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Childbirth
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Evidence
exists that a positive pregnancy and birth will make a profound positive difference to the individual throughout its entire life. *See below |
It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, Without risking injury to the mother or the child; We must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement... The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love. ---Grantly Dick-Read 1953
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a new life into the world is a profoundly
transforming experience, not only at the physical
level, but at the mental, emotional, and spiritual
levels. The tremendous responsibility of this
unique stage of life may be positive or negative for
parents and parents-to-be. With Positive
Pregnancy and Parenting Through Yoga, learn to tune
into your body and your baby with yoga asanas
(postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), deep
relaxation and guided visualization. A regular
practice will enhance your adjustment to the
physical, mental and emotional demands placed upon
you while connecting with the wonder and mystery of
growing life, giving birth and
motherhood. Yoga helps the expectant mother and mothers of newborns and young children to empower themselves by recognizing the instinctual ability to take care of the ensuing new challenge with all the resources that nature has granted. Practicing the five principles of yoga: proper exercise, breathing, diet, relaxation and positive thinking/meditation helps to put women in touch with their bodies, their feelings and their potential to make pregnancy and parenting a precious and rewarding, nurturing, learning experience. It is important to learn self-care including practical ways to incorporate healthy habits into your life. Sharing pregnancy and mothering experiences is also a valuable component of the classes as we help each other face similar challenges on this path of life. Childbirth is naturally a deeply transforming experience for women and for the new life, and it follows that a peaceful birth contributes not only to a better birth and recovery for mother but often to a more settled baby - alert at birth and happier overall in the early days and weeks of life. Evidence exists that a peaceful birth will make a positive difference to the individual throughout its entire life. |
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| Pre-Natal
Yoga
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Schedule
Pre-Natal
Classes tone and strengthen the muscles used in
pregnancy and childbirth to ensure a more safe and
comfortable pregnancy, to help prepare your body for
the hard work of labor and to help you recover more
rapidly after the birth. Women’s
Water Yoga
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| Mother/Baby
Yoga
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Schedule
Mothers shape up and strengthen their bodies while enjoying exercise with their babies in a safe, home-like environment. This is a great opportunity to share experiences with other mothers of infants, crawling babies and toddlers. The children play while the mother do yoga, but they have a little exercise routine at the end just before relaxation. Watch a roomful of children calm down while their mothers deeply relax! Toys and books provided. An 8 week session scheduled over a 10 week period to allow for 2 misses (join a class 4 weeks after a vaginal birth or 6 weeks after a Cesarean.)
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| Family
Yoga
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Just as couples support each other during pregnancy and birthing, the demanding task of raising children requires that parents take special care of themselves and their relationship. Yoga helps not only with physical fitness but with stress release, flexibility, self-control, inner calm, clarity of mind and overall physical and mental health. It builds within us patience, faith and stamina, and perhaps, most important of all, teaches us the skill of relaxation which is critical for Positive Parenting. Family yoga is quality time for Mothers, Fathers and Children together while doing your yoga practice - and you don't have to get a babysitter! Bring one or two children up to 4 years old or so. We practice a Sivananda style routine while the children play and interact; the older ones may imitate you and learn some yoga too. 8 week session scheduled on a weekday evening or weekend. Mommy and Me or Daddy and Me Children benefit immensely from the practice of yoga as they learn quickly and absorb the benefits easily. For older children, 5 years and up, a class for a parent and child to do yoga together is a great way to spend quality time and learn new things that can be practiced at home...and have fun, too! This is a new class at Shanti Yoga; call if interested. There are also classes dedicated to children only. In Kinder Yoga little ones 4-7 years learn yoga through play. Older children 7-14 years learn a full classical yoga routine including breathing and relaxation, and, through discussion and homework, values are taught. These 2 children's classes are being offered free as part of the service of Shanti Yoga to the community. |
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| Childbirth
Education/HypnoBirthing®
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Schedule
Childbirth Education is offered in the form of Hypno Birthing®, the Mongan Method,a nationally known program that teaches everything you need to know to achieve safer, easier and more comfortable birth. Couples learn the art of using natural birthing instincts to birth their baby in a way that most mirrors the way nature intended. Gentle birthing techniques allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the fear, stress or violence of hard physical labor. The Hypno Birthing® childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth
as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying,
relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing.
Complementing yoga beautifully, you will learn how
to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and thus lessen or even eliminate
discomfort and the need for medication. When a
woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when
mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to
function in the same well-designed manner that it
does with all other creatures. You will be
fascinated as you view films showing laboring
mothers awake, alert and in good humor. Hypno Birthing® teaches you to release all prior
programming about birth, how to trust your body and
work with it, as well as how to free yourself of
harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing and
unyielding muscles. |
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Spiritual Motherhood Creating a Peaceful Family Spiritual Motherhood - Creating a Peaceful Family is a program of special courses for mothers based on the conviction that if we try to work on ourselves striving to achieve a personal state of health and peace, we can become centers of harmony and bring true joy and peace to ourselves, our families, our communities, our nation, and to the world. While the classes are based in practical matters of daily life, the goal remains the same: creating peace. In today’s culture, violence has become the norm. It takes knowledge, courage and forbearance to go against the tide to practice non-violence in our daily lives in thought, word and deed and especially in the way we raise our children. This program is a modern approach based on ancient teachings along with a strong support system to step forward and walk this extraordinary path. Courses offered include Motherhood and Ayurveda, Food and Peace, Stress Management for Working Moms, The Feminine Cycle - Know Thyself, and a preconception seminar: A New or Old Soul for My Womb. A Spiritual Motherhood Book Club for mothers of young children (infant - 7 years or so) can also be facilitated depending on interest. Specifically on health care, we work with Ayurveda, the sister science of Yoga. The Ayurveda system focuses on disease prevention, promoting ideal health, lengthening lifespan, and helping to bring individual and collective life into harmony with natural law. Many minor or major health complaints from the childbearing year are due to imbalances and if left unattended can become chronic, even lifelong, problems. Ayurveda can help a woman tune into this, bring her to balance, help her discover real health and vitality, and prevent serious future health problems. Linette Landa (Lakshmi) began teaching
Pre-Natal Yoga and Mother/Baby Yoga with the birth of her son and 10
years later discovered the Hypno Birthing® method of childbirth as the
ideal complement. As she experienced personally, from the very
beginning of a new life and the beginnings of a family, yoga offers
health, happiness and harmony to mothers, babies and the whole family.
Complementing other teachings at the Shanti Yoga Ashram where Lakshmi
lives and practices, both yoga and Hypno Birthing® classes are
experiential so all may enjoy and benefit from the natural,
peaceful way of life. *For information on Pre and Peri-Natal Psychology see www.birthpsychology.com |
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FOR
MOTHERS
For more information…
Call 301-654-4899, mailbox #4 or
e-mail shantiyoga@schooloflife.org
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