Pregnancy Yoga with Pilates

Service Description

Movement for pregnancy and preparation for birth means you support your body towards a calm, pain free pregnancy and learning how to move through your pregnancy with confidence in your choices and your body's ability. I love combining yoga and pilates in my prenatal and postnatal classes. In pregnancy and postpartum the body undergoes massive changes and the body needs to be flexible yet strong. Yoga offers calm connection with your body and baby while pilates offers strength and stability. Throughout our classes we explore themes to help you connect to your baby and mentally prepare for pregnancy, birth and beyond. You'll leave feeling confident, empowered and free of anxieties and fears. You'll join the WhatsApp group community of women who are going through the same journey as you and becomes an open, safe and supportive space to ask any questions. In our pregnancy yoga classes you can learn how to prepare your body: - Learn the physiology of birth - Movements for labour and birth - How to relax the pelvic floor for birth - Balance the muscles, ligaments and connective tissues to support an easier labour with yoga and pilates - What you can do if you have an induction labour, epidural or C-section - Alleviate pregnancy ailments such as lower back pain, groin pain, swelling Learn how to Mentally Prepare: - Hypnobirthing principles help you learn breathing techniques for birth, relax in your pregnancy and share the beautiful relaxing oxytocin bond with your baby, and positively fine tune your mindset for birth - The pregnancy journal serves as a prompt to help manage anxiety, fears you may have and helps to align your values you may have about pregnancy and beyond. Journalling lays the foundations to help you prepare for your birth and you can use these to form your birth preferences. - Birth preferences and postnatal plan to help you visualise your birth