“You can change the destiny of the child just by the way you breathe, just by the way you move”
Nurture Yourself and Your Baby
The ancient Indian practice of yoga combines meditation, breathing, affirmation, and movement to make a meaningful connection with your body, mind, and spirit. This session is a wonderful opportunity to embrace this exciting stage of life. Classes focus on nurturing the ever changing pregnant body, learning useful tools for labor and getting some much needed relaxation. As a pregnant mama, you can use these practices to become more consciously aware of the amazing changes your body is going through and nurture a bond with your baby.
Safe for pregnancy and suitable for complete beginners through advanced yogis, these classes and I are here to hold space for you and your growing family.
Topics We Can Cover in Session:
- Mindful Movement
- Gentle yoga postures and movements to release tension in the physical body, become more present with body sensation, and find deep relaxation
- Increase Strength and Flexibility
- Postures to strengthen the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles, as well as, positions to open the hips and pelvis
- Pranayama
- Learn to focus on your breathing, and how you can use the breath during the labor process
- Guided Meditation
- Guided meditation will help you soothe anxiety and overwhelm
- Visualizations
- Use clear, direct, and uplifted concentration of the mind to go beyond our current realities. As the power of our thoughts increases, so does the power of magnetic attraction to bring us to a desired result
- Gratitude Practices
- How to find beauty and gratitude in the current moment
- Yoga Nidra
- Guide through a progressive muscle relaxation meditation to help you sleep soundly
- Connect to the Divine Mother in You
- Cultivate calmness, radiance, and joy to welcome your baby into this world with warmth and good health. Motherhood connects a women to her innate feminine wisdom and intuition
Meet Gayatri
My nursing background led me to working in a high-risk Labor and Delivery Unit supporting hundreds of women through the journey into motherhood.
A call for spiritual answers, led me to take time away from the clinical setting and travel to the Ananda Meditation Retreat in Northern California. I lived, studied, and served here for over two years attuning myself to the teachings of the Indian Guru, Paramhansa Yogananda. I became a disciple and am a twice daily practitioner of yoga and meditation. During this time I became certified as a yoga and meditation instructor, and have taken additional training in prenatal yoga, restorative yoga, and spiritual counseling.
I now live at Ananda Village, a spiritual community founded by a direct disciple of Yogananda. It is my joy and inspiration to share the practices that have changed my life with others. I am deeply inspired to work more directly with prenatal mamas, to share the experience and wisdom I gained from the clinical setting but also integrate the Eastern teachings to foster a meaningful and sacred birthing experience.
I really look forward to sharing time with each one of you and hope to be of support to you and your baby during this sacred time.
