By Maria Kondrashova, founder of Pommama
You may have been pregnant yourself; or if you haven’t, you surely know someone who has. You’ll know that worries, feelings and concerns when you’re growing a baby can change enormously as your body changes over those nine months from conception to due date. Battling with morning sickness in the earlier stages of pregnancy is a whole different ball game to preparing for birth.
So why, when it comes to pregnancy yoga – one of the most effective tools available to support your journey to motherhood – do most studio classes not take this vast difference into account? We fully expect to see normal yoga segmented according to level on a studio timetable as Vinyasa Flow Level 2-3, Ashtanga Level 1 or Yoga for Beginners, for example. So why is pregnancy yoga always simply scheduled as ‘Pregnancy Yoga’?