Low back pain in
pregnancy is common.

 This course has been on my mind for years.

I was hiking into the backcountry, 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 was for pregnant women navigating a changing body.

I was connecting ideas from that training with what I already knew from years of studying and teaching the Alexander Technique — a somatic practice that looks at how we carry ourselves, and how we get in our own way. It’s also a place people land when they’ve tried everything for low back pain.

And I remember thinking:
Why aren’t we talking about these things in pregnancy?

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 idea about how to support pregnant women 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 only what it needed to be. That progression became the heart of this course.

I’ve spent my adult life inside the practice of listening 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.