ABOUT
I believe that giving birth is experiencing and embodying true power.
I works with clients at every stage of the perinatal journey, empowering them to feel strong and confident to navigate pregnancy, their birthing experience, and postpartum recovery with ease.
Even if you felt disempowered during your past birth(s), you are not alone, and you can heal in a way that fully restores and strengthens your power and your sense of self.
By using a holistic approach that starts with corrective exercise, we can balance your physical body, use nutrition and mindfulness in complementary ways, and strengthen your mind-body connections to make all of your movements feel and function better.
I am a Certified Birthsmarter Educator, a Certified Personal Trainer, a Pre & Postnatal Corrective Exercise Specialist, a Pre & Postnatal Diastasis and Core Consultant, and a Certified Professional Birth Educator under a separate training. She has also completed the Level 1 TriggerPoint Therapy Foam Rolling course, and Diastasis Done Differently and The Female Athlete L1 course with Antony Lo - The Physio Detective.
“When the day came to deliver our little girl everything Maggie taught me came flooding in and made ALL THE DIFFERENCE in how I navigated the experience with my midwives and own body.”
~ Kristen Beeler, OHIO
I HELP MY CLIENTS WITH:
• Building the specific strength they need for their upcoming birth marathon
• Empowering them with information rooted in good science, and relevant to their goals and desires
• Learning how to help prevent common childbirth-related core/pelvic floor injuries/conditions
• Safely continuing to do the activities they love throughout their pregnancy and beyond
• Lowering their risk of unwanted birth interventions
• Training their body’s natural ability to produce EFFECTIVE pain relief during labor
• Accessing and restoring full core and pelvic floor function (ending incontinence and back pain, healing diastasis recti, etc.)
• Safely and gently starting their healing process immediately after giving birth
AND SO MUCH MORE…
Click here to apply and find out how I can help you.
“In a short amount of time, Maggie helped me regain my bladder control and reclaim a more pleasurable sex life.”
~ R.C. BOZEMAN, MT
My trainings and certifications include:
• Certified Birthsmarter Childbirth Educator June 2024
• Fit For Birth Holistic Fertility and Pregnancy Safe Coach 2020-2024
• Antony Lo’s The Female Athlete Montréal, L1 - 2022
• Antony Lo’s Diastasis Done Differently San Diego, 2022
• Honoring Women - Certified Professional Childbirth Educator 2022
• Fit For Birth Pre & Postnatal Corrective Exercise Specialist 2016
• Fit For Birth & The Bloom Method Diastasis and Core Consultant 2019
• NASM Certified Personal Trainer 2014 - 2024
• B.A. Print Journalism - Concordia University, Montréal 2010
“Maggie gave me exercises to do at home to not only correct my physical discomforts but to improve my mindset as well. Can’t recommend her enough!”
~ Aude Laliberté, QUEBEC, CANADA
Aside from my official qualifications, I’ve experienced two wildly different hospital births - one unplanned C-section, one unmedicated vaginal birth - to bring my sons into this world. Those two births turned out to be two of the most joyful and, yes, healing experiences of my life, even though they were also imperfect and messy.
My preparation for these births, my knowledge of my rights in the hospital as a birthing mother, and my confidence rooted in the education I’d had allowed me to advocate for myself and my babies, and enabled me to have largely positive birth experiences.
”I was able to jump on a trampoline with my 3-year-old and not worry that I would have leaky bladder.
Thanks to Maggie, I can stop calling my lady bits “old and leaky”.”
~ Christine DiPilla - PENNSYLVANIA
Those positive births healed something in me, despite my fears related to hospitals and surgery after the near-fatal car accident that I was in at the age of 23.
That accident left with me brain trauma, fourteen broken bones, and “pre-existing conditions” that made it impossible for me to get health insurance when I moved from Canada to the USA to be with my fiancé six months after it happened.
What it also left me with, however, was a determination to not put my life on hold, to not see myself as a passive victim, and to prove my neurosurgeon wrong by getting completely better when he said I couldn’t.
Over the next seven years, I carefully fused the shattered girl that I was after my accident back together.
I learned how movement, nutrition, and mindfulness all played a huge part in how my body and soul could heal.
And my belief that I didn’t have to stay broken was proven true.
I could live my life, follow my dreams, have children, and be whole and healthy without pain or dysfunction.
It’s my goal for you to feel the same.
Maggie Yount is the founder of Whole Healthy Mama™, and creator of Whole Mama Fit™ and the OptiMom® Method.
She works with birthing people all over the world to empower them to positive experiences during pregnancy, birth, and beyond, as well as coaching privately, leading workshops, and teaching classes in her home community of Bozeman, Montana.
10 FUN FACTS ABOUT MAGGIE
1. She was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada!
2. She has a tattoo that took about 13 hours total.
3. Maggie first sat on a pony when she was two years old, and has been horse crazy ever since.
4. Maggie shaved her head at 14, inspired by the movie G.I. Jane. She later rocked a mohawk in high school!
5. She attended a protest at age 14 to stop the clearcutting of an old growth forest by a company that makes toilet paper, and it worked. The protest halted the clear cut and saved the trees.
6. She has followed a gluten-free diet since 2009 when she connected it to her post-accident brain fog.
7. Maggie is bilingual (English/French).
8. She HATES horror movies.
9. She LOVES riding horses, country swing dancing, hiking, skiing, rock climbing, and just being outside.
10. Maggie has a B.A. in Print Journalism and wrote for her college paper, Montreal weekly newspapers, and worked as an editor at Surfer Magazine.
Maggie lives in Bozeman, MT with her husband, her kids, a dog, a pony, and two horses.