Benefits for your body

• Yoga can help with the aches and pains of pregnancy and with mental issues such as moodiness. In turn, yoga can help you have a smooth pregnancy and natural childbirth.
• Yoga exercises, through a series of gentle stretches, help tone the reproductive organs, pelvis and the rest of your body to ensure an easier childbirth.
• Yoga breathing exercises and the act of controlling your energy (or Prana) provide your baby with vital oxygen and the energy from that oxygen. If you are a strong breather you will be more fit and ready for childbirth.
• Mastery of yoga breathing techniques can help ease the tension of labor and could help decrease the possibility of postpartum depression.
• Once you learn meditation through yoga you will have an incredible self awareness that will put you in tune with your baby. It is well known that meditation can help alleviate stress, poor health and fatigue.
• Yoga continues to have benefits after pregnancy, too. Postnatal yoga, which can be started about six weeks after the birth, strengthens abdominal muscles and your pelvic floor. It also helps you to get back to your pre-pregnancy shape faster.
• Yoga can help lower blood pressure.
• Many yoga participants report sleeping better.
• Yoga can help improve digestion.

• Yoga is ideal for strengthening muscles and joints in a safe and non-impacting manner. Yoga helps improve flexibility and promotes circulation throughout the body

  
  

   

Emotional Benefits

• Yoga is ideal for reducing anxiety and stress
• Yoga is an ideal form of exercise that helps connect the mind, body and spirit.
• Yoga is all about finding peace of mind and being one with the universe. Due to its life enriching qualities yoga is very popular.
• Meditation which is part of yoga is helpful for development of a favorable mindset. It helps you to develop a positive attitude for coping with the fear of pregnancy. It balances mind as well as the body making it ready for pregnancy and childbirth. It helps build up lots of patience and courage which is necessary for dealing with pregnancy.
• Participating in a group prenatal class provides a community of support from new friends who understand what you are experiencing