Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy How Yoga, Breathwork, and Mindset Can Make All the Difference in Your Pregnancy and Birth with Brett Larkin
May 28, 2024
Brett Larkin, founder of Uplifted Yoga and author of Yoga Life, is a yoga teacher-trainer who specializes in prenatal practices. She explores how yoga, breathwork, and mindset create inward time and bodily awareness. Short practices can rehearse labor, tune intuition, and balance strength with flexibility. Practical trimester guidance and real birth stories add relatable context.
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Pregnancy Amplifies Intuition Through Brain Changes
- Pregnancy increases intuitive capacity via physiological changes like an enlarged pituitary gland.
- Brett links the pituitary growth in pregnancy to stronger intuition and explains its yoga association with the sixth chakra.
Avoid Hot Intense Yoga During Pregnancy
- Back off intense, heating yoga during pregnancy not because you're weak but because pregnancy is an energetic rajasic state.
- Brett explains pregnancy runs hot and advises avoiding extra heating practices while honoring strength.
Personalize Practice With Daily Check Ins
- Personalize your prenatal practice by checking in each session and letting go of expectations because every pregnancy and even each day differs.
- Brett recommends one-hand-on-heart, one-hand-on-belly check-ins and adapting practice to energy, pain, or rest needs.
