Adele Loux-Turner

 

RSME, E-RYT 500, Pre/Post-natal Yoga Instructor

Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME)

Labor and Postpartum Doula

Placenta Encapsulator

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In 2001 I earned my dance degree from SUNY Purchase and moved to NYC. Dance, for me, has always been about celebrating the wonder of living in my body.  Perfectionism and competition in the professional dance word can easily cloud this inspiration, so I sought out mentors and settings that would nurture my original spark.  Janet Panetta's ballet classes helped me clarify essential body mechanics in terms of weight shift, efficient lines of force, musicality, and momentum.  Her personality and loving approach also fostered a community of loyal students who supported each other: she moulded a lot of who I am and who I seek to be as a teacher.  Elizabeth Streb's flight work built my strength, speed, and spatial awareness while making me feel invincible.  Antonio Ramos, who I danced under for over ten years, created work where I felt like a collaborator as much as a dancer, and a central theme of his work was about destigmatizing the human body in all its forms. 

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     I started teaching yoga asana early in my career to supplement my dance work.  Yoga was a platform where I could pursue my interests in both body literacy and self-acceptance in a way that was accessible and marketable to a public beyond the dance community.  I became certified in hatha yoga with Integral Yoga Institute in 2002, and in 2006 I started to focus on new and expecting parents, which let me more deeply into anatomical and physiological studies of the changing and aging body.  By 2010 I also embraced the field of somatics and Body-Mind Centering® with Amy Matthews and later Roxlyn Moret, which brought more subtlety and depth to my teaching.

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     My mother was a postpartum nurse who occasionally also worked in labor and delivery, so I was raised around the language of birth.  She would come home from work and recount stories of women in labor, and how kind or unsympathetic hospital staff members could enhance or destroy a birth experience.  Times of transition are full of vulnerability and potential for learning:  this is why I found supporting people in their transition to parenthood both important and exciting.  I trained in Yoga for Labor with Beth Donnelly Caban and "Baby and Me" yoga with Jyothi Larson in 2008, the year I also trained as a doula and started attending births.

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     In 2016, my own pregnancy and transition to single motherhood shifted me away from my performance career.  My perinatal work merged with my personal embodiment journey, and I plunged deeper into developmental movement, doula, and pelvic recovery work.  I trained as a postpartum doula with Kristy Zadrozny in 2019, and during COVID quarantine the evolution of online learning allowed me to study with the Oakland based pelvic-yoga expert Leslie Howard as well as branch of to explore yoga for Alzheimer's and brain longevity through the ARPF.​​​​​

 

     As of ​2025, I'm transitioning away from the rigor of doula work as I pursue coursework to become an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant).  Meanwhile, I've increased my teaching schedule, offering general yoga classes both online and in my neighborhood, as well as teaching many weekly classes to the local prenatal/postpartum community.