Yes, attending pregnancy yoga does help ease many common pregnancy conditions such as backache, insomnia, hip and pelvic pain, digestive complaints, stress and anxiety. But it's also so much more than that, it teaches you how to step into your own instincts and power when it comes to birthing your baby.

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• You will spend time in postures that often ease the discomfort of contractions.

• You will learn how to connect with your breath and really notice how your breath can help you during challenging moments and help you to stay relaxed.

• You will tap into the flow state where you are completely "in your body" rather than in the analytical mind - this is important to allow the birth to unfold uninterrupted.

• You will learn how to stay in your parasympathetic nervous system (rest, reproduce and digest) so that your body can more easily birth your baby.

• You will understand the different stages of labour and practice different techniques to help you as your hormones shift.

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All of the above, rather than just giving you a prescriptive set of postures and breathing techniques to follow during labour, will teach you to embody the qualities you need to birth - feeling strong, in control, calm, in your parasympathetic nervous system. Also knowledgable, able to breath in a way that lets go of tension and pain, able to move rhythmically and freely so that you can get more comfortable and help your baby move down and out, able to deeply relax. All of this comes from you! You are the one who births your baby, and pregnancy yoga helps you to tap into your body's innate wisdom and power to have a birth you will feel empowered by.