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.

Join Bethany of Amaris Healing for a once a month offering at The Motherhood Collective. Bethany is an intuitive reiki practitioner and teacher who focuses on growing the individual's awareness. Every stage of motherhood from raising teens to adults, to capturing the moments with children and toddlers, and growing/conceiving babies come with their own challenges, relearnings, and great rewards. We invite you to join this evening of relaxation and be guided with different tools and insights to better connect to the emotional and energetic body. Each class will begin with space to connect, bond, and learn from one another. Bethany then leads the class into a guided meditation infused with Reiki where each participant receives Reiki as a collective. Not only do we discuss how healing modalities such as meditation and reiki can benefit mother and child, each mother will get to experience the shifts it brings within their lives. The main focus is to bring a stronger connection to oneself and child(ren).

Other benefits from this event might include: reaching a deeper state of sleep, receiving clarity, reducing stress, healing trauma, a sense of release, feeling grounded, feeling anchored to the shifts going on in life, a boost of inspiration and creativity, better connection to our significant other and child(ren), and/or a surge of confidence in who we are. Everyone’s healing will always be unique to them and what is needed in this moment.

Things to bring: water/tea, yoga mat, pillow/blanket, meditation tools, and/or journal

“Within each one of us is a reservoir of peace and wisdom. Within us we have everything we need to navigate life and motherhood.” -Mindful Mamas Club

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.