Today people are moving away from synthetics and chemicals and are coming closer and closer to nature and her great healing powers. There are many breakthroughs that help humans understand and use these healing powers to their benefit. One such great aid gifted by nature and sustained in ancient scrolls is yoga. Yoga helps humans stay healthy in mind, body and soul. Prenatal yoga is one of the easiest ways to gather control on your body.
How Prenatal Yoga Helps in Preparing the Mother for Child Birth
Yoga is very well known to improve the flexibility of the muscles and overall body strength. It also helps greatly in gaining total control on your breath, and through it the other funnyctions in the body. It does not matter how over weight or under weight you are. The exercises which may in the beginning feel cumbersome, kind of grow on you. They make you relax, clean and de-stress your mind and body at the same time.
There are many types of yoga. In order to have an easy birth, women can practice prenatal yoga. Women who prefer to give birth naturally, can use yoga to lighten the burden and have an exceptionally easier birth. Prenatal yoga actually prepares the body of the woman in question for delivery.
There are special exercises which only a pregnant woman should work out. These are simple exercises, focused on the baby, the mother's body and the muscles in the lower abdomen, inclusive to the uterus. It has been observed again and again that those women who undergo prenatal yoga classes have very little, if any, complications besides the fact that the delivery is fast and almost pain free.
What Does Prenatal Yoga Do for You?
Well for one, it improves the blood circulation and prevents edema in the late stages of pregnancy. It teaches you how to breathe correctly - and this is the key to control many afflictions that affect you - so you can reduce the pain of delivery. It also enhances the capacity of expelling toxins which is excellent for you and the baby.
Lastly, prenatal yoga will ensure that the body's improved elasticity would bring your shape back in the fastest manner possible. The healing is completed earlier and what is best of all, it is almost painless. Prenatal yoga even influences the milk production- which is another boon for you as a mother and for the baby as well.
There is a fairly common misconception that tantra yoga involves sex in some way. While I suppose the sexual aspect could be brought into play during meditative portions of it, sex is a very far cry from having anything to do with tantra yoga itself. Tantra yoga is more of a holistic approach to the study of the universe via the study of the individual. In other words you study the microcosm to understand the macrocosm. Further simplified, study yourself to understand the world. Granted that's a pretty diluted way of looking at it, but it suits the purpose.
Spirituality
Tantra yoga focuses on the spiritual aspects of yoga more than just about anything else. When meditation is brought into play, yogis are often directed to focus on the Shakti, or energy, inside of them and bring it up through the chakras to collect in the forehead. Once a tantra yoga practitioner has collected enough of this energy they are directed to visualize it pouring out of that point on the forehead to coalesce before them. From there the visualization continues in an attempt to expand this mass of energy to the size and shape of a person which is meant to represent them or a depiction of a deity.
Perhaps the sexual connotation of tantra yoga became involved from the love and devotion one is supposed to direct to the visualized energy during the meditative exercise. In a sense this tantra yoga technique could be considered a form of self love, or devotion to God, depending on how the yogi chose to take it.
Tantra Yoga Goals
The main aim of tantra yoga in general is to expand awareness in all states of consciousness, whether it is waking, dreaming or sleeping. In order to accomplish this, yogis are instructed in methods of reprogramming their minds to a manner of life that is viewed as healthier. Tantra yoga teaches us to identify factors that influence the way we think and feel so that we may change them as necessary to transcend these obstacles that hinder us. By altering our habits and thought processes we can then learn to foster feelings of peace, contentment and order within ourselves instead of clinging to self-destructive thoughts based on ignorance, intolerance and selfishness.
Tantra yoga offers comprehensive tools to aide you in redirecting your thoughts towards healthier processes by guiding one towards breathing exercises, physical and spiritual cleansing of the self, visualization, and mantra repetitions (or chanting). These practices and more can help unfold our divine nature, as taught by gurus of this branch of yoga.
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