MELYLAH
BOTTE SMITH

She/Her

Prenatal + Postnatal
What is something that would surprise me about you?
I am a recovering strong biracial Black woman, leaning into vulnerability.

What can I expect from your class?
A balance between dynamic movement and the pause. Creating space for the breath, body, and baby/ies, allowing the practice to become a nourishing exploration and expression of connection and self-care.

What is the most essential part of practice for you?
Svadhyaya – Self-study.

Melylah is a mama of three, a wellness advocate, and a yoga guide, who is on the path to collective healing and wholeness through the ancient practice of yoga. She believes that one of the most powerful ways to create healing in society is to support those who are birthing our future. She has been supporting birthing people along their pregnancy, birthing, and parenting journey since 2008. Her teaching style encourages participants to tap into their inner teacher and ancestral wisdom, listening to their bodies to provide self-care and connection to self and baby.

Melylah also offers prenatal yoga teacher trainings for yoga teachers, birthing people, birth workers, and anyone who feels a sense of agency to support and empower pregnant people through education and the ancient practice of yoga.

In 2006, Melylah experienced the transformational powers of pregnancy and found herself on her mat more and more. As she dove deeper into her yoga practice, she began to embrace this other side of her that she had been rejecting in order to pursue her career. She fell deeply in love with being a mother and yoga, and how they both come together so beautifully, and ultimately left her fast past advertising world behind. She received her first 200-hour teacher certificate shortly after, followed by Prenatal certification through Mama Tree, and Kids Yoga through It’s Yoga Kids.

Always a student, she continues to learn about herself, the world, and the 8 limbs of yoga, so she may continue to heal, grow and share from her heart.

What is something that would surprise me about you?
I am a recovering strong biracial Black woman, leaning into vulnerability.

What can I expect from your class?
A balance between dynamic movement and the pause. Creating space for the breath, body, and baby/ies, allowing the practice to become a nourishing exploration and expression of connection and self-care.

What is the most essential part of practice for you?
Svadhyaya – Self-study.

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Melylah is a mama of three, a wellness advocate, and a yoga guide, who is on the path to collective healing and wholeness through the ancient practice of yoga. She believes that one of the most powerful ways to create healing in society is to support those who are birthing our future. She has been supporting birthing people along their pregnancy, birthing, and parenting journey since 2008. Her teaching style encourages participants to tap into their inner teacher and ancestral wisdom, listening to their bodies to provide self-care and connection to self and baby.

Melylah also offers prenatal yoga teacher trainings for yoga teachers, birthing people, birth workers, and anyone who feels a sense of agency to support and empower pregnant people through education and the ancient practice of yoga.

In 2006, Melylah experienced the transformational powers of pregnancy and found herself on her mat more and more. As she dove deeper into her yoga practice, she began to embrace this other side of her that she had been rejecting in order to pursue her career. She fell deeply in love with being a mother and yoga, and how they both come together so beautifully, and ultimately left her fast past advertising world behind. She received her first 200-hour teacher certificate shortly after, followed by Prenatal certification through Mama Tree, and Kids Yoga through It’s Yoga Kids.

Always a student, she continues to learn about herself, the world, and the 8 limbs of yoga, so she may continue to heal, grow and share from her heart.