Why practice Postnatal specific yoga?

Practicing yoga after the birth of baby encourages bonding between mother and child.   Postnatal yoga helps new mothers conserve the tremendous energy required to care for a newborn through breathing, meditation, and postnatal specific yoga postures.

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Here's how new mums benefit from yoga in the postpartum period:

The Fourth Trimester

A period of transition where the new mum is moving into the role of mother at the same time baby is learning to adapt to life outside the womb.  A dedicated postnatal yoga practice is designed to nourish the new mother and embrace these changes with loving kindness.

Physical Shift

Reconnect with your new body; regain strength and awareness in the parts of your postpartum body that need it most; relieve the tight parts while learning safe ways to stretch and re-engage with your postnatal core and pelvic floor.  We also lean into rest and stillness practices.

Emotional Wellbeing

The period following birth, known as matrescence: the process of becoming a mother with many physical, psychological and emotional changes which can be a fresh chapter that takes your life in a new (and often unknown) direction. Postnatal yoga encourages calm and a sense of wellbeing, helping mothers to improve and stabilise their emotional health.

Mental Resilience

As the structure and function of a woman’s brain continues to changes during postpartum, the yogic practices of mindfulness and meditation can help to mothers move mindfully through this period of transition.  Studies show that postnatal yoga can assist with postpartum depression and anxiety.  

Bond with Baby

While the focus of mum and baby yoga is the mother, we bring baby into the practice through touch, massage, play and eye contact - all of which encourage mum to focus on her relationship to baby.