Prenatal, Postnatal, Mommy & Baby Yoga
Whether a beginner to yoga or experienced practitioner, prenatal yoga is often recommended by OBGYNs, Doulas, and Midwives to assist in the different stages of pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. In addition to yoga being a well know stress and anxiety reduction antidote, it can also be sequenced to assist in treating certain contributions to infertility, prenatal discomfort or pain, and perinatal or postpartum depression and anxiety.
Benefits of Prenatal Yoga
- Improve sleep
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Increase the strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth
- Decrease lower back pain, nausea, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches and shortness of breath
- Decrease the risk of preterm labor, pregnancy-induced hypertension and intrauterine growth restriction — a condition that slows a baby's growth
Benefits of Postnatal Yoga and Mommy & Baby Yoga
- Community: Connect with your peers about the challenges and joys of being a new mother
- Rebuild flexibility and muscle tone, helping with new demands of caring for your baby
- Maintain spinal health and proper alignment
- Tone and stretch upper body, relieving aches and pains from breastfeeding
- Assists in preventing or relieving postpartum depression and anxiety
- Cultivates patience and self appreciation in your new body, new baby and home environment
- Learn self massage and baby massage techniques to assist in deep relaxation, increased immunity, and healthier digestion
Benefits of Couples & Partner Yoga in Prenatal/Postpartum
- Provide the opportunity for reconnecting, supporting and assisting one another
- Reduces stress, anxiety, and tension related to changes
- Provides massage techniques, supported postures and movements for labor
- Learn massage and baby massage techniques to assist in deep relaxation, increased immunity, and healthier digestion
