| Your pregnancy yoga DVD helps you evolve from | | | | practice show you how to find your psychological and |
| your mother's daughter to your child's mother. | | | | spiritual sanctuary; they teach the express route to |
| Of course, it prepares your body for childbirth, but your | | | | "your happy place." |
| pregnancy yoga DVD also prepares you to meet new | | | | Pregnancy yoga DVD develops the bond between |
| motherhood's challenges. Given its balance of physical | | | | you and your baby. |
| and psychological disciplines, your practice of yoga | | | | Your pregnancy yoga DVD encourages you to bond |
| helps you think beyond yourself, promoting your | | | | with your baby. By the beginning of your third trimester, |
| growth into your new and unaccustomed role as | | | | you feel your baby kicking, and you often can tell |
| caretaker, instructor, pathfinder, and provider. Your | | | | when she is awake. Instead of just a foreign lump in |
| private, quiet time in yoga practice allows you to listen | | | | your belly, you now feel life developing in your womb. |
| and feel as your child quickens; you will sense her | | | | Your yoga practice affords special opportunity to |
| responding to your voice and other stimuli from the | | | | develop the special bond between you and your child. |
| outside world. Your pregnancy yoga DVD teaches | | | | When you talk to her, she learns the comfort and |
| you not only to control and rise above the pain of | | | | reassurance in your voice. When you listen carefully |
| childbirth but also to respond to motherhood's | | | | and attend to her movements, she begins introducing |
| demands. | | | | herself to you. Meditating and visualizing as you work |
| Pregnancy yoga DVD reinforces natural childbirth | | | | your way through your poses, imagine all you wish and |
| classes. | | | | want for your child and for your still-evolving self. |
| Your pregnancy yoga DVD complements your natural | | | | Your pregnancy yoga DVD also helps you cultivate |
| childbirth classes. Reinforcing breathing techniques you | | | | the special selfishness every good mother must |
| learn in class and developing your ability to focus | | | | indulge. It gives you precious, delectable, blissful, |
| outside yourself, your yoga practice helps you master | | | | delicious "me-time." As your due date approaches, you |
| and rise above your pain. Your body naturally | | | | begin asking, "Who will care for the caretaker." Your |
| tenses-up in response to pain; all your muscles flex as | | | | yoga practice teaches you the ideal answer: you, the |
| you "tough it out." Lamaze class and your yoga | | | | universe, and the divine power guiding the universe's |
| practice teach you to overcome instinct, relaxing into, | | | | constant unfolding will collaborate to care for you, |
| through, and beyond each contraction, flexing only your | | | | providing all you need...in abundance. Finding sanctuary |
| vaginal muscles so that you conserve energy and | | | | and "moratorium"-a perfect time-out-in your yoga, take |
| minimize pain. You probably use the expression "go to | | | | time to reinforce your love for you. |
| your happy place." Natural childbirth classes and yoga | | | | |