Yoga for Your Pregnancy DVD

Yoga Journal and Lamaze® introduce Yoga For Your Pregnancy, a DVD showing you a new way to experience a radiant pregnancy and healthy delivery. This easy-to-follow yoga for pregnancy DVD guided by our prenatal expert, Kristen Eykel, features two main practices for yoga during pregnancy, plus a number of added features – all specifically designed for moms-to-be. Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced yogini – you'll get the tools you need to face the physical and emotional changes of your body with focus and grace.

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Ease your aches & pains
Enhance your energy, strength & vitality
...Qualities that will help you in
pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood

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I am the mother of 3-year-old Grayson, and I teach prenatal yoga classes in Los Angeles. I found that yoga was crucial to my labor and delivery. The mental focus and physical preparation I gained from doing yoga made my son's birth, while intense, truly a labor of love. The yoga I did throughout my pregnancy, even during labor, deepened my confidence, and helped me to both "work and relax" during labor and to be fully present to the miracle of my son’s birth.

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This DVD has several purposes:

•	Instruct moms-to-be in asana, the physical poses, which help build strength and stamina to prepare a woman for the demands of labor, as well as alleviate some of the discomforts of pregnancy. The practice will include yoga poses that help create space between the rib cage and pelvis, which provides more room for a growing baby; poses that open the hip joints for an easier delivery; and poses that open the chest and counteract the tendency to slump forward because of an expanding belly.
•	Instruct moms-to-be pranayama, or breathing exercises, which can help manage the discomfort of contractions, and meditation, which can improve the abilities to relax and concentrate during delivery.
•	Provide complete instructions for doing each pose, including modifications for women in their second and third trimesters.
•	Inform users of the purpose and benefit of each pose or practice for pregnancy.
•	Provide safety precautions for practicing yoga during pregnancy.
•	This DVD is being produced and distributed in partnership with Lamaze Intl.; therefore, there is an additional purpose of showing how yoga and Lamaze childbirth preparation techniques can be used together to facilitate a healthy birth.
Approach:
•	To provide in-depth yoga instruction in an inspirational, accessible form that emulates the experience of having a private yoga instructor in your own home.
•	To photograph the class film-style and in “real time”
•	To deliver medically accurate information about pregnancy, yoga, and Lamaze childbirth preparation that helps the user have a healthy pregnancy and delivery.
•	The teaching approach is ecumenical and not aligned with a particular school of yoga.

Here are the poses that this DVD teaches:

ENERGIZING & STRENGTHENING
(30 minutes)
Poses include:
Tree Pose Pelvic Rocks with 3 variations: easy pose, chair pose, seated in a chair
Side Stretches with 3 variations
Hands to Shoulders
Twists with 3 variations
Butterfly
Wide leg stretch with side bends
Wide leg stretch with forward bend
Table Pose
Quad Stretch
Camel Pose
Cat/Cow Pose
High Lunges
Calf Stretches
Downward-Facing Dog
Child’s Pose
Modified Push Up
Rock Pose with Venus hand lock
Squat
Tree Pose
Final Relaxation with variations

RELAXING & REJUVENATING
Poses include:
Head nods
Neck rolls
Spinal Twist Easy Spinal Twist, 2 variations: easy pose and seated in a chair
Pelvic circles
Wide Butterfly
Hip circles
Squat
Supported Standing Forward Bend
Wide Legged Standing Forward Bend
Shoulder stretches
Ankle rolls
Queen Dancer Pose
Final Relaxation with variations

POSTNATAL YOGA PRACTICE
Poses include:
Shoulder rolls and triceps stretch
Rock Pose with Venus hand lock
Pelvic rocks with breath of fire
Spinal rolling
Leg lifts
Plow Pose
Bridge Pose
Butterfly
Cat/Cow with Breath of Fire
Downward-Facing Dog Pose
with Childs Pose Leg lifts
Cobra Pose
Locust Pose
Child's Pose

BIRTHING ROOM YOGA
Poses include:
Pelvic circles
Cat/Cow
Pelvic circles
Supported Downward-Facing Dog
Squat
Child’s Pose

Yoga for Your Pregnancy DVD Features:
• 45 minutes of active practice and instruction (2 sessions)
• Yoga poses suitable for beginners and advanced beginners
• Modifications for women in their second and third trimesters
• Enlightening interviews about yoga, Lamaze and childbirth

Menu Selections:
• Pranayama for Pregnancy: 3 simple breathing techniques to calm your nervous system

• Meditation for Pregnancy: Guided meditation to help foster inner focus and awareness

• Birthing Room Yoga: Simple yoga techniques to encourage a peaceful mind and body during delivery

• Postnatal Yoga Practice: Gentle practice to help you regain strength and flexibility 6 weeks after delivery

• Articles on yoga and pregnancy, and more!

PRACTICE 1:
ENERGIZING & STRENGTHENING
(30 minutes)
This carefully crafted series of yoga poses, or asanas, will help you build strength and stamina in preparation for the demands of labor—and also alleviate many common discomforts caused by your ever-changing body.

PRACTICE 2:
RELAXING & REJUVENATING
(15 minutes)
In this soothing restorative yoga practice, you’ll learn breathing exercises, or pranayama, to help you manage the discomfort of contractions—plus meditation techniques to help you relax and concentrate during delivery.

BIRTHING ROOM YOGA
How to use the yoga lessons learned in the daily practice to help in delivery.

POSTNATAL YOGA PRACTICE
A gentle, rejuvenating practice to begin 6 weeks after delivery that’s based on poses already learned in the prenatal practices, plus a few new ones.

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