SASHA LANG
“Becoming a Mother prompts a transformation so profound it entails a shape shifting into a new state of being. Birth is not an intellectual experience. Your ability to consciously cultivate your inner landscape is at the heart of an easeful and connected birth experience.
The Right of passage into motherhood offers infinite lessons in the realms of surrender, empowerment, grace, mistakes, and patience. Practicing yoga amidst this adventure can support us in a multitude of ways to find our center. To mother from a place of wholeness and presence as opposed to an empty tank for which we will respond with reactivity.
This is the most important project we will every embark upon; the project of creating life and mothering, its up to us to prioritize ourselves through self care and a commitment to a practice”
Sasha is a mother to three wild and open hearted children; Solana Rose (7 yrs), Naiya Moon (4 yrs), and her most recent addition Taj Henry ( 7 months). Her journey into motherhood began in Bali, Indonesia where she was living, teaching yoga and leading holistic wellness retreats with her husband Brad for the past eight years. Sasha had the privilege to receive her prenatal care for both her girls from world renowned midwife; Robin Lim and Lianne Schwartz of Bumi Sehat Foundation (https://bumisehat.org/ ). Her circumstances of becoming a first time mother in Bali opened her eyes to an entirely different world of prenatal and postnatal care . Sasha is deeply inspired to support woman through their birth journeys and into their first phase of motherhood. Sasha’s personal experience in preparing physically, emotionally and soulfully for each birth required a commitment to a practice of inner work, visualization, breath, mindfulness, and an awakened presence laid the foundation for her to have three peaceful births in her home.
Sasha’s formal prenatal training began at Bumi Sehat Foundation where she studied, taught and prepared pregnant mothers from all over the world prior to arriving in Portland two years ago. Sasha continues to organize, teach yoga and participate in the advanced skills midwifery retreats with Lianne Schwartz and Robin Lim on their annual retreat in Bali in May; Deepening the Journey Within Retreat. http://www.deepeningthejourney.com/
Sasha is an ERYT-500 hour yoga therapist, prenatal and postpartum yoga teacher; specializing in yoga for women’s health and vitality, yoga energetics and therapeutic pelvic care. Her teachings are informed and influenced by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Tammy Kent, Amy Matthews, Todd Jackson, Anodea Judith, Lianne Schwartz, Robin Lim, Denise Payne and Mark Whitwell. Learn more about what Sasha is up to at www.sashabaliretreat.com