and Joanne's Conscious Birth approach that understands one core truth: Knowledge builds confidence.
Confidence brings ease.
This class is rooted in the belief that the body is intelligent, adaptive, and responsive—and that postpartum and parenthood experience is deeply influenced by how we relate to ourselves, our environment, and our expectations.
Postpartum is not about “getting back.”
It is a re-creation into a new life with baby.
The Conscious Birth Approach
Postpartum is not about bouncing back.
It’s not about fixing your body.
It’s about listening to it.
Respecting it.
Working with it instead of against it.
Birth is more than a physical event—it is a profound transition across the physical, emotional, mental, and energetic layers of being.
Postpartum is not simply recovery from birth—it is a transformation into parenthood.
Strong After Birth supports mothers through that transition with education for informed decision-making, space for self-compassion, and practical tools, including
evidence-based movement grounded in postpartum biomechanics, nervous system regulation, and maternal mental health
1. Rebuilding the Physical Foundation (BRM)
Using the Body Ready Method five pillars, movement is chosen to support real-life function:
five pillars, movement is chosen to support real-life function: - Biomechanical advantage and stacked alignment
- Core, pelvis, and pelvic floor integration
- Upper body support for feeding, carrying, and daily load
- Restoring efficient movement patterns rather than isolated “exercises”
Strength is rebuilt through coordination and awareness, not intensity or pressure.
2. Education That Builds Confidence (Not Fear)
This series recognises that understanding your body changes how you move, rest, and care for yourself.
Education may includes:
- Navigating maternal & infant sleep
- Postpartum nutrition (for both mother and baby)
- Infant feeding, soothing & milestones
- Postpartum mental health
- Informed decision-making of topics important to you.
This knowledge helps mothers trust themselves rather than outsourcing authority. As well as know what professional resources are accessible when needed.
3. Emotional & Nervous System Support
While BRM supports how your body moves, BodyTalk supports how you feel inside your body—emotionally, mentally, and energetically.
BodyTalk in this space supports:
- Feeling connected to your body again after birth
- Making sense of emotional shifts—grief, rage, joy, numbness, tenderness
- Gently releasing stress, overwhelm, or beliefs picked up during pregnancy, birth, or earlier life Supporting nervous system regulation so rest, recovery, and presence are possible
- Tuning into what your body is communicating when something feels “off”
BodyTalk acts like a translator between your body and your inner world, helping things come back into coherence—not just physically, but emotionally and energetically.
4. Stress Reduction, Regulation & Intuition
This is a space that actively supports:
- Nervous system regulation
- Stress reduction
- Emotional attunement
- Reconnection to intuition
Because healing, strength, and confidence emerge most naturally from safety—not pressure.
5. Community, Connection & Being Seen
Strong After Birth recognises that postpartum healing does not happen in isolation.
This is a space to:
- Ask questions without feeling behind
- Build confidence through shared understanding Be supported not just as a caregiver, but as a whole human in transformation
- Feel less alone during this vulnerable and powerful life transition
You are not meant to navigate this phase alone. Postpartum is messy and raw, and this space will hold you lovingly through it.
Joanne Yanke began teaching yoga in 2006 and completed her pre- and postnatal yoga certification in 2010. She is a BodyTalk Practitioner, birthkeeper, and infant sleep educator (neuroscience-based), with a background in Kinesiology (Exercise Science) and advanced training in the Body Ready Method.
Joanne supports women in the postpartum period using an evidence-informed, whole-system approach that recognises postpartum as a time of reorganisation—not just physical recovery. Her work integrates biomechanics, nervous system regulation, maternal mental health, and practical education to support the transition into parenthood with confidence and clarity.
Her approach weaves together BodyTalk, which supports emotional, neurological, and physiological integration after birth, and the Body Ready Method, where she applies functional alignment, breath, pelvic and core coordination, and movement patterns to help the postpartum body adapt to new demands. Rather than prescribing exercises or chasing performance, Joanne guides movement as a process of listening, regulation, and rebuilding trust in the body.
Joanne views postpartum as a relational experience between body, nervous system, identity, and environment. Her classes focus on restoring strength, stability, and coherence in a way that supports real life with a baby—feeding, carrying, soothing, resting, and responding—while creating space for emotional processing, self-compassion, and informed decision-making.
Her work helps mothers feel grounded in their bodies, confident in their choices, and supported as whole humans navigating one of life’s most significant transitions.
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Joanne supports women in the postpartum period using an evidence-informed, whole-system approach that recognises postpartum as a time of reorganisation—not just physical recovery. Her work integrates biomechanics, nervous system regulation, maternal mental health, and practical education to support the transition into parenthood with confidence and clarity.
Her approach weaves together BodyTalk, which supports emotional, neurological, and physiological integration after birth, and the Body Ready Method, where she applies functional alignment, breath, pelvic and core coordination, and movement patterns to help the postpartum body adapt to new demands. Rather than prescribing exercises or chasing performance, Joanne guides movement as a process of listening, regulation, and rebuilding trust in the body.
Joanne views postpartum as a relational experience between body, nervous system, identity, and environment. Her classes focus on restoring strength, stability, and coherence in a way that supports real life with a baby—feeding, carrying, soothing, resting, and responding—while creating space for emotional processing, self-compassion, and informed decision-making.
Her work helps mothers feel grounded in their bodies, confident in their choices, and supported as whole humans navigating one of life’s most significant transitions.
Choose a pricing option
- Preferred optionFull 8 week Session ($140.00)C$140.00
- Preferred option6 Class Pass ($120.00)C$120.00
- Preferred optionDrop in ($30.00)C$30.00