Yoga & Wellness for the Perinatal Experience
BYC is privileged to provide a variety of wellness offerings to support your growing family while honoring this deeply transformative time of life. Our aim is to invite healing into the space of mothering and celebrate community connection among expecting parents. Explore our weekly prenatal yoga classes, Parent+Baby and post-natal event series, 45-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, perinatal massage, and more below. We recommend booking spots early, as our perinatal offerings tend to fill up quickly!
Weekly Prenatal Classes
Join at any stage of your pregnancy journey to connect with your body, your baby, and other parents-to-be, as we move through mindfully curated sequences that involve movement, breath, and meditation while honoring the physiological processes of pregnancy. We regularly offer 75-minute classes twice week.
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Thursdays
w/ Jacque Sweet
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Sundays
w/ Jenna Walenga
Prenatal Pop-Up Classes
Periodically, we’ll offer "Pop-Up Prenatal Yoga" sessions based on demand, typically held on weekday afternoons for several weeks at a time. While not currently active, these sessions offer a flexible addition to our regular weekly classes. Stay informed about upcoming sessions, events, and class additions by subscribing to our Prenatal Yoga mailing list below!
Join our Prenatal Yoga Mailing List
Workshops, Series & Events
Parent + Baby Yoga: Summer Series
with Jacque Sweet
Join Jacque a few select Saturday afternoons for quality time with your babies (up to 16 months age). You can expect a loose structure with space to explore breathing techniques that invite calm and grounding, as well as movement with your little ones! Come together with this special community and share your intimate connections.
June 8, 15, 22 & 29
Saturdays | 1:30 - 2:15 p.m.
Investment:
Single Session — $22 | All (4) Sessions — $75
Fall Postpartum Yoga Series (Babies Welcome!)
with Jenna Walenga
September 15, 22 & 29
Sundays | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Join Jenna on three Sunday afternoons this fall for a postnatal yoga series to reconnect with your body and restore your well-being. You can expect a loose structure with space to explore breath techniques that invite calm and grounding, as well as gentle movement to ease you back into your yoga practice. Those who are looking to spend quality time with their little one and would like to bring their baby, are invited to do so! Infants to pre-crawling stage will be admitted.
Investment:
Single Session — $22 | All (3) Sessions — $60
Preparing the Mind and Body for Birth
with Anna Dowling (MD, FACOG)
September 21
Saturday | 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Explore how regular mindfulness practices like meditation and yoga lead to better birth outcomes and more empowering birth experiences during this special 2-hour workshop led by MD & Ob/Gyn, Anna Dowling of Birth Story Obstetrics. Other topics Anna will address include nervous system regulation, interrupting the pain-fear cycle, learning to trust your innate wisdom, as well as the importance of having a solid birth team including a provider who you trust and supports your desires.
Investment:
$40
Prenatal Yoga Training
September 13 - 15 & 20 - 22, 2024
Join Jacque and Kelly for a comprehensive 45-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training. Learn how to safely and skillfully guide prenatal students throughout all trimesters of pregnancy. This 45-hour immersion will support you in understanding how to modify postures and group classes to support healthy pregnancy and birth, anatomy, pranayamas, and much more.
Details:
September
13 - 15 & 20 - 22
Fri | 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sat & Sun | 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
(45) CEUs
$675 / Standard Pricing
$625 / Graduates of BYC’s 200-Hr YTT
This immersion is open to yoga teachers, serious students, and healthcare professionals such as midwives, doulas, or others interested in supporting expectant parents with yoga. A basic understanding of anatomy and alignment principles is required. Upon successful completion, you may apply these 45 hours toward Yoga Alliance continuing education hours OR can be applied toward a full 85-hour RPYT certification (additional training hours required). Please note that this training takes place at our Lynden Yoga Collective studio location.
Perinatal Massage
In addition to traditional therapeutic massage at BYC, we offer specialized perinatal massage to support you through every stage of your pregnancy. Our experienced therapists are trained in prenatal and postnatal massage techniques, providing tailored treatments to help you nurture yourself as your body grows a new life and through the recovery process.
Massage during the perinatal period can help reduce stress, ease muscle aches and cramps, improve blood and lymph flow, manage swelling, alleviate stress on joints, support the immune system, reduce prenatal complications, and improve body awareness (which can be especially helpful during the birth process). Similarly, Post-natal massage can help you recover from birth, ease shoulder and neck tension from constantly holding that bundle of joy, and facilitate healing of injuries such as C-section scars, diastasis recti, and pelvic floor dysfunctions.
60-Minute — $90
90-Minute — $130
Perninatal Massage Therapists:
Liesl Schwerin
(LMT)
Massage Therapy | Perinatal
Caroline Snijder van Wissenkerke
(LMT, RES-CPT)
Structural Integration | Perinatal | Partner Massage
Prenatal Yoga Teachers
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Jacque Sweet
E-RYT 500, Anusara-Inspired™ // Prenatal Yoga, Vinyasa, Hatha Flow
Director of Student Experience of BYC Yoga SchoolJacque is a yoga instructor, a mentor, and a director and educator in yoga immersion and teacher training programs at BYC. Her teachings stem from her extensive study with Karen Sprute-Francovich in the Anusara Yoga Methodology. Her specialties include inspired theme-weaving, functional and fluid movement with refined language in principles of alignment and support in empowering one another.
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Jenna Walenga
RYT-200 // Prenatal Yoga, Vinayasa
Jenna believes yoga is a powerful tool with which we can meet ourselves and learn to listen to our own bodies. Her classes create a space in which students are encouraged to follow their own rhythms and callings and to deepen their connection with their intuition. She strives to offer inclusive practices without shying away from the alchemy of moving through challenge. She is trained in iRest Yoga Nidra, Pre/Postnatal Yoga, and Trauma-Informed Yoga, and and brings elements of meditation and dance into many of her classes. -
Kelly Villarreal
E-RYT 500, YACEP // Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative Yoga
Core Faculty Member of BYC Yoga SchoolKelly is a passionate teacher who specializes in movement, mindfulness, and practices to help bring balance to the nervous system. She values the power of community in healing and strives to create transformative experiences and space to connect to and nurture each participant’s own inner wisdom. Her classes offer a fluid combination of yoga philosophy, dynamic movement, and curiosity about both body and breath. Kelly has training in Yin & Restorative Yoga, Pre/Postnatal Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Meditation, Mindfulness, and Mantra Chanting.