As a certified yoga teacher, freelance writer, and mother, Jennifer Derryberry Mann relies on yoga for, well, just about everything: peace of mind, core strength, spiritual connection, relaxation, rejuvenation, and rejoicing in life’s sweetness. She teaches yoga for prenatal, postnatal, and beyond, including a strength-building class grounded in the healing Forrest Yoga tradition. Jenni’s compassionate approach to intense practice will have you breaking a sweat while cracking a smile.

Jenni has been practicing yoga for more than a dozen years and teaching since 2003. She is a certified Forrest Yoga teacher and a graduate of the Advanced Forrest Yoga Teacher Training program, having trained with Ana Forrest, Jonathan Bowra, and Heather Tiddens. Other yoga inspirations include the iconic Seane Corn, the precise and grounding Tias Little, and yoga badass Duncan Wong.

A believer in natural childbirth and conscious parenting, Jenni encourages women to trust birth, to have confidence in the body’s wisdom, and to be open to the many wonders of pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. She is certified in Postnatal Yoga Bonding by founder Lisa Bergly, and she is forever grateful to the incredible community of prenatal and postnatal teachers at Sarah Longacre’s Blooma yoga studio in Minneapolis .

Off the yoga mat, Jenni is a professional writer and editor. She is a columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine and the editor of Belly Button Bliss: A Collection of Happy Birth Stories, forthcoming from Fairview Press (summer, 2010). Her writing has also appeared in FitPregnancy, Pregnancy, and Natural Solutions.