POSTPARTUM YOGA
The postpartum recovery period is a sensitive time for your body. Pregnancy creates massive changes to the muscles and joints, leaving the postpartum body vulnerable to injury. If you jump back into high intensity exercises, or the wrong types of movements too soon, you can create ongoing issues like diastasis recti (abdominal separation) and pelvic organ prolapse. The postpartum recovery requires a deliberate approach to rebalance the muscles...so that you can get back to the activities you love without hurting yourself.
How can postnatal yoga benefit you?
If you recently gave birth or if your last pregnancy was years ago but you’re still suffering from postpartum complications Yoga can help.
We all know how fragile our body is after giving birth, particularly our core and pelvic floor muscles.
What is Postpartum or Postnatal Yoga?
These gentle physical movements are targeting the specific areas of your body that need support the most, like the pelvic area, lower back, shoulders, and the whole core. You may also be experiencing certain ailments after birth, such as diastasis recti or pelvic floor dysfunctions. A careful approach to exercise with Postpartum Yoga can help you improve your body’s condition through gentle natural movements.
Why can’t I just go back to my pre-pregnancy workouts?
It’s important to be mindful and have a safe yoga practice to prevent injury or dysfunctions (e.g. pelvic floor dysfunction, pee leaking when you sneeze, pelvic organ prolapse, hemorrhoids, etc). Even if you had a healthy birth and do not have any dysfunctions after birth, you should still be careful and not rush yourself to intense exercises or weight loss diets, as these can lead you directly to developing injuries or dysfunctions.
When can I start postpartum yoga?
You can start any time. The better question is what exactly can you do? As Yoga is not only about physical body movements and poses. Yoga includes many other practices like breathing, meditation, chanting, gentle touch and restorative practices.
What kind of Yoga you need depends on many factors. For instance:
What is the difference between prenatal and postnatal yoga?
The short answer is that your prenatal yoga practice supports your growing body and prepares you for birth. While postnatal yoga focuses on the recovery and healing of your body after pregnancy and birth.
How can postnatal yoga benefit you?
If you recently gave birth or if your last pregnancy was years ago but you’re still suffering from postpartum complications Yoga can help.
We all know how fragile our body is after giving birth, particularly our core and pelvic floor muscles.
- Heal your body - If you are suffering from diastasis recti, pelvic floor pain, incontinence, back-pain or other complications then a gentle yoga program will allow you to slowly strengthen your body and help yourself heal.
- Prevent further injury to your core and pelvic floor - Weakness in your core and pelvic floor after child birth is very common. It’s also very easy to further injure yourself if you don’t start slow. Postnatal yoga is gentle enough so you can ease back into exercise while starting to strengthen your core muscles to prevent further injury.
- Further your awareness of your body movements - Yoga helps to keep us present in all aspects of our being, including our mind, body, breath, emotions, and inner-self. Proper breathing can also help you to bring awareness to your body movements and pelvic floor for a safe recovery.
What is Postpartum or Postnatal Yoga?
These gentle physical movements are targeting the specific areas of your body that need support the most, like the pelvic area, lower back, shoulders, and the whole core. You may also be experiencing certain ailments after birth, such as diastasis recti or pelvic floor dysfunctions. A careful approach to exercise with Postpartum Yoga can help you improve your body’s condition through gentle natural movements.
Why can’t I just go back to my pre-pregnancy workouts?
It’s important to be mindful and have a safe yoga practice to prevent injury or dysfunctions (e.g. pelvic floor dysfunction, pee leaking when you sneeze, pelvic organ prolapse, hemorrhoids, etc). Even if you had a healthy birth and do not have any dysfunctions after birth, you should still be careful and not rush yourself to intense exercises or weight loss diets, as these can lead you directly to developing injuries or dysfunctions.
When can I start postpartum yoga?
You can start any time. The better question is what exactly can you do? As Yoga is not only about physical body movements and poses. Yoga includes many other practices like breathing, meditation, chanting, gentle touch and restorative practices.
What kind of Yoga you need depends on many factors. For instance:
- How far are you in postpartum?
- What was your birth experience like?
- Do you have any injuries?
- Do you have any pains, tension, or pelvic floor dysfunction?
What is the difference between prenatal and postnatal yoga?
The short answer is that your prenatal yoga practice supports your growing body and prepares you for birth. While postnatal yoga focuses on the recovery and healing of your body after pregnancy and birth.