 Pregnancy Yoga works wonders on your health and your capability to have a smooth pregnancy and a natural childbirth. Ensuring a healthy baby is every woman's dream and yoga helps you do just that. Becoming a mother is a very personal journey. Although doctors and midwives carefully monitor your health and your baby's growth througho
ut your pregnancy, yoga brings a calm strength and inner balance that enables you to overcome whatever challenges lie ahead. You will find that yoga is a wonderful and valuable asset in pregnancy which also keeps you fit and healthy throughout.
You don't need to be experienced to do yoga as you will meet others who are also beginners and some with experience too who will share their first pregnancy experience at the New Once a Month Pregnancy Saturday Morning Workshop (on 25th February 2012 at 10.30am - 12.30pm at St Marys Hall, Old Town, Hemel) a 2 hour workshop every month - see workshops on sidebar to left or email me to enrol or for further details), New Location in Seer Green, Bucks starts Sat 31st March! Other Classes that are suitable for pregnant students are Mondays or Wednesdays beginners classes (which will help to strengthen, centre you, learn the yoga breathing techniques to teach you self control to relax your body during contractions), these will be covered more fully at the monthly workshops so book yourself on. Or Private lessons possibly shared with a friend/partner are available in my home studio or your own home at £25 (10% off for a limited period) particularly popular with those close to the birth in their final few weeks to be taught the yoga breathing. Read the recent testimonials at the bottom of the page from students who used yoga to help them bring their baby into the world.
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 Working through yoga exercises relieve pregnancy discomfort (relieve fluid retention, cramping, reduces nausea, mood swings, relieve tension around the cervix and birth canal) to help you throughout your pregnancy and strengthening the pelvic floor and other internal organs give you optimal support in pregnancy. Breathing techniques focuses on your breath is one of yoga's main tools of discovery and connection and how to relax you body & mind. You will use your yoga breathing to help you listen to your body and respond calmly and to help you bring your baby into the world. Relaxation with deep breathing is an effective way to soothe discomforts and anxiety you may be feeling about the forthcoming birth.
Meditation & Deep Relaxation
Candle meditation is taught in class which will help you resolve your deepest fears which are so common during pregnancy. It brings an incredible awareness which helps you connect with your baby in a way that is impossible to explain but is one to be experienced during your pregnancy. Yoga nidra is also particularly effective during pregnancy for physical and mental relaxation as well as for childbirth preparation, this is how the class generally finishes which is the perfect end to the class!
Pregnancy Student - Testimonials
"I began yoga for the first time when I was 15 weeks pregnant. Nicola has been really supportive all the way through my pregnancy adapting the yoga to my ability and "shape" as my bump grew. The yoga was immensely relaxing but also benefitted my body from the pregnancy discomforts. I learnt 4 or 5 different breathing techniques which was repeated at class to practice and I used these to bring my baby into the world" - Emma, Beaconsfield
"I recently gave birth at 37 weeks and Nicola gave me advice for the early contraction stage which was really helpful of how to relieve the pain through moving around and the breathing techniques and continued with these to giving birth 12 hours later, the experience was a lot less painful than expecting, thanks for all the lessons" - Leigh, Hemel Hempstead
"Nicola's classes were really enjoyable and friendly, a few of us started at the same time and I was the last of the 3 to give birth with my second baby and the yoga routine helped strengthen and prepare me for labour, keeping me calm and showed me how to control my breathing and giving me the energy I needed. I used the "hissing breath" throughout labour" - Kate, Bovingdon
Don't hesitate to ask me any questions you may have either by email nicola@time4yoga.co.uk or my contact number is 07972063784.
Namaste.
Nicola.
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