Prenatal yoga is a multifaceted approach to exercise that encourages stretching, mental focus, and steady breathing. Other benefits include better sleep, reduced stress and anxiety, stronger and flexible muscles that help in the last stages of pregnancy and childbirth, calm and focused breathing which helps immensely during childbirth, and less back pain, nausea, etc. to name a few.

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Prenatal yoga classes include gentle stretching with classical Hatha Yoga postures. The variations of the postures are selected based on the suitability of your state of health. The program also includes breathing exercises, relaxation, and meditation. The postures are adjusted as you advance through the different terms of pregnancy and experience different levels of comfort and mobility. These classes are suitable for beginners as well as those with some experience of Yoga.

 

Post Natal Yoga is advisable to practice around 3-6 weeks after giving birth, provided you are not suffering from any medical setback. Women who have been practicing yoga regularly through their pregnancies, usually find rapid recuperation after delivery and lower their chances of getting ‘baby blues’. In case you have not been practicing Yoga through the pregnancy, you can still start and prevent Post-natal depression and help enhance your body’s ability to restore its balance and strengthen the reproductive organs.

To start this new journey of parenthood with a positive outlook and conscious involvement, I offer individual and group sessions on different aspects of this transition phase. Special awareness meditation is part of these sessions and it is found to be of great help in reducing stress, fatigue and fear that new parents frequently go through in this phase.

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