PREGNANCY YOGA

•  Take time to deeply relax and connect with your body.
•  Strengthen your body and prepare for birth.
•  Create space to feel comfortable in your body and peaceful in your mind…

Yoga is ideal for pregnant women who want to keep fit.  Advocates claim it boosts mind and body, helping to ease your pregnancy both physically and emotionally.  It also helps the birth and post-delivery stages. 

Yoga can also help to boost circulation and help with fluid retention.  The gentle stretching exercises can relieve aches and pains.  Overall, posture is improved by Yoga, which can help ease the back pains that are so common in pregnancy.  You will find that it also helps you prepare for the birth, by encouraging breath and body awareness, reducing anxiety and helping you to adapt to new situations. 

It is important, though, that Yoga postures are specially adapted for pregnancy.  If you have never done Yoga before, you should start by taking classes to learn the poses under supervision, from a specialist who is experienced and knowledgeable.  Starting Yoga is no different to starting any other form of exercise;  the same advice applies.  If you are not used to regular exercise then you should start slowly and if you are in any doubt, consult your doctor or midwife.

Yoga can also be extremely helpful after the birth, to help regain muscle tone and also to boost energy and help with stress levels.

When is Pregnancy Yoga available?

Nicola Kerridge teaches a Pregnancy Yoga class on Thursday mornings from 9.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.;  classes are priced at £9 each, or £80 for a book of 10 classes.

Nicola is a Yoga Academy (Student) teacher and British Wheel of Yoga Accredited (Student) teacher.

 

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