Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
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Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond by Francoise Barbira Freedman
Enhance your experience of pregnancy and birth with the meditative power of yoga. Step-by-step yoga postures specially adapted for each trimester, relaxation techniques and simple breathing exercises will show you how to adjust to the physical demands of labour and give birth with minimum strain. From conception to birth, help develop shared wellbeing, with the only guide to identify the real advantages of yoga for mother and baby.
'essential for every mother to be' - Yoga Magazine
Françoise Barbira Freedman, PhD, is a medical anthropologist at Cambridge University, England. Her pioneering interest in pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond stems from her earliest studies in the Amazon, where she was inspired by the energetic, light-hearted, and gentle mothering of the Peruvian Amazonian women. An adept of yoga, she has used both her life experience as a mother of four and her academic training and research to develop her original approach to antenatal and postnatal holistic care. Françoise has been a trainer for the UK-based Yoga Biomedical Trust's Yoga Therapist Diploma since 1994. She is a member of the Board of Yoga Therapists, which is developing professional standards for yoga therapy and guidelines for integration into UK National Health Service Trusts, and she also lectures at midwifery schools. In 1990 Françoise founded the charity Birthlight, which is dedicated to promoting a sensitive approach to pregnancy, birth, and babies through innovative applications of yoga and practical teachings across cultures. Birthlight offers classes in prenatal yoga, postnatal yoga, well-woman yoga, yoga with babies, and aquayoga for mothers and babies, as well as training and certification courses in these subjects. The charity now has teachers and supporters in countries across Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405300568 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405300566 |
| Title | Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond |
| Author | Francoise Barbira Freedman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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