25 Benefits of Prenatal Yoga

August 13, 2020
  1. You create an environment of social coexistence with women who go through the same process as you, get the chance to get support from the examples in front of you and share your knowledge with others.
  2. It creates a good opportunity to take time and care for yourself and your baby in the pace and rush of daily life.
  3. It reduces tension and stress on you.
  4. It is a very good physical, mental and spiritual preparation for the birth process.
  5. By activating the parasympathetic nervous system, it allows you to stay in a calmer mood.
  6. It allows you to communicate with your baby in a better quality and positive way than normally you do.
  7. Reduces edema and the formation of varicose veins.
  8. It supports the regular functioning of the digestive system.
  9. It is very helpful for regular sleep, eliminates your pain or anxiety-related sleep problems.
  10. Provides optimal functioning of the immune system, that is, it strengthens your immune system.
  11. It is a good opportunity for breathing exercises, it supports the elimination of shortness of breath.
  12. Breathing also provides oxygenation and healthy development of the baby.
  13. Yogic breathing exercises help the mother to regenerate.
  14. Special breathing exercises for birth help you during the delivery as well as during the pregnancy.
  15. The cause of night cramps is not always vitamin deficiency, if that so, yoga poses completely prevent cramps and arm numbness.
  16. Reduces tension on neck, shoulders, waist, back and hips, strengthens them and gives them flexibility.
  17. It is important in relaxing, strengthening and controlling your muscles.
  18. Increases your blood circulation. It has endless benefits for the healthy development of your baby as well as you.
  19. Allows you to open the hips in preparation for birth.
  20. Kegel exercises increase your strength and give flexibility to the pelvis for childbirth.
  21. It develops your strength, flexibility, balance and endurance.
  22. It helps to balance and control excessive weight gain.
  23. It improves pain and posture disorders caused by a change in the center of gravity.
  24. It offers non-exhausting, relaxing, healing, regenerative movements to pregnant women who have movement problems due to excessive weight, and help them actively move.
  25. If there are some difficulties that occur as a natural result of the pregnancy process, yoga helps in this process and mom-to-be who is relieved of her troubles, feels happy.
  • Plus, strengthen back and shoulder muscles to prepare you nursing, for your 4th trimester.

If the mother is relaxed, breathing deep, and long, and if she is not fearful and stressed, her baby will likely be born with a similar mood. Because while your baby is inside you, they hear your blood circulation, digestion, heartbeat, even listen to what is going through your mind and feel your breath. If all this is loose, soft, and in good order, the baby interprets the whole world as such, so prenatal yoga is also good for your baby.

To sum up; it has various emotional, mental, and physical benefits for pregnant women.

More than anything, it supports you in connecting with the life that develops within you. You host an existence, make it a memory/fun .

Om & love

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