Fertility Yoga : A Natural Approach to Conception

by Leppert, Kerstin

• ISBN13: 9780897936491
• ISBN10: 0897936493
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-10
• Publisher: Hunter House

Summary

This beautiful full-color book explains how to use the principles of Kundalini Yoga to fulfill your desire to have a baby. With straightforward advice and beautifully illustrated exercises, Fertility Yoga will help you and your partner increase fertility naturally.

In addition to its well-known calming effects, yoga is healing for the whole body. The exercises in this book, selected for both men and women to do individually and as a couple, are designed to boost fertility by improving circulation in reproductive organs and balancing hormones. These exercises, which include yoga, meditation, and breathing, will help you focus your mind, strengthen your body, and let go of worries, as you prepare for conception and pregnancy.

Author Kerstin Leppert, who has taught Kundalini Yoga for many years and written four previous books on yoga and health explains the ancient concept of chakras and how they relate to fertility and gives recommendations about nutrition, natural remedies, stress relief, and sexual positions.

Fertility Yoga is full of advice you can put into practice right away — whether you are part of a couple taking the first steps toward conception, or are already undergoing medical fertility treatments and want to support that with natural techniques.

Author Biography

Kerstin Leppert has been a teacher of Kundalini Yoga since since 1994. She is also the editor of Germany’s “Kundalini Yoga Journal," and the author of four other books about yoga and health. She specializes in yoga for women, couples, pregnant women, and people with health issues, and has written about these topics for yoga and women's magazines in Germany. She lives in Hamburg, and has two children.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

How yoga can help with the desire to have children
The female cycle and the fertile phase
When the wished-for child takes its time coming
How stress affects fertility
Functional and idiopathic fertility problems
A need for control and letting go
Emotional barriers
How yoga works
The yoga of consciousness
Chakras – centers of psychoenergetic balance
"La luna" – the moon is female
How yoga affects fertility

Consciously preparing yourself for pregnancy
Creating the ideal conditions for the body and soul
Fertility-promoting nutrition principles
Natural remedies to promote fertility
Other alternative therapies for people who want children
Just for men – improving sperm quality

Yoga exercises to promote fertility
Taking responsibility
Yoga exercises for women
Yoga exercises for men
Yoga exercises for couples
Hormone-balancing exercises

Breathing exercises and meditations for emotional and hormonal balance
Breathing and relaxation
Meditations for people with fertility problems
Other helpful meditations during the phase of hoping for a child

Conscious conception through relaxation poses, mental travel, and visualization
Transmigration and the karmic principle
Conscious conception
The 120th day
Relaxation takes practice
“The soul is the monkey at the steering wheel”
Relaxation poses
Visualizing the desire for a child

Experiencing pleasure with all of the senses
Keep on the sunny side of life
Belly dancing
Erotic couples dancing
Sex for fun, not out of obligation
Lovemaking positions
Stress-relieving massages
Avoid lubricants and oral sex
Afternoon delight

A final word: if nothing is working
Acknowledgements
References
About the author