Abhyasa Yoga Center
abhyasayogacenter.com
628 Metropolitan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
718.782.8272
Abhyasa Yoga Center offers personal, breath-centered, therapeutic yoga practice to the Williamsburg community. A.Y.C. is pleased to welcome Beth Donnelly Caban (essentialyogabrooklyn.com) for PRENATAL practice and Community Classes. For daily schedule and more info, go to their website. Abhyasa Yoga Center offers personal, breath-centered, therapeutic yoga practice to the Williamsburg community.

Alexandra Beller Dances Yoga and Pilates Studio
http://www.alexandrabellerdances.org/
30 St. Felix Street #1D
Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Ft. Greene)
Adult open classes are $15. They also provide childcare at the same time for $10. The studio is owned by local mom Alexandra Beller who hand-picked the caregiver – the same caregiver who watches over her 1.5 year old son. (24 hr childcare reservation required). And, even better, If you mention this blog, “A Child Grows” you get your first class FREE! (that is up until April 15th, 2008 – tax day. It is in hopes that those of you who are stressed preparing taxes instead smoooooth out with Pilates or Yoga!)
For updated information on classes visit their website

Area Yoga Center
http://www.areayogabrooklyn.com
320 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231 (Carroll Gardens)
718-797-3699
Area offers yoga classes including: Basics, Open, Advanced Beginners, Prenatal, Restorative, Mommy and Me. They offer classes hatha yoga classes in the vinyasa, jivamukti, anusara and Iyengar traditions.All classes include the teachings of yoga philosophy, chanting and meditation.

Bend and Bloom Yoga
http://www.bendandbloom.com
info@bendandbloom.com
708 Sackett St. (between 4th and 5th Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
347-987-3162
Yoga is a fun-filled way for kids to cultivate self-esteem and body awareness. By mimicking animals and shapes in nature kids develop strength, flexibility, coordination and an appreciation for our environment. Children imagine and experience the qualities of other beings—the strength of a wise, old tree; the confidence of a lion; the grace of the wind; the speed of the F train! As kids indulge in imaginative yoga play they learn to focus, to cooperate with peers, and to use their breath to find peace in a stressed out world. Most importantly, children carry these tools into their daily lives!
Our studio allows kids to indulge in yoga fun while parents and caregivers enjoy their own serene practice in the adjacent studio. Caregivers and children can also practice together through our interactive Tots and Family classes.

Bija
www.bijabrooklyn.com
info@bijabrooklyn.com
Classes for crawlers to 8 yrs in expressive dance and yoga at satellite locations throughout Brooklyn. Dance and yoga parties at a number of venues including The Backyard (see below) (or in home). All classes are taught by certified instructors.
718.483.4795

Beth Donnelly Caban
Lara Kohn Thompson
Essential Yoga
www.essentialyogabrooklyn.com
Or contact us at : 917-750-6080 or 718-753-6164
Beth and Lara specialize in Yoga for the childbearing years and offer group and private prenatal / postpartum yoga classes and workshops at various studios around the city, primarily in Brooklyn. They co-teach a Yoga for Labor, Delivery and Early Postpartum workshop for couples.

I took a few prenatal classes with Essential Yoga and they were the best ones I have taken. Beth was fantastic. I highly recommend them!
-Gretchen

I took a Mommy and Baby Class with Lara which was lovely. She concentrated on visual metaphors and goals, ways to work the poses with our babies and educated us about yoga and post-partum yoga all while helping us do correct poses with a simple rythym to follow. I liked her calming style.
-Karen

Essential Yoga
Lara Kohn Thompson
Beth Donnelly Caban
www.essentialyogabrooklyn.com
Or contact us at : 917-750-6080 or 718-753-6164
Beth and Lara specialize in Yoga for the childbearing years and offer group and private prenatal / postpartum yoga classes and workshops at various studios around the city, primarily in Brooklyn. They co-teach a Yoga for Labor, Delivery and Early Postpartum workshop for couples.

I took a few prenatal classes with Essential Yoga and they were the best ones I have taken. Beth was fantastic. I highly recommend them!
-Gretchen

I took a Mommy and Baby Class with Lara which was lovely. She concentrated on visual metaphors and goals, ways to work the poses with our babies and educated us about yoga and post-partum yoga all while helping us do correct poses with a simple rythym to follow. I liked her calming style.
-Karen

Lara is a very warm and knowledgeable teacher.  Her classes were always gentle but still challenging.  Her vast knowledge of the pelvic floor and experience as a mom added to the yoga practice.  She also helped to cultivate a sense of community amongst the other women who now keep in touch.  I highly recommend her classes which are some of the best in the city.
-Michelle

Everyday Family Center at the Everyday Athlete
www.everydayathletestudio.com
136 Union street (between Hicks and Columbia.)
718.852.6300
The Everyday Family is a new center within the Everyday Athlete Studio in Carroll Gardens that is facilitated by experienced Childbirth Educators, Doulas, Midwives, Nurses, and Lactation specialists and caters to the needs of new and expectant families. They have Childbirth Preparation Classes, Breastfeeding and Newborn Care classes, Breastfeeding Support Groups, Colic Support Groups, Prenatal Yoga, pre and postnatal training (with childcare!) and yoga, nutrition, massage, craniosacral therapy, and more.

Go Yoga
www.goyoga.ws
Mom-baby classes and prenatal classes.

Greenhouse Holistic
greenhouseholistic.com
michelle@greenhouseholistic.com
88 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, Ny 11211

783 Driggs Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone – 718-599-3113
Greenhouse Holistic is a Yoga and Hot Stone Spa offering classes in Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates and Belly Dance as well as Healing Services in Hot Stone Massage, Body Treatments, Facials and Acupuncture. We provide a safe enviornment in a spiritually grounded setting for people interested in growth, healing and communtiy. We are now offering Prenatal classes on Mondays and Fridays at 10:00am at our 783 Driggs Ave. location. Beginning Feb. 2nd, 2009. Mommy and Me classes to follow in March.

Groovy Body Pilates
http://www.groovybodypilates.blogspot.com
groovybodypilates@gmail.com
167 State Street, Brooklyn, NY
917.239.1614
Wendy is a mom, wife, freelance book publicist, bookworm, nature lover, and avid Pilates practitioner and instructor. She has been doing Pilates, primarily the Reformer, for over 6 years now. She is certified to teach Pilates Reformer through Balanced Body. Groovy Body Pilates offers affordable, personalized, one-on-one training on a Stott Pilates Reformer in a private home setting in Brooklyn Heights. Pilates, particularly private sessions, can be very expensive when taken at a studio. Her hope with Groovy Body Pilates is to provide the same Pilates experience and benefits, but at a more affordable price.

Karma Kids Yoga
http://www.karmakidsyoga.com/events_workshops.html
downdog@karmakidsyoga.com
646.638.1444
104 West 14th Street
NY 10016
Mom & Baby Yoga (6 weeks – walkers)
This unique class combines yoga and play to get back in shape while strengthening the bond between you and your infant. Experience flowing asanas, challenging postures, and calming restorative time in a playful and safe environment for babies. Learn Baby Yoga exercises to strengthen growing muscles, aid in digestion, promote better sleeping patterns, and help your infant towards their next stage of development. Dads are welcome too! All levels. Class is 1 hour.
Prenatal Yoga
Strengthen mind, body and spirit in preparation for labor and delivery with a class designed to help expectant moms deepen their experience and enjoyment of pregnancy. Class includes yoga postures to address and relieve the common discomforts of pregnancy; relaxation techniques and breathing exercises to ease fear and anxiety; abdominal and pelvic floor toning to enhance postnatal recovery. This class is beneficial at anytime during pregnancy.

Mala Yoga
Angela Clark, Stephanie Creaturo, Christina Hatgis
www.malayoganyc.com
162 Court Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Carroll Gardens)
718-237-YOGA
These well-known and celebrated yoga instructors (recently written up in the New York Observer) teach everything from Basic Yoga, Prenatal, Mommy and Me Yoga, Intermediate/Advanced to gentle Yoga.

Midwood Martial Arts and Family Fitness Center
www.midwoodmartialarts.com
1302 Avenue H (at the corner of E. 13th Street)
Brooklyn, NY (Ditmas) 11230
tel: 718-258-KICK (5425)
Classes include: Yoga and Pilates once a week each, Yoga offered four times per week (including a weekday at noon, a late evening and two weekend classes). In addition, they have other offerings; Aikido, Capoeira, Karate, Tai Chi, Wing Chun Kung Fu/Catch as Catch Can Wrestling/Western Boxing, African Dance, Cardio Kickboxing, Pilates, Chi Gung, Feldenkrais, Nei Kung, Pilates Mat, Yoga, GymStars, Juguemos A Cantar, Creative Movement, Music and Rhythm, Pre-Ballet, Sign-A-Song, Story Time, Yoga for Children.

Mommy/Baby Integrative Pilates
www.charlotteblakenyc.com
www.sanghayoganyc.com
charblake@gmail.com
Sangha Yoga Shala: 107 N.3rd #2H (between Berry and Wythe)
Personal phone: 803.960.4590 (for anyone who may have questions about class)
Mommy/Baby Integrative Pilates is designed for a postpartum mother with a pre-crawling baby. Bring your baby to class with you while you start or continue the journey back into pre-pregnancy jeans! This class will focus on rehabilitating the postpartum body while offering challenging, low impact exercises to bring the heart rate up and help shed the “baby weight”. Taught by personal trainer and pilates instructor, Charlotte Blake, expect a whole body workout that will focus on strengthening and rehabilitating the core, working the pelvic floor, relieving common new-mom aches and pains, releasing stress, and losing weight. Mommy/Baby Integrative Pilates is offered Monday and Wednesday at 11am, a time that fits well with the schedules of most babies. It is also the perfect time of day to go out to a healthy lunch, post class, with new mothers you will meet in your Williamsburg community.

Namaste Williamsburg
www.NamasteWilliamsburg.com
336 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 874 3484
info@namastewilliamsburg.com
They offer prenatal yoga, hatha yoga, reiki, cranial sacral therapy, massage and a steam room.Classes are $15 suggested donation. Namaste also provides Pre-Natal Massage.

Park Slope Yoga Center
792 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY
718-789-2288
Prenatal and mommy and me yoga classes. Classes also involve breathing exercises, baby massage and singing with babies.

Pilates Garage
http://www.pilatesgarage.com
291 8th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215 (Park Slope)
(718) 768-1235
The Pilates Garage specializes in private or one-on-one sessions with the apparatus. We also offer small group mat classes and semi-private mat and apparatus combination classes.

The Prenatal Yoga Center
www.prenatalyogacenter.com
info@prenatalyogacenter.com
212-362-2985
Prenatal Yoga Center at Easeful Body
Easeful Body
235 Warren St (at Court St),
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Cobble Hill)
The Prenatal Yoga Center hosts its unique program at Easeful Body in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Catering to the needs of the students, this class links yoga postures with breath, helping to bring awareness to the mind and body as well as a connection to your baby. The program, conducted in a calm, peaceful environment, will help strengthen the uterus and pelvic muscles, improve circulation and
increase overall comfort. Yoga can also alleviate many of the discomforts of pregnancy. A safe, open community allows you to freely discuss any issues or concerns and share the wonderful new changes you
and your baby are experiencing.  Teacher: Lisa Feuer

Prenatal Yoga in Park Slope
www.BethYoga.com
Beth@BethYoga.com
646.206.0514 or 718.788.0859
Classes at BAX, 421 Fifth Ave, at 8th ST.

Beth has been teaching prenatal yoga at Yogaworks studios in NYC for the last five years.  She is a Brooklyn mother of two and is happy to now be teaching here in Brooklyn.  She recieved her prenatal yoga certification through the Prenatal Yoga Center, and is working on a childbirth education certification.  Join her to ease the aches and pains of pregnancy and to celebrate the changes in your life with other new mothers.
Red Hook Yoga
http://www.redhookyoga.com/
186 Richards St. between Dikeman & Wolcott
Red Hook, Brooklyn
718-596-1634
We offer daily Ashtanga Yoga classes, Basics classes structured around alignment and correct breathing, Intermediate Vinyasa, and Anusara Styles. We have Pre-Natal / Fertility Yoga on Sundays from 12:30 – 1:30pm, which is effective for ladies who are trying to conceive, who are already preggers, and post-partum.

Sangha Yoga Shala
www.sanghayoganyc.com
info@sanghayoganyc.com
107 N 3rd St #2H, 11211
7183842097
Brand spanking new yoga studio offering prenatal yoga, postpartum mommy and me pilates, and kids yoga!

Lara Kohn Thompson
Beth Donnelly Caban
Essential Yoga
www.essentialyogabrooklyn.com
Or contact us at : 917-750-6080 or 718-753-6164
Beth and Lara specialize in Yoga for the childbearing years and offer group and private prenatal / postpartum yoga classes and workshops at various studios around the city, primarily in Brooklyn. They co-teach a Yoga for Labor, Delivery and Early Postpartum workshop for couples.

I took a few prenatal classes with Essential Yoga and they were the best ones I have taken. Beth was fantastic. I highly recommend them!
-Gretchen

I took a Mommy and Baby Class with Lara which was lovely. She concentrated on visual metaphors and goals, ways to work the poses with our babies and educated us about yoga and post-partum yoga all while helping us do correct poses with a simple rythym to follow. I liked her calming style.
-Karen

True North Wellness
www.TrueNorthWellness.com
Ellynne@TrueNorthWellness.com
61 Tompkins Place Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-643-6064
True North Wellness  offers counseling for pregnancy related and post partum issues,  bonding and attachment work for parents and baby, conscious parenting guidance, new parent support groups, pre-natal yoga, and craniosacral  and polarity therapies to assist pregnancy and heal birth stress for mother and baby as well as address sleep, nursing, and colic issues.
New Parent Support Group (Tuesdays from 10-11:30), Prenatal Yoga and Movement (6:30-8 pm)

Bios:
ROGER GILCHRIST, MA, RPP, RCST® is an integrative therapist, combining psychotherapy, polarity therapy, and craniosacral therapy. He has worked in mainstream healthcare as well as complementary settings. Roger’s clinical practice emphasizes structural and functional issues, recovery from chronic conditions, and the mind-body interface. Roger teaches craniosacral biodynamics internationally and has presented on energy medicine for the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of the book, Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body, and several articles on integrative therapy in trade magazines and peer-reviewed journals. Roger is the founder of Wellness Institute, an energy medicine training school.

ELLYNNE SKOVE, MA, LCAT, NCC, RPP, is a New York state licensed therapist, yoga teacher, nationally certified counselor, and Polarity therapist. She has worked for over 25 years with all kinds of children and has created numerous programs for learning disabled and special needs children. Ellynne studied developmental movement/Dynamic Anatomy with the late Nancy Topf for 15 years, Body/Mind Centering, Brain Gym and most recently Yoga for the Special Child with Sonia Sumar. Ellynne has served on the staff of Families First, RealBirth, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the Om Yoga Center Wellness Sanctuary. She recently opened her own space, True North Wellness in Brooklyn, where she sees private clients for body/mind integrative therapies and teaches prenatal yoga and conscious parenting work. Ellynne has presented programs in developmental movement, yoga, and polarity therapy for The American Dance Therapy Association, The American Polarity Therapy Association, Area Yoga & Spa, Vira Yoga, Pentacle, and The Open Center Polarity Program. Additionally, over the past two decades, Ellynne has served as a consultant and faculty member for numerous New York City schools specializing in early intervention. Currently Ellynne is a student of Pre and Peri Natal Psychology at The Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.

Yin Yang Yoga
http://www.yinyangyoga.com
748 Myrtle (Bedford and Nostrand)
Brooklyn, NY (Bed-Sty, Clinton Hill)
718-875-2648
Offers yoga classes and workshops for children, teens, and adults. Adventure Family Yoga, for children ages two to five and their parent/guardian, teaches yoga asanas and and breath exercises using games, songs, stories, and imagination. Families may even get to clown around – the workshop is led by Deven Sisler, who is not only a registered Yoga Alliance certified teacher, but a professional clown as well.

Yoga People
http://www.yoga-people.com
downdog@karmakidsyoga.com
157 Remsen St (btw. Clinton and Court)
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (BOCOCA)
718-522-9642
Karma Kids leads yoga classes for toddlers and kids through age nine during the week, and Family Yoga classes on Saturdays, at Yoga People.

Vayu Yoga Center
www.vayuyoga.com
259 Columbia St. (bet. President & Carroll)
718.403.0305
Yoga for all ages and stages including: prenatal yoga, baby and me yoga, toddler yoga and family yoga.