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Yoga
What Experts Say
What Experts Say
Even if you have never tried it before, many pregnant women enjoy doing yoga and most yoga studios offer special prenatal and postpartum yoga classes. According to Francoise Barbira Freedman, author of " Yoga For Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond," yoga is useful not only to tone a pregnant woman's muscles, teach her stamina, and deep breathing techniques, but it is also helpful in reducing the stress and anxiety that often accompany pregnancy.
Other benefits to doing yoga include:
- Help in relieving cramping and swelling
- Help in improving concentration and visualization (yoga instructors teach pregnant women to chant "ooh" to envision the cervix opening up, for example)
- Help in improving posture and relieving back pain
If you decide you'd like to do yoga, you have several options:
- Take a class at a local yoga studio
- Practice yoga at home with the help of a DVD.
DVDs on yoga and pregnancy include: Yoga Pregnancy, Prenatal Viyashna Yoga, and Prenatal Yoga with Shiva Rea.
- Practice yoga at home with the help of a book.
Books on yoga for pregnant women include: Francoise Barbira Freedman's " Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond"; Sandra Jordan's ""Yoga For Pregnancy"; Theresa Jamieson's "The Complete Book of Yoga & Meditation for Pregnancy"; and Janet Balaskas's ""Preparing for Birth With Yoga: Exercises for Pregnancy and Childbirth."
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