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Fertility and Flexibility
Yoga When You're Trying to Conceive
By Debora Geary
Improved Physical Health
Yoga can also impact the general reproductive health of women trying to conceive. "Yoga tones and strengthens the muscles that support reproductive organs and improves spinal alignment, enabling better circulation and improved capacity and quality of respiration," says Julie Cade Bon, certified yoga teacher and owner of Partnership for Pregnancy, a company that offers retreats for couples dealing with infertility. She adds that for women who are taking infertility drugs, better breathing can also help the body fight off the toxic effects of those drugs. 
Reducing the Physical Effects of Stress
Yoga is perfect for dealing with one of the most pervasive mind/body fertility challenges: stress, often stress caused by the inability to get or stay pregnant. "Women experiencing infertility are often stress- and pain-filled, saddened and angry," Cade Bon says. "These emotions generate chemicals in the body that weaken immunity and make for a less 'hospitable' environment for a new life. Yoga, because of its use of relaxation breathing techniques, combined with the flushing out of physical toxins, provides an antidote to the negative physical impacts of stress, anger and depression." Feeling Less "Out of Control"
Yoga can also impact a woman's fertility journey at a more psychological level. Kim Biggs of Panama City Beach, Fla., is a typical type A over-achiever, who remains in a perpetual state of disbelief that something she wants so badly and has worked so hard for is still unattainable. She is using yoga during her "sanity break" while getting ready to move ahead with in vitro fertilization (IVF).Want to see more?
- Mind Over "Matter": Using the Mind/Body Connection to Conceive
- Good Pregnancy Health from Day One: Keeping Active Before, During and After Pregnancy
- Prenatal Yoga: A Certified Doula Shares Her Thoughts on Yoga During Pregnancy
- The Facts to Relax: How to Cope with the Stress of Infertility
- Join the discussion on our Family.com community!
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Re: Fertility and Flexibility by anonymous on 07/16/2009 04:55AM
its good site.can you add some yoga therapies.
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