Today's vendor spotlight is on readySetGROW!!
readySetGROW offers prenatal and postpartum yoga, kids yoga and dance, childbirth education workshops, and more. Specializing in private lessons in-home for late pregnancy/early postpartum women, group classes and workshops are also available and currently held at various studios in downtown Vancouver and Portland. Expect to see more group class offerings in the next 6 months or so. The goal of readySetGROW is to provide support for families through helping them not only develop strength and flexibility, but body awareness both during pregnancy for moms, and after baby arrives for the whole family. That awareness need not end when you leave class but can extend to your every day activities. Another important part of readySetGROW’s mission is community building (and having a whole lot of fun!). It takes a village to raise a child and it takes a tribe to feel supported. Not only does readySetGROW offer knowledge and guidance in healing and healthy physical practices, but through group classes offers a meeting place (or places really) to find your tribe. Current group classes are Prenatal Yoga, Postpartum/Mommy and Me Yoga, and “Multitasking Mama Yoga” for moms who want a regular Vinyasa Yoga practice while their little one romps and plays (crawling up to 4 years). Kids yoga, dance and classes for the whole family will be coming soon! *For more info, to schedule an in-home private, or to see group class schedule visit andreadySetGROW.com Daniele Strawmyre is a transplant from Philadelphia where she worked as a professional dancer and ran her own dance company. Throughout her career, teaching yoga and dance, as well as other fitness and movement modalities was always a large part of her life, with her students ranging in age from toddlers to the elderly. Her focus in teaching has always been in helping people “increase their body intelligence”, making a distinction between giving a class and teaching a class, wanting her students to leave with new understanding of their habitual movement patterns and with tools to improve their posture, awareness and overall sense of well being (and have lots of fun in the process). She helps her students find ways to access their joy through a more self-aware relationship with their bodies and a more fine-tuned mind-body connection. When she became pregnant with her first child, she became more focused on teaching, specifically Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga. There’s something about the magical energy that resides within pregnant women and new mothers that inspired and energized her. She’s received training as a postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and breastfeeding support person through BAI (Birth Arts International); and has done basic and advanced teacher trainings in Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga and Yogaborn Childbirth Preparation classes through Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts. She holds a degree in dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was inspired to create readySetGROW because I wanted to offer a range of services that was a bridge between the adult members in a family on their journey of becoming parents; and the innocence, joy and curiosity of childhood and growing up…because really they’re not so different. We’re always growing, always changing, always developing more fully into the people we were meant to be. I wanted to support women and mothers in late pregnancy and early postpartum because taking care of oneself empowers and enables the caregiver to provide the best care possible, a necessity often overlooked in the months prior to and directly following giving birth where the focus tends to become external and all about baby. I’m a mother of two young children and a dance teacher and Yoga instructor. My first pregnancy was difficult, my son had a number of very serious health issues as a baby, with lengthy hospital stays, and I lost my own mother to cancer the following year. Shortly after losing my mom, we cleaned out her condo in Sarasota, FL. and relocated to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to my partner’s parents. I had spent my entire adult life visiting my mother in her condo in Sarasota and then lived with her intermittently over the last few years of her life to care for her when she was sick. I was flying back and forth as my son’s doctors and therapists were all in Philadelphia and my mother’s doctors (and life) were all in Sarasota. About 5 months after relocating, I gave birth to our second child, a daughter, who is named after my mother. During all of these difficult times, I found some balance, comfort, and a supportive community while teaching yoga at a studio in Philadelphia that focuses on family called Mama’s Wellness Joint. It inspired me to create a similar haven for mothers and their families here, but I’d like to eventually add dance classes, story-times, and other children’s programming. There are so many different ways to parent. All children are different, all families are different and therefore the same things don’t work for everyone…and that is OK. I want my classes to be inclusive, a safe space for all parents, children and families. My perfect client or student is one that can benefit from more body awareness, from support and community in their lives and in their journey as parents and growing, developing humans. Basically anyone. “LOVED Danielle's classes! I took her prenatal class after/during suffering from some sever hip issues while carrying my twins. She was so supportive, caring and FUNNY during class! She had such a great way of helping us all feel like everything we were going through was ok and incorporated support and emotional connection with yoga and movement!” -Diane Williams, mom to Cooper and Madison, Philadelphia, PA For her raffle item, Daniele is offering one in-home or studio private lesson (an $85 value) with 3 personalized instruction cards you can keep at the end. Instruction cards are normally only included in a 3-session package, so this is an extra special treat!). *Can be used for yourself or as a gift. **Makes a great baby shower gift!
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