Before anything else
Please get clearance from your OB-GYN or midwife before starting any movement practice after birth. The timeline depends on your delivery, your healing, and a few factors only you and your doctor know. This page is not medical advice.
What postpartum yoga looks like, in this practice
Postpartum return is best held as a 1:1 practice, at least at first. Your body is asking for very specific things, and a generalist group class is rarely the right answer in the first months.
In a 1:1 session we might work with:
- Breath — re-establishing connection between breath and core, which often disappears after pregnancy and birth.
- Pelvic floor awareness — gentle, not clinical. (For specific pelvic floor therapy, please see a pelvic physiotherapist; this is complementary.)
- Gentle movement to undo the rounding patterns of feeding and carrying.
- Yoga Nidra for sleep, which is often the most needed thing.
What I won't do
- Push for "getting your body back" — there is no body to get back, only the body you have now.
- Promise a timeline.
- Treat your recovery as a fitness goal.
A typical first three months
- One 1:1 session every week or two.
- Yoga Nidra recordings on hand for the nights.
- Group classes, when and if they feel right, often Yin & Breath first.
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