Mother - Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Circle Guide, Qoya Dancer, and Nature Enthusiast. 

For 18 years, Tawny has been teaching movement classes,  leading women’s circles, and hosting retreats in the US and internationally. A 500hr yoga teacher, she started her yoga practice in 1990, and in 2009, opened mBODY - a movement studio she co-owned for 8 years in San Luis Obispo, California. Her passion for wellness led her to India 6 times, where she fell more in love with herbal medicine, Ayurveda, sacred movement, temple spaces, and mythology. She currently leads online and in-person classes, circles and courses from her home in San Luis Obispo California.

Tawny is certified in Kundalini, Hatha, and Prenatal/Postpartum Yoga, a certified Doula, and a certified wholistic sex educator. She taught on the faculty of LEVITYoGA’s Teacher Trainings, Esalen Institute’s Movement Program, and was invited to teach yoga at the White House for Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiatives. 

When Qoya arrived in her life, it was an opening - a dance with an old friend - and a space of homecoming. Tawny loves being a part of the Qoya community, and the opportunity it gives us to trust our innate intelligence and befriend the wisdom within our bodies. She invites others into movement lineages that honor body, spirit, and the power that can be found when they merge. 

Tawny is a certified CAPPA birth doula, as well as a 500-hour certified yoga teacher. She has been teaching pre-and post-natal yoga continuously since 2007. Out of deep respect for the transformation she witnessed in her students, as well as her own experiences with the arrival of her daughter Athena, she embarked on the journey of becoming a doula and has been supporting families since 2015. With years in the wellness world of yoga, nutrition counseling, hosting retreats, meditations, women’s circles, embodied movement class, and more - she believes in the body’s innate wisdom to birth, and find wholeness. Tawny guides women into connection and care of their bodies using various modalities that integrate the mind, body, and spirit. She has witnessed again and again the sacred and initiatory path that is birth and is honored to support families through it.

www.TawnySterios.com

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Wendy Shaw Dahl is a Physical Therapist who became a mother. As a P.T. she rehabilitated hundreds of patients in hospitals and in out-patient private practice. As a mother Wendy helped friends, family and herself avoid pain and injuries during pregnancy and after their babies were born. Combining knowledge and experience, Wendy began catering physical therapy to pre and post natal moms in 2005. Mamamorphosis™, her practice, was created as a haven just for moms to be nurtured; by people who are happy to help when you’re pregnant and after your child is born. Combining knowledge and experience to guide you through the unknown. And to help when you have an issue including healthcare, fitness, social and emotional support, and pampering.

Services include:

Physical Therapy for busy and tired Moms

Prenatal Fitness for an optimal pregnancy and easier labor & delivery

Postpartum Recovery including appropriate exercises when you need them

C-section Recovery for Moms who need a little extra TLC

"Baby" Body Mechanics - hot tips to save your back with the baby (and all baby's equipment)

Safe, gentle techniques that get rid of your pain plus how to keep it away

Always one-on-one with Wendy, no Aides or Assistants

http://www.mamamorphosis.com/

Victoria has been working with youth and families all her adult life. Her professional background is in Environmental & Community Planning. This has transcended to her work supporting the mothers. She sees them as bioindicators of the health of our communities and environment. Some of her past works involved: park ranging and interpretive education leading front country backpacking experiences and hikes for probation department programs, garden education, managing school gardens and nurseries leading classes from Kindergarten to High School as well as leading teacher trainings in the outdoor classrooms, permaculture design and community garden construction with neighborhoods and governmental agencies.

A “lactivist”, she coaches and empowers families in their lactation journeys. A mother of two with one breastfeeding toddler of her own. She has trained as a birth doula with experience in hospitals and homebirths. Postpartum care is where she focuses on with mother centered care in home.

Her mentors and trainers in Closing of the Bones are Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions and Sophie Messager.

You can find Victoria at the Children’s Garden at SLO Botanical Gardens 2x a month facilitating what she calls “village prenatals”. There is a richness that can be found when pregnant folks and postnatal folks witness, validate, and support each other. All in the outdoors and held by the ultimate mother, Earth.

She seeks to deconstruct the term “postpartum” as it is often seen as a mood disorder or finite state after pregnancy. It is forever. Symptoms may arise that are ultimately deeper and more complex. Community is at the foundation of us being whole. We are each on our own journey and are separate yet in this together.

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