Yoga for Fertility
If you're looking to get pregnant, it can help to incorporate a practice that helps you welcome the baby into your body and into your life. Fiji filmed this shortly after finding out she was pregnant with her second baby and shifting her perspective, relaxing and opening up to the possibility of pregnancy is an important part of conceiving.
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This is a beautiful practice – calming, gentle and mindful, but still containing some standing poses, to remind us of our strength. Women who have anxiety as a result of their fertility challenges may wish to skip from 22.45 onwards, or press mute, as from here Fiji talks about the stress hormone cortisol and, for the sensitive, the fact that education is being coupled with remedy may be triggering. Hearing this certainly sent my cortisol levels right back up! (I guess as I already know about cortisol and am very sensitive to being ‘lectured’ – quickly feeling guilty or a failure.) For those undergoing IVF treatment due to some clear physical impediment (such as having no or damaged fallopian tubes) phrases such as ‘the seed can easily make its way’ may be upsetting, even as these may be intended symbolically. If you do mute or stop at the suggested point, the next two poses are just a lengthy reclined bound angle pose, followed by a seated prayer pose, so you can easily complete the session. All in all, a wonderful healing practice and very appreciated as there’s very little out there in the way of guided fertility yoga.
Thank you Fiji, this was beautiful and powerful for me. Brought tears to my eyes as I am struggling with my fertility. I will be coming back to this practice regularly.
This was a really beautiful mindful practice.
Fiji's voice is very calm and I like how she sounds so confident. I've done this practice twice in a week and her voice has come back to my mind at stressful times. It's also short enough to do on top of any other practice.