Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Released: 2010
Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth [With CD (Audio)] : A Teach Yourself Guide (with CD) 0002 Edition (Paperback)
Breathe easier during your pregnancy and beyond
Improve Your Pregnancy with Yoga offers you an effective and uniquely holistic guide to maximizing your health and your spiritual and emotional well-being throughout pregnancy and beyond. It explains how the principles of yoga can be used to gain a deeper insight into the process of pregnancy. The book also outlines practical instructions for simple exercises and breathing techniques, enabling you to create a yoga and breathing program that works uniquely for you. An accompanying audio CD helps you practice breathing exercises that are designed to help control labor pains. There are also plenty of further resources and even a guide to using yoga to help postnatal recovery.
You can also visit teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry--this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.
Table of Contents
• Quick flick guide
• Audio CD contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Dedication
• Yoga and pregnancy: natural partners
• The essence of yoga in practice
• The physical body: earth
• The energy body: water
• The mental/emotional body: fire
• The wisdom body: air/space
• The joy body: ether/space
• Yoga for birth
• Yoga for post-natal recovery
• Glossary
• Taking it further