PRENATAL YOGA -
Empowerment
Benefits
- Develop your awareness of proper postural alignment to prevent overstretching of abdominal muscles
- Cultivate breath awareness to help manage labour pain & increase your breathing capacity
- Nurture yourself & your baby by tuning into any tensions & using relaxation techniques to alleviate them
- Tone the abdominal muscles which are continually expanding as the baby grows
- Relieve heartburn
- Prevent & alleviate constipation
- Poses to control stretch marks
- Poses to create space under the ribcage for your baby
- Opportunity to meet other expectant Mums-to-be to share Wellness Tips ... so have those questions answered!
- Tips for the actual labour
Recommendations for Pre & PostNatal Yoga
Please inform me if this is you first yoga class or if you've a diagnoised medical condition
While adjusting to life with your newborn baby resist the urge to take on too much Get your doctors approval to start either Pre/PostNatal yoga.
Practice relaxed awareness - to tune into your sense of groundness, which is experienced when your lower back is in harmony with the earth's downward force(no lower back compression) - promoting a sense of calm
POSTNATAL YOGA -
Nurturing Mother & Baby
Learn simple yoga postures which you can easily incorporate into your daily routine while looking after your baby. I've developed a yoga practice which helps you cope with the initial physical(achy lower back) & emotional challenges while tending to your special baby!
Benefits
- Realigns your hips & spine which initiates wellbeing
- Strengthen both abdominal & pelvic floor muscles(which may be compromised due to the physical demands of labour) leading to increased stamina
- Poses to alleviate neck & shoulder pain brought on by breastfeeding or bottle-feeding often resulting in a hunched-over/ forward head position posture
- Increase physical endurance and agility
- Learning relaxation techniques to reduce any negative feelings of anxiety of living up to expectations of what motherhood entails
- Relaxing to rejuvenate so you can nurture both yourself & your baby