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Pregnancy yoga refers to the practice of yoga during pregnancy. It unites your body, mind and spirit.

Practicing yoga during pregnancy helps improve your breathing ability and manage stress related problems.

It also helps to develop resistance as well as control over your body.

In other words, pregnancy yoga is the best therapy to help relieve from illnesses that develops during pregnancy and to prepare your body and mind for labor and delivery.

Thus, practicing pregnancy yoga regularly ensures a healthy environment for you and your developing baby.

Pregnancy yoga comprises of asanas, pranayama, meditation techniques, and deep relaxation techniques. The intensity of pregnancy exercises varies according to the trimesters of pregnancy.

The recommended pregnanc y yogaexercises are butterfly stretch pose, cat-cow pose, seated forward bending pose, standing forward bend, cobra pose, side angle pose, pawanmukta asana, modified child’s pose, cat pose, and wall butterfly pose.

Triangle, knee to ankle, pigeon, and warrior II are recommended poses at the last stages of pregnancy, as they help generate the suppleness that makes your baby to attain proper position (head down and back turned near your belly).

Today, in these days, prenatal yoga is becoming more popular and is essentially practiced by pregnant women for its health benefits. It is a way to ensure a healthy and smooth pregnancy.

The term ‘yoga’ refers to a Sanskrit word “union” it means “to join.” The aim of prenatal yoga is to unite the body, mind and spirit through poses, breathing exercises, and meditation.

Prenatal yoga has five fundamental tools: yoga exercises, mudras, meditation, breathing exercises, and deep relaxation techniques.

These tools when practiced regularly can provide benefits to you and your baby’s health as well as increases your ability to have natural and easy childbirth.

Yoga exercises works efficiently on the organs of the reproductive system as well as on the pelvis to make sure a smooth pregnancy and easy delivery. At the subtle level, the prenatal yoga exercises guarantee a good supply of blood as well as essential nutrients to the developing fetus.

Mudras are one of prenatal yoga tools. Mudras are hand gestures with psychophysical stimulation, which provides powerful effects on your reproductive organs when practiced regularly.