These weekly yoga classes taught by Emma, are designed to help you recover from birth, and rehabilitate your core and pelvic floor, using yoga to help you to reconnect with your body and start to rebuild your strength and fitness in a mindful and nourishing way.
These classes are suitable for mothers from 4-6 weeks postpartum, or from when your caesarean scar is healed. Babies are welcome until they start crawling. Each yoga class will be recorded and be accessible to the group for a week following the session.
There can often be a sense of urgency to recover from birth, and to get back to your pre pregnancy fitness and appearance. The journey you have just been on, in becoming a mother can not be underestimated. The changes your body went through to grow your baby, and a placenta are immense. Take your time to recover properly, and give your body, mind and baby the time it needs to rehabilitate and restore.
Rehabilitation is the primary focus following which, appropriate strength building and yoga asana (poses) will be introduced as well as providing relaxation and restorative techniques. The classes balance strengthening and relaxing/restorative poses to support you in your recovery.
The objective of the classes are to be a stepping stone for you between recovery and rehabilitation, and functional daily activity and fitness, whilst supporting the psychological and practical adjustment to motherhood.
We will work to close the body and re-knit abdominal muscles using specific movements, yogic breathing and gentle strengthening movements to restore tone to the deep muscles of the pelvis and lower back. In addition to the physical benefits of these breathing techniques, deeper relaxation is induced helping to reduce postnatal fatigue. We will work each week with meditation, breathing and mindful movement to reduce stiffness and pain as well as focusing on connecting with your postnatal body.
Babies (pre-crawling) are welcome and interactive mother and baby yoga moves will be incorporated, which are great for connecting with your baby in a nurturing and loving way.
Breast and bottle feeding is welcome as well as nappy changes, baby naps ….. whatever works for you and your baby.
When to practise
Regardless of how you gave birth, it’s really important to rest in the first 4/6 weeks of postpartum. It’s a time for bonding with your baby, getting your bearings as a new mum, and for you to begin to recover. After those 4 weeks if you have birth vaginaly, or 6 weeks Cesarian you should be ready to start exercise.
Classes include:
- Specific techniques to regain core body strength.
- Movements & breathing techniques aimed at re-knitting abdominal muscles and toning deep muscles of the pelvis and lower back.
- Specific pelvic floor breathing and movement techniques aimed to both strengthen and tone.
- Movements and exercises to ease common shoulder, back and neck pain and discomfort.
- Relaxation & baby bonding techniques.
- Sequences of exercises that you can practise at home.
- Ways of inducing deeper sleep and reducing postnatal fatigue.
- Meditation and breathing techniques to reconnect you with your postnatal body, and to support you through this journey into motherhood.
Join us
Reconnect with your body, nurture your well-being, and find support in our welcoming weekly postnatal yoga classes. Designed for new mums, these sessions help rebuild strength, relieve tension, and promote relaxation, all while offering a space to connect with others on the motherhood journey.
Book your spot today!