Prenatal Yoga, Best asanas for yoga during pregnency

Giving birth to a healthy child is the dream of every women and prenatal yoga just helps you to do the same.Every pregent women can practice certain basic prenatal yogasanas to ensure easy childbirth and healthy baby.

Yoga brings down stress and enhances powers of relaxation.Yoga Exercises exquisitely work on the reproductive organs and on the pelvis to ensure a relatively strainfree and smooth pregnancy and a easy childbirth. At the subtle level, these asanas ensure optimum supply of blood and nutrients to the developing foetus.With proper antenatal preparation, majority of women can have and labour that is easy and almost painless and she can literally enjoy the labour and experience a sense of fulfilment.

Yoga for pregnent women:

Pranayama which literally means breathing(But actually it has lots more to it) is a powerful technique to ensure the abundant supply of oxygen and a better life force for you and your child.Certain specific yogasanas are proved to have a healthy effect on your baby child.

Meditation, the well known therapeutic pool helps to Infuse a sense of balance and internal harmony in you.It also improves blood circulation and provides adequate supply of essentail minerals for your baby.Yogic sleep (Yogic Nidra) is also effective especialy when you are pregnent.

Various ways Prenatal Yoga helps child birth

• Yoga focuses on relieving tension around the birth canal and cervix.
• Yoga Influences the position of the baby and turns it in advance if required. Massaging and streangthening the abdomen which help stimulate bowel action and appetite.
• It focuses on opening the pelvis to make labor easier and quicker.

• Relieving fluid retention (edema) and cramping which can be quite common in the last months.
• Helping to reduce nausea, morning sickness and mood swings in combination with pranayamas (yogic breathing).

• Inverted poses are extremely beneficial in the first 3 months of pregnancy and postnatal too.
• The 'chest expansion' is a Yoga exercise specially intended to strengthen, stretch and open up a pregnant mother’s chest and upper back.
• Balasana (child pose) helps open up the woman’s pelvis and cheest.
• 'Relaxation' helps in opening up the pregnant woman’s hip and groin region.
• Gomukhasana and Bidalasana (Cat and Cow poses) help the pregnant woman become suppler.It also helps in strengthening your Abs.

1. Whatever the poses be, you should never compress your Abdomen.This is very Important regarding Prenatal Yoga.
2. You should avoid prenatal yoga exercises, which stretch your body, especially the abdominal muscles too much. They should also bear in mind that they are more prone to injure during pregnancy.
3. You should be aware of body reactions to different excersises.If you feel that a particular exersise is not comfortable, you should immediately stop.

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