| Use your pregnancy exercise DVD to maintain your | | | | coordinate your breathing with your muscles' |
| own good health and to promote your baby's healthy | | | | movement. Preparing to move into an asana, you take |
| development. | | | | and release a deep, cleansing breath; you will do the |
| Daily practice with your pregnancy exercise DVD | | | | same thing when you feel a contraction beginning. |
| strengthens your cardio-vascular system, preparing it | | | | Your baby also will feel the force of your contractions, |
| to endure the overwhelming stress of labor and | | | | and her heart rate may increase as you help with her |
| delivery. Maintaining your muscles' tone and building | | | | debut. Moving into your pose, you draw-in a deep |
| their strength, your pregnancy DVD also builds your | | | | breath as your muscles flex, and you control your |
| immune system; and many of your immunities pass to | | | | exhalation to maintain balance and posture. Sustaining |
| your baby. Work with your pregnancy workout also | | | | the pose and meditating, you breathe in and out |
| cleanses, detoxifies, and replenishes your muscles, | | | | regularly and rhythmically, paying extra attention to |
| reducing your fatigue and irritability. Most of all, your | | | | how you exhale so that you do not hyper-ventilate. |
| prenatal fitness DVD promotes development of | | | | When your contractions peak, you will control your |
| self-control, teaching you to breath in rhythm with your | | | | breath in exactly the same way. |
| movement. | | | | Practice with Your Pregnancy Yoga Exercise DVD |
| Pregnancy Yoga DVD Develops Two Strong, Healthy | | | | Increases Benefits of Other Exercise |
| Hearts | | | | Yoga is good alone. But it gets really good when you |
| Yoga slows, steadies, and strengthens your heart. | | | | combine it with other exercise. Use your daily yoga |
| Strengthening your own heart, you develop your | | | | practice to supplement, complement, and reinforce |
| baby's healthy heart, too. When you practice with your | | | | other elements in your prenatal "fitness and beauty |
| pregnancy yoga workout DVD, controlling your | | | | regime." During your first trimester, begin walking at |
| breathing and especially concentrating on long, full | | | | least twenty minutes twice per day. As your |
| breaths cleansed by thorough, deep exhales, you | | | | pregnancy progresses, extend each walk to thirty |
| increase blood's flow to your baby. As you get more | | | | minutes. Exercise physiologists claim you get more |
| oxygen from your deep breaths and release more | | | | benefit from two half-hour walks than from one long |
| respiratory by-products in powerful "sighs," your baby | | | | walk, because you give muscles time to refresh and |
| enjoys the benefits of more oxygen. Her | | | | rebuild. In between walks, stretch, relax, and restore |
| cardio-vascular system grows stronger right along with | | | | tired thighs, calves, and buttocks, working with your |
| yours. | | | | pregnancy exercise DVD. |
| As you practice yoga, you especially learn to | | | | |