What is postpartum yoga?
Postpartum yoga aims to help new mothers get back in shape. Yoga practice not only helps new mothers recover their figure and figure, but also can adjust their anxiety through yoga breathing and meditation, which is a healthy exercise for new mothers.
The benefits of postpartum yoga
After pregnancy and delivery, many women have changed their body shape, and the supporting tissues and ligaments of the pelvic floor are relaxed. At this time, practicing yoga can make many postures easier to complete, and moderate postpartum yoga practice can also help new mothers recover. Specific posture, regular breathing and calm meditation in postpartum yoga also help to calm the psychological anxiety of new mothers.
1, get back in shape
Proper postpartum yoga exercise can improve blood circulation, restore skin tension, reduce fat accumulation, eliminate excess fat in abdomen, buttocks and thighs, and restore graceful posture before pregnancy. Six months after delivery is the golden opportunity for physical recovery. Expectant mothers should hurry up and cooperate with yoga movements and yoga vegetarian diet, which will give you unexpected surprises. However, due to the relaxation of joint tissue in postpartum body, it is necessary to increase the amount of exercise slowly, and follow the guidance of the tutor to avoid sports injury.
Step 2 improve bad posture
Due to many physiological changes of women during pregnancy, it is easy to produce bad posture, such as body center of gravity moving forward, cervical vertebra protruding forward, scapula pulling forward, pelvis leaning forward, center of gravity moving to heel, etc. And holding the baby after delivery is also easy to move the center of gravity forward. Thus causing postpartum neck, back, pelvis and heel pain, practicing yoga is conducive to improving these bad postures.
3, good foot edema
Women are prone to edema of lower limbs during pregnancy. Yoga practice is conducive to promoting blood flow and improving metabolism in the body, thus improving leg edema and varicose veins of lower limbs caused by fetal compression of inferior vena cava.
Step 4 help your body recover
After pregnancy and childbirth, the new mother will feel weak and depressed. Proper yoga practice is of great help to restore postpartum physique.
5, the whole postpartum mentality
Yoga training can help expectant mothers eliminate physical and psychological problems after becoming mothers, such as physical recovery, insomnia, emotional changes caused by hormonal imbalance and the challenges faced by caring for newborns. Postpartum yoga has various specific postures, effective breathing and calm meditation, so that expectant mothers can adjust their mentality, have enough courage to face their new life and their new roles, and prevent postpartum depression.
6, abdominal and pelvic floor muscles are tense.
Because of the birth, the new mother is prone to the phenomenon that the abdominal muscle tissue is slack and the tension becomes weak. Yoga training helps to restore abdominal and pelvic muscles, enhance the support of pelvic organs, and effectively prevent stress urinary incontinence.
Yoga is a leisure lifestyle and the best choice for postpartum mothers!