Yoga for Pregnancy - Katy Appleton presents appleyoga

CLASS INFO

Yoga for Pregnancy

Yoga is the ideal exercise for pregnant women. It keeps the body supple without straining and can be used to relieve pain in labour and ease childbirth.

What are the benefits?

The yoga techniques help you to develop flexibility and strength in your body and deal with the many changes taking place both physically and emotionally. This helps the body and mind to be well prepared for pregnancy and birth. Yogic breathing connects you in advance with your birthing muscles, giving you confidence, especially if you are a first-time mother. Your pregnancy posture will improve, and this can allow a rapid recovery of muscle tone after the birth. Yoga increases the levels of energy, giving a sense of well being. The deep relaxation techniques taught can also help if you are having difficulty with sleep.

Yoga when you are pregnant can help relieve pain in labour and ease child birth

Yoga when you are pregnant can help relieve pain in labour and ease child birth

What the classes cover

Yoga for mid pregnancy (14-32 weeks)
Yoga for late pregnancy (32-40 weeks)
Pelvic floor exercises
Yogic breathing, birth breathing
Strengthening birthing muscles
All over strengthening
Loosening the hips
Useful birth positions
Deep Relaxation and Visualization techniques useful for pregnancy and labour

The Teachers

Katy Appleton

Katy Appleton trained as a ballet dancer from an early age with the Royal Ballet School and English National Ballet School and then spent eight years dancing professionally around the world, with some of the major ballet companies...
Katy specialises in Yoga for Pregnancy, training with Birthlight under Francoise Barbira Freedman the founder of the organisation. Birthlight was founded in 1988 for 'greater enjoyment of pregnancy, birth and babies'. For info on Birthlight see: www.birthlight.com.

Harriet Green

"After dancing all my life, and a brief but very hectic career in the world of performing arts...not only did i need something to continue to satisfy my body's physical needs, but also something to ground and centre myself mentally and emotionally.. I found Yoga... or yoga found me..."

Britta Tidy

"During a sabbatical year from my work as a political and social researcher my yoga teacher suggested I take the teacher training course at the Sivananda ashram in India. Since then there’s been no going back. I spent the year after that travelling, teaching free classes to anyone who was willing to be taught on beaches, or wherever I happened to be..."

Getting to the classes

Southfields
Belgravia

Facilities and what to wear

Please note that the hall has a wooden floor and a yoga mat or thick blanket are necessary. The yoga classes are held in the main hall. You need to wear comfortable clothing and a yoga mat or towel to lie on; Appleyoga has yoga mats for sale.

There are toilets and changing rooms available.

Courses

If you join during the term, you simply pay for the remainder of the course @ £13 per week.

Southfields yoga for pregnancy course (Monday) - Summer

Summer yoga courses with appleyoga

Mondays 7th July - 8th Sept 2008

6:30-7:45pm
What the course covers:
Yoga is the ideal exercise for pregnant women. It keeps the body supple without straining and can be used to relieve pain in labour and ease childbirth.

10 Week Course - £130

From 38 weeks of pregnancy you can pay weekly - £13 per class

Southfields yoga for pregnancy course (Thursday) - Summer

Summer yoga courses with appleyoga

Thursdays 10th July - 11th Sept 2008

7-8.15pm
What the course covers:
Yoga is the ideal exercise for pregnant women. It keeps the body supple without straining and can be used to relieve pain in labour and ease childbirth.

10 Week Course - £130

From 38 weeks of pregnancy you can pay weekly - £13 per class

Belgravia yoga for pregnancy course - Summer

Summer yoga courses with appleyoga

Wednesdays 9th July - 10th Sept 2008

5.30-6.30pm
What the course covers:
Yoga is the ideal exercise for pregnant women. It keeps the body supple without straining and can be used to relieve pain in labour and ease childbirth.