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Yoga for pregnancy is an invaluable way of
promoting health and wellbeing for both mother
and baby and a perfect preparation for labour
and birth, encouraging a positive pregnancy and
birth experience.
Yoga works with the body, mind and breath
to create a yoga experience specially tailored
to meet the unique needs of pregnant women, with
helpful trimester modifications, providing both
a physical and emotional preparation that can
greatly enhance pregnancy, labour and birth.
Benefits of Yoga for Pregnancy
- Yoga for Pregnancy classes are designed to help pregnant
women connect with their rapidly changing bodies
and developing babies, to enhance comfort, flexibility
and endurance and to help alleviate the common
discomforts of pregnancy.
- As many yoga positions are similar to birthing
positions, yoga helps women explore and develop
ease in positions and movements that they might
adopt during an active birth.
- The breath is fundamental to yoga. Developing
a focus on the natural rhythm of the breath helps
release tension, promotes relaxation, cultivating
greater ability to quieten the mind and focus
inwards, and in labour helps women embrace the
process of birth.
- Relaxation techniques to deeply release physical
and emotional tension and stress.
- Yoga also provides a valuable quiet time and
space in which a woman can focus on the presence
of her baby and form a bond with her unborn child.
- These Pregnancy Yoga classes dedicate time in each class
for discussion of pregnancy and birth related
topics and sharing information. Topics may include:
Homebirth, Waterbirth, Nappies, Birth Plans….
- Make supportive connections with other pregnant
women. Mothers often return with their newborn
baby to share their birth stories and this can
provide a balanced and realistic insight into
the broad range of experiences women have in
labour and birth.
Class Format
Each weekly class is 2 hours long and incorporates the integral
elements of yoga - breathing awareness, yoga positions, flowing movements,
relaxation and ends with refreshments and supportive discussion.
Previous experience of yoga is not necessary.
You may attend anytime between 16 and 28 weeks of
pregnancy and right up until the birth of your baby.
Class and Venue Monday: 6.30pm – 8.30pm at Kagyu Samye Dzong (Formerly Rokpa House) Charing Cross, West End of Glasgow
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