Pregnancy is a time of waiting for the couple who longed for baby. But moments waiting for the presence of this little one sometimes make the expectant mother suffers. Many complaints experienced by pregnant women, such as nausea, morning sickness, fatigue, and even the great depression.
One way to reduce pain during pregnancy is yoga. For centuries, yoga has been used as a way of treatment, fitness training or stress reliever. Included also in pregnant women. Respiratory fitness art from India and this could be a great way to stay relaxed and stress free while preparing for birth.
Exercising the muscles with yoga can reduce pain and fatigue are often experienced by pregnant women. For example, back and leg pain, cramps or muscle aches, and swelling due to fluid buildup. This exercise also prevents and reduces the risk of injury during childbirth.
Yoga not only reduces the physical burden of expectant mothers, but also alleviate the mental burden that is often experienced by pregnant women. With yoga, the soul is more quiet, so the more stable emotional state.
Influence of yoga may not only be felt in the mother. Stretching the mother's body can give the effect of massage for infants. During yoga, waking emotional relationship between mother and the baby she is carrying.
Before starting to practice yoga, consult your gynecologist and expert on yoga, whatever movements may be performed. Here are some movements that can be practiced yoga for pregnant women.
Baddha Konasana
This movement waist and groin muscles.
- Take a squatting position fingertip grasp your legs.
- Enforce the spine.
Pigeon (Eka In Rajakapotasana)
This movement stretches the thigh muscles, groin, and back.
- From cross-legged position straighten your left leg back, let the right foot remains on the front.
- Bend the body forward a bit.
- Let your body weight rests on the right foot.
Warrior II - (Virabhadrasana II)
This movement strengthens the arm muscles, legs, and abdomen.
- From a standing position, bend your right leg forward. Straighten your left leg backward.
- Straighten your right hand forward and your left hand back with an open palm position.
