Many experts recommend yoga to prepare expectant mothers for delivery, labor, and motherhood.
Yoga is an internationally recognized alternative medication to many medical problems including body pains. The ancient origin of yoga came from a Hinduism practice of spiritual exultation that transcends to physical healing. A union of mind and body, yoga is a combination of meditative techniques and physical exercise. The core characteristics of a yoga exercise are postures, proper breathing, and meditation.
Yoga postures can alleviate the common discomforts of pregnancy especially back pain. Postures are stretching movements that improve body tone and strength, enhance flexibility and elasticity, and develop balance of the body and focus of the mind. With a regular yoga exercise, pregnant women’s abdominal and pelvic bones are enhanced to not only adapt to the demands of pregnancy period but also helps during postnatal recovery and back pain.
There is a variety of postures; each suits varied body needs. Asana is most commonly used in the West divorced of its ancient origin.
The breathing exercises promotes relaxation through changing carbon dioxide levels in the blood, thus improve the blood circulation. Further, the relaxation techniques of meditation prepare the mind and body of pregnant women during labor. Further, yoga removes a practitioner mentally from discomforts while maintaining your mind and body at rest.
Adding visualization technique to a yoga exercise is an effective method to relieve stress. This technique is done through picturing of good images that guides your mood. The visualization allows the mind to veer away from the discomforts caused by pregnancy, thus eliminating tensions in the muscles during delivery and labor. The same mechanism also works for back pains. Most of the time, visualization technique is accompanied with sounds to better stimulate the mind of a practitioner. This method is commonly known as yoga Nidra.
There are many styles of yoga to help with stretching, a popular style is Anusara yoga. Many poses can practiced for hip opening leading to a healthier and easier birth. Any form of leg and hip stretching will be of a great benefit. Pigeon, for which there are many variations as well as leg lunges.
Cobblers pose, splits any pose that will open out the hips. Although these poses will certainly help in pregnancy they will also help those who have stiff hips in general, from beginner to the more advanced.
With yoga, in particular Anusara, there is always more, always more to give, and the more you give the more you receive.
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