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pregnancy & childrens yoga
Pregnancy Yoga
How can yoga improve my pregnancy and birth?
Pregnancy Yoga is often the first choice of exercise for pregnant woman. It is widely recommended and promoted by midwives and doctors, because it is considered one of the safest all round exercise for women during pregnancy and an ideal birth preparation programme.
Yoga improves sleep and digestion, it creates greater flexibility and improvement in strength, lowers occurrences of back pain, sciatica and depression and encourages a greater sense of well being.
Pregancy Yoga classes generally cover:
- Spinal alignment
- Yogic breathing and birth breathing
- Pelvic awareness
- Loosening the hips and pelvis
- Strengthening the birthing muscles
- All over body strengthening
- Active birth positions
- Optimal foetal positioning
- Deep relaxation and Visualization techniques for pregnancy and labour
- Fear management techniques
- Nutritional Advice
- Space and time to connect with your unborn child
- Classes suit all stages of pregnancy from 14 - 42 weeks.
Childrens Yoga
Children’s Yoga is playful, creative and joyful and develops children's balance, posture and co-ordination, improves their ability to relax and concentrate and fosters a life-long practice of yoga.
To find a Yoga class in your area please contact:
Find out more about some of Pitta Patta's other services including a Birth Doula, Naturopathy, Massage and Parenting Workshops
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