Prenatal &
Postnatal Yoga
Benefits of doing Yoga during Pregnancy
Whether you’re new to Yoga or can do Sun Salutations in your sleep, practicing Yoga during pregnancy has many benefits for you and your baby.
♥ Connect with your baby
♥ Time to rest, relax and restore the body and the mind
♥ Make friends with likeminded Women, who are on the same journey as you
♥ Release tension in the body, movement helps to ease the aches and pains of growing a tiny Human
♥ Practice Pranayama – breathing practices are a powerful tool to calm the mind, become present and even use during labour
♥ Strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, both contracting and releasing the muscles – so beneficial for birth and to help aid recovery postpartum, no matter how your baby enters the world.
♥ Keep the body strong – staying strong and mobile can help ease PGP (pelvic girdle pain) and lower back issues common in pregnancy as well as building stamina for labour
♥ Increase blood circulation around the body
Benefits of practicing Postnatal Yoga
The Postnatal period is an incredibly special time getting to know your baby and also yourself as a Mother. One of my favourite quotes is
“the moment a child is born, so is a mother, the woman existed but the Mother is completely new, so take her time to get to know her too”
♥ Connect with your baby and reconnect with yourself as a new Mum
♥ Time to rest, relax and restore the body and the mind
♥ Make friends with likeminded Women, who are on the same journey as you and friends for your tiny new human
♥ Building community with other mother’s has also shown to help prevent and ease symptoms of postnatal depression too
♥ Release tension in the body, movement helps to ease the aches and pains of growing a tiny Human and giving birth
♥ Practice Pranayama – breathing practices are a powerful tool to calm the mind, become present and support your nervous system recover from birth
♥ Strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, both contracting and releasing the muscles to rebuild strength and flexiblity of the pelvic floor after carrying your baby. To build up to safely return to other forms of exercise.
♥ Rehab the core muscles, starting with the deeper foundational core muscles in postnatal yoga we rebuild our core strength from the inside out, which also supports disastasis recti recovery and gives you the tools to move and look after your baby while looking after yourself.
Please make sure you take your time to come to class, 6 weeks is recommended and getting”signed off” by your GP, PCP, or Midwife, OBGYN
but I highly recommend you seek out a Woman’s Health physio for a full ‘mummy mot’ – before returning to exercise, even yoga and movement as doing too much too soon can actually prolong your recovery.
Slow and steady wins the race after all..
