Hot Mama Yoga~more than a sexy bump

Hot Mama Yoga is about empowering woman, their changing bodies, and through them, their partners and children.

By empowering woman in their bodies during the most important time of their life, I feel that I can bring the consciousness back to the support of the sisterhood.

Hot Mama Yoga is about bringing women back to the source of spiritual experiences through pregnancy and birth. A time in life that has been forgotten where women support women, where women sit in circles of women and remind each other of themselves when they forget.

First Trimester

The first trimester is a beautiful time to connect with your already changing body. A moment in time to sit back and take in the powerful shift from maiden to mother. A time to honor your changing body from within, before any visual changes happen. The first trimester is a time to embody the willingness to care for yourself first so that you may better show up for your child in the future. You deserve to receive! A beautiful changing body deserves to be treated like a goddess.

Second Trimester

The second trimester is all about your changing body and the growing baby. A time to honor every single cell that is created by all that you do in your body and your life for the highest good of your baby growing in your womb. This time is a time for aligning your values as a mother and how you wish to bring this beautiful soul into the world. Manifesting the type of difference you wish your child to be a part of without expectations. A time when you start to feel the baby, to connect with this soul being on a physical level . This is the time to call in your sisters to support your vision of a healthy happy birth and begin to manifest birthday with intention.

Third Trimester

Your growing body is now in full realm of goddess awaiting! This is the time to move inward to a place of deep connection with your child that is now almost fully grown. Beginning to connect with your child’s rhythms and patterns. This is a beautiful time to have “conversations” with your baby and share your inner most desires and wishes for their well being. This is the beginning stages of integrating this amazing soul into your family and be present for its responses to your connections. A deep meditative time in your life and the closest connection to mother earth ever to be felt.

Post Partum

After your baby is born, becomes a time that you can just “be”with your baby. No expectations, no place to be other than fully connected to your new child. This is the time to be one with your baby. As you nourish your child with the nectar of your breasts, you nourish yourself with love and stillness. A time to release ideas and control and surrender into “what is” with your new baby. Allowing yourself to naturally find your way and do as nature and your baby guides you to do.

Buddha Baby

Buddha baby is about connecting to your baby as you connect back to your body. Reminding yourself that it took you 9 months to make this beautiful baby and that sacred non-judgmental time will bring you to a place of understanding with your new rhythms and motherly figure. A special moment in time that you have just for you and your baby to share in a stillness that can guide your life as mother and child. A place where you can teach your child by example what it is to be centered, loving and understanding with yourself. A time to connect movement, breath and stillness to bring about harmony to an ever changing life.

My mission is to hold the space and facilitate the opening of the body, heart

and mind so as one, we may move forward in life without obstruction

and become a filter for others to see the light of spirituality. ~Jolie Cash

World Peace begins in the womb

*This is an excerpt from the Hot Mama Yoga Teacher Training manual written and published by Jolie Cash for the prenatal & postnatal YogaTeacher Trainings held at Nature's Whisper School of Yoga (home of Hot Mama Yoga)

Jolie also offers Hot Mama Yoga Teacher Trainings across the country. To book Jolie for an event or training, email Jolie directly at yoga@joliecash.com

And the petals of the flower fall to the earth

OM!

Life is flourishing here in Uptown San Diego! I never thought I would enjoy living in the city as much as I am enjoying it. I have this amazing space that I am able to offer up to the community and this community is so giving! I am meeting new people everyday that just blow me away with their compassion, resilience and determination to live a happier, healthier life.

My move back it hasn't all been peaches and cream. I have endured some deep loss of people I thought were friends and in the process had to take a really deep look at myself as a person and the great awareness of what it really means to be authentic. It is my catch line of late, but part of me began to wonder if it was actually a punchline delivered straight from the ethers of the divine to my heart.

I have come to the open ended conclusion that it all has to do with expectations of others. You see I asked the divine to show me people for who they really are so that I could move forward in authenticity with those that support me and the work that I am here to do. They showed me who they were, it just wasn't what I wanted to see. So there it is for me once again to get right this time, "expectations are predetermined resentments". I have a vision and if those that are sharing in my visionary circle are not playing true to themselves, they will not have the force behind them to offer to others that which they desire to offer. So one by one they fell away. It was like a flower left in the vase too long. Each day I found an old petal had fallen to the floor. Still beautiful in its own right to be a part of the flower previously, but no longer pulling from the juice that I had watered it with in the beginning. A true letting go for me giving new meaning to my favorite affirmation "I release the old to make room for the new".

So it is from this place that I re-evaluate the visionary team. I open my space back up and allow those that want to fully grow into who they truly already are and continue to love and worship each for who they are, myself included.

If you would like to be a part of the visionary team, Sassy Seva Sisters or take yoga classes in exchange for helping out in the studio or my office, please contact me directly by reply.

Please share with yourself this excerpt from my book, The Unconventional Yogini as an idea of what it means to be truly authentic first with yourself so you may better show up for others. It is from the chapter called Lovers Love Love

My saving grace through this transition moving back to town from the bay area and the deep loss of those I thought were true friends, has been the babies that come each week to do Hot Mama Buddha Baby Yoga. I find such joy, not just in my weekly snuggles of the amazing little gifts of god, but also in the wisdom of women that walk through my door. All the sharing that goes on and the opportunity I am given to share that which I intuitively know about mom & baby. Such an amazing community and play groups growing from these classes. I am equally indulging in the pregnant mamas with the joy of their changing bodies and the information that flows from me in both the Hot Mama Yoga classes and the Hot Mama Yoga Teacher Training that is currently in session. I recently wrote an article for Natural Baby Pros called World Peace Begins in the wOMb~yogic sound as preparation for birth. I know I am on the right path when the calls are coming in about when the next training is. I am enthusiastic to already be planning the next session to start in the winter along with the Restorative Yoga Training. I am also extremely honored and humbled to be teaching in Soul of Yoga's advanced training along with some masters such as Tim Miller, Roger Cole, Brian Dorfman, Leslie Kaminoff and on and on..... I have such a great passion to share deeper training with others, expanding the lotus flower.

I hope you will join me in one of the expansions on some level. Please check out the offerings and come enjoy this space that I have created. You will find the studio schedule here and many other ways to expand by scrolling down.

I am teaching in the North San Diego County as well. You will find my schedule here You may also scroll down for full schedule.

I look forward to seeing your authentic self, no matter what that looks like!

With love from the depth of my soul.
Namaste

Jolie

San Diego 200 hr. Yoga Teacher Training Starts September 24th, 2010 visit here for information and curriculum.

Hot Mama Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Training Starts Winter 2010

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Starts Winter 2010