Our Philosophy

Om Baby Bliss workshops are centered on the following Philosophy:

1) Each caregiver is uniquely qualified to connect with their littles through massage and touch. 
2) Each caregiver is deserving of time to stretch and build strength in their own bodies.
3) All caregivers benefit immensely from finding a community of caregivers in a real-life (not virtual) space. 
4) There is no perfect way to be a mother or caregiver, and as caregivers we can use community, yoga and massage to identify what we want most from our role.
5) All caregivers and all babies are doing the best they can, with that they have, where they are. When we struggle, that is usually a beautiful opportunity to learn from ourselves and one another. 
6) In today's society, caregivers, mothers, and babies are increasingly overstimulated and inundated with information. All humans deserve a space where it is safe to slow down and observe emotions as they arise.

Meet Our Founder and Instructor

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Hi! I'm Jamie Schiffer. I have been teaching yoga and barre for over 10 years in San Diego at Beyond Pilates. I've also started recently teaching children's yoga at Hapa Yoga. I am an SEL-certified, CEIM (infant massage) trained, RCYT children's and RPYT prenatal yoga instructor. I am also a mother of two spunky littles.

I started Om Baby Bliss after coming out of early parenthood with my first two babies and realizing that yoga really helped me to get out of my head and into my body during times of high anxiety. I used infant massage & toddler massage to support my littles in sleeping and tummy troubles, and found that yoga and massage partnered beautifully together.

I gave birth to my son in February 2020, just days before the global pandemic. For support during the early days, I joined the Milestone Mamas group and met some amazing mamas that I'm still friends with to this day. Since it was the pandemic and we weren't able to connect a lot in person, I decided to teach a mommy and me yoga group series to these mamas via Zoom that combined what I knew from infant massage and yoga, and was immediately hooked. There was something so connecting about the space we created that I realized I wanted to keep doing this important work. Through the marriage of yoga and massage I was able to teach new moms  to appreciate their bodies, while giving them space to get out of their heads and connect with their babies.