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PREGNANCY YOGA COURSE
4 week course with Alex Newton Thursday evenings | 18th Feb - 11th March | 6pm until 7.30pm What to expect? This is a four week course to support you in your pregnancy journey and beyond. Pregnancy and our postpartum journeys are not linear, predictable events: our emotions and bodies fluctuate constantly. This can be even more challenging to navigate during a pandemic: this course is here to support you through this time. 4 x 90 minute live streamed yoga classes Access to guided relaxation recordings, meditations and journaling practices Access to pre-recorded sequences to practice when you wake up and before bed. Investment: £45 for the full course - 4 weeks including access to pre-recorded sequences and audio links. |
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Movement and Rest
We use flowing and mindful movements that are specifically adapted and that look to and nourish, vitalise and stabilise your ever changing body. We learn about the pelvic floor, what can be helpful techniques to strengthen and release our pelvic floor and perhaps not. We work with stabilising movements for the pelvis and lower back; we ease tight shoulders and stiff upper backs. We also explore not only helpful positions to aid labour, but also restful positions where you can find some ease and spaciousness at all stages of your pregnancy. Crucially, we enjoy movement: feeling the strength of our legs and the fluidity of our bodies and we enjoy rest, allowing the body to replenish and renew.
Emotional Support
This pregnancy yoga course aims to support our ever fluctuating emotions throughout pregnancy and beyond too: these physical changes do not always come easy and sometimes our anxieties can feel overwhelming. No pregnancy is the same and each person we work with will have their own story to tell.
We explore breathing practices and relaxation practices that will not only befriend you through pregnancy and birth but in your postpartum journey too. There will also be time taken during class to take the wisdom and support of the other women who will be journeying with you as well. So much of our fear comes from feeling alone in our experience: this is an opportunity to connect and share in an open and honest space. We will also use short writing exercises to explore our feelings, voice, wishes, worries and expectations towards pregnancy and motherhood.
Who can join?
Anyone can join from the day that you take your pregnancy test right up until birth. Although many women choose to wait until they have had their 12 week scan many women also feel that they would like the support of a pregnancy yoga class and community through those first 12 weeks which can be filled with both joy and anxiety as well as be greatly fatiguing. If you have any questions or are unsure please don't hesitate to contact Alex directly.
About Alex
Alex is a yoga teacher in Sheffield and member of the Sheffield Maternity Cooperative. She is a Yoga Medicine registered yoga teacher with a special interest in mental health and wellness and trained as a pregnancy yoga teacher with Yoga Campus, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and continued her studies with a 6 month postnatal course with Lara Heppell of AllWoman Yoga. She's also pregnant and will be very much on this journey with you! :)
We use flowing and mindful movements that are specifically adapted and that look to and nourish, vitalise and stabilise your ever changing body. We learn about the pelvic floor, what can be helpful techniques to strengthen and release our pelvic floor and perhaps not. We work with stabilising movements for the pelvis and lower back; we ease tight shoulders and stiff upper backs. We also explore not only helpful positions to aid labour, but also restful positions where you can find some ease and spaciousness at all stages of your pregnancy. Crucially, we enjoy movement: feeling the strength of our legs and the fluidity of our bodies and we enjoy rest, allowing the body to replenish and renew.
Emotional Support
This pregnancy yoga course aims to support our ever fluctuating emotions throughout pregnancy and beyond too: these physical changes do not always come easy and sometimes our anxieties can feel overwhelming. No pregnancy is the same and each person we work with will have their own story to tell.
We explore breathing practices and relaxation practices that will not only befriend you through pregnancy and birth but in your postpartum journey too. There will also be time taken during class to take the wisdom and support of the other women who will be journeying with you as well. So much of our fear comes from feeling alone in our experience: this is an opportunity to connect and share in an open and honest space. We will also use short writing exercises to explore our feelings, voice, wishes, worries and expectations towards pregnancy and motherhood.
Who can join?
Anyone can join from the day that you take your pregnancy test right up until birth. Although many women choose to wait until they have had their 12 week scan many women also feel that they would like the support of a pregnancy yoga class and community through those first 12 weeks which can be filled with both joy and anxiety as well as be greatly fatiguing. If you have any questions or are unsure please don't hesitate to contact Alex directly.
About Alex
Alex is a yoga teacher in Sheffield and member of the Sheffield Maternity Cooperative. She is a Yoga Medicine registered yoga teacher with a special interest in mental health and wellness and trained as a pregnancy yoga teacher with Yoga Campus, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and continued her studies with a 6 month postnatal course with Lara Heppell of AllWoman Yoga. She's also pregnant and will be very much on this journey with you! :)
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Pregnancy yoga with Lydia will return in late Summer 2021
The pregnancy yoga course includes access to:
• Pre-recorded pregnancy yoga classes with Lydia • An audio recording of a 10minute meditation each week. This is specifically designed to help sprinkle calm into your week and help you find time to develop a connection with your growing baby. |
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What to expect from the course..
Each week we will journey through breathing exercises beneficial to the process of pregnancy and labour. These techniques will help you find your inner calm and strength on this transformational journey. The mindful movement practices we explore combine a selection of modified classical yoga postures as well as specifically tailored pregnancy yoga sequences to help accommodate your ever changing body to allow a sense of spaciousness around your baby and bump.
During the course we will explore practices which help you tune into your body's natural wisdom. These practices are aimed to help you find a place of inner calm and develop confidence and empowerment on your own unique journey towards motherhood. This course is open to all levels of yoga practitioner, from complete beginner to advanced yogi. Pregnancy is a great time to reset and find a new rhythm to suit you and your baby.
Each week we will journey through breathing exercises beneficial to the process of pregnancy and labour. These techniques will help you find your inner calm and strength on this transformational journey. The mindful movement practices we explore combine a selection of modified classical yoga postures as well as specifically tailored pregnancy yoga sequences to help accommodate your ever changing body to allow a sense of spaciousness around your baby and bump.
During the course we will explore practices which help you tune into your body's natural wisdom. These practices are aimed to help you find a place of inner calm and develop confidence and empowerment on your own unique journey towards motherhood. This course is open to all levels of yoga practitioner, from complete beginner to advanced yogi. Pregnancy is a great time to reset and find a new rhythm to suit you and your baby.
This course is suitable for ladies during the second and third trimester. 12 weeks onwards.
The pelvic floor and pregnancy:
What happens to the pelvic floor during pregnancy?
During the process of pregnancy our pelvic floor muscles soften and weaken helping this area stretch for the natural process of birth. When extra pressure is put on to the pelvic floor (e.g coughing, laughing, sneezing) urine may pass involuntarily because of a more relaxed pelvic floor. Carrying the pregnancy naturally weakens the pelvic floor muscles, it is necessary for the birth process and because of this it's important for all women to incorporate some form of pelvic floor exercise during and after pregnancy.
How can yoga and pelvic floor exercises help during pregnancy?
In this course you will learn techniques to help strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. Although it is important to strengthen the pelvic floor you will also learn the important of learning how to fully release the pelvic floor. It is important throughout pregnancy to encourage these muscles to work optimally in both functions. We strengthen for stabilisation and support of the pelvic area and we release to experience optimal opening during the natural process of birth. Baby's are born on the exhalation, so in pregnancy yoga we learn how to contract our pelvic floor muscles on the inhale and how to release on the exhale. Although this can feel different to many yoga practices, it can be a powerfully beneficial practice for birth preparation.
Investment: £42 for the full course | 4 weeks including access to pre-recorded classes and meditation audio links.
The pelvic floor and pregnancy:
What happens to the pelvic floor during pregnancy?
During the process of pregnancy our pelvic floor muscles soften and weaken helping this area stretch for the natural process of birth. When extra pressure is put on to the pelvic floor (e.g coughing, laughing, sneezing) urine may pass involuntarily because of a more relaxed pelvic floor. Carrying the pregnancy naturally weakens the pelvic floor muscles, it is necessary for the birth process and because of this it's important for all women to incorporate some form of pelvic floor exercise during and after pregnancy.
How can yoga and pelvic floor exercises help during pregnancy?
In this course you will learn techniques to help strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. Although it is important to strengthen the pelvic floor you will also learn the important of learning how to fully release the pelvic floor. It is important throughout pregnancy to encourage these muscles to work optimally in both functions. We strengthen for stabilisation and support of the pelvic area and we release to experience optimal opening during the natural process of birth. Baby's are born on the exhalation, so in pregnancy yoga we learn how to contract our pelvic floor muscles on the inhale and how to release on the exhale. Although this can feel different to many yoga practices, it can be a powerfully beneficial practice for birth preparation.
Investment: £42 for the full course | 4 weeks including access to pre-recorded classes and meditation audio links.
Any questions regarding the course..
Please feel free to email Lydia directly with any further questions regarding the course : Lydiaainscough@gmail.com