Postnatal Yoga for Mums & Babies
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Fun, engaging and relaxing classes for mums & babies. Based on the Birthlight approach, these yoga classes are specially designed to aid new mother’s postnatal recovery whilst also allowing time for engaging, bonding and relaxing with baby. These classes will help new mothers to regain strength in their body, to open and release areas of tightness and tension in the back, neck and shoulders, and to find space for relaxation. We aim to gently tone
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the abdominal muscles from deep within, allowing them to knit back together, and look to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles in conjunction with the breath: a ‘closing of the body’ after pregnancy and labour. The classes also focus on the re-alignment of the spine and pelvis, and encourage an awareness of posture in all movements, including the care and handling of baby. An emphasis on the breath throughout the class helps to develop a sense of wellbeing, and we build in time for relaxation so both mothers and babies feel nurtured. We explore postures and practices mums can do with and without their babies so they can easily continue their yoga at home. Classes are informal, fun and relaxed, and mums are free to feed, change, comfort or soothe babies to sleep whenever necessary. It’s a wonderful and friendly environment to meet new mums or reconnect with familiar faces from your Pregnancy Yoga classes. The benefits of Postnatal Mother and Baby Yoga include: strengthening & re-aligning the physical body after pregnancy & birth helping to re-energise the body as well as enjoy relaxation helping to settle babies and improve sleep p...
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Postnatal Yoga for Mums & Babies
About Sarah Burgess Yoga
This 5 or 6 week course is specially designed to help with new mothers’ postnatal recovery whilst also allowing time for engaging, bonding and relaxing with baby .
The course is suitable for all news mums from 6+ weeks postnatal (8 weeks after a Caesarean birth) up until babies are fully crawling.
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