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Prenatal Yoga

This class is open for all pregnant women seeking support, community and a prenatal yoga practice. This practice will geared to help you to feel strong, calm, and as comfortable as you can be amidst your many body changes during pregnancy, and will also guide you to create a bond with your baby.  Join this supportive container while cultivating deep awareness of your changing and shifting body, all while developing stamina for birth!

Prenatal Portrait

Benefits

  • Develops stamina

  • Improved balance

  • Relieves tension of lower back, hips, chest, upper back, neck and shoulders

  • Alleviate back pain

  • Reduces swelling

  • Increases Circulation

  • Calms the nervous system

  • Helps to manage stress, reduce anxiety and promote a sense of calm and well-being

Breathing Meditation

  • Connection with Baby

  • Create awareness of the mind-body connection

  • Foster a sense of empowerment

  • Breathwork practice conducive to labor and delivery

  • Sense of community/sisterhood

  • Nurturing Time

  • Increased Strength and Stamina

  • Learn techniques for pain management and relaxation during contraction.

Yoga Is Not Stretching!

  • Having a yoga practice during this important time in your life promotes optimum health of your the body, mind and emotions.

  • Yoga helps to unify the physical, emotional and spiritual growth between the mother and child.

  • Prenatal classes will focus on prāṇayama (breathing exercises), meditation, opening the hips, restorative poses, core/leg strength and relaxation

  • Prenatal yoga can help future mothers become more resilient during and after pregnancy.

  • A yoga practice uniquely designed for pregnancy can help support moms-to-be mentally, emotionally and physically.

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Is This Practice Safe?

Yes, prenatal yoga is safe, however we do have some recommendations and precautions:

  • Check with your doctor before beginning prenatal yoga.

  • If you had an already established practice before becoming pregnant, then you are fine to continue to practice with some restrictions.

  • Is is important that pregnant women start slowly and take their first class at about 50-60% of what they think their limit is so that they can see how their body responds.

  • If you are new to yoga, it is recommenced that you do not begin to take class until your 2nd trimester.

  • If something doesn't feel right, don't do it!

  • Our Instructors are Registers Prenatal Teachers, which means they have undergone special training to understand how to safely work with pregnant women.

How Does Prental Yoga Help With Labor and Delivery?

  • The focus and connection with the breath allows a woman to tap into the rhythm of their bodies and work with it, instead of fighting against it.

  • Women who do prenatal yoga tend to have more stamina. Especially during trimester 2, the focus of the prenatal class will be to build strength and stamina to prepare the mother for the intensity of laor. Mothers who have have this practice typically had a stronger pain tolerance and know how to work with their bodies.

  • Prenatal yoga classes release endorphins, or feel good hormoes. The same hormones are released during labor and are much easier to recognie and savior to women who have been practicing prenatal yoga.

  • Studies have proven that prenatal yoga and meditation help facilitate more comfort during birth, shorter and more manageable births, less medical interventions and faster postpartum recoveries.

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