Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond

Yoga for Pregnancy

Escape Yoga Centre Using the Birthlight method, these classes involve specially adapted yoga stretches, designed to create extra space in your abdomen for your growing child, as well as for strengthening your body in preparation for labour. The movements stimulate all systems of the body, to keep you and your baby in good health. Breathing techniques increase your breath depth to be sure of enough oxygen for you and your baby and to enable you to harness the relaxing and pain relieving effect of controlled breathing. The relaxation methods release tension and give you time to yourself to develop a heightened inner strength, important for a calm and intuitive birth experience. The Yoga lasts for 1 hour. Afterwards there is half an hour for tea and a chance to get to know the other pregnant women in the class. The classes are suitable to begin at any point between your fifteenth week of pregnancy and the day you give birth.

Tuesdays 7pm - 8pm

Instructor: Jane Collins

Postnatal Yoga

Escape Yoga Centre Gentle yoga classes, with your baby at your side, involving one hour of specially adapted yoga, including a relaxation session, followed by half an hour of tea and time to get to know other mums. The yoga is designed to help you begin to regain fitness, strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, and realign your spine. Also to help you to stay calm and focused for your motherhood. The classes will be informal and mother’s can feel comfortable feeding or comforting their babies at any point during the sessions.

Fridays 11am - 12pm

Instructor: Wendy Snongjati

Birth Preparation Workshops

Escape Yoga Centre These workshops are designed to enable women to practice for the big day. They will discuss the experience of birth and how birthing partners can provide support during labour. Women are invited to attend with their birthing partners, be they husbands, boyfriends, mothers, sisters or girlfriends.

The workshops will be practical as well as informative and will cover:

• The physiology of labour and birth.
• Positions and movements for the first stage of labour.
• Breathing techniques to manage pain and to conserve energy.
• Relaxation techniques for mother and birth partner.
• Positions for second stage of labour, (including supported positions).
• The post partum period.

Instructor: Jane Collins
These workshops are arranged at various points throughout the year to suit the pregnant students. Please contact Jane if you are interested in putting your name down.