Whole Mama Yoga - Meditation, Mantra, and Movement for Pregnancy and Beyond

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, 6 p.m.

b'A unique way to see and process the motherhood experience through the lens of yoga,\\xa0Whole Mama Yoga\\xa0covers all phases and stages of becoming and being a mother or birth parent\\u2014offering a way to extend yoga\\u2019s gifts and tools for all who parent.\\n\\n\\nWomen are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth.\\xa0Whole Mama Yoga\\xa0offers a way to extend yoga\\u2019s 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.\\n\\n\\nWith 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. Organized into sections titled Relate, Move, Reflect, Wisdom, and Breathe,\\xa0Whole Mama Yoga\\xa0provides 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.\\n\\nLearn More:\\xa0https://www.simonandschuster.net/books/Whole-Mama-Yoga/Alexandra-DeSiato/9780757324666'