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Antenatal Yoga

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
Yoga

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

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