Yoga creates a balance between emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual dimensions.
Prenatal yoga can be a great way to prepare for childbirth and stay active during pregnancy. It’s both gentle and low impact. It also offers physical and mental benefits.
Yoga can improve your physical and psychological health not just for the duration of your pregnancy but after labor as well.
Here are a few reasons for you to start practising Yoga right now!
Calming effect on the nervous system
Your emotional state during pregnancy affects your baby. If you’re calm and relaxed, you’re not only allowing yourself to enjoy this precious time in your life, you’re also creating a happy environment for your baby to grow in. Yoga will help you reduce the effects of stress by letting you stay in the present moment, connecting with your breath and body.
Get a natural Pregnancy glow
Yoga brings together your mind, body, and spirit. It allows you to know your body and explore the limits of your mind. When you fall in love with the experience of pregnancy in your mind and body, you will undoubtedly glow.
Supports your changing body
Our bodies are always changing. In pregnancy, the body experiences a much-accelerated pace of change and needs help adjusting. Prenatal yoga practice supports the changes that happen in a pregnant body by offering healthy, safe ways to stretch muscles and strengthen the body.
Reduces stress, depression, and anxiety
The combination of intentional movement and structured breathing can help decrease the symptoms of depression. Breathing in rhythm activates the nervous system and blocks cortisol.
Tones important muscle groups
Yoga tones the physical body, the pelvic floor, hip, and abdominal muscles. Building and maintaining muscle tone during pregnancy can help minimize the aches and pains and are key in bringing your body back to a toned condition after delivery.
Improves blood flow
The stretching movements in yoga help increase blood flow to the heart. Improved blood flow results in more oxygen-rich blood going to your baby. This keeps the baby on track for healthy development.
Helps you make friends with other mamas
The greatest benefit of prenatal yoga is joining a community with similar expectant moms. The class becomes a pregnancy support group where women connect with other women who are making the same choices and lifestyle changes. Sharing the pregnancy journey with new friends can help ease your anxiety about impending motherhood and also eases your back pain by calming your body.
Betters your labor experience
Starting prenatal yoga can help you better relax and stay positive once you go into labor. Meditation and breathing exercises reduce pain and anxiety during labor. Being confident and building your abilities will help you have a painless labor experience.
Say goodbye to the baby weight faster
Your body is like a machine that grows an entire human being. It’s crazy strong and unspeakably beautiful. But sometimes, things move into different shapes and make you a little self-conscious.
Staying committed to a regular yoga practice during pregnancy will help you healthily reduce the baby weight. By focusing on strength and flexibility throughout your pregnancy, your body will find its way back to its normal shape easily once you give birth.
It is very important to keep yourself fit and healthy while you are expecting and pregnancy yoga can be the perfect solution. Yoga focuses on the balance between your mind, body, and breath.
Happy Parenting!
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