Let’s start at the beginning: Why Prenatal Yoga?
Pregnancy can be a wirlwind of a time. Your body is changing, you want to see friends and family before little one arrives and you’re trying to get on top of work/home/prepare other children etc… It can be a time of excitement and overwhelm but also, where is the time for you? Do you manage to find time to rest, relax and connect with your growing baby? Are you managing to ease those aches and pains that are all too common as your amazing body adapts to make space for your growing little one. Prenatal Yoga may be just what you need and if you are in the Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield area take a look at my Pregnancy Yoga class. I give you an hour a week to slow down, reconnect with you breath, body and baby. It’s also a lovely way to meet other mums-to-be and start building your village of support. So how does Prenatal Yoga help?
With gentle, safe movements to ease those aches and maintain fitness as well as prepare for labour and birth. I will guide you through a class specifically for pregnancy, giving you postures to use at home and during the day so you can feel a bit more comfortable as well as breath work and relaxation to help calm and balance. The yoga class will provide:
Physical Relief: As your bump grows, your centre of gravity shifts causing a change in posture along with hormonal changes and pressure on the muscles and joints which can cause aches and pains but gentle, pregnancy specific, postures will help ease them.
Reconnecting to your changing body: Turning your focus inwards, noticing what feels good and tuning back into yourself is incredibly beneficial. Supporting you to appreciate how incredible your body is and learning to trust it will help you so much towards the end of pregnancy and during birth
Better Sleep: I also end my classes focusing back on the breath, practising a couple of breathing techniques and enjoying a guided relaxation this inevitably helps reduce stress and calm the nervous system, making it easier to drift off after you have floated home.
Emotional Balance: The yoga class encourages mindfulness and breathing techniques that help you find your center on and off the mat. Really useful skills to have prenatally, postnatally, during birth and just in life in general!
Bonding Time: Pause, slow down and take this beautiful opportunity to connect with your baby. As you breathe and move, you become more in tune with your body — and with the little one growing inside.
Community: My classes aren’t just about yoga, they are a safe space to share, laugh, and connect with other Mums-to-be. We rarely live close to family or have a ready made ‘village’ of support nowadays so classes, like mine, are a great place to start to create your own
I remember attending Prenatal Yoga classes myself back in 2016, when I was pregnant with my first (my second was born during covid so no opportunity then unfortunately). I started as soon as I could (after my 12 week scan) and as the weeks passed and baby grew so did my love for the classes. Even with my first baby I found it so hard to sit still and rest. The class was my weekly commitment to myself to do that. To focus on my needs as well as my babie’s. I am also still very good friends with quite a few women I met there. Their support and love over the years has been priceless and, even moving out of the area, hasn’t changed that.
If this sounds like just what you need and you are interested in joining my prenatal Yoga classes the please get in touch
Kate xx