Practiced for centuries now, great healing power resides in yoga an exercise that focuses on empowering your mind and body. For a pregnant lady, especially for the first timers it is not all that easy to cope with the changing body, however they can find help in prenatal yoga, where yoga poses are modified to help you improve your focus, flexibility and strength, to help you adjust better to changing body and childbirth needs.
Yoga for pregnancy brings along lot many benefits, both physical and mental. While mentally it relaxes you physically it prepares you better for the delivery by bettering your strength, balance and flexibility. It also brings along the opportunity to meet other moms-to-be, socialize and share your concerns. Some more benefits of baby yoga can be listed as below:
• While performing prenatal yoga you will be relying more on your own body instead of using weights and machines. This is safer and an effective way to build strength for expectant mothers with ever expanding bellies.
• As the belly grows, many find it difficult to carry themselves with ease, and are more likely to lose balance. Baby yoga poses like tree pose helps you maintain your balance by targeting number of muscles at a time. Though these poses are extremely beneficial you need to be careful to avoid poses which can make you fall.
• Lastly poses like bound angle, open the hip region, and make the journey of your child easier, resulting in shorter labor. Similar other poses taught in a prenatal yoga class, help improve your flexibility which makes natural birth a possibility.
All these and many more benefits of yoga for pregnancy have made it a must for all expectant mothers.
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