A majorly transformative part of yoga that is missing in many fertility yoga classes and often not considered at all while trying to conceive – is – energetic wellness or health. Specifically the balancing of masculine and feminine energies.
There is a lot of misinformation floating around out there about why yoga teachers often say no inversions while you’re on your period.
If success means higher rates of IVF pregnancy & birth – research says YES – fertility yoga works!
My yoga teacher told me I should start prenatal yoga since I am trying to get pregnant. Is that a
Research shows that Mind-Body practices are a wonderful companion to fertility treatments and show statistically significant increases in IVF success rates as well as reduce anxiety and stress associated with TTC.
Fertility Yoga is not be prescriptive – there is no secret sequence of asana to be done x times per week. The essence of yoga incorporates holistic wisdom for all the layers of self – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic.
You can positively affect your fertility holistically through the avenues of the body or the mind. When treating the mind, the body follows, and when balancing the body, the mind follows.
Nurturing and freeing your creative expression, nurtures and frees your fertility
The following is the heart-to-heart sit down I so desperately needed at the time but never got. I hope that the lessons that I learned will bring you some perspective to assist you with moving through your fertility journey with less struggle and more ease.
It’s unfortunate that somewhere along the way, using Yoga props began to be seen as a crutch or weakness. That the mere thought of using a block in triangle pose showed that you weren’t a ‘good yogi’ (whatever that means).
