Fertility Yoga

Fertility yoga can help you balance the hormones, reduce stress while you are trying to conceive and clear any energy blocks in your system. How about knowing how to really feel great in just about 20 minutes even when you are grumpy? How about being really able to unblock the energy pathways in your body completely on your own while feeling well, improving your mood, clearing your mind and becoming fit?

All this is possible if through fertility yoga. Fertility yoga is a ritual, which includes poses, breathing and relaxation exercises. They were created about 3000 years ago and have stayed throughout the centuries as they proved to be highly effective in making our body function as they are supposed to.

Fertility yoga can really contribute to your fertility, because combined with breathing and meditation, it not only increases blood flow to the reproductive areas of your body, but also makes your body fit, gives you energy and naturally controls your body weight. Yoga for fertility decreases depression, anxiety and mood disorders which highly contributes to your overall ability to conceive and retain the baby. How can you start doing yoga for fertility? You can start just by learning some simple postures right now, then you might invest in an e-book and learn more, then go and try a DVD program and if you like it, go and find an instructor. There are instructors who specialize in yoga for fertility and know exactly which postures can help you most. Besides, they have worked with such clients and can help you with advice you might just need.

When you start with fertility yoga you might want to try first the gentle postures of hatha yoga, Kripalu yoga, Kundalini yoga and couples yoga. Here are the differences between these systems:

hatha yoga: it is the original yoga postures system and it is based on slow movement and meditation in each position.What you do is you try to make a posture without any extra strain and stay in it and relax and meditate as long as you can. While you do that, the energy uses the stretch to pass through this area thus clearing any blocks.

Kripalu yoga is a complex of really easy postures and deep breathing. It can help you feel very calm and get to deeper level of relaxation you have know before as breathing is related to your level of stress and ability to relax.

Kundalini yoga is a science in its own. It comprises of movement, breathing and meditation which can increase the energy flow in the lower part of the body. It definitely helps blood circulation in the reproductive areas of the body and releases any negative energy. The aim of the postures is to make it easy for the Kundalini energy to rise up the spine. Kundalini energy is the life force and is related to the sexual energy. So Kundalini yoga can both increase your desire, can improve your fertility and help you use this energy for overall healing or creativity.

Couples yoga is a system in which you can make yoga with your partner. It helps synchronizing and balancing your energies, achieve greater intimacy and communication.

You might want to avoid Ashtanga yoga and Bikram yoga which are used more for body fitness and reduction of weight, but since Ashtanga yoga uses more dynamic movements it might not be so much contributing to relaxation, and Bikram yoga is practices in rooms with 95 to 100 degrees, where it is very hot, this might not be conducive to your fertility.

Here are a few postures for you can try right now as part of your fertility yoga ritual:

Baddha Konasana

Balasana is a child's pose. It is helping you to stretch your back and reduce any baggage you are carrying. You can deeply relax and turn to yourself.

Savasana is a very healing posture. It helps relax the whole body and the mind, as well tight abdominal muscles.

Setu Bandhasana is known as Bridge Pose. it helps you relax and also stretches the pelvic area and the hips

Ustrasana -- Backbend camel Pose also helps to stretch the pelvis and the hips, as well as relaxes yout lower body

Viparita Karani -- Legs Up the Wall Pose. it is very restorative. Helps you relax the legs and stimulates the body to rejuvenate itself. It is very gentle and calming pose.

Baddha Konasana -- Bound Angle Pose

I hope this is just a start for today and if you like it, there is much more to learn. Learning yoga can have a life-time benefit, as you will surely come back to it again and again in the future.