Asanas

The circle continues to revolve, the river continues to flow, the natural cycle of life, death and re-birth is unfolding. Your baby will come through you and not for you. Your participation in life’s oldest ritual will be totally conscious and yet you will retain non-attachment, the flow. You are creatively expressing yourself in how you are pregnant. Being pregnant is not for your childbirth experience. Being pregnant is living here and now, this moment. Childbirth is just another moment you will transcend. Yoga is a practice - yours if you wish to allow you delight in being alive right now.

Now focus on your breath. Inspire - let go - inspire - let go a circle - you describe with your breath ‘prana’ primal life force - when you exhale, let go off all the tension in your body -pretend there is a faucet in your navel and all your tension flows out of this faucet. Breathe rhythmically, evenly, as slow as relaxed as you can. Fell the breath in all living things (ever listen to a plant breathe?). Listen to your own breathe (ajapna mantram) -listen as you read for a while. Breath is as vital as nutrient as vegetables you have grown yourselves. Oxygen feeds your baby, allows your largest muscle, your uterus, to grow. And prana nourishes your two souls.

And so we begin

Find a space for yourself - uninterrupted by the snaring traps life sometimes creates to entrap us. You are creating your own myth right now, living your karmic script and programs. One hour each day of free space, in warmth (preferably in the sun and fresh air), and a quite place is needed for prenatal yoga. This yoga is truly a dance and you would like to explore several levels, so make sure your environment is comfortable for squatting, standing, kneeling on hands and knees, and/or laying down flaked out. If you have response-abilities that make one hour daily too much to devote to prenatal yoga, rewrite your adventure to allow this one hour to being present, mind and body united.

Find a place of power for you:  a place in your garden where you feel especially centred and good, or in your living room. Be gentle with yourself. Each moment of prenatal yoga holds wisdom for you if you will allow yourself to relax and not judge progress. Focus on how you feel rather than how you look. Delight in yourself in meditative movement and the dance you are creating. The transition movements are as important as asanas (postures) and are entirely your own: make them graceful, flowing, meaningful --- your own ritual.

Stand tall feeling your tail bone being drawn to the centre of the Earth by gravity, to the origin of the Kundalini power within you. Simultaneously feel the top of your head being drawn upwards and expanding in all directions. Rock back and forth slowly, feeling the line off gravity and the precise instant of the change over from one leg to another. This will help you locate your center. Pretend your legs are roots of a mighty tree and are firmly grounding you to mother Earth. Again, return to your centre, (which changes as the Earth revolves, star rises and the pregnancy progesses) and activate your centre. For a moment feel your boundaries as an organism, feel your skin breathe and notice how you confine yourself. Slow yourself down - be aware of your mind chattering and let thoughts go away as you exhale all tension from your being. When you feel calm, begin with the first asanas.. 

to be continued…