Empowering prenatal wellness: One woman’s journey to connect and nurture moms through yoga

Sara Hutchinson. Photo: PC Yoga Collective // Nikki McFadden

PARK CITY, Utah — For Sara Hutchinson, Park City Yoga Collective‘s premiere prenatal yoga teacher, becoming a yoga instructor and offering classes at the Collective was very intentional. By trade, Hutchinson is a certified doula, childbirth educator, lactation counselor, and owner of Omazing Momma.

“I started practicing yoga in 1996, so we’re moving up to 30 years, and after I was certified as a teacher, I didn’t find my place as a teacher. I taught general classes first at Silver Mountain, but I knew that I wanted to do something a little bit more niche, and my calling followed my work, which was birth work.”

In 2019, Hutchinson went to San Francisco and was certified as a pre-and post-natal yoga teacher at the Yoga Garden with Alexandra Rossi. “She herself is a doula, a yoga teacher, an instructor, and it was really in that training that I found a place for me in yoga.”

When she returned to Park City after this training, Hutchinson struggled to find a home for her prenatal classes. When the Collective opened, Hutchinson reached out, and they told her to hang on while they built the non-heated studio, the B-Side. “In the meantime, I was just teaching outside in the park. I was teaching pop-up style.”

Hutchinson is also co-founder of Hive Family Collective, a Park City non-profit that serves as a network for parents to connect on their journey from pregnancy to parenthood. “We were born in the pandemic 2020, and we support, educate, and connect parents on their birthing and postpartum journey in Park City. All of our programming we offer is free.”

Once the B-Side opened, Sara’s prenatal classes began to take root. “What I love about prenatal yoga is sometimes it’s the first time someone’s coming to their mat because they have this intention to be well, for themself and their baby. And they’re really feeling their body and the baby’s body. Yoga, for me, was the way I started to feel my body. So I understand that embodied sensation that yoga brings.”

Hutchinson also understands the importance of community when becoming a new parent and raising children. A twenty-year resident of Park City, Hutchinson has raised both of her children here. From Chicago, she grew up coming to Park City on ski vacations, and when she was eight months pregnant with her son, she and her husband moved from San Francisco to Park City. “Both of my kids, who are 19 and 15, were born in Utah, and I have really enjoyed growing up with my kids in this community.”

For Hutchinson, being part of the Park City Yoga Collective has been profoundly fulfilling. “I was a yogi there first for a few years while they built out the B-Side, and I have always appreciated how hard the staff works. The best teachers are students, and I find a lot of inspiration in my practice. I just recognize how lovely it is to be a part of the community because it’s a really special studio, and I’m really grateful for it.”

Find Sara’s prenatal classes at on the B-Side of the Park City Yoga Collective.