Get ready for your natural birth! Yoga for Birth is a practical, hands-on book filled with exercises and activities to prepare you for your upcoming labor. Learn yoga positions with fully-photographed poses to help ease you into birth using yoga. Create your own custom affirmations, follow step-by-step prenatal yoga routines, and prepare yourself mentally and physically for childbirth.
This yoga guide and pregnancy journal contains:
Fully-photographed prenatal yoga poses
Journal exercises
Create your own custom affirmations
Meditations for labor
True birth stories
Tear-out birth planners
Prepare for labor with your partner: Yoga for Birth is for pregnant mothers as well as their birth partners. This guide to childbirth is also an excellent resource for a doula, birth coach, midwife, or prenatal yoga teacher looking for labor and delivery books.
Supportive suggestions for partners for poses
Thirty- and sixty-five minute practice routines
For both first time moms and experienced mothers: Looking for childbirth books for first time moms? Whether you plan to labor alone or with a birth partner, this rich resource is packed with information so you can experience childbirth without fear. It offers yoga philosophy for pregnancy, labor, and beyond, as well as meditation and breathing techniques for a drug-free childbirth.
Read inspiring birth stories from other mothers
Tear-out birth planners to make your life easier
Learn calming exercises to mentally prepare for your birth experience
Prenatal yoga activities to prepare for your labor
A great addition to birthing books for natural birthing and mindful birthing, Yoga for Birth is a detailed childbirth guide that will help you ease into birth using yoga.
Author(s): Jones, Tess
Year: 2020
Language: English
Commentary: Yoga for Birth, Yoga Postures, Meditations, Affirmations, and More for Childbirth
Pages: 177
Tags: Yoga for Birth, Yoga Postures, Meditations, Affirmations, and More for Childbirth
Contents
Copyright
Important Disclaimer
Title Page and Front Matter
Part I: Yoga for Birth
CHAPTER ONE: Overview of Yoga for Birth
Journal Exercise: First Journal Assignment
Journal Exercise: My Notes
CHAPTER TWO: Stages of Labor
CHAPTER THREE: Yoga for First Stage Labor
Hands and Knees
----Cat/Cow
----Upright Knees
----Wide-Knee Child's Pose
Standing Poses
----Downward Facing Dog at the Wall
----Downward Facing Dog at the Wall-Forearm Variation
----Hug
Seated and Restorative Poses
----Foot Massage and Sacrum Massage
----Lean Forward
----Side-lying Pose
CHAPTER FOUR: Yoga for Second Stage Labor
Pushing
----Squat
----Lean Forward
Journal Exercise: What Do You Think Would Be Comfortable?
CHAPTER FIVE: Labor Meditations
Meditations
----Mother Hands Meditation
----Downward Meditation
----Hands Over Eyes Meditation
----Focal Point Meditation
Journal Exercise: Discovering Meditations Present in Your Life
CHAPTER SIX: Pranayama for Labor
Pranayama
----Hands on Rbs, Hands on Low Back, Hands on Belly
----Calming Belly Breath
----Partner-Guided Breathing
Journal Exercise: Pranayama Practice
CHAPTER SEVEN: Verbalizations and Mantras
Sound
----Om
----Hum
----Ahh
Partner Commuciation Exercise
CHAPTER EIGHT: Birth Affirmations
Journal Exercise: Creating Affirmations
CHAPTER NINE: Partner Massage
Part II: Yoga Philosophy for Labor and Parenting
CHAPTER TEN: Yoga Philosophy
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Eight Limbs of Yoga for Birth and Parenting
Journal Exercise: Svadhyaya: Using Self-Study for Your Labor
Part III: Birth Stories
CHAPTER TWELVE: Birth Stories
Journal Exercise: Women Who Inspire Me
Part IV: Life After Labor
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Preparing for Body After Baby
Journal Exercise: Postnatal Planning
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Feeding and Body Alignment
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Postnatal Yoga
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Conscious Diapering
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Developing Supportive Community
Part V: Practice Routines and Planners
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Practice Routines
----Practice: Calming and Grounding Routine (45 Minutes)
----Practice: Affirmation and Massage (30 Minutes)
----Practice: Standing and Seatedv(35 Minutes)
----Practice: 65 Minute Yoga Practice
Journal Exercise: Planning for Practice Time
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Planners
Resources
