Prenatal Yoga Benefits

Non Pre-Natal Classes Suitable for Prenatal Students that are active or have a current yoga practice (not suggested to true yoga beginners):

The practice of Yoga can help you prepare your mind and body for labor and birth as this helps you focus, to concentrate and keep you healthy. The Yoga postures are gentle ways of keeping your body active and supple and minimize the common pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness and constipation. It can also help in ensuring easier labor and smooth delivery by relieving tension around the cervix and birth canal and by opening the pelvis. The breathing techniques can also become handy during labor. It also helps in restoring your body shape, uterus, abdomen, and pelvic floor, and in relieving upper back tension and breast discomfort after childbirth. Special care, however, is needed in choosing the Yoga poses that you will practice. Your best bet is to it under a guidance of an experienced yoga teacher.

These classes will incorporate some strengthening, stretching and restorative yoga. Perfect for yogis that are now prenatal, post-natal, and  for improving the female function. 

Please let the teacher know before class that you are expecting so they can make the proper modifications.

If you had an on-going yoga practice before the pregnancy and your pregnancy is healthy, then other mixed-level classes might be appropriate for you as well. Seek your doctor's approval prior to starting a yoga practice.

Always inform your teacher about your pregnancy before the class.