Om Births Prenatal Yoga

Om Births Prenatal Yoga A Prenatal Yoga program that empowers women through yoga and holistic childbirth practices to embrac Contact us today for more information!

Om Births is a solely online prenatal and postnatal yoga program. We offer yoga classes at prime times for pregnant moms and workshops to assist with the whole pre and postnatal experience, from bump to birth to baby. Following birth, we offer classes in postnatal yoga as well as specific workshops to help you regain your former strength and connect with your new little one. Our goal is to empower

women through yoga and holistic childbirth practices to be able to embrace, enjoy, and experience the full range of changes that accompany the childbearing year in a supportive and nurturing environment.

I’m psyched to see this research finally come to light!For anyone who likes to know the stats for the classes and techni...
06/17/2026

I’m psyched to see this research finally come to light!

For anyone who likes to know the stats for the classes and techniques they use, I highly recommend checking out the recent study from Australia about the impacts of HypnoBirthing on laor and birth.

Short version?
• Reduction in epidural rates
• Reduction in Cesarean rates
• Increased use of water for labor and birth

Check out the full study here in Women and Birth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871519226000569

Oh and the next HypnoBirthing series starts August 6th. Four online classes and one in-person!
Come see what all the buzz is about!

In birth, “relax” can be a wildly unhelpful word.Because sometimes people hear it as: Go limp.Check out.Stop feeling.Let...
06/12/2026

In birth, “relax” can be a wildly unhelpful word.

Because sometimes people hear it as:
Go limp.
Check out.
Stop feeling.
Let everything happen to you.

That is not what relaxation means in a functional birth body.

Relaxation is not collapse.

It is the ability to soften what does not need to work, while allowing the parts that do need to work to do their job.

The jaw can soften.
The shoulders can drop.
The pelvic floor can yield.
The breath can widen.
The mind can come back to the present moment.

But you may still be powerful.
You may still be moving.
You may still be vocalizing.
You may still be wildly, actively engaged.

This is one of the reasons I love combining yoga, breath, and childbirth education.

Because relaxation is not about being passive.

It is about learning how to stop fighting the body while still fully participating in birth.

06/10/2026

Why not labor on your back?

• Being on your back encourages baby to rotate to face your front, which can make it more challenging for their head to come through the pelvis.

• Lying on your back can compress major blood vessels in the back of the pelvis, which can have an adverse effect on both you and baby.

• When pushing on your back, the sacrum and tailbone are locked against the bed — making it harder for your pelvis to expand backward to let the baby out.

As much as possible, be upright or side-lying to make space and take advantage of gravity.

It’s not about one “perfect” position. It’s about knowing your options.
There are absolutely times when someone may need or choose to be on their back during labor.

This is not about shame. It is about information.

Because for many people, lying flat on the back is not the most useful position for helping a baby move through the pelvis.

When you are on your back, gravity tends to encourage baby toward a more posterior position — facing your front — which can make the path through the pelvis more challenging.

It can also limit the movement of the sacrum and tailbone. And those bones matter. During birth, we want the back of the pelvis to be able to respond and expand as baby descends.

So when possible, think:
Upright.
Forward leaning.
Side-lying.
Hands and knees.
Supported squats.
Lunges.
Resting positions that still leave the pelvis able to yield.

Again: not perfection. Not panic. Not “never.”

Just options.

Because the more you understand your body, the more you can work with it.

One of the biggest misunderstandings about birth is that the pelvis is just… there.A fixed structure.A bony bowl.A thing...
06/09/2026

One of the biggest misunderstandings about birth is that the pelvis is just… there.

A fixed structure.
A bony bowl.
A thing the baby either “fits through” or doesn’t.

But the pelvis is dynamic.

It moves.
It tilts.
It has internal joints
It opens differently depending on your position.
It responds to muscles, ligaments, breath, gravity, and the nervous system.

This is why prenatal yoga for birth preparation is not just about stretching or “staying active.”

It’s about learning how your body works.

When you understand that your pelvis can change shape, movement starts to make more sense. Cat/cow, lunges, side-lying positions, leaning forward, rocking, swaying — these are not random comfort measures.

They are ways of creating space, balance, and options.

Birth is not usually about finding one perfect position.

It’s about learning how to listen, respond, and work with the body as labor unfolds.

06/05/2026

You’re 7-10cm open! We can see the head! There’s something pushing in your butt and you feel like you need to p**p!

Ok Congratulations you’re through the mid-level of the pelvis! Now What?

Once again, how we move in birth is going to depend on what level of the pelvis we’re interacting with- and when it comes to the base we have all been sold a LIE.

Tucking and outwardly rotating helps open the top, but it actually CLOSES the base!

Translation? When we can actually see the baby’s head, we don’t want to be on our back, spreading out knees, and tucking the tail anymore!

We want to do the opposite! Stick the butt out when the sensation gets into the base!

This means a forward tilt of the pelvis, and actually passively internally rotating the thighs.

Yes you read that correctly, we want to bring the knees together when the head starts to crown!
Actions for opening the pelvic outlet:

Pelvic tilting- Cow Pose, High Squat with arched back and feet parallel

Side lying with groins back and feet supported apart

KICO (Knees in Calves out resting forward on a birth ball or the back of the bed)

“Peek-a-boo pushing (Push with the legs together then lift and look after 3-4 contractions and see if there’s more visible)

The key is that we’re moving the bones of the pelvis away from one another as the contraction and expulsive reflex move the baby downward.

One addition. As the head finally emerges you may feel an instinct to go back into tucking. This is actually protective for the perineal tissues (and should be followed if it comes from inside). At the final moment, tucking once again slackens the circle of the va**nal opening- allowing the tissues to fully yield and release baby into the world.

Come find out more in Prenatal Yoga, and Spinning Babies. Links in Bio.

06/03/2026

So we’ve gotten into labor! But now things are slowing down?

What do we do?

Before we start forcing the body back into action with Pitocin, Ni**le stimulation, or other hormonal changes, we might see how to make space where the baby and pelvic are interacting.

And when that’s the middle of the pelvis (0 station or so) the movements that create space change direction from what worked for the top.

The top needed tucking, but the widest aspect of the pelvis in the middle is actually on the diagonal!
So that means we shift into sideways movements- swaying right to left- often with one leg up, or with asymmetrical rotation in the hips (think 90/90 or Graham 4th position)

Actions for opening the middle of the pelvis?

Side Lunges either kneeling or standing

Side-lying with the full shin and foot supported by pillows or peanut ball (rolling back and forth might be even better here)

Jiggling while in side-lying/Spider person (also great with an epidural!)

Side-Lying Release (see Spinning Babies class)

Cat/Cow with one knee on a yoga block

Seated rocking with 1 leg out and 1 leg in (90/90 position)

The good news, many moms will spontaneously shift into this sideways rock as the baby begins to move down through the mid pelvis. Our bodies are so smart!

This is also where the baby begins to rotate on the opening of the upper pelvic floor- which can sometimes mean dilation pauses for a bit while things line up. As always, don’t go by the number, go by sensation.

For more, join me at a Prenatal Yoga class (in-person or Livestream) and check out the next Spinning Babies Birth Preparation Class (Link in Bio)

06/02/2026

Not all movements are equal at every point in Labor! And working with the labor process doesn’t mean sitting back and waiting for things to progress!

Labor is a dance between the pelvic tissues balance, the baby’s angle, and the downward motion from the outer uterine fibers.

The more these are aligned and cooperative, the smoother the labor process can proceed.

If we’re encountering challenge (ie stalling labor, major pain, or a pressure to “force” things into action) then we can find out what station or level of the pelvis the baby is interacting with, and then move accordingly.

Motions that widen the top (-3 to -1 station) of the pelvic bowl are helpful during the initial phases of the labor process- or put more directly, when the baby is in the top level.

Actions that might help?

👍Tucking the tailbone

👍External femur rotation

👍Posterior rotation (ie tucking) of the pelvic bowl- this helps align a baby that is coming in too vertically with the opening of the bowl.

👍And the ever popular “Flying Cowgirl” aka side bow position with the knees held open by a peanut ball or several pillows.

If labor seems to be slowing, or you’re having a huge amount of pinchy, burny, grindy pain with the contractions (and especially if it’s also there between them!) Then focus on physically making space in the top level of the pelvic bowl to literally get out of baby’s way.

If you want to move the baby, move mom. But in the way that’s most effective.

This is what I teach in all my Prenatal Yoga classes as well as the Spinning Babies Birth Prep class. Links in Bio.

06/01/2026

Short answer, No.

No one MUST stick their fingers in your va**na to determine whether baby is descending.

Yes that will give you an actual number, but the number isn't the only indicator.

Where sensations are focused can tell us where our body is yielding because that's where the deep pelvic nerves are being stimulated.

No that's not something we're used to listening to. But it is something we're can learn.

And if we have a guess of what level the baby is interacting with, then we could also try doing movements that will open that level, and see if things sync up.

Tuck for the top of the pelvis
Go sideways in the middle (where the baby spins)
And stick your butt out for the base (open your butt when there's something stuck there ;) )

We don't need to always have people outside our bodies tell us what's going on.

We can feel it from the inside out.

I teach these skills in every prenatal yoga class and also in the Spinning babies class. Links to the upcoming sessions in Bio.

The psoas is one of those muscles that doesn’t get talked about enough in pregnancy.But it plays a big role.It’s not jus...
05/29/2026

The psoas is one of those muscles that doesn’t get talked about enough in pregnancy.

But it plays a big role.

It’s not just structural—it’s also responsive to stress.
Which means tension here can show up from both physical patterns and emotional ones.

When the psoas is holding, it can subtly impact space and mobility in the pelvis.

This is why we work with it gently—
not forcing release, but creating conditions where it can soften and respond.

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