Are you pregnant but want to keep fit? Then yoga could be what you are looking for. Research suggests that prenatal yoga is safe and can have many benefits for pregnant women and their babies.
Yoga can help women get through their pregnancy with minimal discomfort. It also helps the birth and post-delivery stages. Posture is also improved by yoga and this can help ease back problems, which are common in pregnant women.
And yoga continues to have benefits after pregnancy, too. Postnatal yoga, which can be started about six weeks after the birth, strengthens abdominal muscles and your pelvic floor. It also helps you to get back to your pre-pregnancy shape faster.
- Place hands on a wall in front of your shoulders.
- Move right heel above your left, then squat.
- If comfortable, raise right leg and squat again.
- Next, raise your right leg over your knee.
- Then squat deeply.
- Begin to walk your arms up the wall.
- Before a deep squat to stretch your glutes.
- Shake out your legs, switch sides and repeat.
Benefits:
- Reinforces the legs, opens the groin.
- Very good for sacroiliac joint pain.
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