Postpartum yoga is specifically designed to help new mothers regain their figure. Through yoga practices targeting different body parts, it not only helps new mothers recover their bodies and shapes but also the breathing and meditation aspects of yoga can alleviate anxiety, making it a healthy exercise for both the body and mind of new mothers.
Whether through natural delivery or cesarean section, practicing yoga can enhance the elasticity of the pelvic floor muscles, promote uterine contractions, prevent the descent of the uterus, bladder, and vagina, and help the uterus return to its normal position. It can also assist in regaining a slim figure, protecting internal organs, and softening muscles.
The advantage of practicing yoga postpartum is that the supportive tissues and ligaments of the pelvic floor are relatively relaxed, making it easier to complete certain poses. Regular moderate yoga training can help new mothers eliminate physiological and psychological issues arising from childbirth, such as body recovery, insomnia, emotional changes due to hormonal imbalances, and challenges in caring for newborns. Various specific postures, effective breathing, and calming meditation in postpartum yoga help mothers regain their shape, ensure ample breast milk, and boost physical strength.
Regain shape
Improve blood circulation, restore skin tension, and reduce fat accumulation, thereby achieving weight loss goals. Due to the relaxation of various joint tissues postpartum, it is important to follow the guidance of a professional yoga instructor to avoid exercise injuries.
Improve poor posture
Pregnant women are prone to poor posture due to physiological changes, such as a forward shift in body center, cervical protrusion, scapula being pulled forward, pelvic tilt, and shifting the center of gravity to the heels. After childbirth, holding the baby also causes a forward shift in the center of gravity, which can lead to neck, back, pelvic, and heel pain. Through yoga training, one can relieve neck stiffness, stretch the side waist muscles, tighten the abdomen, and strengthen back muscles, thereby improving various adverse symptoms caused by poor posture.
Strengthen arm muscle strength
After the baby is born, tasks such as bathing and holding the child rely on the strength of the arms.
Rebuild abdominal and pelvic floor muscle tension
After delivery, the abdominal muscle tissue becomes relaxed and loses tension. Yoga training can strengthen recovery, fortify abdominal and pelvic muscles, enhance the support strength of pelvic organs, and prevent the occurrence of stress urinary incontinence.
Improve lower limb edema symptoms
During pregnancy, the enlarged uterus compresses the inferior vena cava, leading to leg edema and even causing lower limb varicose veins. Yoga training can improve the symptoms of lower limb edema.
Enhance physical recovery
Due to significant energy consumption during childbirth, new mothers often feel weak and fatigued afterward. Medical experts say that practicing yoga greatly aids in the recovery of physical strength postpartum.
