Yoga and Pregnancy

Yoga works great for pregnancy. That’s wonderful and TRUE. But do you know how?

Yoga has 5 vital tools for pregnancy. When followed together, they work wonders on your health and your capability to have a smooth pregnancy.

Smooth pregnancy and a natural childbirth are just some of the benefits of yoga. But more importantly, yoga does wonders on the physical and mental development of the foetus.

Ensuring a healthy baby is every woman’s dream and yoga helps you do just that.

So what are these 5 tools:

Yoga Exercises
These gently work on the reproductive organs and pelvis to ensure a smooth pregnancy and a relatively easy childbirth. At the subtle level, these ensure optimum supply of blood and nutrients to the developing foetus.

Breathing or Pranayama
These powerful techniques ensure the abundant supply of oxygen and a better life force for you and your child. These methods work on your fitness during pregnancy.

Mudras and Bandhas
The psycho-physical stimulation of these gestures and locks have powerful effects on a woman’s reproductive organs.

Meditation
As a therapeutic tool, meditation will help you resolve the deepest of neuroses, fears and conflicts, which are so common during pregnancy. Meditation brings with it an incredible awareness which helps you connect with your child in a way that is impossible to explain.

Deep Relaxation 
Yoga Nidra (Yogic sleep) is particularly effective during pregnancy for physical and mental relaxation as well as for childbirth preparation

For easy pregnancy yoga exercises and relaxation, you may use the specially designed "Twintex" yoga mats .They are soft yet firm which is what you require.

Yoga & Pregnancy

In my earlier post on prenatal yoga & yoga for getting pregnant, i have discussed how important a role, yoga & meditation play in a healthy pregnancy. Smooth pregnancy & a natural childbirth are the natural outcomes of successful yoga routine. More importantly it works wonders for the young one inside you. It helps in the physical & mental development of the foetus.

Some of the yoga exercises that we may practice, to ensure a healthy pregnancy include:

Stretching Exercises:
Pregnancy Yoga Stretching Exercises help relieve aches and pains. The practice also helps to improve overall posture and this can help alleviate back problems, common in pregnant women. Pregnancy Yoga also helps to prepare expectant mums for childbirth. It encourages breath and body awareness, lowers levels of worry and helps pregnant women adapt to their situation.

Breathing or Pranayama
These powerful techniques of breathing & pranayama, ensures an abundant supply of oxygen and a better life force for you and your little one. These breathing exercises work on your fitness during pregnancy.

Meditation & Deep Relaxation:
Meditation helps to resolve the fears & conflicts, that go on within ones mind, during this period. It helps the mother to connect with her child.

Yoga Nidra or relaxation is particularly effective during this period for mental as well as physical relaxation and helps the mother to prepare for coming challenges.