Suitable for working mums-to-be during all stages of pregnancy. These gentle classes are designed to strengthen the mind and body in preparation for labour, delivery and motherhood. Classes include yoga postures to relieve the common discomforts of pregnancy; relaxation techniques and breathing exercises to calm participants during pregnancy and focus and relax their bodies and minds during labour and abdominal and pelvic floor toning to enhance postnatal recovery and back pain. No yoga experience is necessary.
It also emphasizes proper breathing methods. The long deep breaths used in yoga promote relaxation by changing the carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Lastly, yoga can help promote a full, restful night's sleep. Getting enough sleep is very important in helping the body and mind heal. This leaves you ready to cope better with stressors the next day.
With back pain adding visualization to your yoga exercises can make them even more relaxing and more effective at relieving stress. The concept is to visualize images that will guide your mood. If you think of sad things during your visualizations, you'll become sadder. This also means that if your mind wanders to work and other stressors, you'll become more stressed. By teaching yourself to concentrate on peaceful and relaxing images, you will help relive even more stress from your body.
These techniques help to promote complete relaxation of the body and mind. With the use of the breath as a focus point, a visualization (or yoga nidra) can allow the mind to focus away from the discomfort of the birth and help ensure maximum the body’s natural ability to relax avoiding tensions in the muscles that could build up during labour. Using the same technique for back pain will also help.
Yoga for teens is a fun and helpful practice that unites body, mind and breath. Improve body tone and strength, posture, balance, focus, flexibility and sense of calm through poses (asanas), posture flows (vinyasas) and breath work (pranayama). Release stress and find inner peace through relaxation, visualization and creative expression. Learn techniques for self-awareness, inner-strength and relaxation that help in handling life’s pressures and challenges.
With back pain, meditating lets you enter a state of peace and quiet reflection, calming your body and mind. With Yoga Nidra, you will also be listening to music in the background, which has a wonderful calming effect. Meditation removes you mentally from where you are while your mind and body rest. Research shows that people have immense success with meditation to relieve stress, according to Roger Jahnke, doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine, and author of "The Healer Within."
Glen Wood - The Yoga Teacher, dedicated to unlocking the Real Secrets of Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain.
