Pregnancy yoga?

[rydra_wong]

Not for me thank God.

A friend is pregnant and interested in taking up yoga (she hasn't done any before). She's planning to go to a class, but I promised I'd look around for books and online resources. Anyone got any recommendations?

I will note that she's extremely skeptical about any teachers/websites that claim that if you do a bit of yoga you'll automatically be able to float through the birth on a cloud of bliss.

Comments

[muck_a_luck]

If she can get them from a library or is interested in purchasing something, Shiva Rea has pre- and post-natal yoga DVDs, I believe based on her own experience. I have not seen them. Prenatal Yoga" gets 4 stars on Amazon, plus the reviews there are very interesting.

I'm about to crack open Itsy Bitsy Yoga - but that's a book for her future. :)

[zats_clear]

After my boys were born, I used a dvd by Gurmukh Kaur Kalsa - she seems to have updated it. I never used the pre-natal version because it was two dvds at that time and I only had the post, but it was wonderful.

She does do a bit of new agey stuff but honestly the movements were perfect so I could over look it :) And I loved how she incorporated holding and moving with the baby into the whole thing as well.

btw, for what it's worth, accupuncture works for morning sickness