Yoga for Fertility

Guest Author: Lauren Laporte

Although yoga can’t directly boost your fertility (no research shows direct connection), there are still multiple indirect benefits which yoga offers to those who are trying to conceive. Therefore, let’s take a look at some of the essential benefits of yoga, and how those exercises can positively affect your pregnancy.

Control the breathing and reduce the stress

Controlling breathing means controlling your nerves. Fast breathing is connected with our anxious feelings, and it leads to sympathetic nervous system activation. On the other hand, deep abdominal breathing, which we focus on through yoga exercises, will promote the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system. That deep and controlled breath is called pranayama, and it’s super useful when it comes to lowering the stress levels, which is essential for fertility.

Yoga exercises are healthy

Yoga is an excellent way of stabilizing both your mind and body. These exercises will help you release physical tension and increase both physical and mental stability. That’s why it is excellent to start with yoga practice, especially before you have to deal with the morning sickness and fatigue. Furthermore, exercises will reduce the unnecessary risk of gestational diabetes and many other pregnancy complications. When it comes to the necessary clothes, you should do your workout in comfortable gym wear. The material has to be pleasant for your skin. Remember, yoga will indirectly help your pregnancy, and you should try to help your body as much as you can.

Yoga improves learning healthy emotional and cognitive skills valuable for parenthood

Fertility yoga offers a lot more than just casual exercise. It utilizes the practice of meditation, concentration, but also self-awareness, which will help you live a fuller and better life. All of the mentioned skills will, when trained correctly, help you deal with harsh and intense emotions. You will also find the sources of these emotions, and the best ways of processing them. As a result, you will become a mentally stronger person – you will know how to handle your emotional state, and how to improve your cognitive skills, which are relevant for your new life as a parent. Furthermore, to aid in this mental clarity you should definitely consider getting a fertility kit to ensure you’re getting all the vitamins you need on a daily basis.

It helps you deal with any pressure

The pressure is one of the biggest enemies of humankind, and pregnancy is not an exception. You have to deal with your own pains and emotions, as well as the other people, who can only share their empathy with you, but not the pain. Fertility yoga will help you decrease the feelings of depression and isolation through the pregnancy period, and also help you deal with many other unpleasant emotions before they occur.

Best fertility yoga exercises

Some of the best poses for fertility yoga are head-to-knee forward bend, bridge pose, seated forward fold and supported legs up the wall. Many of the poses will open up the energy in the hips and the perineal floor, which houses your reproductive organs. Other poses in the sequence will focus on bringing energy and vitality to your hormonal system. As we said earlier, none of these exercises show a direct connection between yoga and fertility. However, each of them is helping with all crucial problems – reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and also insomnia. Enjoyable pregnancy is possible, and doing these exercises regularly will help you achieve that state of body and mind.

Yoga exercises through the fertility period will help you reach those emotional, physical, and spiritual possibilities you barely knew existed within yourself. When you reach that state of mind, you will, most likely, successfully get rid of stress and anxiety, which are the biggest enemies of both fertility and pregnancy.

 

 

Lauren Laporte is a health writer with a passion for natural solutions and an integrated approach to healing. Modern medicine is great, but tapping into the biological healing potential of the human body is an integral part of healthful living that just might make the need for medical interventions far at bay. She loves researching the mind-body connection and often blogs about it at ripped.me and various other places. You can also find her at facebook, twitter.