Welcome. I am so glad you are here.
I care about your well being and want you to feel good from the inside out.
You deserve to feel a sense of peace in both your mind and body. I want to help you feel this way.
I didn’t always feel that way myself.
As a young adult, I felt broken both physically and emotionally, but a part of me knew deep down it didn't have to be this way. When I came across a book on meditation something resonated for me and I sought out a class to learn how to do it. It was through this daily practice that I started to feel a sense of peace in my life. My meditation practice led me the Himalayas of Nepal and it is there that I discovered yoga and fell in love. I loved the feeling of meditation in motion.
Yoga gave me a peaceful quality of mind and it also made me feel stronger, more flexible and confident physically.
I was never the kid that could do the splits, touch my toes or get into a backbend. In fact, I was the child that broke multiple bones doing the simplest activities. It took two years to figure out how to ride a bike.
Yoga created this profound change in me, in my relationship to my mind and body. One that emboldens me to help others achieve it for themselves as well.
A few years later, I got pregnant with my first child. And I learned how effective yoga was in not only making me feel better during pregnancy but how it helped me in the actual birth of my baby. Shortly thereafter I started to teach yoga to expectant mothers.
One day, I was approached by a student in one of my prenatal yoga classes and asked to attend her birth. I was deeply honored and accepted the invitation.
During her labor, we breathed, moved in different positions, and I led her through various guided meditations and visualizations. I helped her find the mental and physical strength necessary to birth her baby while staying calm and centered throughout it.
I was immediately struck by the similarities as to what I was teaching in my yoga classes and what we did in labor. That day she gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby and I gave birth to a new passion - helping women have the birth they want using a yogic approach.
I have combined my passions for meditation, mindfulness, yoga and birth support into yoga infused services that help people create an overall sense of happiness and wellbeing.
My goal with all my work is for you too to optimize your quality of life and feel a deep sense of contentment, ease and peace.
And I know, if I can do it, so can you.
I’d love to help you.
Love,
Amy
Are you ready to feel more at home in your mind and body?
Here’s how…
Private individual customized yoga sessions to support your individual needs and goals + yoga classes
Learn or deepen in mindfulness and meditation through these classes and workshops.
Several yogic inspired birth support services to help you have the birth you want.
“I owe so much to Amy and her incredible practice. As a yoga newcomer, I was nervous about starting a practice (both that I wouldn’t fit in to the Yogi world and that it wouldn’t be “enough”), but I figured it was time to try. I can only say that I wish I had started sooner. Amy not only made yoga accessible, she made it challenging. She made me fall in love with yoga and incorporate it into my life. Amy has a calming effect and I cannot say enough positive things about her and my experiences with her. THANK YOU AMY, for everything. You are an inspiration.
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“I cannot say enough good things about Amy’s prenatal classes. I started attending at 8 weeks and have gone every week since. She is so knowledgeable about pregnancy and the yoga positions that can relieve pain, or even move the baby. She has the most calming voice and I always feel so relaxed. It is my favorite hour of the week!
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Professional Background
AMY OWEN | Yoga Instructor + Yogic Birth Coach
Amy has been practicing meditation since 1986, yoga since 1997 and began teaching in 2008. She is Yoga Alliance EYRT and RPYT certified and leads the highly regarded Yogaview teacher trainings in addition to her regular classes, specialty workshops and global wellness retreats.
Amy completed her prenatal teacher training with Gurmukh, the preeminent pioneer of prenatal yoga, and she received her doula training through the progressive and internationally recognized ToLabor organization in 2010. She has additional training in The Spinning Babies technique and is also certified in both Reiki I and II energy work.
She created the outreach prenatal yoga program serving Northwestern Hospital’s ambulatory care patients and piloted the Yoga For Recovery BAMS program bringing prenatal yoga to expectant inmates at Cook County Jail. She serves on the board of Health Connect One, a national leader in advancing equitable, community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
*Award winning Best Birthing Support & Postnatal Fitness Instructor by Lux Life Magazine and GHP Fitness & Nutrition Awards
A little bit more about me…
Yogaview is the studio I often teach classes, offer trainings and see clients. For a deeper look into my, check out this article they wrote about me. >>read here
I’ve been featured a couple of times on The Art of Authenticity podcast hosted by my good friend, Laura Coe. >>listen here
I join my dear friend, Teri Turner of No Crumbs Left for her Table Talks podcast where we talk about reinvent ourselves at 50. >>listen here
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