Strength is key for avoiding common pregnancy pains, maintaining good posture, and ultimately managing labor and delivery. Use this quick routine to maintain functional glute, hip, and back strength to maintain optimal posture and strength in these key areas throughout your pregnancy and postpartum.
- Focus: prenatal, strength
- Key muscles: hips, glutes, back, shoulders
- When: whenever you have the energy
- Suggested props: bolster or pillow, block
Not only is the squat one of the most fundamental human movements, it's also a common birth position. Maintaining the combination of flexibility and strength needed to squat effectively throughout your pregnancy can help aid your labor and delivery, and maintain the health of your pelvic floor th...
Shift from external happenings to your internal experience. Use this quick routine to connect to your baby as you transition from thinking about them to feeling their presence, and stretch tired feet and ease back, shoulder, and neck tension along the way.
- Focus: prenatal
- Key muscles: feet, b...
Physical stagnation — characterized by feeling sluggish and a decrease in circulation, especially to your extremities — is common amid an increase in fluid build up as your body works to grow your baby. Use this full body routine to increase circulation and fluidity to key areas, avoid common pre...