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Birth Yoga
Body Awareness Birth™ Yoga Educators guide women on the journey of birth helping them to discover their inner power and strength. Pregnant women learn to assess the individual needs, limits, and abilities of their bodies through Body Awareness Birth™ Yoga.
Women who have taken Body Awareness Birth™ Yoga report the following outcomes:
- Decreases overall fear
- Decreases pregnancy discomforts
- Decreases labor pain
- Decreases need for medication
- Decreases cesarean birth
- Increases confidence
- Increases enjoyment of pregnancy
- Increases satisfaction with birth experience
- Increases bonding with baby
Body Awareness Birth™ Yoga is created so women may start at any point during their pregnancy and continue participation until they give birth to their babies. A variety of gentle techniques are combined utilizing:
- Traditional and nontraditional yoga
- Low impact exercises
- Stretching
- Visualization
- Relaxation
- Breathing
- Meditation
- Vocalizing
- Dancing
Body Awareness Birth™ holds a single guiding principle: My body knows.
Our calling is to serve as a guide to women everywhere that women may discover awareness of their bodies’ abilities during pregnancy and continuing beyond birth.