Benefits of Postpartum Yoga

After pregnancy and childbirth, many women’s body shapes have changed, and the supporting tissues and ligaments of the pelvic floor have become loose. Phenomenon, when practicing yoga, many postures can be completed more easily, and moderate postpartum yoga practice can also help new mothers recover their bodies. Specific postures, regular breathing and calming meditation in postpartum yoga can also help soothe new mothers' psychological anxiety.

1. Restore body shape

Postpartum yoga can enhance the elasticity of the perineal muscles of new mothers, promote uterine contraction, prevent the uterus, bladder, and vagina from falling, and help the uterus return to its normal position. Moreover, postpartum yoga can improve blood circulation, reduce body fat accumulation, restore skin tension, and help new mothers return to their prenatal body shape.

2. Improve bad posture

Because women undergo many physiological changes during pregnancy, it is easy to produce bad postures, such as forward shifting of the body's center of gravity, cervical lordosis, and forward shoulder splints. Pulling, tilting the pelvis forward, shifting the center of gravity to the heels, etc., and holding a baby after delivery can also easily cause the body's center of gravity to shift forward. This causes postpartum neck, back, pelvic and heel pain. Practicing yoga can help improve these bad postures.

3. Improve foot edema

Women are prone to lower limb edema during pregnancy. The practice of yoga can help promote blood flow and improve metabolism in the body, thus improving the new mother’s edema due to fetal compression. Leg edema and varicose veins of the lower limbs caused by the vena cava.

4. Help the body recover

After pregnancy and childbirth, new mothers will feel physical decline and lack of energy. Proper yoga practice is of great help in restoring postpartum physical fitness.

5. Strengthen arm muscles

Yoga can lose excess fat on the arms, and can also help strengthen arm muscles, helping new mothers to carry and bathe their babies. Things that require arm strength.

6. Restore abdominal and pelvic floor muscle tension

Due to childbirth, new mothers are prone to loosening of abdominal muscle tissue and weakening of tension. Yoga training can help restore abdominal and pelvic muscles, enhance the support strength of the organs in the pelvis, and effectively prevent stress urinary incontinence.