In India, where yoga emerged approximately 2000 years ago, traditional teachings and modern or Western approaches coexist. Yoga has been accepted as a teaching that provides physical health, psychological balance and spiritual development together for centuries, and its area of influence has gradually expanded. Yoga, a practice-oriented philosophy, has proven to be adaptable to very different cultures and countries. Yoga is a word that means to unite, to connect, and it refers to bringing together all the parts that make up a human being and adapting to life in every sense. Physical exercise practices and breathing techniques that require flexibility, balance and strength, relaxation and meditation are some parts of yoga.
Today, millions of pregnant women all over the world do yoga during the pregnancy process. The importance of exercise during pregnancy is understood. However, they may not have an idea about which type of exercise can be applied and how it can be applied during which periods of pregnancy. However, yoga and meditation practices can contribute to the mother's ability to adapt to the changes occurring in her body, to communicate spiritually with her baby by touching her belly during meditation, thus to cope with the physiological and psychological stressors experienced, and to mother-baby bonding. It can be applied in all three periods of pregnancy.
In addition, the positive perspective that yoga gives to the pregnant woman provides emotional well-being and a feeling of general health. The positive psychological effect of yoga on the pregnant woman strengthens the communication and unity of the mother and the baby by contributing to the healthy development of the baby.
Studies indicate that the prenatal yoga program increases mother-baby bonding, strengthens the mother's immune system and reduces stress. In addition, with the prenatal support program in which yoga was also applied, pregnant women who were about to give birth for the first time were observed and it was observed that these pregnant women had better pain management during birth, the number of normal vaginal births increased, the need for surgical intervention during vaginal birth decreased and the baby's need for emergency intervention decreased. It has been understood that there is an improvement in back, waist pain and sleep disorders in pregnant women. Blood pressure and blood pressure of mother and baby When the LP pulse numbers are examined, it has been reported that yoga is low risk in pregnant women.
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