My Birth Story Featured on Yoga|Birth|Babies Podcast!

This month Deb Flashenberg featured me on her podcast Yoga | Birth | Babies. I’ve been a fan of this podcast for a long time, so when I was invited to share my story I was thrilled! This program is an amazing resource for parents, aspiring parents, educators, and anyone interested in the worlds of birth and yoga. Deb is the founder and director of the Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC, a doula and childbirth educator, and I’m proud to say, my teacher! The conversation we had six weeks after I gave birth was honest and vulnerable, and I’m glad to share it with you.

Today on Yoga| Birth| Babies Dia Dearstyne shares her birth story. Dia is a professional dancer turned yoga teacher who I had the pleasure of meeting during her Prenatal Yoga Teacher training with me at PYC. She’s absolutely wonderful and I really enjoy this conversation. What you’re going to hear is how Dia had envisioned her birth and how it turned out, how she used her yoga practice and her pranayama throughout the birth, and really how she was able to use concentration and breath to help her through some really difficult moments. She also shares a bit about stumbling through postpartum as many of us, in fact I’d venture to say all of us, do. It can be bumpy and I love that we talk about that so that we take away any idea that everything’s always smooth sailing. Let’s wipe that away and recognize that the transition into parenthood has its ups and downs and Dia so beautifully talks about that.