Pregnancy is a beautiful and wonderful journey but generates a lot of mental, hormonal, and physical changes. It can be stressful and often comes with a lot of discomforts.
Usually, when they experience their first pregnancy most of the mums-to-be may be afraid of practicing yoga or any other form of exercise. However when guided by an expert yoga teacher, yoga can be practiced safely.
Let’s explore a few benefits of practicing yoga during pregnancy:
Yoga helps to maintain good physical health by continuing to work on flexibility, strength, and balance. The various asanas practiced during pregnancy yoga help to relieve the daily discomforts during this period (nausea, vomiting, slow digestion, constipation, backache, lousy circulation).
It helps to release stress and maintain a good hormonal balance. Yoga helps mums to be to find and keep a mental balance.
The yoga practice stimulates all endocrine systems to work as it should
The practice of asanas and breathing techniques will help to prepare the body for labor. It will entertain and reinforce the strengths in specific joints, whereas the breathing techniques will help to provide some calm. The practice focuses a lot on the pelvic area, developing awareness of this area and improving muscle strength.
Practising yoga will help to create space for the mum’s internal organs and offer a pleasant environment for the baby to grow.
Yoga helps maintain a good posture, prevents lower back pain, and improves chest opening, increasing energy and breath. It will help to avoid shortened breath and the sensation of sleepiness and drowsiness.
The practice of yoga improves blood circulation and prevents swelling and ankles.
By bringing awareness to the mum’s body, yoga helps her to listen to herself and to develop a nice bond with the baby.
The yoga will accompany the mum each month of the pregnancy and even after! It will help to accept the changes and be prepared for the labor.
There are a ton of reasons to include yoga before, during, and after your pregnancy!