The Main Reason Yoga for Fertility is Different to your Regular Yoga Practise.
Why Yoga for Fertility is a different practise to your regular yoga.
“Yoga can improve your fertility and your overall wellbeing”
The difference in Yoga for Fertility to any other “brand” or style of yoga is that Yoga for Fertility is designed to support your reproductive system and align with your menstrual cycle. This distinction is particularly important if you’re actively trying to conceive. Because like most things in our modern lives, yoga and most other forms of exercise have been designed with the male experience in mind. Showing up consistently, with high energy and a desire to push through discomfort has been sold to us as the hallmark of a successful mindset our whole lives. But when you actually look at the female experience on a monthly basis, the ebbs and flows of her natural rhythms, the rise and fall of her hormones levels -and with that her energy - you begin to understand how this model of consistency doesn’t support her. This is particularly true when she is trying for a baby.
Let me explain why…
Yoga for Fertility adapts asana (yoga postures) to suit the various phases of a woman’s monthly cycle.
As women, we have been led to believe that nothing should stop us from pushing ourselves all month long and keeping up to the fast pace modern life has set for us. I don’t know many women who haven’t fallen for this hook, line and sinker for most of their adult lives while simultaneously wondering why they’re so effing tired 50% of the time and thinking that there must be something fundamentally wrong with them.
But when you understand what’s actually going on in a woman’s body every month. The steady rise of oestrogen until mid way through a cycle when ovulation occurs and oestrogen drops and progesterone rises. These two distinct phases not only affect a woman’s energy levels because the body is preparing for pregnancy (whether she is or not) the whole reproduction system has shifted gears and requires an adjustment to activities if she is support her natural rhythm.
“Yoga for Fertility is tailored to support these distinct phases of pre ovulation, post ovulation and menstruation...”
During the first phase of a woman’s cycle, leading up to ovulation (the follicular phase), the primary aim is to stimulate the ovaries to produce follicles and release a high quality egg and support the uterus in making a healthy lining for implantation to occur.
The second phase of a woman’s cycle, after ovulation has occurred (the luteal phase), the focus is to support implantation. This requires less stimulation and a more supportive and calming approach to yoga (and life!). This is a particularly important distinction when a woman is actively trying to conceive.
During menstruation, the main objective is to support a healthy cleansing of blood from the uterus. It’s also important during this time to prioritise rest. A woman’s body is working hard to carry out this process of menstruation efficiently and diverting energy away from the overall process makes it trickier for the body to do this and this can have negative knock on effects to new cycles.
“Yoga for Fertility is different from a regular yoga practise in the same way Prenatal Yoga is different. ”
Poses and sequences are chosen to support, enhance and improve each phase of a woman’s cycle. While also taking into consideration what poses do not support each phase. This is why Yoga for Fertility is such a powerful practise to help a woman’s whole body to thrive all month long.
