Gabrielle Faith Cohen welcomes you to Pranayamma Mamma. As a certified yoga teacher and doula in San Francisco she brings a state of connectedness and balance to your busy urban lifestyle.

With over twenty years of dance experience, Gabrielle believes in movement as a means for calming the mind and enlivening the spirit. She completed her 200-hour teacher training at Yoga Tree and received her Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga certification from Jane Austin. Her classes are deeply nurturing and full of compassion. Gabrielle emphasizes the breath as the foundation of the yoga practice, allowing students to move from the inside out. Through mindful movements and conscious breathing her classes are an offering of her passion for peace and an invitation to step out of the mind and into the heart. She teaches various styles of yoga including hatha flow, restorative, gentle flow, prenatal, and postnatal yoga.
Gabrielle encourages the united healing of the physical, mental, and emotional bodies. Eternally a student, she offers gratitude to her teachers and to all of her students for the opportunity to share the teachings of this ancient practice.

Her deep connection with Mother Earth has empowered Gabrielle to support the Goddess within us all. She believes in the powerful transformation of motherhood and the sacred connection between all women. She believes that every birth is a rite of passage and that women should be supported and empowered to do what their bodies are naturally designed to do. Gabrielle completed her Doula Training with renowned midwife Abigail Reagan at Natural Resources.

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Buddha