Grow into Motherhood with a Good Prenatal Yoga DVD
From the moment you watched the stick turn color, confirming your intuition and accounting for that constant queasiness, you vowed you would do everything in your power to prepare your body, mind, and soul for motherhood. As your pregnancy has advanced, you have read almost as voraciously as you have eaten, and you have tried to manage your weight with a healthy regime of regular exercise. You feel yourself getting more fit even as you grow larger, and you derive great satisfaction from seeing how your hips still squeeze into your skinny-slinky jeans. Entering your second trimester, however, you know your body, mind, and soul still demand more. Consider yoga, other moms eagerly suggest. A good prenatal yoga DVD gives instruction, guidance, support, and encouragement you will find nowhere else.
Yoga naturally complements, supplements, and reinforces all your other cardio-vascular exercise and strength training. A good prenatal yoga DVD targets your training on the muscle groups that take the most abuse during pregnancy and childbirth. More importantly, yoga helps your muscles recover and rebuild after other exercise. If you walk or run, your calves and thighs work hard and they take a beating. In order to protect yourself against injury, you must stretch and relax all the major muscle groups in your legs, paying special attention to shins and hamstrings—your built-in shock absorbers. Yoga does that. Of course, your abdominal muscles are stretching out like bungee cords, and you dread the idea of stretch marks. Although you know you cannot do crunches, you also know you must work your abs. Yoga takes care of that.
Daily practice with a good pregnancy yoga DVD allows time for essential meditation, reflection, visualization, and personal growth.
Yes, yoga works wonders with your body; but it has even greater benefits for your psyche and spirit. You did, after all, vow you would do all in your power to prepare your mind and soul for motherhood. Guided meditation helps you relax and release anxiety. Any new parent inevitably suffers profound anxiety about money—the costs of labor, delivery, and an overnight hospital stay; the costs of diapers, daycare, and all the paraphernalia a newborn requires; the costs of time away from work. Meditating while you practice poses associated with motherhood, you relax. And as you relax, faith and confidence slowly but surely drive-out your worries. Yoga naturally encourages your conviction the universe is arranged to promote fulfillment of your destiny. Guided and encouraged by your prenatal yoga DVDs, you gradually own your strength, skill, experience, and talent. You also become one with the divine spirit that inspires and sustains them.
In the safety, privacy, comfort, and convenience of your own home, you may practice yoga as you please, when you please, satisfying no one but yourself and your conscience. You forget about fashion, you abandon all pretenses to grace, and you work the DVDs according to your needs instead of the master’s lesson plan. You enjoy the power and privilege of rewinding, fast-forwarding, muting, and generally dictating the substance and pace of your practice. Declaring that your prenatal yoga DVD is not the boss of you, you make it your ally and co-conspirator as you build your body, mind, and spirit according to your vow. And, in your practice’s best, most sublime moments, you feel your baby beaming, saying, “Thank you, Mom. You are the best.”
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