These classes offer a wonderful opportunity to practice prenatal yoga with your partner, mum, best friend, or birth assistant. Learn with your partner the many ways yoga stretches and breathing practices will assist to bring you comfort during pregnancy and prepare you for childbirth. These classes focus on the yogic techniques that contribute to active labour and birth.
Suitable for first-time parents or as excellent refresher classes, these classes are held in a relaxed atmosphere that whilst challenging are fun and light hearted, with plenty of time for individual attention. These classes are 1½ hours in duration and are run alternate Saturdays. By participating you can expect to acquire information and techniques that will help you to
- understand the role of yoga to develop fitness, improve posture and encourage better positioning of your baby for birth
- prevent and manage aches, pains and minor ailments that may be experienced through the course of pregnancy
- find ways for partners to maximise their involvement and enjoyment of pregnancy and labour
- focus on and share their feelings about labour, birth and the impending arrival of your new baby
- become very familiar through practical work on positions, partner participation and massage of the many ways partners can contribute to making your experience of pregnancy and child birth a positive one
- practice breath awareness and deep relaxation for use in pregnancy and childbirth
- learn many practical ways to assist during active childbirth
- learn how to create a calm and reassuring atmosphere during labour, that will help you both cope with the unknowns that may come with the experience of childbirth
- shift perceptions you may hold about labour and childbirth from being an experience you feel you need to manage or control to an experience that with considered preparation and support can be one that you can accept and go with
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