Yoga is a wonderful form of exercise at anytime in life, but especially so during pregnancy. Pregnancy is a very special and unique time, and yoga helps create the space to integrate and adapt to that uniquness and gradually adjust priorities and lifestyle. In practicing yoga we become stronger, more flexible, and take an important step towards nurturing ourselves and living conscously.

Pre-natal yoga offers moms a place to explore the changes in their bodies, free from expectations or pressures. Gentle stretching often relieves many of the common discomforts of pregnancy, while specific asanas (postures) help moms prepare for labor and birth. Pre-natal yoga classes adapt common physical yoga postures, with an understanding of the changes and needs of the pregnant body, to create a safe, flowing, holistic practice. The practice is designed to be gentle enough for people completely new to yoga and stretching, but more experienced students can adapt the postures to their own desired level of challenge.

Yoga classes also offer moms a chance to connect with their bodies, with their unborn babies, and with other mothers in thir community. Check-in circles at the start of every class give moms a chance to share experiences with one another, as well as request the specific poses or stretches they need that day. As we practice, moms connect with their babies both by sensing or feeling them within, by rocking them within their bodies through rhythmic yoga vinyasas (flows), and growing sensitive to the changes within. The sentisivity developed in class helps moms become attuned to the messages of their own bodies during labor, and to the needs of the baby after birth.

Along with physical flexibility, moms also can cultivate mental flexibility, giving themselves the tools to work with the unpredictable process of labor and coming motherhood. Mothers learn the importance of being present  which allows them to make decisions from a consciously relaxed place.

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Om Births

                                                     Connecting to the spirit of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Pre-Natal Yoga

"By bringing your mind, your awareness into your body, by becoming aware of how you are standing, sitting or lying down, and how your body simply contacts the floor, your attention is drawn inwards. This inner awareness gives you a new perception of yourself, which is in harmony with the rest of nature"
-Janet Balaskas, Preparing for Birth with Yoga