Looking for a great Pregnancy Yoga Class?
You’ve come to the right place! Yogarise has Pregnancy Yoga and Postnatal Yoga classes in both Streatham and Peckhamstudios in South London. Discover more about the benefits of antenatal yoga classes – we’d love to welcome you (and your bump) to our friendly community.
What is Pregnancy Yoga?
Pregnancy yoga sessions are a great way to connect with your baby, take some time out of your busy week, and help to relieve common aches and pains while gaining strength and preparing you for an active labour and birth.
You can expect a slow flow pregnancy yoga class with specific prenatal postures to help you stay grounded, light, and energised during pregnancy.
Through a combination of yoga postures, breathing techniques, pelvic floor exercises and relaxation, you can hope to leave the class relaxed, nurtured and empowered alongside a new network of supportive friends.
Suitable from 15 weeks of pregnancy to birth.
Meet your Teachers!
At Yogarise, we are lucky to have some of the best Pregnancy Yoga teachers in London. Read on to find out more about them!
Vanessa Abreu
Vanessa is a Portuguese/Mozambican dance artist, yoga, barre and dance teacher and a qualified nutritional therapist based in London. She completed a 200hrs TTC in Ashtanga & Vinyasa at Sampoorna Yoga, Goa, Restorative Yoga with Adelene Cheong and Yin Yoga with The Yoga People.
Vanessa’s classes encourage the cultivation of self-care, physical and mental well-being. They draw from anatomical principals with a strong emphasis on the breath. Vanessa has created an accessible and grounding practice that will carry you at the same time as developing functional, safe alignment.
Vanessa teaches in Peckham.
Ayesha Sowani
Ayesha Sowani is Indian and grew up in various countries across Asia. She first encountered yoga at a young age through her family and has been practicing ever since. She trained as an upholsterer and found that yoga was a fantastic way to balance her mind and body for a physical job. Her interests and belief in yoga as healing and grounding for both body and mind led her to want to further her understanding and knowledge of the subject in both theory and practice. Ayesha completed her 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training with Yogarise and has since taught one-to-one and group sessions regularly.
Through the journey of Ayesha’s own pregnancy, she came to train with leading Prenatal teachers, Tara Lee and Clare Daniell at Yogarise, during her second trimester. While pregnant, she noticed that there was a lot of emphasis on what women ‘should not’ do, rather than on what they are capable of. This sent her on a quest to empower herself through movement.
Ayesha’s Pregnancy classes are structured through a series of seated, standing and kneeling postures which are linked through breath to cultivate a mindful awareness in movement. Movements are adapted to the needs of students who are experiencing the variety of changes that pregnancy can create within a physical and emotional body. Classes end with either guided meditation or simple techniques in pranayama (breath-work) which can be used throughout labour or life in general. Students are encouraged to find space and room within their bodies and flow through movements which build strength, flexibility and relaxation. At the heart of Ayesha’s class is the same ‘8 limbs’ that link all practices of yoga, building strong fundamentals to carry on the practice postpartum.
Ayesha teaches in Peckham.
Lucy Baker-Jones
Lucy Baker-Jones came to yoga after she’d been teaching skiing for a few years and had one too many ski accidents that she needed to rehab. She did 500 hours of teacher training in San Francisco with Darren Main, Janet Stone, Mark Morford, Chrisandra Fox Walker, Rod Stryker and Katie Silcox, and has been teaching yoga since 2013.
She completed her pregnancy training at Yogarise with Tara Lee and Clare Daniell. Lucy is also a medical herbalist and she sees patients in her clinic in London. She has two young daughters and found yoga a very useful tool for supporting her health throughout her pregnancies. Lucy’s yoga classes are welcoming and relaxed. She encourages her students to find the practise that works best for them, and is there to encourage them along the way. Lucy aims to help her students find a sense of calm and resilience through yoga that can support them in their daily lives.
Lucy teaches in Streatham.
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.
Deanna teaches in Queen’s Park.
