Mom and Baby Yoga
Our Mom and Baby Yoga classes are taught by Yoga Alliance certified Prenatal/Postnatal instructors that received 85 hours of training. Mom and Baby Yoga offers an amazing and unique bonding opportunity for new mothers and their babies. Offering both exercise and community, this yoga practice offers participants a way to stay physically and mentally fit while engaging with their babies. Caring for newborns demands a lot from mothers, so let us help you find a fun way to care for yourself too! You can learn a lot about yourself and foster a new sense of connection with your newborn, while also having the opportunity to meet other new mothers in our community.
Mom and Baby Yoga can provide mothers with opportunities to cultivate a positive, healthy relationship with their newborn and with themselves in a time when focusing on yourself can be difficult to prioritize.
Areas That Need Healing
After delivering a baby, mothers can experience a variety of difficulties, aches, and pains. Some of the most common include lower back pain, weak abdominal and pelvic floor muscles, and potential injuries to the perineum. Finding physical comfort in any position while suffering from these symptoms can be nearly impossible. In the case of Caesarean birth, symptoms can be exacerbated by tenderness at the site of the incision. Mom and Baby Yoga addresses all of these areas and offers much needed relief and growth opportunities as well.
7 Benefits of Postpartum Yoga for Mothers
Community - Finding your tribe can feel incredibly challenging, especially for new mothers. Most of your time is invested in caring for the new life you’ve created. Mom and Baby Yoga provides a setting for you and your baby to gather with others and cultivate relationships with other mommy-baby duos. Developing a sense of community can have profound effects on mental health for mothers who are experiencing and recovering from shifting hormone levels.
Flexibility and Muscle Tone - Babies can be pretty physically demanding. There is a surprising amount of exercise involved in child care. Lifts, squats, stretches, bends, and cardio are all important parts of the child care workout routine. Improving flexibility and building muscle tone after pregnancy through Mom and Baby Yoga, can do wonders for increasing your physical strength and making your body more resistant to injury. Developing abdominal and back strength can reduce postpartum back pain as well.
Restoring Balance - The strength and flexibility garnered in the practice of Mom and Baby Yoga provides the continuing development necessary for improved posture. Apart from physical benefits, Mom and Baby Yoga encourages yogic breathing. Yogic breathing can foster feelings of peace and allow a tired mother’s mind and body to relax.
Tone Your Upper Body - The average newborn weighs about 7.5 pounds and is picked up about 50 times a day. That kind of workout can lead to some very sore muscles. Practicing Mom and Baby Yoga can diminish that eventual soreness by developing arm and upper body strength.
Stretch Out Your Achy Shoulders and Back - Continuous lifting combined with feeding your baby and even everyday seated activities, promote slouching which can be detrimental to your physical and emotional well-being. Practicing Mom and Baby Yoga encourages healthy stretching that is necessary to combat these unhealthy postural habits.
Routine Exercise May Reduce Postpartum Depression - Make no mistake about it, Mom and Baby Yoga is a workout. And in addition to providing participants with a community, it also provides an opportunity for routine exercise. Both community and routine exercise are great for your mental health and may even reduce experience with postpartum depression.
Improving Patience - Newborns need lots of mom's energy, time and focus, and that can be draining both physically and emotionally. Through the controlled breathing and focus exercises that are a central part of yoga, the patience building practiced at Mom and Baby Yoga can translate to increased patience in your home life.
Benefits for Baby
Mom and Baby Yoga is also good for the baby. Doing something with mom encourages feelings of connection and being loved. The practice can also lead to improved quality of sleep for both mom and baby. The hormone responsible for feelings of connection, oxytocin, also experiences an increase in production from mothers who learn deeper yogic breathing. This benefits the baby during feeding when the sense of connection between baby and mom can feel even more meaningful.
Schedule Your Mom and Baby Yoga Session
Participating in yoga of any kind can provide numerous benefits for postpartum mothers and postnatal babies alike. If you’re interested in taking a class at The Yogi Perogi, check out our class schedule here or contact us at (321) 345-9379.