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
Lauri Williams
Lauri Williams is a doctor, medical writer and mama with a secret life as a yoga teacher. She teaches dynamic vinyasa flow, as well as classes tailored for prenatal and postnatal parents. Her aim is to help students cultivate awareness of the mind, body and breath, find a balance between strength and ease, and above all enjoy their practice.
Her background lends her a strong anatomical focus, and a passion to make the benefits of yoga accessible to all.
Lauri completed her 200-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with Yogarise in 2019, led by Erin Prichard. Following further specialised trainings and her own personal practice, she is committed to creating empowering, nurturing classes for yogis through their pregnancy and postpartum journeys.
Lauri teaches in Streatham
