Prenatal Yoga DVD Guides First Time Mom through Pregnancy

The best pregnancy yoga DVD guides your practice in harmony with your baby’s development and your own preparation for birth.

Continuing daily practice with your pregnancy yoga DVD, you develop strength, stamina, concentration, and pain tolerance.  As you advance from trimester to trimester, your pregnancy yoga DVD advances with you, continuing your strength training but focusing more and more on relaxation, stretching, meditation, and visualization.  As you approach your due date, your pregnancy yoga DVD emphasizes breathing, relaxation, and concentration—the attributes and skills labor and delivery demand.

The DVD matches your practice to your physical and psychological needs.

Your pregnancy yoga DVD evolves as your pregnancy advances.  It develops practices according to your body’s constantly changing needs and your psyche’s evanescing requirements.  As your needs and wants change, your practices change.  In your first trimester, you may suffer “morning” sickness that lasts all day, and you may have to learn to cope with constant, relentless queasiness.  But you gain very little weight, and your proportions change very little.  Therefore, yoga practice challenges your strength and stamina. You build and tone your muscles, you increase your cardio-vascular capacity, and you begin building your endurance.  Meditating as you pose, you control your breath, and you begin to visualize “the birthing process.”

During the second trimester, your pregnancy “shows,” because your baby grows at approximately the speed of light, and you seem to gain weight just by looking at food.  Your bio-chemistry changes and your hormones surge; your balance and center of gravity also change.  Your prenatal yoga DVD adjusts practices, helping you cope with these changes.  Targeting your tired, sore legs and developing your abdominal muscles even as they stretch to accommodate your baby, poses continue building strength; but they emphasize stretching, relaxation, and endurance.  Continuing your visualization, you begin to focus on managing contractions and mastering pain.  During your third trimester, your pregnancy yoga DVD emphasizes stretching, relaxation, and pain tolerance.  You learn to redirect your attention, focusing on peace, contentment, safety, and satisfaction instead of pain.

Prenatal DVD gets mom in peak physical and psychological condition.

Your practice conditions your body and mind for protracted labor and difficult delivery.  Of course, no two children debut in the same way, but knowing “ordinary, uncomplicated labor and delivery” help you prepare your body and mind for the ordeal.  First-time mothers typically labor for eighteen to twenty hours; delivery, then, adds about one more hour.  Imagine the physical and psychological agony you endure as you complete a marathon.  Now, imagine them taken to an exponent of five—not the multiple, but the exponent.  Prepare for that kind of physical and emotional trial; and prepare your partner or “coach” for guiding and supporting you as you just keep on pushing until baby arrives.  Growing progressively more challenging, focusing more and more on meditation and self-control, your pregnancy yoga DVD strengthens your body and alloys your mind.

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