Yoga for Healthy Pregnancy

Posted on December 3, 2007 in Yoga Benefits

Yoga works really great in ensuring a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby. Yoga practice during pregnancy gives you the opportunity to create wonderful world for you and your baby. In the words of Yogi Bhajan, “What a child learns in the womb cannot be learned on earth.”

Benefits of yoga during pregnancy:

Yoga has 5 vital keys for healthy pregnancy. When practiced regularly, they really work wonders beyond your imagination.

Here are the 5 keys of yoga for healthy pregnancy:

Yoga Exercises – Yoga Exercises works smoothly on pelvis and reproductive organs and increases the chances of natural childbirth. Different stretching postures create a comfortable space for your baby inside the womb. These exercises also help in supply of blood and nutrients to the developing foetus.

Breathing or Pranayama – Breathing or Pranayama techniques helps in required supply of oxygen and a better life force to you and your child. These techniques prepare your body for the traumas of labor and pain by strengthening and toning your muscles.

Mudras and Bandhas – The benefits of Mudras and Bandhas during pregnancy are many. They have powerful effects on your reproductive organs.

Meditation – Meditation helps to caste aside all the psychological fears, doubts, stress, depression, conflicts which are very common during pregnancy. Even the common physical aches like back pain vanish, when your mentally peaceful. Meditation builds both physical and mental connection between you and your baby by creating some awareness which is impossible to explain.

Yoga Nidra /Deep Relaxation –It gives you deep physical and mental relaxation during pregnancy which indirectly adds a lot of benefits.

If you practice regularly all these techniques related to yoga, you can really have a delightful pregnancy and you will give your child an opportunity for best development.

There are trained experts who conduct yoga classes for pregnant women. These teachers are essentially trained in various asanas and postures related to pregnancy yoga. Apart from this, yoga they also teach the dos and don’ts during pregnancy.

It is always better to attend classes than learning from books or videos etc. Remember, to be sure about the authenticity of the yoga expert, as pregnancy is very delicate period and a slight misguidance can lead to dangerous complications.

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