Can yoga help you get pregnant?
Too much stress can increase a woman’s risk of infertility, according to recent research – so what can you do to increase your chances of conceiving?
Scientists are suggesting that yoga or meditation could help would be mothers.
Former science teacher and yoga therapist, Aliona Salaru, from Pureflowyoga offers comment and insight into how the practice of yoga directly impacts on health and fertility:
“Trying to become pregnant can add even more pressure to an already stressed women. Stress affects the normal hormone balance and can be a major delay in conception. In the modern world women often switch into chronic stress resulting in many possible imbalances, including adrenal depletion, thyroid over or under function and shifts in sexual hormone balance, resulting in sexual dysfunction.
Since we have to engage within a modern environment on a daily basis it is not possible to be isolated from stress factors, but it is possible to learn how to react to the stress effectively. Yoga breathing techniques combined with yoga postures are known not only to be an effective stress reliever but also a tool to habitually ease the symptoms of anxiety.
So how exactly yoga helps to de –stress? Researchers at UCLA published a study revealing that: “Using simple daily meditations reduced the stress levels of people who care for those stricken by Alzheimer’s and dementia. Practicing a certain type of meditation for just 12 min daily for eight weeks led to a reduction in the biological mechanisms responsible for an increase in the immune system’s inflammation response. Inflammation if constantly activated, can contribute to a multitude of chronic health problems”
Yoga practice is well known for optimizing the work of the endocrine system therefore balancing the hormones. Practicing yoga will bring more blood to the pelvis improving the sexual health. Whilst mindful breathing will shut the constant chatter of the mind, decrease the heart rate and instantly relax.
In my yoga teaching experience I had the pleasure of meeting many women who have been coming to the class for a while announced with delight that they are pregnant. Yoga surely must be in the top of “to do list” for all stressed women and not so stressed women who plan to conceive.”