Prenatal Yoga: What’s Safe, What Changes and What Actually Helps with Aparna Ramesh

What actually changes during pregnancy, and how should yoga teachers adapt their teaching? Aru talks with Aparna Ramesh about prenatal yoga across all three trimesters, balancing effort and rest, modifications, props, pranayama, sound, visualization, and the tools that can support a healthy and empowering pregnancy practice.

Episode Highlights:

• Prenatal yoga intensity and effort
• Balancing effort and rest, and teaching beyond “listen to your body”
• The prenatal talk test
• Normalizing breaks in practice
• First trimester yoga practice
• Trimester changes and teaching considerations
• Second trimester strengthening
• Third trimester physical changes
• Heat and hot yoga risks
• First trimester practice focus
• Second trimester practice focus
• Third trimester practice focus
• Prenatal yoga in mixed classes
• Strengthening for pregnancy and motherhood
• Pelvic floor education and practice
• Third trimester modifications
• Props and creative modifications
• Lying on the back during pregnancy
• Prana and pregnancy
• Prenatal pranayama practices
• Prenatal chanting and sound
• Visualization during pregnancy and labor
• Yoga Nidra and sankalpa
• Teaching prenatal yoga with confidence
• Functional and non-ego-driven practice
• Building sustainable self-practice

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