What we do and how we feel during pregnancy and birth shapes our baby’s future. This is why we eat healthy foods, come to prenatal yoga, get a massage, and learn to relax.
Gurmukh says, that as pregnant women, we ought not to watch scary movies, or subject ourselves to fearful or stressful situations. She spoke of this from the yogic perspective. Anna speaks of it from the physiologic perspective.
It’s about conscious conception, conscious pregnancy and conscious birthing.
Anna Verwaal was one of the speakers at my Prenatal Yoga Teacher training at Golden Bridge Yoga. I am so blessed to have been able to learn from her directly.
This idea that our emotional state shapes our babies is a component of epigenetics. We have the ability to affect our babies very positively throughout our pregnancies. Practicing our yoga, in it’s complete, holistic sense, can have an enormous positive impact on our babies. It did with my pregnancies. Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training at 32 weeks pregnant with Elaine helped shape her in a very different way then her brother, Owen.
In this TEDx Talk, Anna discusses how the womb environment and our births shape our lives. This is everything from what we eat and drink, to the stresses we are under when we are pregnant. Please watch Anna’s TEDx Talk. I think you’ll learn from her too.
Sat Nam.
Other posts you might like:
- Integrating Yoga and Lamaze (a multi-part series)
- Elaine’s Birth Story
- Owen’s Birth Story
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