prenatal yoga

Through the practice of prenatal yoga, expectant moms can develop strength, stamina and stability while becoming aware of how the practice needs to be modified for their changing bodies. Time is devoted to cultivating awareness of the breath and to what’s going on within the body, especially the belly. With this connection we turn inwards to cultivate internal resources we will draw on during labour and birth. Through a variety of postures, we explore the difference between discomfort, stretching and pain and discover ways to relax through it all. Meanwhile, we embrace and honour the beauty of pregnancy and prepare for an empowered, mindful, and often natural birth. Relaxation, mindful meditation, and partner work are weaved into every class.

Both seasoned practitioners and those new to yoga are welcome and find Corinne's classes to be both challenging and relaxing, each woman practicing at a depth and intensity that’s appropriate for where she’s presently at. Women with injuries, complications or in “high risk” situations are welcome in class (with their health care provider’s approval) and are given appropriate modifications and/or specific poses or sequences to accommodate their special concerns.

Benefits you'll enjoy from prenatal Yoga:

• Meet other pregnant women in a relaxed setting
• Energize your body
• Tone your muscles
• Strengthen your joints
• Improve your balance
• Maintain good circulation
• Breathing techniques will help you stay calm, prepping you for childbirth
• Relieve charley horse/leg cramps
• Increased Energy
• Decreased Anxiety
• Strengthens Birthing Muscles
• Quickens Postpartum Recovery
• Improves Sleep
• Reduces Backache
• Increases Chances of a Healthy Birth
• Open up the pelvis - to assist with childbirth

Prenatal yoga encourages you to tune into your own body and really listen to what's going on, to accept the changes as positive growth. Using breathing & body awareness techniques that will help to connect with the growing life inside of you, prenatal yoga helps to prepare for labour & during birth but even more so before and after birth. Prenatal yoga offer’s “mother's to be” a chance to slow down and connect with the ever changing stages of pregnancy taking place inside their bodies.

Many mothers to be find a place of solace in their yoga practice. Prenatal yoga brings all the benefits of a regular yoga class with the added benefits of asana and breathing techniques specifically developed to assist pregnant women in this exciting phase of their life. Many women have found that asana and breathing techniques they have learned in classes are of great benefit during delivery.