A Movement Educator’s Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

What Movement Professionals are Saying

“I envy those who now have the benefit of this special book being published, a book I would have loved to have early in my career. This book that helps to lift the veil of working with the pregnant client is an essential and enriching resource for any professional movement educator regardless of the movement approach: Pilates, GYROTONIC®, yoga, and more. Thank you for this unsurpassed body of work authored with knowledge, experience, and passion.”

– Marie-José Blom
Movement Educator, Pilates Master Teacher
Lecturer, International Presenter, and Consultant
Creator/Educator of the SmartSpineTM System

“A Movement Educator’s Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth is the essential resource for everyone involved in bringing life into the world. Place your trust with confidence in Jennifer Gianni’s life’s work. Four decades of personal and professional dedication spent researching the literature, documenting case studies, succinctly describing movement for every condition in text and video, infuse this book with wise guidance for everyone experiencing or supporting pregnancy and childbirth.”

– Elizabeth Larkam
Master Instructor & Author of Fascia in Motion

“For movement educators working with their first pregnant client or those with many years of experience, this book is an invaluable resource. May this book bring light into the world.”

– Nora St. John
Creator, Balanced Body Education

About Jennifer Gianni

Jennifer Gianni M.Ed., NCPT, Balanced Body Master Instructor, SmartSpine Faculty and creator of the Fusion Pilates Pre and Postnatal Movement Specialist teacher training program has over thirty years of experience in the movement world and has been training teachers in pre and postnatal fitness for over twenty-three years. Her teaching fosters connection, self-regulation and discovery. It is rooted in the ever-changing awareness of anatomy and the body in motion. Jennifer’s approach is interdisciplinary and layered. Since it is grounded in the real world and common-sense approaches, it creates change in daily movement strategies, efficiency, and ease in the body. This type of approach is of particular importance when one is instructing a pre or postnatal client due to the enormous and constant changes in the body over very short periods of time.

The curriculum and information both in her book and in her courses provides instruction to movement teachers, clinicians, and birth professionals which enables them to improve client outcomes during pregnancy, labor, and the postnatal stage by teaching current movement science for the pregnant and birthing body. Jennifer has presented at Pilates on Tour yearly for more than a decade and has also presented at several Pilates Method Alliance conferences. She continues to teach throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Moscow, London, Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, and Singapore. Her work has been published in several magazines including FitPregnancy, Shape Magazine, and Pilates Style. Jennifer Gianni is the owner/creator and director of FusionPilatesEDU.com.

Jennifer’s passion is acting as a mentor and guide to the numerous brilliant movement practitioners that study with her both in her Grow mentorship program and in the Pre and Postnatal Movement Specialist course. This book is dedicated to these very special people. For more information about Jennifer and her in-person and online classes and courses visit FusionPilatesEDU.com; FusionTeacherTraining.com; and FusionPilatesAsheville.com.