•A safe space to share and be supported throughout your pregnancy

👉Why it’s so special:
•Heather has 20+ years experience in the fields of yoga and somatic movement
•Molly has 35+ years experience as a birth worker and childbirth educator
•We are both RPYT’s
•We are both 500-hour yoga teachers
•We are friends with a shared philosophy

👉The details:
•Six week series
•Tuesdays 6-7pm
•Frequency Wellness Space
•First series: Sept 9 — Oct 21 (off Oct 14)
•2nd series: Nov 4 — Dec 16 (off Nov 25)
•Join us for one or both series!
•Register on Molly’s website (link in bio)

Please help us spread the word, and reach out with questions!

Frequency Wellness Space

02/01/2025

Well, I guess I’m a little bit famous 🤷‍♀️

So excited and humbled to be featured in this month’s issue of CITY Magazine! If you know me well, you know that I don’t care about publicity, but the recognition feels really special, and some have told me is well deserved after 23 years in my field.

I love dance. I love yoga. I love being a somatic movement educator. I love supporting prenatal and postpartum clients. I love holistic wellness. I am lucky to have an organic farming husband who grows all the food we eat. I genuinely love and live all of these things, and it is a total honor to be featured in this wellness issue.

BIG thank you to Sydney Burrows for such a beautiful feature on me and my offerings in this community.

Thank you Allison, Molly, and Evan for saying such kind words. And to everyone who continues to spread the word about my classes, thank you.

01/08/2025

I don’t often promote my perinatal work, but it’s one of my biggest passions in my personal and professional life. I am a RPYT (registered prenatal yoga teacher) and a postpartum doula.

If you or someone you know is looking for prenatal and/or postpartum support, reach out to me!

What I offer:
-one-on-one sessions and logistical support through pregnancy and the postpartum period
-embodied childbirth education through prenatal yoga
-functional movement for labor, birth, and recovery with prenatal and postnatal yoga
-connection to self and baby
-physical, emotional, mental support as your postpartum doula after baby arrives
-global postpartum traditions including the first forty days and closing the bones
-so much more 💕

Visit my website for more details.
Link in bio.

01/04/2025

We’re at it Again! 📣
Yoga with live music: Kosha edition! ✨

Dive into and journey through the layers of your Self with movement and sound! ✨

Come beat the February mid-winter blues, connect with others, laugh, smile, stretch your mind and your muscles, enjoy and sense your wholeness in a totally new way.✨

Join us for an experience of the five koshas with hatha yoga and live music. What are the koshas, you might ask? You could google it, or you could come experience them on the mat with us. ✨

This will be the last one for a while, as Evan is taking a break from performing in 2025. If you haven’t made it to one of our events yet, we hope you will join us for this magical afternoon of community connection, mindful movement and original live music! ✨

👉Details::
•Saturday, Feb 8
•3-5pm
•Frequency Wellness Space in Rochester
•$25 / or 2 for $40 and bring a friend!
• Special student rate $15
•Mats and props provided if needed
•All bodies and all levels welcome
•Partial proceeds donated to ocean conservation

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01/01/2025

And a spirited bunch we were! 38 happy yogis packed into Yoga 170 this morning (39 with Ali!) to ring in the new year with movement, meditation and sound! Happy New Year! ✨🌟

I hope you will join me in setting the intention to lead with the heart, cultivate compassion and embrace abundance in 2025. Many of us are feeling the weight of the world’s darkness. My hope for 2025 is that we all remember the light that each of us carries within our true being.

✨Want to join me on the mat? ✨
•Hatha yoga class every Monday night at 6:30pm and once a month Saturday at 10am at Yoga 170 in Fairport.

✨Pregnant or know someone who is?✨
•Reach out for prenatal and postpartum support through yoga and doula services (see my website for all my perinatal offerings) www.heatheracomb.com

I look forward to meeting the joys and challenges of the year ahead with you.

✨Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha✨

#2025

12/04/2024

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!✨
Very excited to announce my 4th annual New Year’s Day yoga class at Yoga 170! ✨

This special class always sells out, so if you’d like to join me, please don’t wait to sign up! ✨

I look forward to welcoming the new year in community with so many of you! (Yes, my harmonium and singing bowls will be there 😄)

👉Wednesday, January 1st at noon.
👉Head to yoga170 dot com to sign up!

(and a quick shoutout to the beautiful Molly Huff who ushered me into the continuation of this glorious tradition!)💕

#2025

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