About Us

I began studying and apprenticing to teach prenatal and postnatal yoga after becoming a mama myself. My background in dance and creative movement held space for both a new pursuit of yoga and the personal practice of mindfulness and meditation. I have been teaching yoga and working with pregnant women since 2003, and I have found this profession the answer to a deep and true calling. I completed doula and advanced mentor training with Pam England, author of Birthing From Within.

In 2006, I had the opportunity to take over yoga instruction and childbirth preparation classes at Moving Through. That shift continued to foster the profession I still find enriching and rewarding for my own life. My work with preparing the body for labor and birth through yoga provides women with the opportunity to listen to their bodies and cultivate awareness of their breath. Postnatally, I enjoy encouraging mothers to reclaim some time for themselves, and to rebuild their bodies gently in a way that feels right for them at whatever time they seek this practice. In 2008, I began exploring fertility yoga, working with women hearing the call to become mothers, and connecting them with their bodies through mindfulness in movement.

As a yoga teacher, a birth doula, a Birthing From Within childbirth mentor, and a mother of two amazing girls, I am able to offer insight and share my perspective and experience with women and families who find their way to Moving Through. I look forward to working with you!

I became a STOTT Certified Pilates instructor in 2001 and was an instructor with Pacific Northwest Pilates until 2005, just before the birth of my second child. I have an extensive background in a variety of dance forms and I credit Pilates for bringing strength and longevity to my dance training and performance. I began teaching prenatal Pilates in 2007 and I am very excited to be working with pregnant and postpartum mama's. As a doula and childbirth educator I recognize the joys and the difficulties of the unique transformation that women go through during pregnancy, birth and beyond. A pregnant body is an ever-changing body. I enjoy helping women to connect with their bodies, feel their strength, and gain confidence in their body's abilities. Facilitating that connection is at the core of my teaching. I strongly believe that Pilates is a practice of becoming mindful of your body and the way you move in it. With that awareness you can then begin to build lasting strength in your core thereby improving your posture and increasing your overall strength and flexibility which will serve you in all facets of life.

Stasia Bliss began her practice in 1997 which eventually led her around the world to discover the origins of yoga and touch the ancient-yogic landscapes for herself. She considers pregnancy and motherhood to be one of the Master paths to spiritual enlightenment because she believes nothing trains the mind and body quicker to be flexible, patient and open. Stasia began teaching mothers during her own pregnancy when her path shifted to becoming a mother herself. She loves the precious time with new mothers during pre-natal classes and sees it as an opportunity to again touch that magical space, as well as inspire women during their journey to motherhood to reach deeply and encounter their most powerful essence as she did! Stasia was formally trained in traditional hatha yoga at the Bihar yoga Bharati in India. She has also received private training in the arts of kundalini and kriya yoga and is a certified instructor of both. Stasia incorporates kriya, kundalini and hatha yoga in her classes as well as the tantric practice of Yoga Nidra which brings deep, much needed relaxation and rejuvenation to the hard-working bodies of pregnant mamas. Stasia used the Calm Birth method by Robert Newman during her own labor and birth and brings several of her favorite techniques into class including Womb-breathing and Giving and Receiving. Stasia looks forward to practicing with you during your Warrioress time!

Since 1995 I have taught "yoga movement therapy". The freeing of blocks is my focus whether the class is prenatal yoga, advanced Vinyasa style or gentle level one. I'm in love with the transition that happens within as we move from being blocked to being free. I see yoga as a way to honestly see where you are, so that you can move from there at any time.

My most influential yoga teachers have been Nicki Doane, Eddie Modestini, & Richard Freeman. I have also studied with Nancy Gilgof, Baron Baptiste, Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee, Tais Little, and many others. They have all deeply touched my practice. I am thankful for all their love and wisdom.

My love for prenatal yoga comes from years of attending births and seeing how it could be useful to have a practice in preparation for birth that supports a "birthing mindset". I teach these classes as a way to offer this to all the rockin' Mamas in town. I have completed the advanced Birthing From Within^® training with Pam England. Birthing from Within spoke deeply to me. Pam's approach to birth preparation is profoundly balanced. I find that I am able to help people more, and with more ease then in all the previous years of teaching childbirth education. Thank you Pam.

I have been of service to prenatal, birthing and postpartum families for well over eighteen years. I gave birth to my daughter Capella Rosa Quinn in 1997. My child is my greatest teacher.