This has been 10 years in the making.

I was hiking into the Desolation Wilderness, pack on my back, Lake Tahoe just coming into view. I had recently finished a Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training in San Francisco and was thinking about how little support there really was for pregnant folks navigating a changing body.

I was mulling over how ideas from that training connected with what I already knew from years of studying and teaching the Alexander Technique — a somatic practice that explores posture, ease, and nervous system safety. It’s also where many people land when they’ve tried everything for chronic low back pain.

And I remember thinking: Why aren’t we talking about these things in pregnancy? This would help! 
But also: Maybe I should wait until I’m pregnant...

Five years passed.
In that time, my yoga teaching was thriving. My classes were full, I was leading retreats in far-off places, and working privately with people who win music awards. A Korean princess once called me a national treasure.

Then came the pandemic. Everything fell apart. And I got pregnant.

That old question — how to support pregnant folks, especially those with persistent low back pain — came rushing back.

I created a series of prenatal yoga classes, but it didn’t get at it. I couldn’t yet wrap my mind around how to translate what my body already knew. It wasn’t until my second pregnancy that it began to come into focus.

The missing piece came when I began to link deep core support with deep ease — the kind cultivated through the Alexander Technique — and to pull it apart layer by layer so that it was simple and actionable. That progression became the heart of this reset.

I’ve spent my adult life learning how to listen to the body — in myself, in my students, and now through the shifting terrain of pregnancy and postpartum. And I’ve distilled the essential parts of that here.