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Postpartum Yoga: benefits and reasons to try it

On October 21, 2022 by margheviviani

During pregnancy we were practicing Prenatal yoga, we were working on opening our bodies and preparing for giving birth. Now is already past, and you are having your little one born on your hand, and is time to recover your body and mind after becoming a new mother. And here will help Yoga Postpartum, also called Postnatal Yoga.

Funny fact: In my post, I will use the word Postpartum, as I live in Italy, and in Italian “Natale” means “Christmas”, so many Italians understand it as something like “After Christmas” :))

Please promise me to finish reading this post by the end. There you will find a surprise 🙂

What is Postpartum Yoga?

Postpartum is a modified yoga practice that helps women to recover safely after birth-giving. Postnatal recovery combines deep breathing with small, slow movements and stretches. They can help you regain your posture, close your body after giving birth, and can prevent stress incontinence and womb prolapse.

Benefits of Postpartum Yoga

1. Prevent Diastasis
2. Help to safely recover after giving birth
3. Closes the body (abdominal and hips)
4. Prevent womb prolapse
5. Calms and relaxes
6. Balances your energy
7. Lower blood pressure
8. Decrease anxiety and depression
9. Reduce muscle tension

How soon can I practice yoga after giving birth?

As soon as two hours after natural delivery and once the drains have been removed after a C-section. The first practice can be done on a bed or couch.

The more you practice postpartum recovery the more beneficial they will be but don’t do more than you feel able to. Trust your instincts and build up your practice gradually and sensibly. Your body will thank you in the future!

Why should you try Postpartum yoga?

I encourage every woman to find at least 10-15 minutes a day to practice postpartum yoga. Why? As you were reading before the benefits of this practice are way more important than you can imagine. After giving birth our bodies remain damaged, and open, with very weak abdominal and pelvic floor muscles. And we must help our body to get back on track without any rush because you should be a healthy and strong mother when your baby starts growing. I’m sure that after you won’t find a time when your baby is still very small.

Many women only seek the perfect body as soon as possible after giving birth, they start with abdominal exercises and never think about pelvic floor muscles. Even if a woman was never giving birth with a time the pelvic floor muscles gets weak, and older you become there is more possibility to have womb prolapse.

What I am trying to say is that abdominal muscles are highly connected with pelvic floor muscles. And ignoring of pelvis floor muscles can lead to urinary incontinence, which would be hard to fix in the future.

Plus yoga Postpartum is practiced together with your baby. It contains exercises for new moms and also Baby yoga for a newborn.

Takeaway

Now that you studied a little about Yoga Postpartum, I would like to invite you to a free trial lesson in my Online Yoga Studio. You can get more info on my website www.viviyoga.tilda.ws. There you will also find more information about my certifications. To trust me more I will remind you that I have my first child 3 years old, and now I am waiting for the second. And I tried all the benefits of Postpartum Yoga on me and Baby Yoga on my child.

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Hope you found this post useful.

Yours,

Marghe.

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