We invite you to join Emily Sustar, RPYT, 500 RYT, and Chelsea Barnes, PTA, for a special 4 week Yoga + Strength series for postpartum individuals! We are proud to offer this series FREE to the community through grant funding in collaboration with Gundersen Health from UW School of Medicine and Public Health to improve maternal and infant health and healthy equity in WI. By removing the barrier of cost, individuals of all backgrounds and abilities are empowered to support their physical and mental health in the postpartum period.

Whether you are 6 weeks or 5+ years postpartum, this series will focus on education and movement to empower you to be a STRONG mama. Each week will focus on a different educational topic (i.e. diastasis, pelvic floor, feeding posture, etc) and our yoga + strength practices will support and complement each other. We will give you tools for better movement & breath mechanics, nervous system regulation, rehabbing the body post birth, plus strength building movements. We will start with functional breath and foundational movements and progress each week to meet you where you are at.

Postpartum Yoga with Emily meets Mondays at 12pm and Postpartum Strength with Chelsea meets Wednesdays at 12pm. You are welcome to bring your non-mobile baby with you, or take this time without baby just for you and your healing.

March 24th - April 16th
4 weeks (2 x / week)
Yoga - Mondays at 12pm
Strength - Wednesdays at 12pm

About Emily: (she/ hers) is an advanced Embodied Posture functional RYT 500, RPYT (registered prenatal / postpartum yoga teacher) and the founder and teacher at The Motherhood Collective. Emily is also a Birthing From Within childbirth education mentor and has been teaching vinyasa, prenatal, postpartum, children’s & family, caregiver + baby yoga classes in the La Crosse area for a decade. Emily is a mama to three wild and wonderful kiddos.

About Chelsea: (she / hers) is a mama of 3 littles, and PTA at O’Brien Physical Therapy. She has been in the health and fitness world for over 10 years as a personal trainer, wellness coach, group fitness instructor, and strength and conditioning coach for high school athletes. Her passion is women’s health and pelvic health.

We invite you to join Emily Sustar, RPYT, 500 RYT, and Chelsea Barnes, PTA, for a special 4 week Yoga + Strength series for postpartum individuals! We are proud to offer this series FREE to the community through grant funding in collaboration with Gundersen Health from UW School of Medicine and Public Health to improve maternal and infant health and healthy equity in WI. By removing the barrier of cost, individuals of all backgrounds and abilities are empowered to support their physical and mental health in the postpartum period.

Whether you are 6 weeks or 5+ years postpartum, this series will focus on education and movement to empower you to be a STRONG mama. Each week will focus on a different educational topic (i.e. diastasis, pelvic floor, feeding posture, etc) and our yoga + strength practices will support and complement each other. We will give you tools for better movement & breath mechanics, nervous system regulation, rehabbing the body post birth, plus strength building movements. We will start with functional breath and foundational movements and progress each week to meet you where you are at.

Postpartum Yoga with Emily meets Mondays at 12pm and Postpartum Strength with Chelsea meets Wednesdays at 12pm. You are welcome to bring your non-mobile baby with you, or take this time without baby just for you and your healing.

March 24th - April 16th
4 weeks (2 x / week)
Yoga - Mondays at 12pm
Strength - Wednesdays at 12pm

About Emily: (she/ hers) is an advanced Embodied Posture functional RYT 500, RPYT (registered prenatal / postpartum yoga teacher) and the founder and teacher at The Motherhood Collective. Emily is also a Birthing From Within childbirth education mentor and has been teaching vinyasa, prenatal, postpartum, children’s & family, caregiver + baby yoga classes in the La Crosse area for a decade. Emily is a mama to three wild and wonderful kiddos.

About Chelsea: (she / hers) is a mama of 3 littles, and PTA at O’Brien Physical Therapy. She has been in the health and fitness world for over 10 years as a personal trainer, wellness coach, group fitness instructor, and strength and conditioning coach for high school athletes. Her passion is women’s health and pelvic health.

Prenatal Yoga is the perfect practice for mamas at every stage of pregnancy, from the first trimester to 40 weeks (and beyond!). Each class includes 50-60 minutes of prenatal yoga + discussion and information to support your pregnancy and birth journey. The practice places an emphasis on breath as a tool for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and is both invigorating and gentle. Poses incorporated are intentionally chosen to create a strong, relaxed, and supportive body in pregnancy and to prepare the body and mind for birth.

Prenatal Yoga is the perfect practice for mamas at every stage of pregnancy, from the first trimester to 40 weeks (and beyond!). Each class includes 50-60 minutes of prenatal yoga + discussion and information to support your pregnancy and birth journey. The practice places an emphasis on breath as a tool for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and is both invigorating and gentle. Poses incorporated are intentionally chosen to create a strong, relaxed, and supportive body in pregnancy and to prepare the body and mind for birth.

We invite you to join Emily Sustar, RPYT, 500 RYT, and Chelsea Barnes, PTA, for a special 4 week Yoga + Strength series for postpartum individuals! We are proud to offer this series FREE to the community through grant funding in collaboration with Gundersen Health from UW School of Medicine and Public Health to improve maternal and infant health and healthy equity in WI. By removing the barrier of cost, individuals of all backgrounds and abilities are empowered to support their physical and mental health in the postpartum period.

Whether you are 6 weeks or 5+ years postpartum, this series will focus on education and movement to empower you to be a STRONG mama. Each week will focus on a different educational topic (i.e. diastasis, pelvic floor, feeding posture, etc) and our yoga + strength practices will support and complement each other. We will give you tools for better movement & breath mechanics, nervous system regulation, rehabbing the body post birth, plus strength building movements. We will start with functional breath and foundational movements and progress each week to meet you where you are at.

Postpartum Yoga with Emily meets Mondays at 12pm and Postpartum Strength with Chelsea meets Wednesdays at 12pm. You are welcome to bring your non-mobile baby with you, or take this time without baby just for you and your healing.

March 24th - April 16th
4 weeks (2 x / week)
Yoga - Mondays at 12pm
Strength - Wednesdays at 12pm

About Emily: (she/ hers) is an advanced Embodied Posture functional RYT 500, RPYT (registered prenatal / postpartum yoga teacher) and the founder and teacher at The Motherhood Collective. Emily is also a Birthing From Within childbirth education mentor and has been teaching vinyasa, prenatal, postpartum, children’s & family, caregiver + baby yoga classes in the La Crosse area for a decade. Emily is a mama to three wild and wonderful kiddos.

About Chelsea: (she / hers) is a mama of 3 littles, and PTA at O’Brien Physical Therapy. She has been in the health and fitness world for over 10 years as a personal trainer, wellness coach, group fitness instructor, and strength and conditioning coach for high school athletes. Her passion is women’s health and pelvic health.

We invite you to join Emily Sustar, RPYT, 500 RYT, and Chelsea Barnes, PTA, for a special 4 week Yoga + Strength series for postpartum individuals! We are proud to offer this series FREE to the community through grant funding in collaboration with Gundersen Health from UW School of Medicine and Public Health to improve maternal and infant health and healthy equity in WI. By removing the barrier of cost, individuals of all backgrounds and abilities are empowered to support their physical and mental health in the postpartum period.

Whether you are 6 weeks or 5+ years postpartum, this series will focus on education and movement to empower you to be a STRONG mama. Each week will focus on a different educational topic (i.e. diastasis, pelvic floor, feeding posture, etc) and our yoga + strength practices will support and complement each other. We will give you tools for better movement & breath mechanics, nervous system regulation, rehabbing the body post birth, plus strength building movements. We will start with functional breath and foundational movements and progress each week to meet you where you are at.

Postpartum Yoga with Emily meets Mondays at 12pm and Postpartum Strength with Chelsea meets Wednesdays at 12pm. You are welcome to bring your non-mobile baby with you, or take this time without baby just for you and your healing.

March 24th - April 16th
4 weeks (2 x / week)
Yoga - Mondays at 12pm
Strength - Wednesdays at 12pm

About Emily: (she/ hers) is an advanced Embodied Posture functional RYT 500, RPYT (registered prenatal / postpartum yoga teacher) and the founder and teacher at The Motherhood Collective. Emily is also a Birthing From Within childbirth education mentor and has been teaching vinyasa, prenatal, postpartum, children’s & family, caregiver + baby yoga classes in the La Crosse area for a decade. Emily is a mama to three wild and wonderful kiddos.

About Chelsea: (she / hers) is a mama of 3 littles, and PTA at O’Brien Physical Therapy. She has been in the health and fitness world for over 10 years as a personal trainer, wellness coach, group fitness instructor, and strength and conditioning coach for high school athletes. Her passion is women’s health and pelvic health.

Prenatal Yoga is the perfect practice for mamas at every stage of pregnancy, from the first trimester to 40 weeks (and beyond!). Each class includes 50-60 minutes of prenatal yoga + discussion and information to support your pregnancy and birth journey. The practice places an emphasis on breath as a tool for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and is both invigorating and gentle. Poses incorporated are intentionally chosen to create a strong, relaxed, and supportive body in pregnancy and to prepare the body and mind for birth.

Whether this is your first or your fourth baby, whether you choose to birth at the hospital, at home, or a birthing center, & whether your goal is an unmedicated water birth, scheduled c- section, VBAC, or anything in between, every birthing person deserves to feel empowered to choose the best path for them + their baby.

Join Emily Sustar, RPYT, RYT 500, & Birthing From Within mentor, Erin Edwards, LPN, IBCLC, former long time doula, & L & D nurse, & Corrine Jandrt, RPYT, RYT 200, doula, & holistic childbirth educator, for a comprehensive childbirth preparation course designed to empower both the birthing person and their partner. This course will cover the basics of birth; what happens in labor + delivery & postpartum, coping techniques, movement, breath, and strategies to add to your toolbox for the birth journey, mental and physical preparation for the parenthood transition, the 4th trimester, and breastfeeding / chestfeeding preparation + support.

Week 1- Empowered Pregnancy = Empowered Birth
(scaling expectations, labor theater, pain vs suffering, mindset work, mantras, breath, movement for pregnancy, birth plan, + intentions, coping tools) - Emily & Corrine

Week 2- Basics of Birth + Movement for Labor (basic anatomy, overview of phases / stages of labor & birth, putting it all together & putting it into practice) - Emily & Corrine

Week 3- Immediate Postpartum + 4th trimester (newborn cares, mama repairs, PMADS, boundaries for help postpartum, setting up postpartum support game plan) - Erin

Week 4- Breastfeeding Basics (initiating breastfeeding, the golden hour(s), the first 2 weeks, bottles, pumping basics) - Erin

March 5 - 26th
Wednesdays 6-8pm

Baby + Me yoga classes are sessions of healing and supportive yoga aimed to provide time for bonding with baby, intentional movement and breath to heal the body postpartum, and a chance to connect with other caregivers and babies. Movements and poses in this offering are intentionally chosen to support healing and building strength for postpartum mamas in key areas that undergo a lot during pregnancy and birth (hello - deep core, pelvic floor, glutes, hips, and upper back / neck!). Baby + Me yoga celebrates the differences in your body and the incredible work it has done continues to do.
This class is most appropriate for babies who are 0- 12 months (or are not fully mobile yet).

This class includes connection, & community through sharing information and discussion + a 50-60 minute baby and me yoga class.

Baby + Me yoga classes are sessions of healing and supportive yoga aimed to provide time for bonding with baby, intentional movement and breath to heal the body postpartum, and a chance to connect with other caregivers and babies. Movements and poses in this offering are intentionally chosen to support healing and building strength for postpartum mamas in key areas that undergo a lot during pregnancy and birth (hello - deep core, pelvic floor, glutes, hips, and upper back / neck!). Baby + Me yoga celebrates the differences in your body and the incredible work it has done continues to do.
This class is most appropriate for babies who are 0- 12 months (or are not fully mobile yet).

This class includes connection, & community through sharing information and discussion + a 50-60 minute baby and me yoga class.

Drop your child ages 1-8 years old at the play spot while you attend yoga classes or the Motherhood United Support Group alone or with your baby. This child watch program is on-site & facilitated by our fabulous interns, offering games, art activities, and play, while you move & breathe. This service is free for those attending yoga classes and $10 for those attending the Motherhood United Support Group. Please include your child's name and age when you register.

The Support Group at The Motherhood Collective is a safe haven to nurture new and expectant moms as they enter the magical, mysterious and often challenging time of motherhood. Together we will consciously celebrate the transitions moms face while learning and sharing within a community. This group is a safe and welcoming space for parents identifying as mothers (we welcome all gender identities, biological, and adoptive moms) to share your experiences, concerns, ask questions, and form community with other moms. Sharing this space with other parents promotes your well-being and supports your relationship with your baby during this sweet and at times stressful time of bonding and development. Bring your questions, your stories, and your baby.

This group is facilitated by Emily Sustar, RPYT, RYT 500, Birthing from Within mentor, and founder/ owner at teacher at The Motherhood Collective and Erin Edwards, IBCLC, doula, L & D nurse and owner / founder at Little Bird Lactation along with special guest presenters at least once a month.