Tips to know when practicing postpartum yoga

After giving birth, the most urgent thing for mothers is how to restore their firm body. Yoga is the best exercise for mothers to restore their lines. So what should I pay attention to when practicing postpartum yoga? Today, the editor will reveal it one by one for you.

Special effects of postpartum mothers practicing yoga

The content and methods of yoga practice are broad and diverse. They can correspond to the needs of different groups of people and ultimately bring comprehensive benefits to the body and mind. Therefore, for mothers after childbirth, practicing yoga is also a suitable and wise choice.

1. Restore body shape and physical functions

How to restore your body shape may be a question that most mothers consider after childbirth. In fact, restoring the body's internal functions is an important basis for restoring a healthy body shape. Yoga practice effectively regulates and strengthens the four most basic types of tissues in our body: muscle tissue, nerve tissue, epidermal tissue and connective tissue. Their combined activities allow the body to perform one or more specific functions.

For postpartum mothers, the resilience and function of these tissues, especially the recovery and strengthening of organs and muscle tissues in the pelvic and abdominal region, can be achieved step by step and systematically through appropriate postures practice.

2. Regulate and balance the work of core systems in the body

Regulation of core system functions in the body is also one of the decisive factors that allows mothers to continue to have a sunny mental and physical fitness. Because whether the body and mind can obtain nutritious and balanced internal energy directly depends on the integration of multiple systems: the neuroendocrine system, the respiratory circulation system, and the digestive and excretion system. The practice of yoga's asanas, breathing and meditation techniques can go deep into the depths and energy levels of the body to achieve adjustment and integration.

Tips for practicing yoga

1. Warm up exercises should be done before any exercise. To avoid sports injuries, yoga is no exception.

2. Practice yoga with a pleasant and peaceful mood. It can be paired with relaxing and soothing music, such as albums such as Bandrie's "Mist Forest".

3. Each yoga movement should be completed slowly and combined with regular deep breathing to help the body relax.

4. When practicing, focus your consciousness on the stretched and stimulated parts, and do not have distracting thoughts. Don't joke.

5. Don't encounter too much strength when practicing. Just make the stretched part feel a little stretch within the limit range you can bear. Make sure every action is performed comfortably.

6. If the muscles tremble or cramp immediately during practice, massage them and relax before practicing again.

7. Don't compare with others when practicing, only compare with your own past. Even if you only make a little progress every day, it is still progress and will be effective over time.

8. After completing each yoga pose, you should immediately do the "no empty pose" to relax your body and mind, and take a deep breath 5 to 6 times.

9. After completing all yoga practices that day, you must do the "No Empty stance" for 10 to 15 minutes to relax the tension caused by the yoga movements and help yourself enter a meditation state.

Editor's special tips

If the body recovers well after childbirth, you can do some simple movements within one month of natural labor. Of course, it must be based on your physical condition and not be overworked. It is best to wait until three months after your body fully recovers before starting practicing. If the physical recovery after childbirth is slightly poor, you can practice after 3 months of natural labor, and 6 months of abdominal cast-up labor. However, attention should be paid to the amount of exercise at the beginning and the time should not be too long. (Internship Editor: Yan Lili)