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Whole Mama Yoga

Meditation, Mantra, and Movement for Pregnancy and Beyond

by Alexandra DeSiato
Lauren Sacks
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A unique way to see and process the motherhood experience through the lens of yoga, Whole Mama Yoga covers all phases and stages of becoming and being a mother or birth parent—offering a way to extend yoga's gifts and tools for all who parent. .
Women are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth. Whole Mama Yoga offers a way to extend yoga's 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.
Accessible to new yoga students, advanced yoga practitioners, and yoga teachers alike, Whole Mama Yoga is for parents with children of all ages. It is for those just thinking about beginning a family, those in the early stages of pregnancy, those getting close to labor and delivery, and for those new moms, who often feel harried and overwhelmed. This is a book to reference as children grow, change, and become little (and big) people.
With 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. Organzied into sections titled Relate, Move, Reflect, Wisdom, and Breathe, Whole Mama Yoga provides 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.

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    August 29, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780757324673

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      • ISBN: 9780757324673
      • File size: 18647 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2023

      Endorsed by well-known teachers, including Sage Rountree, who balance practical living with Westernized (not necessarily Hindu) yogic principles, DeSiato and Sacks's book promises readers a companion from conception (and the ideas many have surrounding exercise and pregnancy) through birth and parenting in its many phases. The authors are mothers, yoga practitioners, and teachers, and they blend the narratives surrounding their own journeys to integrate yoga into their life while acknowledging that practice demands as much flexibility of the mind as it does of the body. The book includes refreshing size-inclusive drawings to illustrate suggested poses, prompts for reflection, and suggested breathwork practices, all centered on different aspects of pregnancy, birth and parenthood. VERDICT Welcoming, accessible, and inclusive for new yogis, yet filled with information and insights valuable to experienced practitioners who want to know how to modify poses or reset expectations during and after pregnancy. This title benefits yoga instructors as well by providing tips on how to support yoga practitioners during their pregnancy and postpartum experiences.--Emily Bowles

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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