Shana Celnicker-Chong

Shana has been practicing yoga since 1997 and is a certified pre and post-natal yoga instructor. In 2001, she was trained by Colette Crawford at her Holistic Prenatal Program in Seattle, WA. Yoga requires a person to be in a state of "dynamic relaxation" (the integration of strength and flexibility with that of relaxation and breath). The same can be said for a woman during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Shana has a commitment to facilitate this state in the women that she teaches in order to allow them and their babies to have the most loving and empowering birth possible. Shana attends births as a doula and as a midwife's assistant and is a graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine where she specialized in Midwifery and Women's Health. She is also mother to her beloved sons Ezra & Paavo.