Lily Dwyer Begg

I have taught in yoga studios internationally, worked with an NBA basketball team, an NCAA diving team, professional dance companies, and therapeutically with private clients across the globe. I have studied with Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest, Christina Sell, Don and Amba Stapleton, David Moreno, yoga for scoliosis with Elise Browning Miller, Ayurveda with Kameko Shibata, Prenatal yoga with Marisa Toriggino, and Hypnobirthing with Yael Tober Quittner. A former massage therapist specializing in Sports Massage and Deep Tissue work, I have studied anatomy with Art Riggs and Thomas Myers. I currently make my home in Baltimore with my husband and two young sons. PRENATAL and POSTNATAL: I teach an active style of prenatal and postnatal yoga because I believe that empowered birth and motherhood require great strength and stamina in body, mind, and heart! Pregnant people are not injured or sick, they are training and conditioning for a major life event. My classes focus on physical stability, emotional integration, fostering community among students, easing common pregnancy discomforts, and holding space for you to open to more of your experience. My goals as a prenatal yoga teacher are threefold: 1. to help you feel as strong, integrated, comfortable, and capable as you can in your shifting and changing body each day during pregnancy 2. to support your nervous system and protect your grounding so that you are capable of meeting your child’s birthing day with calm, deep trust in your experience, and a feeling of empowerment - no matter what kind of a birth you envision. 3. to practice prenatal yoga wisely thinking forward to best support the most efficient recovery postpartum.