Springtime Bloom & Baby Boom
Feel Great Throughout Your Pregnancy
Spring always feels a little extra magical—flowers bloom, the sun lingers, and there's a collective renewed spark for taking care of ourselves. For me, spring six years ago was especially powerful. I was pregnant with my first bio child, Taelyn. I felt radiant, joyful, excited—and also... so incredibly nauseous.
There were plenty of challenges (constant nausea being one of them!), but something that surprised me was what didn’t happen: I wasn’t in pain. No debilitating low back aches, no hip or neck tension, as I’d experienced the decade prior. I didn’t have to feel like my body was crumbling from the numerous changes.
It wasn’t luck. It was the result of years spent learning how to truly support my body—not through trendy workouts or rigid routines, but through cultivating a deeper, more intuitive understanding of movement and internal connection. That work made all the difference during pregnancy—and it’s now the foundation of what I share with expecting parents through an approach called Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS).
Pregnancy Hurts... But It Doesn't Have To
Many people assume that back, hip, neck, or pelvic pain during pregnancy is simply inevitable. It’s common—but that doesn’t mean you have to “just deal with it.”
Most of the bodies I work with—even before pregnancy—are already compensating for a confused or weakened core. The hip flexors, inner thighs, or glutes try to “help out,” but end up creating imbalances and tension. But eventually the compensations catch up to you. It often flies under the radar—until the added weight and ligament laxity of pregnancy push our physical vulnerabilities too far.
As the body changes, the forward shift in weight strains the lumbar spine, tips the pelvis, collapses our foot arches, and decreases spinal support and rotation. These shifts particularly expose faulty movement patterns we may have been getting away with for years—until the body starts yelling for help.
And we tend to just accept it. Chalk it up to “normal pregnancy stuff.” Push through. Hope it gets better after the baby arrives. But the truth is, a lot of the aches and imbalances don’t simply disappear postpartum. Diastasis recti, low back pain, and other issues can have lasting impacts —unless we address these root causes. And even if and when they do go away, these pain signals are also tipping you off that your body is confused as to how to hold itself together easefully.
Reclaiming Your Power with DNS: Moving with Ease During Pregnancy
By using DNS (Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization) during pregnancy (or any phase of life), your body reactivates its deep internal support, allowing muscles like your glutes, hip flexors, or inner thighs to stop acting as overstrained support structures and return to their true role: powering your movement.
This is huge part of the magic behind martial artists' fluid power—it's not about brute strength, but about an efficient, deep connection and joint support.
Now’s the Time to Reconnect
When your body works the way it was designed to, everything changes:
Your body finds room and support for your growing baby belly.
Pressure on joints eases.
Instead of dragging you down, gravity becomes part of your power.
Stretching and strengthening shift from effort to effectiveness.
Your nervous system calms—because it finally feels safe.
And the best part? No pain!
Whether you’re pregnant, planning, or postpartum, this kind of inside-out support makes all the difference—not just for now, but for the long haul.
You deserve to feel strong, supported, and truly at home in your body.
