This playful class is gentle, yet challenging. It allows new moms to participate with their babies while learning Pilates blended with Yoga. Restore core strength and proper posture. Pilates and Yoga are proven as safe and effective ways to help new moms rejuvenate, recondition, and realign the post pregnancy body. Return to your pre-pregnancy shape (or better!) through inspired breath and movement. A portion of this class is dedicated to baby massage, movements and stretches. Benefits from Infant Massage include better sleep, digestion and improved immune function. Above all, it’s a fantastic opportunity to meet other Neomama moms and babies.

No Pilates experience necessary. Please have your Midwife's or Health Care Provider's approval before starting this class.

For Moms: 4 weeks post-delivery or
6 weeks post-cesarean

For Babies: One month - pre crawling
Bring: baby blanket

All Levels - without babies. Pilates exercises develop and maintain core stability, while increasing flexibility. This class introduces resistance and stability props to the basic Pilates exercises. Great for those new moms who want to bring their workout to the next level.

Registered Massage Therapy offers so many benefits to new moms and moms-to-be. Imagine relieving your body of any aches and pains due to pregnancy or post labor. Increase your comfort levels and truly enjoy the transformation your body is going through. While pregnant, feel supported during massage sessions with the
patented Body Cushion System.

Celebrate your pregnancy!! This class will leave you feeling more fit and comfortable than ever. Pregnancy is a state of health - optimize your enjoyment during these few months with Neomama Prenatal Pilates to support you and your baby. Benefits include improved posture and comfort, increased strength and flexibility in all the right areas, fine-tuned body awareness and core stability, and above all relaxation and breath to ease delivery. Prepare yourself for one of the most gentle, yet effective pre-natal fitness classes available. Oh, and you get to meet other hip neomamas.

Please consult with your Midwife or Health Care Provider prior to attending class. No experience necessary.

For parents & caregivers of new babies (1 month old to pre-crawling age). Bond with your baby, while learning some great massage techniques. Benefits from Infant Massage include better sleep, digestion and improved immune function. You will learn a massage sequence for the legs, tummy, chest, arms, face and back, a special colic routine and some simple baby stretches and movements. You will also learn what oils to use & how to create a suitable environment, follow your baby’s cues, massage safely and adapt the massage as your baby grows. You will be the only one massaging your baby – the instructor uses a demonstration doll. If your baby was premature, or has any other special requirements, please let us know at the time of booking. Also, twins are welcome to join the Neomama Baby Massage Workshop! One set of twins per course can be accomodated at no extra charge. As well a helper may accompany you to this course. All you need to bring is a medium sized towel and a baby blanket… and of course your baby! Dress comfortably in layers (room is comfortably warm for babies receiving massage). Sample oils and hand outs provided.

Evangeline, herself a devoted and active mom, understands the importance of living a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Cultivating years of education and experience, Evangeline launched Neomama, services to nurture and support new moms and their babies. Let’s face it, all moms deserve to feel fabulous and fit.

Neomama is all about today's new (neo) mama. More than ever before, this generation of moms want to educate and empower themselves to be healthy and balanced. It makes sense. When a women feels her best, she can be at her best for her family and friends. From there this strength and energy ripples out into her community, rooting a brighter and friendlier future for the babies we are raising. Evangeline's specially-designed Neomama services feature pilates, yoga and massage therapy to nourish and care for new moms, moms-to-be, and babies (Infant Massage Workshops coming soon!).

In her eleventh year as a certified Pilates instructor, Evangeline has taught Neomama Mom and Baby Pilates/Yoga/Infant Massage throughout Vancouver, Canada since 2003, and now also teaches Prenatal Pilates. She is also in her thirteenth year as a Registered Massage Practitioner after graduating from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. Private pre-and postnatal Pilates/Yoga and Massage Therapy sessions are available. Please contact info@neomama.com to inquire about private bookings.

As the founder and former owner of Yaletown Pilates in Vancouver, Evangeline is also very active in her community, donating her expertise to programs like the Tupper High School Young Parent Program, supporting teenage moms to complete their high school diploma. And most recently Evangeline became a Director on board a local non-profit organization called Vancouver Family Roots. VFR will host many an event to support and inspire local families. All proceeds of each event will go to a different family oriented Vancouver charity.

She currently appears on Namaste, an instructional yoga television series, now airing globally (CHUM network in Canada/FITV in USA). Shot on location amidst Vancouver’s stunning backdrop, the program airs on City TV (Channel 13 in Vancouver) Saturday and Sunday mornings at 6:30 am. Namaste is also available on DVD. www.namaste.tv/about_evan.html