This Pregnancy Yoga Course offers some effective practical tools to help navigate a women through from pregnancy to childbirth
The course includes:
- Information on yoga for each trimester
- 10 x Instructional Practices of different durations
- 7 x breathwork techniques as video or audio files
- Meditation & Relaxation audio files
- Information to prepare you for an empowered positive birth experience
- 4 x Hypnobirthing scripts for pregnancy and childbirth
- Birth Stories
- Pregnancy Anatomy
The benefits of yoga practice during pregnancy include:
- Keeps the body supple without strain
- Builds strength and stamina
- Maintains joint stability
- Brings awareness to, and enhances tone of pelvic floor for to prevent tearing in labour and better postnatal recovery
- Boosts energy and combats exhaustion
- Grounding and centring to relieve stress and anxiety and calm emotional turbulence
- Relieves common minor ailments during pregnancy (e.g swelling (fat ankles!) , heartburn, rib pain, constipation, hip and lower back pain)
- Prevents stretch marks by increasing the elasticity of the skin
- Helps maintain balance as the centre of gravity changes
- Promotes relaxation and restful sleep and combats insomnia
- Breath awareness and control along with visual techniques help manage contractions during labour
- Hypno-birthing techniques are influenced by yoga principles and so the two are highly compatible and complimentary can help the expectant mother bond with the unborn baby through visualization techniques