Prenatal Yoga

Join Amy Sztupovszky for a 4-week series designed specifically to support your prenatal journey. Each session is 75 minutes long.

Together we will explore the yogic tools that can help you through your pregnancy, labour, and delivery.

Benefits of Prenatal Yoga

Self Awareness: All benefits begin with self-awareness. It can be challenging to be pregnant in this day and age, when many parents continue working until very close to their due date. Prenatal Yoga classes offer a forum for a parent-to-be to turn their attention onto themselves and their baby and discover sensations, thoughts, and feelings in a safe and welcoming space.

Physical Relaxation, Strength, and Ease: Every person will have their own unique pregnancy experience but, for most, pregnancy will bring discomfort at some stage. Prenatal yoga offers skills and practices to relieve discomfort, while maintaining strength and deepening our capacity for relaxation and ease, both in stillness and in motion.

Breath Awareness and Oxygenation: More oxygen is needed in pregnancy and, as our body changes with the growth of our baby, breathing deeply and effectively can become more challenging. Yoga offers practices to bring awareness to body and breath. By increasing the depth of inhalation and the fullness of exhalation, we improve the quality of our breath and increase gaseous exchange in the body. When we improve the quality of our breath, we improve the functioning of mind and body, both for the mother and baby.

Body Awareness and Birthing: Giving birth is an experience that is unique to each person. Learning techniques to consciously relax the muscles involved in the birthing process, learning vocal toning, learning options for birth positions, and learning how to use the breath in labour and delivery, can help you feel empowered and improve your birth experience.

Mindfulness and Mental Preparation :

Prenatal Yoga offers practices to support us in deepening our capacity to be present, in preparation for parenthood (and life, in general!). Meditation and mindfulness practices also help us prepare for the birthing experience.

Connection to Self, Baby, and Community: Prenatal Yoga provides a place where we can connect with our own bodies and minds, our babies and others who understand the complexity, challenges, hopes, dreams, and fears that we may encounter as we move through pregnancy and prepare for childbirth and parenthood.

This series is suitable for all skill levels, and each stage of pregnancy, however, please consult with your doctor before beginning any new forms of exercise.

Cancellation Policy: If you need to cancel a workshop or series, you can do so up to 12 hours before the first class to be eligible for a refund. After that 12-hour window, no refunds are offered. No refunds or transfers for missed classes in a series.

Series are a serious commitment to your practice!

Investment $88 plus GST

Ways to Pay:

1. Pay by credit card by clicking the button below
2. Pay by etransfer by sending us an email letting us know that you would like to sign up for the Beginner Yoga Series, wait for a response that there is indeed room in the class for you, then sending an etransfer to wilddaisyyoga@gmail.com. We get charged high credit card fees so choosing to pay by etransfer keeps more money in your community.