Whole Mama Yoga: Meditation, Mantra, and Movement for Pregnancy and Beyond
By Alexandra Desiato and Lauren Sacks
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Women are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth. Whole Mama Yoga offers a way to extend yoga’s gifts into the motherhood experience and offers guidance that eases not just physical discomforts but existential ones. Many moms and birth parents balance boundless love and boredom, overwhelming joy and moments of isolation, self-confidence and self-doubt. Yoga provides an opportunity to practice the much needed body love and self-connection many parents need.
Accessible to new yoga students, advanced yoga practitioners, and yoga teachers alike, Whole Mama Yoga is for parents with children of all ages. It is for those just thinking about beginning a family, those in the early stages of pregnancy, those getting close to labor and delivery, and for those new moms, who often feel harried and overwhelmed. This is a book to reference as children grow, change, and become little (and big) people.
With yoga poses at the core of the text, yogi moms and instructors Alexandra DeSiato and Lauren Sacks offer helpful information in movement offerings that meet all moms and birth parents where they are. Organzied into sections titled Relate, Move, Reflect, Wisdom, and Breathe, Whole Mama Yoga provides breathing techniques, suggestions for meditation and mantra, inspiring tidbits of yoga philosophy, funny and uplifting stories from yoga-moms, and journal prompts that allow readers to reflect on their own experience of parenthood.
Alexandra Desiato
Alexandra Desiato, MA, holds the highest accreditation of yoga teaching (E-RYT 500) and is the co-author of Lifelong Yoga. An expert in yoga for healthy aging and yoga for prenatal and postnatal women, she presents and assists in yoga workshops locally and nationally, including Yogaville and Kripalu. With a master's degree in English literature from Appalachian State University, she has taught writing and literature at the college level for over fifteen years.
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