While Yoga is well known to be one of the best ways to exercise and keep your body in shape. It simultaneously also makes your body flexible. This flexibility is one of the crucial reasons that people have started choosing yoga during pregnancy for normal delivery. Yoga will not only make your body more flexible. But also help loosen as well as strengthen your muscles as well as the pelvic bone. Let’s find out how effective is yoga. As well as what are the possible side effects of this ancient Indian form of exercising on pregnant women.

How is Yoga Beneficial in Natural Birth?

Yoga consists of many asanas (poses/positions); these asanas focus on particular body parts and help in making that part more flexible and stronger. Yoga also helps in building a mind and body connection with the help of breathing exercises and other similar methods.

During pregnancy, a woman goes through a lot of changes in the body, and prenatal yoga asanas help in relaxing the body muscles as well as strengthens the pelvic region as well as makes the body either. All these qualities combined with the mental strength help during delivery and contractions. Thus Yoga, specifically prenatal yoga is considered to be beneficial for normal delivery.

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Best 10 Yoga Asanas for Normal Delivery:

Now that we have learnt about the benefits of prenatal yoga. Let’s check out asanas to include in your yoga exercise for normal delivery,

1. Vajrasana (Thunderbolt Pose):

The thunderbolt helps in strengthening the back as well as makes your posture erect. This helps in reducing the severe back pains many pregnant women experiences. It also helps with the relaxation of muscles.

2. Kati Chakrasana (Waist Rotation):

Pregnancy often leads to a lack of motion or the only certain type of motion. An exercise that includes waist rotation will help in strengthening the back that is the core of the body eventually making you more flexible.