What is Postnatal Yoga?
Postnatal yoga is the perfect way to rebalance your body and rejuvenate energy after giving birth, helping to strengthen the pelvic floor and rebuild core awareness.
You will be guided through a series of yoga poses synchronised with the breath to release any tension, bringing a moment’s calm to those sometimes-challenging newborn days. The class is a great opportunity to connect with other mums and discuss common concerns as well as engage with your baby by sharing your postnatal yoga class.
Feel free to nurse, bounce, feed and walk around as needed. The class is open to mothers 6 weeks post-birth (or until ‘signed off’ by a GP) and to all pre-crawling babies. Yoga mats and props are provided but please bring a muslin or blanket for baby to lie on.
Please note, if you have booked into a Postnatal class in Peckham and have a buggy, you can use the lift at the bottom of the Red Staircase. Press the bell and a member of the team will help you into the studio.
Meet your Post-Natal Yoga Class Teachers!
At Yogarise London, we are lucky to have some of the best Post-Natal Yoga teachers in London. Read on to find out more about them!
Alexa Dean
Alexa is a Senior Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga Teacher and Trainer, Birth Doula, Hypnobirthing Educator and Massage Therapist. She is passionate about supporting women through the transformative journey into parenthood, helping them connect with their bodies, trust their instincts and feel informed, confident and empowered throughout pregnancy, birth and beyond.
Originally trained as a Hatha Yoga Teacher at triyoga London and later in Vinyasa Flow Yoga in India, Alexa went on to specialise in Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga, studying with leading teachers including Nadia Narain, YogaBirth, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and Uma Dinsmore Tuli. She also trained in Baby Yoga with Birthlight, founded by Françoise Freedman.
Alexa’s extensive training includes certification as a Birth Doula, Hypnobirthing Educator and Massage Therapist, with specialist experience in fertility, pregnancy, postnatal and baby massage. She has further deepened her understanding of birth through training and mentorship with respected pioneers in the field, including Dr Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, Natoli Vinaver, Robin Lim, Debra Pascali-Bonaro and Angelina Martinez Miranda.
Her teaching combines warmth, experience and evidence based knowledge, creating a nurturing and supportive space for mothers and babies to thrive.
For more information, please visit her website or find her on instagram.
Alexa teaches in Peckham.
Orishemma Shombe
Orishemma Shombe discovered the benefits of yoga and meditation over 20 years ago. This instigated her journey on becoming a complementary health practitioner in multiple disciplines, including: homeopathy, nutrition and massage. In 2002, whilst pregnant with her first child, Orishemma reluctantly participated in a pregnancy yoga class – this would be the catalyst that spurred her to train with the world-renowned Francoise Barbira Freedman, founder of Birthlight, in 2005.
Since then, Orishemma has passionately continued her perinatal yoga training and expanded to children’s, teens and family yoga along with nurturing baby massage. She is a mother of three and works as a Lactation Consultant in the NHS with the vision of making perinatal yoga more widely accessible throughout the establishment. “Orishemma’s classes emanate an abundance of joyous loving energy, celebrating the union of parent and child.”
Orishemma teaches in Streatham.
Louise Brown
Louise Brown started her yoga journey in London spending years practicing Rocket, giving her the wings to fly and a passion for inversions, breath, bandhas and pranayama as well as a desire to delve deeper, before moving to Los Angeles in 2017. Her training at Liberation Yoga in LA filled her heart and practice with love, courage and deep spiritual roots. She loves to share this practice with others, putting together creative and inspiring sequences always coming from an inclusive place.
Her classes include spirituality, meditation and pranayama, encouraging people to come back to themselves one breath at a time. Since moving back to London she has continued her learning with trainings in Hatha, Vinyasa, Mandala, Rocket & Yin yoga.
She loves to be a constant student, seeking wonder and knowledge through all of her teachings, finding inspiration from her students and teachers alike. She teaches across London and loves to share this practice as part of a community. With a focus on creating joy in movement and cultivating space in body and mind. She gives thanks to her teachers past and present and is passionate about sharing this transformational practice.
Louise teaches in Peckham.
Deanne Oram
Deanne Oram is an experienced senior Yoga teacher with over 25 years of teaching yoga and mindful meditation. She is an active birth doula, postnatal health therapist, certified child birth educator, a women’s health mentor, mother of 2 and thrives in building support in communities.
Deanne’s mission to serve has always been focused on empowering Women. Guiding them to learn and embrace their own experiences through all the life changing transitions, to improve their personal health & to connect to their deep innate wisdom through conception, pregnancy and motherhood. Deanne is well known for providing an inclusive, nurturing, supportive yet pragmatic approach to her classes.
She roots all her classes, workshops and courses in up to date evidence based in science and biomechanics. With deep knowledge alongside ancient and personal wisdoms to give you an all inclusive holistic approach.
Deanne teaches in Queen’s Park.
