About Me

I'm Kyla Saphir and I have been teaching Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga for 5 years in Columbia, SC. I have practiced yoga for myself for over 18 years in every city I’ve lived in. I began practicing restorative yoga as a balance to my active lifestyle. Yoga provided me with a calm and healing space to unwind and recover. While teaching in early childhood classrooms in Seattle, Buenos Aires, and Chicago, I used yoga to help de-stress and center myself after long days with preschoolers, Kindergartners, and second graders. 

During my pregnancy with my daughter in Seattle, I practiced prenatal and postnatal yoga. These classes gave me time to connect to my ever changing body and baby as well as helping me build a community of soon to be mothers and new moms.  I fell in love with pre/postnatal yoga and the benefits they provided. When I moved to Columbia in 2016, there were no yoga classes offered for pregnant women or new moms at the time. My goal in getting certified to become a yoga instructor was to grow and support this community of women through yoga. 

I decided to pursue my 200 hour yoga certification through Sakhi Yoga Training in Columbia SC, which I completed in August 2017. I am a Yoga Alliance RYT 200 Hour certified teacher. I knew I wanted to teach yoga to pregnant women and new moms so I went on to complete my Prenatal and Postnatal 90 hour certification in the spring of 2018 through the Prenatal Yoga Center of New York. I am also certified to teach Hypnomothering, a technique to help moms have a gentler, more rested transition into motherhood.

I currently teach group and private yoga classes including Prenatal, Postnatal, Partner classes, and Hypnomothering. When I’m not teaching yoga, I’m writing children's books (check out my book website: www.kylasaphirbooks.com), playing in my garden, and hanging out with my husband, our 6 year old daughter, and our giant puppy.