Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Classes in Central Massachusetts

Prenatal yoga classes offer women in Central Massachusetts a way to gently move, exercise, learn breathing techniques, and relax their minds and their bodies.

Yoga can also benefit the postnatal woman. After giving birth women are often anxious to get their pre-pregnancy bodies and flexibility back. With the approval of a doctor or health care professional, women can return to exercise. Yoga is one such exercise that works for postnatal women because it is a gentle form of exercise.

Yoga studios offer a variety of prenatal and even postnatal classes for women. Mommy & Me Yoga classes offer women and their new babies a way to bond and exercise outside the home, while meeting and spending time with other moms and babies.

Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Classes in Central Massachusetts

Auburn Yoga & Pilates Center
59 Auburn Street
Suite 102
Auburn, Massachusetts 01501
(508)832-8177
Classes are six-week sessions and pre-registration is required.
The Auburn Yoga & Pilates Center offers a gentle Hatha Yoga class for postpartum women. Postpartum women are encouraged to bring their newborns along, but it is not required. You may take your new baby to one or two classes, or all of them, it all depends on you and the baby. The class helps loosen tightness in the abdominal area, the upper back and the shoulders.

For a little something different, this yoga studio also teaches a Mommy & Me Pilates for new mothers and their little ones. The class teaches the basics of pilates, with a focus on "core strength," which means your midsection including your back and abdominal area.

Central Massachusetts Yoga Institute
(www.centralmassyoga.com)
45 Sterling Street (Rte 12) #22
West Boylston, Massachusetts 01583
(508)835-1176
Central Massachusetts Yoga Institute has yoga for women covered from all angles. First, their yoga schedule offerings include Fertility Yoga, for women who are trying to conceive.

They also have Prenatal Yoga for childbirth preparation. The Prenatal Yoga class is open to women at all stages of pregnancy. Postnatal Yoga is also offered at this yoga studio, for moms and new babies.