Fertility and Prenatal Pregnancy Yoga Guide
Prenatal Yoga is an ideal form of exercise for women during pregnancy because it includes strengthening, stretching, relaxation, and breathing practice, and can be easily adapted for each trimester.
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Breathing Practice – Nadi Shodhana (Channel Purifying Breath)
Nadi Shodhana (nah-deeh show-dah-nuh) is a yoga breathing practice which relaxes the body and mind and is said to balance the sides of the brain and purify the energy channels of the body. It is safe for pregnant women and women trying to conceive.
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Bipolar Disorder: TTC, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Period
If you suffer from bipolar disorder, is important to understand how trying to conceive (TTC), pregnancy and the postpartum period will affect your mental health.
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Suicide Risk Among New Mothers and Soon-to-be Mothers
A very recent study published online in the General Hospital Psychiatry
journal claims additional services may be needed by women who are
pregnant and those who have just delivered a child.
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Prenatal Yoga - Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)
Warrior II, like Warrior I, is a challenging all-over body strengthener used in prenatal and non-prenatal yoga. Warrior II is also a deep hip and upper body opener and has been said to alleviate backaches during pregnancy to increase fertility.
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Prenatal Yoga - Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I)
Warrior I is a strengthening, stretching, and even a bit of a balancing pose, that can inspire confidence and power in its practitioner. Practice Warrior I after warming up your body, during the higher intensity portion of your yoga workout.
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What do I Need to Practice Yoga?
All you need to practice yoga is a little bit of floor space and a little bit of time.
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Do I Need to be Flexible To Do Yoga?
Anyone can do yoga whether they are flexible or not. The most important thing about practicing yoga is that it feels good for your individual body.
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Is Yoga Safe For my Baby?
Yoga is absolutely safe for your baby. While yoga in general can range from a gentle relaxation to a rigorous heart-pumping work out, prenatal yoga is specifically designed to feel good for mother and not harm growing baby.
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Breath and Breathing
Breath is the most important element of a yoga practice. It allows us to move deeper into a pose, get through a difficult one, and move gracefully from one pose to another. Our breath can have this same guiding and transformative power in our daily lives.
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Restorative Yoga – Legs Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani)
Leg's Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani) in restorative yoga is known in yoga as an 'inversion,' or upside-down pose where your heart is above your head.
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Introduction to Prenatal Yoga
At the very foundation of yoga practice are some truly transformative and
sometimes even life changing techniques that can help people maximize your physical and mental health, and reduce stress.
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Prenatal Yoga - What Is It?
Prenatal yoga is a physical activity that can be everything from strengthening and stretching to relaxing and meditative.
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Breathing Practice – Ujjayi Pranayama
Ujjayi Pranayama (Ocean Sounding or Victorious Breath) breath is commonly used throughout yoga classes and practices. It is used to calm the body and mind, heat the body internally to permit fluid movement and stretching, as well as provide a meditational focal point during the practice for you and those around you.
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Restorative Yoga: Seated Wide-Legged Forward Fold
The seated wide-legged forward fold opens the hips, and stretches the
back and thighs. The supported (restorative) version, is less intense
than a regular wide-legged forward fold, and allows pregnant women to do
the pose without having to hold up their back.
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Fetus Gets Psychological Messages from Mom
As every mother knows, the fetus is constantly listening to the mother's heartbeat, the sounds of her digestive system and even the music sheplays outside the womb, but researchers believe the fetus hears morethan just physical sounds.
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Pregnancy Can Trigger Resurgence of Symptoms in Bipolar Women
Pregnancy can be a tricky time for women diagnosed with psychiatricdisorders but a new study indicates it's especially tough on womenpreviously diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD).
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Are Eating Disorders Common in Pregnancy?
University College and Kings College in London recently published a study in the European Eating Disorders Review. The study aimed to bring to light the prevalence of eating disorder in pregnancy.
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Mom’s Antipsychotic Meds Affect Pregnancy
When doctors see pregnant patients who take or need to take antipsychotic drugs, they face the dilemma of treating the mother at the risk of the baby or sparing the baby by not treating the mother.
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75-Percent of Moms-to-be Don't Exercise to Improve Mood
The medical science that documents the value of exercise during
pregnancy is vast. Study results indicate regular exercise minimizes the
musculoskeletal discomforts that come with advancing pregnancy,
improves quality of sleep, minimizes pregnancy weight gain, and even
shortens labor.
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Maternal Mood Disorders May Affect Child's Development
Many women struggle with depression and other mood disorders while pregnant. Exposure to these mood disorders during pregnancy may cause the offspring to exhibit long-term emotional and behavioral problems later in life.
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Pregnancy Linked to Mental Health Conditions in Female Vets
U.S. female veterans who become pregnant may be at increased risk for mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to researchers at Yale University School of Medicine.
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