February's Feature Practitioner: Ashley Stachon | Sarah Healy Baby Sleep Expert

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❤️12 years teaching yoga

❤️8 years teaching prenatal yoga 

❤️4 years teaching postnatal yoga 

❤️Metta Mama since April 2023

This Mama loves motherhood and all that it is about~

Here is her story:

I had been practicing and teaching a strong Vinyasa Flow for many years before I got pregnant, and honestly thought I would be doing handstands in the delivery room. 

But just six weeks into my pregnancy, I realized my body was shifting and doing extraordinary things.

My yoga practice would have to shift too.

Curious about what was actually happening in my body, I took a deep dive into pregnancy and found myself in a prenatal yoga class at only eight weeks pregnant. It was there that I realized my body, mind, and soul needed a different kind of support as I moved through pregnancy and into motherhood. 

I began teaching prenatal yoga at six months pregnant and have never looked back. Pregnancy and motherhood are such ripe times to lean into the balance between strengthening and softening. The truth is, society does a really poor job preparing women for pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. 

The journey into motherhood with two young children has broken me wide open. It has been an unlearning and a relearning of what it truly means to be strong and resilient, as well as a deep recognition of how desperately we need community as we raise our children. 

That was the impetus behind starting Metta Mama. At our studio, we teach so much more than movement. We build community. We help women redefine what it means to be strong, to let go, and to meet themselves exactly where they are in the transformative reality of the journey