Prenatal Care
Breathwork, Yoga, Ayurveda & Spiritual Support
Prenatal Care is one of the most essential needs of our modern world for all mothers and families.
The unity of Breathwork, Yoga and Ayurveda on the journey of conception, pregnancy, delivery and postpartum are incredibly valuable for the mother, child, partner and entire family.
Prenatal Breathwork
Cultivating a discipline of using your breath to increase power and vital is an essential tool in pregnancy, delivery and beyond.
During your prenatal care journey with Shamanic Yoga, you will have one on one Breathwork sessions with founder and creator Athanasia Medenas.
We highly encourage your partner (or whomever you will have with you during labor) to join the sessions. We have had incredible feedback from partners as to how helpful these sessions were during their partner’s active labor stage.
Prenatal Yoga
Prenatal yoga is designed for pregnant women and baby. It is intended to help ease your pregnancy and prepare for childbirth. Prenantal yoga relaxes your body and focuses on safe poses in all stages of pregnancy.
It's good for you and your baby to get at least 30 minutes of movement each day. Yoga is intended to create a balance between your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. Prenatal yoga is a low-impact movement modality that can help improve your mood and sleep, increase your strength and flexibility, and decrease lower back pain and other common symptoms of pregnancy.
Yoga During Each Trimester
The further along you are in your pregnancy, the less intense your workouts should be.
The first trimester. Some report that practicing yoga in the first trimester can help alleviate symptoms like nausea and backaches. You may feel fatigued and sick during this trimester, so it is best to avoid overworking yourself. Practicing less invigorating yoga poses and particularly limiting twists will be very helpful.
The second trimester. Now, you’ll need to avoid poses on your stomach and all twists. If you've been practicing advanced poses like backbends and inversions, you may want to modify them - yoginis discretion if you’re an advanced practitioner. Advanced Inversions can compress your lungs and cause severe discomfort, although feet at the wall is a great way to get the blood flowing back to the heart. Especially, if you have swollen feet.
The third trimester. If you are feeling tired more often and your balance is off-centered practicing slow/restorative yoga without any standing poses is best. Yoga during this trimester is best to focus on restorative postures and hip-opening poses. Light stretching will help ease your aches and pains. You must avoid lying on your back and will need to make modifications to savasana. Blocks, pillows, straps and blankets can help you make modifications, get into comfortable and be safe postures.
Prenatal Ayurveda
Ayurveda is the Science of Life.
Ayurveda has researched and developed a very sophisticated and detailed procedure that takes care of conception, prengancy and early development of a child.
The process described is called Garbha Sanskār, which garbha means womb/embryo and sanskār means teaching or imprinting.
In Ayurveda, both egg and sperm at preconception play a vital role in the development of the pregnancy. Learning about Garbha Sanskār can help you early on in your pregnancy journey, even as early as preconception.
Ayurvedic Garbha Sanskār
So, Garbha Sanskār is the practice of teaching simple healthy activities that contribute towards the social, physical, spiritual, mental well-being of both mother and child.
In Ayurveda, the belief is Garbha Sanskār is essential for creating intelligent and healthy children, while dually important for mother to be happy healthy and aware of her body, mind and spirit before, during and after pregnancy.
Garbha Sanskār helps you mentally become ready for parenthood (even if you already have a child/ren). And, it helps you have a healthy reproductive system for your pregnancy and beyond.
Prenatal Spiritual Support
Pregnancy is a spiritual journey that takes a woman, partner and family into a whole new way of life.
You don’t have to renounce everything to be on a spiritual path in pregnancy and parenthood.
‘The yoga of householder is a very hard yoga. Not for everyone. Be householder saints.’
- Babaji
‘Children being born now need to be around people with open hearts.’ - Babaji
In Yoga & Ayurveda, the spiritual practice of being a householder (grihasta) is one of the most important ashramas (a system of the stages of life). One that needs to be cultivated inwardly to be of service to your family and others. The Householder’s challenge is to “Live in the world but allow not the world to live in you.” - Sri Swami Sivananda
Inner Child. The greatest reflection to your inner child is your child pre-conception, in utero and postpartum. The entire journey of becoming a parent awakens your inner most child/ren to become fully integrated into your consciousness. What you do not process and integrate before pregnancy will surely arise during pregnancy, and if not processed then, will surely arise during labor and deliver. And, if not processed then will undoubtedly come up while parenting.
Kaivalya (Separateness). “To be a woman is to be always alone and never along” - Nynaeve al'Meara, Wheel of Time. In the Samkhya school of Ayurveda, a state of moksha (liberation) that the purusha (consciousness of an individual, aka “self” or “soul”) achieves is by realizing that it is separate from prakriti (matter). Put simply it encourages your mind to focus on the world as it is rather than how you think it is. By detaching from expectations, you are able to see your emotions, reactions and thoughts for what they are; passing perceptions that have no real foundation in the physical world.
Conscious Parenting. This is a parenting approach that shifts the focus from child to parent by firstly using self-awareness processing and integrating to develop a strong authentic connection to your child. This philosophy encourages parents to make mindful, emotionally intelligent decisions in raising their children by self-analyzing and self-assessing first. Based on the bestseller book The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Dr. Shefali Tsabary, parents are encouraged to manage their own behaviors, thoughts, and feelings first and foremost.
“Birth is the opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through birth.”
— Marcie Macari
Prenatal Care Details
Terms and Conditions for Prenatal Care
Individual Sessions vary according to your needs in the present moment. A session can include: Prenatal Breathwork, prenatal yoga, prenatal Ayurveda, and/or prenatal spiritual support.
Session options: In-person local to Downey, Ca (address given after payment is received). Virtual sessions through Zoom. If you would like in person support during labor and delivery, an additional fee will apply.
Not included in in-person pricing: Transportation to and from location of session.
Payment Processing: All payments non refundable. In-person sessions are $150/hr. Virtual sessions are $120/hr. Packages are available for a discounted rate.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel for any reason or do not complete your package during the allotted timeframe, there will be no refunds given.
Additional Information: For in-person sessions, the exact address will be sent via email once you complete the registration in the link below. For virtual sessions, the Zoom link will be sent via email once you complete the registration below. You are asked to arrive no earlier than 5 min. before your session. Sessions start and end on time.
Contact: If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to info@shamanicyoga108.com. We are happy to help!
It is an honor to walk with your during one of the MOST Sacred Journeys in your lifetime!!
Thank you for trusting our Prenatal Care for your pregnancy 🙏
“To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched - along with body - making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.”
— Anne Christina Buchanan
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