| In your own time, at your own pace, condition your | | | | do far more to relieve your aches, soreness, and |
| body for childbirth with a prenatal yoga DVD. | | | | fatigue than a whole handful of pain relievers. And it will |
| Your body goes through a series of amazing, | | | | strengthen the muscles that endure the most torture |
| overwhelming changes as your baby develops. Your | | | | during labor and delivery. |
| prenatal yoga DVD changes your practice to meet | | | | Your Prenatal Yoga DVD Develops Your Stamina and |
| your changing body's needs. As your baby grows and | | | | Self-Control |
| you gain weight, you suffer soreness and fatigue; but | | | | The longer you maintain your balance and hold a pose, |
| your yoga practice helps stretch-out tired muscles, | | | | the more you must exercise self-control, asserting |
| releasing accumulated lactates and relieving the aches. | | | | your mind over your muscles. As muscles grow tired, |
| In labor and delivery, your circulation and respiration are | | | | determination must supply what circulation alone |
| essential to your pain management and your baby's | | | | cannot. Your pregnancy DVD teaches you to breathe |
| safety. Working with your yoga practice, you develop | | | | into and through a protracted pose just as you will |
| your cardio-vascular capacity. Your pulse, heartbeat, | | | | breathe into, through, and beyond each contraction. |
| and respiration probably will measure their best ever. | | | | Your practice of yoga also builds your capacity to |
| Your Prenatal Yoga DVD Helps Refresh Sore, Tired | | | | focus on and isolate single muscle groups, directing |
| Muscles | | | | your breathing to them while the rest of your body |
| During pregnancy, you will add at least 25% to your | | | | rests and recovers. As your baby "crowns" and |
| pre-pregnancy weight, and most of your extra pounds | | | | begins her grand entrance, your ability to focus on |
| naturally will accumulate in your abdomen and hips. | | | | specific muscles will speed her arrival and minimize |
| Your legs will suffer. Especially if your profession | | | | your pain. |
| requires you to spend most of your time standing and | | | | Naturally, your changing body and growing body attract |
| walking, your legs will feel like two big logs by the end | | | | a great deal of attention. Often during pregnancy you |
| of an eight-hour shift. If your abdominal muscles | | | | feel like the object of everybody's rapt attention and |
| always were a little more elastic than taut and toned, | | | | critical gaze. Practicing with your prenatal yoga DVD, |
| they will hurt, too, as baby stretches them to nearly | | | | you can savor all the delights of solitude. Not quite |
| three times their original length. | | | | alone, but safe in your sanctuary and privileged with a |
| Your daily practice with your prenatal yoga DVD will | | | | blissful time out. |