CLEVELAND — Cait Harwood said she considers her job as a prenatal yoga teacher and full spectrum birth worker to be her life's work. 

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  • Cait Harwood said she considers her job as a prenatal yoga teacher and full spectrum birth worker to be her life's work

  • She said that's why she’s been teaching at Abide Yoga, which offers prenatal yoga, since it opened

  • She said the class is essential when it comes to connecting the breath, the body and the mind
  • Harwood said prenatal yoga is held every Sunday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

“I think that pregnant people need pregnant people,” she said. “They need that community. They need that support.” 

She said that's why she’s been teaching at Abide Yoga, which offers prenatal yoga, since it opened.

“In this class, we do a lot of adapting to discomfort, sort of managing what's changing in people's bodies in their lives, but also preparing for birth and even preparing for parenting,” she said. 

Harwood is a mom herself and said the class is essential when it comes to connecting the breath, the body and the mind. 

“I talk sometimes about doing like oxytocin baths,” she said. “So sort of taking this moment in which you acknowledge your pregnancy experience, you acknowledge your baby and you just send a joy to that use and connection and really hold that space.” 

She said this form of yoga prepares moms-to-be, birthing partners and birth workers for the arrival of a newborn.  

“So folks have told me that as they're going through labor, as they're going through contractions or even if they're having surgical births, that being able to ground themselves in that way and to connect to the sort of rushes of contraction or the changing of the body experience with the breath feels really empowering,” she said. “It feels like they have sort of ability to shift their response to those experiences.” 

Harwood said prenatal yoga is every Sunday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.