Healthy Mom, Happy Baby: Prenatal Yoga Description
The evidence is clear - when you exercise regularly and gently during your pregnancy, you help yourself and your baby. Babies born to exercising mothers are healthier, experience fewer fetal complications during labor, and may even receive neurobehavioral benefits as a result of their mom s exercise regime while they are in utero.
Yoga is regarded as the ideal form of exercise for pregnant women a perfect way to meet the 30 minutes of exercise prescribed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Healthy Mom, Happy Baby is a gentle prenatal yoga practice designed for all three trimesters of your pregnancy. This video will help you:
- strengthen and build stamina in the muscles used during childbirth;
- learn meditation techniques to help you access deep relaxation a tool you can use to replenish yourself between contractions;
- learn breathing and visualization strategies to release tension and manage pain during labor;
- increase your confidence and trust in the innate wisdom of your body;
- connect with your changing body and your growing baby;
- enjoy uninterrupted time to explore your emotions as you make the transition to motherhood.
Healthy Mom, Happy Baby is suitable for women in all stages of their pregnancy. The practice begins with a gentle warm-up that includes centering breath work, followed by 40 minutes of physical poses and ends with a 10 minute guided relaxation. You can do the entire practice or you can create your own shorter practice by selecting one or more of the exercise series listed below from the DVD menu.
Prenatal Yoga includes:
1. Warm-up
2. Arm strengthening
3. Standing Series I and II
4. Balancing
5. Back Bending
6. Hip Opening
7. Final Relaxation (Savasana)
The Healthy Mom, Happy Baby Prenatal Yoga Practice is designed to help you through each day of your pregnancy. It provides you an opportunity to check in with your body and your growing baby as you link breath with movement; increase strength, stamina and flexibility; and build confidence. As you practice, learn to listen to the wisdom of your body and trust your intuition, since these are the keys to knowing what you and your baby need.
Yoga helped us on our journey to motherhood: from preconception to labor and delivery and during the postpartum recovery phase. Yoga continues to help us live graciously as we meet the challenges and experience the joys of motherhood each day. We are eager to share the gifts of yoga with you, gifts that you can use during your pregnancy as you nurture yourself into motherhood and your growing baby into life outside the womb.
- Anna and Lisa
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