Best Yoga Tips For New Mothers

My little girl just turned two years old. She's old enough to have her own interests (playing her xylophone, listening to music, dancing) and dislikes (any amount of time that I spend writing or talking on the phone); yet she's still young enough to not understand why Mommy needs to spend some time on her yoga mat every day.

Do you have dreams of a regular yoga practice with a bunch of cool women, in a beautiful studio in a trendy neighborhood, with designer yoga togs and a pretty water bottle that says "om" on the side? But then life gets in the way it just never happens?

In a state of sheer bliss, Max tries to leap from his mother's arms. Normally quiet and shy, this 10-month-old New Yorker squeals with joy whenever he goes to the neighborhood yoga studio where parents and babies practice together. He claps when he sees the bright toys that fill his classroom and coos as he settles onto his soft blanket.

Sometimes your yoga practice has to change. During pregnancy, for example, your practice obviously changes. Not all asana is made available to you. Post pregnancy, it's a similar story. I think lots of women, however, expect their practice to return to the way it was. Sure, perhaps it will get there.

Yoga: It is this ancient form of exercise that has contributed in the holistic living of individuals in the most natural and trusted way since years. Yoga is like a spiritual route to a relaxed mind and healthy body.

July 9, 2012 You're sitting in front of your yoga class getting ready to start class and you notice a pregnant women enter and sit down on her mat. What do you do? Freeze? You aren't alone in the yoga teaching world of being uncomfortable, to say the least, in teaching pregnant women.