Prenatal | Namaste Yoga Center | Metro Detroit Yoga

Welcome! We are so glad you’re here. Our studio and teachers offer a welcoming, safe, and accessible experience for all. While we don’t have a dedicated prenatal class, we do have many teachers who are trained in prenatal yoga and teach classes that are safe and welcoming.

We recommend the classes and teachers listed on this page if you are expecting.

At Namaste, you are doing yoga by simply being in the space with other practicing students and being present with your baby. There are no expectations. Yoga can be relaxing and it will definitely help you nurture yourself and the relationship with your baby.

Prenatal yoga can help you to stay present in your changing body and can help improve your nervous system by calming your mind. It can also help to build stamina and strengthen the body, while balancing changing hormones and reducing stress.

This class specifically safe for prenatal care. It is for all students and can be particularly helpful to those seeking relief from the pain of herniated or bulging discs; chronic muscular tension; spasms in the upper back, neck, and shoulders; tension headaches; and just general stress.
The focus of this class will be on breath, creating space by stretching into places where there is muscular tension/trapped energy, and strengthening the abdominals and lower body. If you have completed physical therapy for back pain or surgery, this class may help ease you back into your routine.
This class specifically safe for prenatal care.
Essential Hatha provides a safe and supportive environment for learning the foundations of yoga. This fully guided class incorporates postures that are intended to calm the mind and breathing. The class starts with a period of focus on your breath or pranayama. You will then be guided through poses or asanas, which are a series of movements that help improve balance, flexibility, and strength. This class concludes with a 3-5 minute savasana.
Essential Hatha offers cues on proper alignment, including multiple variations, providing you with the tools to safely practice yoga in your own unique body.
This class specifically safe for prenatal care. This class has the same foundational aspects of Better Backs and is designed for everyone. Better Backs Yoga uses classic yoga postures to restore and maintain a healthy spine. Special attention is given to chronically tight muscles and joints.
This class is for all students and can be particularly helpful to those seeking relief from pain; chronic muscular tension; tension headaches; and just general stress.
The focus of this class will be on breath, creating space by stretching into places where there is muscular tension/trapped energy, and strengthening the abdominals and lower body. If you have completed physical therapy for back pain or surgery, this class may help ease you back into your routine.
This class specifically safe for prenatal care.
Gentle Hatha provides a safe and supportive environment for learning the foundations of yoga. This fully guided class incorporates postures that are intended to calm the mind and breathing. The class starts with a period of focus on your breath or pranayama. You will then be guided through a combination of gentle yoga poses as well as somatic movement. Somatic movement is a practice of re-educating the way your brain senses and moves muscles through body-mind integration. Small, slow and gentle movements and guidance are used to re-educate your brain so that you can relax and move your muscles more functionally. This class concludes with a 3-5 minute integrative savasana and offering of gratitude.
Gentle Hatha offers cues on proper alignment, including multiple variations, providing you with the tools to safely practice yoga in your own unique body.
This class specifically safe for prenatal care.
Somatic Hatha Yoga is aninnovative blendofHatha Yoga,Somatic Experiencing,Pranayama(breathing techniques), andhealing meditations.
In this practice, we explorenew movement patterns, referred to as“somatic movement flows” that combine classical hatha yoga postures.
This class begins gently and gradually expands into a fully guided practice. You’ll have the flexibility tocustomize your experience, whether you want to modify or intensify movements.
Somatic Experiencing can help you delve into theroot causes of muscular pain, enhance your nervous system resilience, and empower you toreprogram outdated stress patternsstored deep within your body.
Through thesetherapeutic and corrective exercises, you’ll actively participate in your own whole-being wellness journey.