Gentle Yoga

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Reduce stress and gain a more restful night sleep.  This class will relax your body, mind and spirit.  Beneficial to students of all ability levels.  This slow paced class combines easy warm-ups, light stretches, and gentle yoga postures with deep breath awareness to enhance a sense of well-being and relieve tension.  We will end with restorative yin yoga poses to open, release and relax the body in restful postures, which allows the mind, heart and spirit to renew and heal.  Excellent for pre- and postnatal women as well.  Join us and feel fully restored! Preregistration is required. No prior yoga experience is necessary.

The benefits of yoga during pregnancy are numerous. Proper breathing and yoga postures can help:

• normalize blood pressure
• reduce stress
• relieve discomfort in the spine
• strengthen pelvic muscles
• expand the pelvic cavity
• strengthen the entire reproductive system
• guard against excessive weight gain
• increase hemoglobin count
• normalize thyroid functioning
• stimulate the pituitary gland to release prolactin-essential for lactation control
• enrich breast milk.