Motherhood is a sacred space that gives as much and more than we pour into it. When you become a mom, it's forever, and that relationship grows, shifts, and changes as sure as the seasons.

While there are countless opportunities for external support for moms (and those are so important), one of the most accessible and powerful support spaces can be a personal yoga practice. Your yoga practice is a space for personal growth, reflection, and exploration, and that experience translates into your life, including your motherhood. Continue reading to learn how and to discover a handful of yoga resources for busy moms.

Yoga as Personal Exploration in Motherhood

One of the greatest misconceptions about yoga in the Western world (and there are a LOT) is that yoga is a place you go to work out, or maybe even to bliss out, and that at the end of the practice, you roll up your mat and you're done. The reality is that yoga is a lived practice that carries with you across your days and life.

For many moms, their yoga practice is the space they come for self-care. It's a place to breathe deeply, stretch and strengthen, and experience quiet. It's an outlet, and it happens on a specific schedule each day or week, something you enter and exit on a defined timeline. But when you change your mindset around your yoga practice and allow it be a true practice for what you want to bring into the real world, the connection between that practice and your mothering transforms.

Your yoga mat is a space for exploration - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It's a space to test and play in your edges, and to expand your capacity for living beyond your current bounds. As a mom, it's your opportunity to practice the qualities you want to embody in your real life motherhood journey.

If you've felt frazzled by the demands of your life, yoga offers tools and techniques that can be applied any time of day or night to realign and reset. If you want to slow down and be more present with your kids as they grow, yoga can literally challenge and teach you to sit still, let go, and focus on the now. Whatever energy you want to bring into your mothering journey, there's a yoga class that can bolster that inner exploration within yourself until it bubbles over into your day to day life.

Your yoga practice is connected to your motherhood because it's where you go to practice the version of you that you most want to show up in your mothering. So...what if it's not? What if your yoga practice really is just a once per week power flow because that's what's most popular and fits your schedule best? How do you actually leverage yoga as it's meant to be practiced and applied, and especially when it comes to motherhood?

I recommend doing what you can to explore a variety of teachers, class types, studios, and online classes. Reflect on your motherhood journey, where you might like to shift it, and explore class types that could support practice in that space.

If you've been craving a slower pace of life and more presence with your children day to day, I recommend starting with the free yoga resources for busy moms in the next section from LaRose Wellness Collective. In this space, we are wholly focused on shifting away from the hubbub of a typical working mom life and into a simpler, calmer, and more nature-centric way of being, even as the must-dos like work, childcare, home chores, and personal care carry on.

Support Your Motherhood Journey with these Yoga Resources for Busy Moms

1. Rewire your habitual patterns into alignment with who you really want to be as a mom with this journaling exercise.

2. Find balance in motherhood through the yogic concepts of sthira and sukha.

3. Practice self-awareness to live in alignment with your values.

4. Use self-care to radically adjust your day to day experience in motherhood.

5. Learn how yogic discipline supports your motherhood journey.

6. Practice discipline and explore how you might apply it to your motherhood journey with this free meditation and journaling exercise.

7. Explore the yogic practice of surrender as applied to motherhood.

8. Practice releasing control in your motherhood journey with this free meditation and journaling exercise.

9. Check out these yoga books to go deeper in your personal yoga practice.

More Yoga Resources for Busy Moms

• The online yoga studio for busy, working moms seeking a slower way of life offers monthly pre-recorded yoga and meditation you can use to sink into a slower pace, plus a slow down framework where you can restructure your most overwhelming challenges into peaceful, rhythmic routines that support you and your family.

• Two-minute Reset Meditations for Routine Calm Days includes ten completely free two-minute meditations for you to capture a moment of calm right now, without spending an hour at the yoga studio or taking paid leave.

• The Mama Naturalist on my website and Substack is a space where I share both conceptual and practical guidance on slowing down, connecting to nature, and living seasonally.

• Mindful Moms Digest offers exclusive yoga and meditation classes, nature stories from a wildlife biologist (me!), and free, supportive resources including links back to every blog post for busy, working moms journeying toward a slower, more seasonal way of life.

• Cultivate Calm Mornings is a structured series of three yoga workshops that supports you in transforming your morning routine from chaotic to calm.