We've spent the last few posts talking about the foundation of the body: the pelvis, the lower back, the pelvic floor. But as your belly and breasts grow, the weight shift doesn't stop there. It travels up. As the front of your body gets heavier, your shoulders tend to round forward, your chest tightens, and the muscles across your upper back work overtime trying to keep your head upright. The result is that familiar ache between the shoulder blades that so many pregnant peop

Mother's Day is coming up, which has me thinking about the meaning of the holiday. We celebrated it every year with my mom, usually by going on a hike or a bike. Doing something we know she enjoys. But something shifts when you become a mother yourself. Suddenly the day means something different and also something harder to define. Is it your child celebrating you? Mine is too little to know what day it is. Is it your partner honoring the role you play? Is it mothers celebrat

Here's something nobody tells you: obsessively strengthening your pelvic floor could be the thing that stalls your labor. We live in a culture that equates strength with tightness. Grip harder. Hold it together. So when people start thinking about birth prep, the default advice is Kegels. More Kegels. All the Kegels. But here's the problem. If we go back to our three-story house, the pelvic floor is the ground floor. The outlet on the birth journey. And if those muscles are a

If you've been following along with recent posts, you know we've been deep in the anatomy of birth preparation. Pelvic mechanics. Spinal architecture. Back pain. The physical work of getting a body ready for one of the biggest physical experiences of a lifetime. This week we're switching it up. Because the goal of Anywhere Yogi has always been bigger than prenatal yoga. It's about supporting the whole motherhood journey. And that journey involves partners. Which is why we're