By Sarah Oakley
An ideal postnatal yoga practice is soft, nurturing, and restorative. The primary focus is on releasing tension and building strength to help deal with the stress of being a new mum, to open up the areas of the body that are affected by new patterns of behaviour, and to close and restore the areas that have been expanded and weakened in pregnancy. Here are six pieces of advice to support new mums in their postnatal yoga practice.