Pregnancy &
postnatal yoga
Pregnancy yoga
Pregnancy yoga classes are a great place to meet fellow mums to be, and are available for women in the 2nd and 3rd trimester – regardless of whether you have practiced yoga before or not. These classes are specifically designed for your physical and emotional needs, and will help you to relieve any pregnancy related aches and pains.
You will also learn a range of wonderful physical and mental tools to support you during your pregnancy, and journey into motherhood. You will feel stronger and energised, and learn valuable relaxation techniques to help you sleep better. As well as yoga postures, you will learn useful birthing positions, helpful breathing meditations, visualisations and pelvic floor exercises.
These classes will help you stay comfortable, balanced and calm throughout pregnancy and give you tools to feel prepared, empowered and positive for birth and motherhood.
Modifications available dependent on your pregnancy experience.
Postnatal, and mother and baby yoga
After giving birth these sessions are a great way to ease yourself back into exercising as a new mother, all whilst bonding with your baby.
Whilst designed to strengthen and tone your muscles, the primary focus will be to nurture and offer a safe environment in which you are able to reconnect with your body. From a physical aspect, attention will be given to the muscles that are most affected by pregnancy and birth – your stomach, pelvic floor, and back. You will also have time to connect and chat with other mums, in a friendly, non-judgmental, and supportive environment.
Many women worry that their baby will be too noisy, cry too much, or will need to feed during the session, that is absolutely fine – you will not be disrupting anyone – as everyone will understand, as they are experiencing the same as you. Even if you spend the whole class feeding you will still benefit from breathing, from relaxing, from connecting to your pelvic floor, from chatting and spending time with the other mothers.
You should always check with your GP or midwife when it is appropriate to start attending the class. I would advise from 6 weeks, if there are no health conditions present that would prevent this.
No previous yoga experience is necessary.
Benefits include
- Ease tightness, tension, aches and niggles in the post-natal body
- Gently build up strength and stamina in the body supporting postnatal recovery
- A time to rest and relax
- Relieves stiffness in the shoulders, neck and upper back that can occur from feeding
- Helps to expand your breathing and calms the mind
- Helps you to feel a sense of reclaiming your body
- Permission to give yourself time to nurture you
- Renew energy levels
- Can aid bonding between mother and baby
- Creates positivity around your postnatal body
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