Best 6 Yoga Teachers in Seattle for Postpartum Recovery in 2026

Colette Crawford is a registered nurse (RN, BSN) and IBCLC lactation consultant who trained in yoga with Richard Schactel in 1986 and was certified by B.K.S. Iyengar in 1992. She founded Seattle Holistic Center, now Sri Janani Yoga, and has taught prenatal and postnatal yoga since 1989, creating one of the first prenatal yoga teacher trainings in the country. Her studio is a Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga School, though her own instructor page lists no individual Yoga Alliance registration.

• Postpartum Specialization: perinatal teaching is the career-defining focus - ‘Since 1989 I have taught prenatal yoga to thousands of women, their families and yoga teachers from all over the world’ (20/20)
• Qualifications & Experience: RN, BSN and IBCLC with yoga certification in 1986 (Richard Schactel) and 1992 (BKS Iyengar) and CranioSacral certificates from the Upledger Institute; she has taught prenatal yoga since 1989 and created one of the first prenatal yoga teacher trainings in the country, and her studio is a Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga School. No individual registration string is published, but 37 years of teaching and authoring a prenatal training evidence the equivalent of the top band (20/20)
• Personal Postpartum Experience: first person on her instructors page: ‘It has been a gift and privilege to parent my four children with my loving husband, Bruce’, and she describes a severe back injury in a car accident ‘while eight months pregnant’ that led her to CranioSacral Therapy (13/15)
• Client Reviews from Postpartum Mothers: strong local reputation with reviews that are partly perinatal, but not specifically postpartum testimonials on site (8/15)
• Price (60min): no prices published on the site (1/10)
• 1-on-1 Private Focus: privates available alongside the group programme (7/10)
• Booking Accessibility: studio and email contact; no calendar (3/10)

Aubrey Jackson founded Limber Yoga in West Seattle and brings a 500-hour Viniyoga training (Gary Kraftsow) plus a pre/postnatal certification earned under Colette Crawford at Seattle Holistic Center. Limber carries a dedicated Pre/Postnatal menu in its site navigation, with weekly prenatal classes and a "Limber Babies" postnatal class for mothers and babies up to 18 months, postpartum work is part of the studio's headline offer, not a footnote. Private sessions are clearly priced for both studio and in-home visits.

• Postpartum Specialization: dedicated postnatal classes on the Limber schedule, a regular part of the studio offering alongside its general programme (12/20)
• Qualifications & Experience: 500-hour certification with Gary Kraftsow (American Viniyoga Institute) and 200-hour with Tracy Weber, plus specialised Pre/Postnatal training with Colette Crawford; certified since 2004 (22 years). No RPYT registration string is published, but a named prenatal training provider plus 500 hours and two decades of teaching evidence the equivalent (15/20)
• Personal Postpartum Experience: her studio bio refers to being ‘on the sports field with her kids’, so motherhood is stated without any description of her own pregnancy, birth or postpartum recovery (6/15)
• Client Reviews from Postpartum Mothers: testimonials present; reviews exist but are not specifically from postpartum mothers (8/15)
• Price (60min): transparent private rate published at $111 for 60 minutes (5/10)
• 1-on-1 Private Focus: core offering, studio + in-home (10/10)
• Booking Accessibility: phone plus a privates enquiry form; no self-serve calendar for privates (7/10)

Suzette Birrell teaches at Aditi Yoga & Wellness in Wallingford with a strong perinatal credential set (E-RYT 200, RYT 500 and RPYT 500) and more than 20 years of practice in Seattle. She trained in pre/postnatal work under Colette Crawford and international prenatal teacher Janice Clarfield, and pre- and postnatal women are, in her own words, her primary love as a teacher. Aditi's Pre & Post Natal program and Baby & Me-style offerings make her a steady, experienced choice, with private sessions available through the studio.

• Postpartum Specialization: ‘her primary love is working with prenatal and postnatal women’ - perinatal work is the prominent focus of her teaching (20/20)
• Qualifications & Experience: E-RYT 200, RYT 500 and RPYT 500 verified character-for-character on her staff page, practising in Seattle since 2001 (23 years); the top band requires an E-RYT 500, which is not stated (15/20)
• Personal Postpartum Experience: her staff bio states no motherhood and no postpartum experience of her own; the perinatal focus is presented as her specialisation (3/15)
• Client Reviews from Postpartum Mothers: reviews present; not specifically from postpartum mothers (8/15)
• Price (60min): no prices published on the site (1/10)
• 1-on-1 Private Focus: privates arranged via the studio (7/10)
• Booking Accessibility: studio and email contact; no calendar (3/10)

Jenny Rhodes runs Aligned Yoga with one of the deepest perinatal credential stacks in Seattle (E-RYT 500, E-RPYT and a PCES certification) plus more than 20 years of teaching and a teacher-training school of her own. Her site today leads with her broader Embodied Healing sessions, retreats and immersions rather than a postnatal-first offer, which is why she sits lower on this list than her credentials alone would suggest. For a credential-driven private core and pelvic-floor rebuild she remains a serious option, with transparent pricing and a real online scheduler.

• Postpartum Specialization: deep perinatal credentials, but the homepage, main menu and page headings never say postnatal - postpartum appears only in her credential line, so it reads as a passing mention (6/20)
• Qualifications & Experience: ‘certified E-RYT500 & E-RPYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher & Experienced Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher), Certified Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist’ verified character-for-character, with 20+ years teaching and her own training programme (20/20)
• Personal Postpartum Experience: her current site carries no account of her own pregnancy, birth or postpartum recovery; the cancer journey cited in earlier scoring is no longer on the site either (1/15)
• Client Reviews from Postpartum Mothers: testimonials present; reviews exist but are not specifically from postpartum mothers (8/15)
• Price (60min): transparent rate band published at $125-150 (5/10)
• 1-on-1 Private Focus: core offering (10/10)
• Booking Accessibility: online scheduler (7/10)

Kristen Gutierrez teaches perinatal yoga at Limber Yoga in West Seattle, pairing an RYT-200 (Yogaview) and a Sacred Birth / Awakened Spirit Yoga certification with a master's degree and a passion for birth-work advocacy. Her postnatal sessions weave storytelling with movement to honor both the emotional and physical sides of recovery, with the same transparent private rates and studio-or-in-home flexibility as Limber Yoga.

• Postpartum Specialization: a named perinatal offering on the Limber schedule, a regular part of her teaching (12/20)
• Qualifications & Experience: ‘MS, RYT’ with a 200-hour training at Yogaview Chicago (2015) and a 2023 Sacred Birth prenatal and postnatal teacher training; no RPYT or E-RYT registration is stated (3/20)
• Personal Postpartum Experience: her studio bio describes her as ‘a West Seattle-based mother to an energetic toddler as well as a perinatal yoga teacher’, so motherhood is stated without a birth or recovery account (6/15)
• Client Reviews from Postpartum Mothers: reviews present; not specifically from postpartum mothers (8/15)
• Price (60min): transparent private rate published at $111 for 60 minutes (5/10)
• 1-on-1 Private Focus: core offering, studio + in-home (10/10)
• Booking Accessibility: phone plus a privates enquiry form (7/10)

Leah Lowe is the newest teacher on this list and the only one who is also a registered nurse. She completed her 200-hour training in 2022 and an 85-hour pre/postnatal training in 2023, and runs Wildroot Studio's postnatal yoga series in collaboration with a pelvic-floor physical therapist, a format none of the bigger names here offer. A new mom herself, she describes her own pregnancy and post-birth journey as the reason she moved into this work. Classes run on Zoom and outdoors, with private sessions available on request.

• Postpartum Specialization: a postnatal series with pelvic-floor PT collaboration featured on the homepage, a regular part of the offering, though it runs as a limited series rather than a standing weekly class (12/20)
• Qualifications & Experience: 200 hour yoga teacher training (2022) and 85 hour Prenatal/Postnatal training (2023), plus ICU nursing since 2013; the training is documented with hours and dates, but both credentials are recent and no teaching-year count is published, so this sits at the entry band rather than the experience-weighted ones (3/20)
• Personal Postpartum Experience: first person on her About page: ‘As a new mom, I feel empowered by my pregnancy and post birth journey’ - her own perinatal year is stated with the journey named, without a detailed birth or recovery account (10/15)
• Client Reviews from Postpartum Mothers: one unattributed testimonial (4/15)
• Price (60min): no prices published on the site (1/10)
• 1-on-1 Private Focus: privates available by message, not the core offer (7/10)
• Booking Accessibility: online class booking (7/10)