Postnatal Practice Group
Breathe out the to-do lists, the piles of laundry, the bottles to clean, the diapers to change. Breathe into your body in a way that lights up your spirit and reconnect to that inner spark.
Register below to receive both:
Lily’s 3 week Reclaim Your Center video exercise program
PLUS a video archive of over 25 Postnatal Practices to do on your own time this Summer.
Upon completing the 3 week program, you will be in great shape to join the Live Group this Fall.
You don’t have to hold everything up. Let the earth support you. Come back to yourself. Make contact. You will notice both intense physical changes but also emotional changes from becoming a mother as you give yourself time to feel through and integrate the layers of change. Postnatal yoga focuses on activating and knitting together the deep core; opening the lungs, chest, and shoulders for nervous system regulation and emotional integration; and nourishing through deep and meaningful rest. After delivery, new mothers are often so busy caring for their babies that they forget to take care of themselves. However, the postpartum period is an important time to nourish, strengthen, and integrate. Postnatal yoga offers a chance for a mother to focus on herself, reconnect to the spark of her spirit, and heal the inter-generational baggage she may carry that tells her motherhood is martyrdom by prioritizing her health and self care as a role model to her children and her family.
In the practice of postnatal yoga, slow and steady wins the race. Adopting a long term vision of your well being, pelvic health, and lifelong practice over the immediate urge to flip a switch and magically return to “normal” is an important aspect of postnatal yoga. If you wish to restore optimal function, alignment, and stability in the hips, core, and lower spine it is vital to step away from crunches, sit ups, deep back bends, arm balances, jogging, and high impact exercises that create pressure on the pelvic floor muscles and intra-abdominal pressure and allow yourself to be patient and curious in learning to activate the deep core and heal your center. It can also be helpful and necessary for some new mothers to work closely with a pelvic floor physical therapist to restore the core. Deep core embodiment and integration postpartum starts as a path of recovery but the journey from there is vast, potent, and limitless. The depths of inner strength that come from a mindful deep dive into rebuilding the deep core postpartum and integrating the depths of your soul’s experience in birth and motherhood can instill profound courage and strength. It can take your practice to new levels from what was possible before pregnancy. Even after decades of yoga practice, it was not until I learned to activate my deep core muscles by rehabilitating my center after the birth of my first son that I gained the physical mastery and mental confidence to support handstand off the wall.