PREGNANCY
Empowering Your Birth & Early Parenthood Journey
​Our comprehensive prenatal program is designed to support ALL pregnant families as you prepare for birth, navigate the birthing process, and embrace breastfeeding and newborn care. We offer a comprehensive childbirth series (both in-person and online), weekly prenatal yoga, a focused breastfeeding course, essential newborn preparation, and a supportive weekly pregnancy circle with our experts.
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Benefit from tailored consultations for family-centered care, where we customize guidance on birth preparation, successful breastfeeding, and all aspects of your newborn's arrival.
Prenatal Yoga & Meditation
Nourish Your Pregnancy Journey
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Embrace this transformative stage of life in our Prenatal Yoga Class. Through the mindful practice of yoga, we combine meditation, breathing techniques, positive affirmation, and gentle movement to foster a meaningful connection with your pregnant body, calm your mind, and uplift your spirit. Our classes are specifically designed to nurture your ever-changing pregnant body, equip you with useful tools for labor and birth, and provide the much-needed relaxation you deserve during pregnancy.
Mindful Movement
Gentle yoga postures and movements to release tension in the physical body, become present with body sensations, and find deep relaxation
Strength & Flexibility
Postures to strengthen the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles, as well as, positions to open the hips and pelvis
Energizing Exercies
Learn to consciously draw vital energy into your body and direct it for targeted healing and empowerment
Ashlee Sakaishi-Wilkin
BS Nutrition, Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Pancha Karma Specialist, CMT, Ayudoula, Labor Doula, Prenatal Yoga Instructor,
Center for Sacred Window Studies
Instructor and Mentor
Mondays at 5:30 PM
The Nest Classroom
Drop-in $10-15, paid to Ashlee
Venmo Preferred
Embracing Pregnancy
Weekly Pregnancy Support: Connect and Thrive
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Are you seeking pregnancy support and connection during your prenatal journey? The Embracing Pregnancy Circle provides a welcoming, safe, and confidential space to connect with other pregnant individuals and mothers-to-be. Combat the feeling of a solo pregnancy by joining our supportive community. This weekly gathering offers dedicated time to embrace your journey alongside others, providing pregnancy support through the many shifts and changes of becoming a parent.
All birthing people are warmly invited. Please bring your dinner, your journal and a pen, and yourself.
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To ensure all families have access to vital pregnancy support, Embracing Pregnancy operates on a donation basis to cover classroom costs, making this valuable prenatal experience FREE for all.
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Facilitated by Ashlee, immediately after Prenatal Yoga & Meditation​
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Mondays at 6:45 PM
The Nest Classroom
Childbirth Education
Embracing Birth & Beyond Series
COMPREHENSIVE VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON
Our cornerstone and comprehensive Nest birthing class package includes childbirth preparation, stages of labor, comfort measures during labor, pain management, birth positions, infant feeding, and more!
IN-PERSON HYBRID CLASS
This is an ACCELERATED in-person hybrid class on labor, birth, and comfort measures.
Welcome To Fatherhood
Pregnancy & Birth Preparation for Fathers
The Welcome To Fatherhood Video Course helps you gain more hands-on knowledge of how to support the birthing parent, wherever you are in the journey into Fatherhood.
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Through a combination of Big Ideas, Dad Tips, and Scary Moments, this Video Course guides your travels through pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Each section contains short, bite-sized videos that set you up for success and build your confidence, calmness, and competence to thrive in the Dad Zone.
No more guessing, vague suggestions, uncertainty, shame, self-doubt, and most importantly, no more Dud Zone failing. This course is perfect for visual learners and brings new examples, anecdotes, and exercises to help you get better connected to your partner and better prepared for Baby.
Use Discount Code WTF30 for 30% off the Video Course
David Arrell is a Consultant and Coach passionate about supporting people as they strive to create greater clarity and alignment of inner values and outer expression. David’s focus on deeper authenticity and richer relationships helps his clients thrive in today’s complex landscape of overlapping career, partnership, and parenting challenges. His recent book Welcome To Fatherhood: The Modern Man's Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Fatherhood, humorously referred to as simply WTF, is specifically tailored to encourage and support men as they grow into Fatherhood.
In addition to WTF, David is also the founder and co-host of Baby Talk w/ Katie & David, a podcast that supports the pregnancy to early parenthood journey.
Newborn Basics
By proactively preparing for your baby's life outside the womb, especially by learning about breastfeeding, newborn care, and establishing support systems, you can create a more attachment-focused and less stressful transition for your family, ultimately supporting successful breastfeeding, healthy milk production, and a positive postpartum experience.
Need additional parenting content?
check out our expert led podcast
A practical and experience-based discussions on babies, births, pregnancy, and early parenthood. Listen in each week as Katie DaMota, a parenting mentor and lactation consultant, and David Arrell, Men’s Coach and author of Welcome To Fatherhood, get together and bring real world experience and authentic voices to all things baby.