Pre & Post Natal Yoga
Why they may come to yoga?
- To keep toned and healthy, weight management
- Various health problems
- Stress & Anxiety
- Doctor’s recommendations
- Popular things to do
- Celebrities do yoga
- Friends or family recommends
- To meet other pregnant women
- To learn how to practice at home
- For a healthy baby
Benefits of Yoga – Before Conception
- Prepares the women physically, emotionally and spiritually for conception.
- Creates a positive environment for a baby.
- Promotes physical and mental health.
- Helps a women to overcome any barriers and fears they may have in preparation for having a child.
- Increases the pranic level, vitality and opens energy blockages.
- Helps the women to develop spiritually so that she will be ready to bring a baby into the world.
Pregnancy Benefits - Physical
- Strengthens the abdominal muscles which support the uterus and baby for nine months and also to help with the birthing process.
- Strengthens the spine and back muscles.
- Improves posture.
- Strengthens the pelvic floor muscles as well as making them flexible.
- Helps to stabilize and strengthen muscles of the pelvis.
- Tones all muscles used in birthing.
- Increases oxygen level for mother and baby.
Pregnancy Benefits - Physical
- Helps the women to gain more control over her respiratory system which can be helpful during labor.
- Removal of metabolic wastes
- Improves general fitness
- Improves blood circulation and strengthens the heart
- Balances and regulates the blood pressure
- Improves immunity
- Prevents and relieves back pain
- Helps to promote a smooth stress free delivery
- Can prevent and relieve fluid retention
- Helps to prevent leg cramps and varicose veins
- Helps prevent constipation.
Pregnancy Benefits - Physical
- Increases energy levels
- Helps to calm the nervous system
- Helps to create more space in the pelvic region and reduce stress placed on abdominal organs
- Helps to open the chest and create more space
- Helps to promote a natural and healthy birth without intervention and drugs
- Can help prevent and overcome morning sickness
- Helps to keep weight gain under control
- Improves balance, stability and co-ordination
- Prevents prolapse and helps prevent haemorrhoids
- Helps with pain management during labor.
Pregnancy Benefits – Emotional & Spiritual
- Removal of fear, anxiety, conflicts, tension and stress.
- Promotes relaxation and stress management, emotional wellbeing
- Increases mental peace, calmness
- Relaxation and learning to relax and control the mind, witness
- Helps to create a bond and connection between the mother and child.
- Helps to change the quality of thoughts
Pregnancy Benefits – Emotional & Spiritual
- Helps to balance and stabilize the emotions which can be unstable due to hormones
- Creates the mental strength needed to cope with any problems during pregnancy and birth
- Creates positive feelings of love, compassion, appreciation, gratitude and peace.
- Helps one to find the balance in life, with the struggles, obstacles and so on that may come up during this time, pregnancy related or not.
Pregnancy Benefits – Emotional & Spiritual
- Creates trust and faith in ones body.
- Empowers a women
- Encourages women to honor themselves and enjoy the special time of pregnancy
- Improved concentration and clearness (baby brain), which can decrease for some women during pregnancy
Benefits – Post Natal
- Tones abdominal muscles and brings things back into shape
- Helps bring the uterus back into its pre-pregnancy shape and position
- Helps to prevent post natal depression
- Balances the emotions
- Improve overall well being
- Promotes a fast recovery
Benefits for Baby
- Creates a more peaceful atmosphere and positive energy
- Makes the baby feel more secure
- Helps in the spiritual development of the baby
- Improves blood circulation, removal of metabolic wastes and increased nutrition to the baby.
- Promotes a peaceful delivery for the baby
What to practice?
- Asanas
- Pranayam
- Cleansing
- Meditation
- Relaxation & Visualization
- Om Chanting
Sonia Sony
Designation: Advance Yoga coach
Educational Qualifications:
Certified Level 1 Yoga Instructor from Indea Yoga, Mysore. 250+hrs (Ashtanga Yoga)
Certified Pre and Post natal Yoga Instructor from Yoga Vidya Gurukul, Trimbak, Nasik
