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 | Prenatal yoga is a popular way to forge a mind-body connection, plus get in some stretching, for expectant moms. If you take a prenatal class, your teacher should be trained in the best poses for pregnancy, but if you are practicing at home or trying to adapt a regular class, it helps to know which poses are to be avoided and why. | |
Prenatal Yoga Dos and Don'ts
Many prenatal precautions are pretty common sensical, like don't lie on your belly when it gets big, but it helps to know the thinking behind the advice and to learn adaptations that are safer for you and your baby.
| Introduction to Prenatal Yoga
Much of my prenatal info is broken down by trimester. You can find links here to the trimester-by-trimester guides and prenatal yoga newsletter, plus how to return to yoga after your pregnancy.
| Yoga for Kids
If you have older children, you may be wondering how they can get in on some yoga action too. This guide tells you how to find a good kids' class and some poses you can teach your kids at home.
| Pose of The Week - Handstand - Adho Mukha Vrksasana
 I've been a little bit obsessed with handstand lately. It seems like every teacher I have has been obsessed with it too, because it's come up in class after class. I think this prevalence has something to do with teachers looking for an alternative to headstand, which got a bad rap during the recent yoga injuries brouhaha. Whatever it is, every time we were told to bring our mats to the wall, I felt that rush of fear and began to grit my teeth. Handstand and I were not getting along.
Finally, I decided to do what has worked for me in the past when confronted with a difficult pose: workshop it at home. This meant handstand every day on the wall in my living room, with my kids giving me pointers from the couch. I looked at handstand videos, I tried to really break down what my teachers were doing when they demoed the pose in class. Were my hands too far from the wall? What was the correct position of the shoulders? Was my fear the only thing holding me back? I had this feeling like I didn't know what to do with my second leg after the first one hit the wall. Finally, after about a week of struggle, a break though came. As I assumed the position to kick up, I suddenly remembered someone describing the action of the second leg as "little hops." I tried it and, lo and behold, up flew that recalcitrant leg and I was fully inverted. Of course I thought it was a fluke but it has worked over and over again. I realized that the second leg needed to do something, it wasn't just going to come along for the ride. So if your handstand is stalled out, try the little hops method. I swear by it.
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