The Shakti Prenatal Yoga Method doubles as a prenatal fitness class, and a birth readiness program. Moms are prepared to approach birth and motherhood with calm and confidence. Each class begins with a birth preparation topic, followed by a series of yoga movements and breath practices, and ends with a guided relaxation session. These calming and strengthening prenatal classes are designed to optimize expectant mothers’ physical and mental health while promoting the bond between mother and child.

Breathing exercises are emphasized throughout the class to calm the mind, and prepare the body for delivery. Each movement is carefully chosen to stretch and strengthen muscles needed to support the body during pregnancy and childbirth. Yoga maneuvers to encourage baby into ideal birth position, and to tone and create range of motion in the muscles that support the pelvis, including the pelvic floor, are highlighted. The Shakti Yoga Method’s combination of carefully curated physical, mental, and emotional preparation techniques is an extremely effective and proven program for enhancing quality of pregnancy and birthing experiences. 

Bobby now trains Shakti Yoga Method teachers worldwide to help women and parents everywhere prepare for beautiful, comfortable, and yes, even enjoyable, birthing. Bobby draws on more than 15 years of experience teaching prenatal yoga, providing birth doula services, and instructing childbirth education programs. She uses educational topics, and visualizations to deepen the impact of yoga postures and breath practices. This multi-faceted program was developed as she observed what skills, and birth preparation techniques were most effective in helping her birth doula clients to intuitively and joyfully birth their babies. Meet other birthing women and parents, share your own experiences, and go home to the most deep and delicious sleep with baby. 

This careful combination of techniques has been proven effective by two decades of yoga Mommas who have not only successfully used this method, but share their experiences in the hope that they will help transform birth experiences for other mothers and families. Sample birth story testimonial below:

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The following is the birth story of a Shakti Yoga Momma who completed the Shakti Yoga Method series Spring 2025.

I had a traumatic experience with my first birth, and was determined to prepare and educate myself better the second time around. Cue Bobby’s prenatal yoga classes – seriously though, her class is all you need to feel confident and comfortable going into your birth. 

I knew I wanted to try to have the most natural birth possible with my second. I live in rural NL though, and my “home” hospital has a very high c-section rate so I was nervous about that. Leading up to my birth, I kept telling myself that if I did my part to get out of the way, my body and the people around me would support my labour the way I wanted and needed it to happen.

I woke up 4 days before my due date around 7:30, got up and went outdoors with my toddler. I was sat enjoying a coffee on my patio when I felt the first of what I thought might be contractions. I finished my coffee, had a shower and made breakfast for my kids before I decided ok this is happening for real, and my husband and I left to drive to the hospital. 

We checked in and met the nurses in the OB wing, they did a cervical check to admit me and I was already 6-7cm at 12pm. They asked me what I wanted the afternoon to look like – I said I didn’t want any pain medication and wanted to have as natural a birth as possible. They both said “AWESOME, that’s our favourite kind”, and I knew right away that this was meant to be. They came to check on me and baby every thirty minutes so I didn’t have to be hooked up to any monitors and could move around freely. I laboured primarily kneeling on the bed with my arms up on the upright part of the bed (one of the birthing positions Bobby suggests in class!) and had my husband apply pressure and hold a warm IV bag to my lower back. 

At 1:30pm I felt a sharp change in the contractions – and the urge to push. The nurses quickly got set up and let me pick a more upright position with a nurse and my husband holding my legs to allow me to be more comfortable but also in a delivery position they felt confident with. I pushed when I felt the urge, and was encouraged to listen to my body and do what it needed. At this point my water was still in tact, and just as they called the OB in to break it at 1:45 pm, it exploded all over the nurse (who was a great sport). I transitioned almost immediately and felt baby move down through the birth canal. With some very thoughtful coaching, breathing, short controlled pushes and a lot of incredible encouragement, I had my 8lb 6oz baby at 1:50pm. 

I never believed after my first birth that I was capable of what I did in that delivery room. Without Bobby’s incredible knowledge and encouragement, my delivery would have gone very differently. THANK YOU Bobby and the Shakti momma community for allowing me the space to heal from my first birth and have my second child just as I had dreamt. 

Nicole Duffett, NL, 2025