Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy : Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year

by Teasdill, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780809225439
• ISBN10: 0809225433
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Yoga calms the mind, bringing a sense of peace, relaxation, and well-being as well as optimizing physical health, agility, adn strength.Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancyis an essential guide to the best exercises for each stage of pregnancy and the resources you need for a harmonious pregnancy, birth, and recovery.Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancyis: a beautifully illustrated yoga handbook for all three trimesters and the weeks following delivery the perfect resource for newcomers to yoga and invaluable for experienced students a complete collection of safe, carefully selected postures written in consultation with top yoga instructors, midwives, and doctors approved by leading pregnancy experts Wendy Teasdill is an experienced yoga teacher and the mother of three children. She began teaching yoga in Hong Kong, where she adapted her teaching to meet the needs of pregnant students. She lives in Glastonbury, England.

Author Biography

Wendy Teasdill is a well-known and widely respected instructor of Iyengar yoga who lives in London.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Michel Odent
Preface	vii
Introduction	viii
PART ONE Your well-being during pregnancy
How yoga enhances pregnancy	12	(10)
Yoga in everyday life	22	(16)
PART TWO The essential exercises
Yoga for the first trimester	38	(10)
Yoga for the second trimester	48	(64)
Yoga for the third trimester	112	(10)
PART THREE Labour, birth and afterwards
Labour and birth	122	(8)
Life after birth	130	(11)
Further reading and useful addresses	141	(1)
Index	142	(1)
Acknowledgements	143