Prenatal Yoga
This prenatal yoga series is offered in person at Embody Yoga and live online via Zoom. No yoga experience is necessary, and if you can’t attend live, recordings are available for one week after each class.
Suitable for expectant moms from 12 weeks through delivery, this class helps you nourish, soothe, and honour your changing body while connecting with other expectant moms in a supportive, non-judgmental environment.
What to Expect
The beginning of the 10-week series include more birth education and standing/active postures, and then gradually shifts towards more soft, supported, and restorative postures, encouraging release and deeper rest as the series progresses and mom gets closer to birth.
Classes include:
- Thoughtfully adapted fundamental yoga postures to accommodate your changing body as you progress through pregnancy, focusing on strength, mobility, and preparation for birth
- Supreme Release Yoga (SRY), which works deeply to release spinal and pelvic tension
- Restorative postures to rejuvenate and replenish
- Pranayama and guided awareness practices to support nervous system balance and integration
Education, Connection & Support
Each week includes pregnancy- and birth-related education to help foster trust in your innate wisdom for pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. Through being better resourced, you have a deeper capacity to step into your agency and advocate for the needs of you and your baby in alignment with your values. There is also space to connect and share with other expectant moms in a supportive circle.
This class honors the full range of pregnancy experiences, joy, excitement, uncertainty, and fear, and encourages you to meet yourself with compassion and grace, leaning into support along the way.
Benefits may include:
- Improved strength and stability
- Relief from common aches, discomforts, and tension
- Preparation of body, breath, and nervous system for birth
- Reduced swelling and edema
- Greater calm and emotional steadiness
- Deeper connection with your baby
- Support for postpartum recovery
- Connection with other expectant moms
A Note from Nicole
My own path to parenthood came with many challenges, and in 2017 we were blessed to welcome our miracle daughter through IVF. Living through that experience shaped my teaching and deepened my understanding of how vital support, community, and nourishing practices are for both the body and the emotional landscape of pregnancy.
This Prenatal Yoga class is something I’ve created to offer you a space of care and steadiness—where you can soften into support, feel held, and trust your body’s innate wisdom as you move through pregnancy and prepare to welcome your baby.
8-Week Spring 2026 Session
Monday, Apirl 27 – June 22 (skipping May 18)
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Investment: $160 +HST
See below to register for either IN STUDIO at Embody or ONLINE via Zoom. Students have access to the class recording for one week after the live class.
Purchases are non-refundable and non-transferable. By registering for this series you are agreeing to our Studio Policies, Terms of Use, and COVID-19 Studio Guidelines.
In Studio at Embody
Virtual via Zoom
Winter 2026 Session – Join Anytime!
In Studio or Online via Zoom
Ends Monday, Mar 23
6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
***Our Winter 2026 Session has already begun, but please email us to secure your spot for the remainder of the session.**
The things I learned at [prenatal] yoga helped immensely, and for that I am grateful. The breathing and learning about staying calm put me in the right mindset. It felt uncomfortable sitting or lying. The only thing that felt okay was standing. When a contraction came on, I would use either the wall or [my husband’s] and [my mom’s] shoulders to do modified downward dog. I did a lot of time in the tub, too. Learning the techniques to stay calm and positions helped me have the natural labour that I wanted. I’m so happy I went to yoga and look forward to doing more again soon.
I’ve practiced yoga before, but I wasn’t quite sure what to expect out of a prenatal yoga class. The prenatal class with Nicole has exceeded my expectations. Not only did I learn how to modify yoga for my changing body, but I also learning so much about how my body is changing and how I can encourage baby to be in a better position for labor and delivery. Although I know that “plans” may go out with window with labor and delivery, my outlook heading into labor and delivery has certainly changed and I look forward to getting an opportunity to use what I’ve learned as I bring baby into the world!
It’s a Girl! She was a few days over due is doing wonderful. Thanks for the pre-natal classes, they certainly helped throughout my pregnancy and labour. It’s true what the other girls in the class have said. I really did draw on the deep breathing techniques/methods during the delivery. Also, I think that the muscle toning throughout the prenatal yoga has helped, as the nurse had commented on the weight loss in the belly & abdomen area after baby girl was born (woohoo!).
