Many women come to yoga for the first time when they learn that they are pregnant because they have heard that yoga will help them through pregnancy, labour and delivery. But the best time to begin yoga is even before you become pregnant. Two years in advance would be the best.
Hatha yoga promotes hormonal balance, menstrual regularity and organ tone.
What is more, if you practice hatha yoga regularly you will develop the mental, relaxation and breathing skills that is so important during the birth process. The series of hath yoga practices described here promotes reproductive health and also works in favour of conception. It invigorates the organs and glands responsible for a woman's reproductive capacity, tones pelvic nerves and provides strength and flexibility throughout the pelvis. It also tones muscles of the back, spine, abdominal wall and pelvis thereby preparing the body to carry a child. Given below are the following series that can be made the core of your yoga practice.