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Harriet & Marisa Eleni July, 2003
 Hi Paul, Just wanted to let you know I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on July 13th (a week and a half before my due date.) It was a wonderful delivery and experience. You will be pleased to know that I pushed for only a very short time and out she came! Staying active, the yoga, and all the walking paid off and really worked during my labor. Thanks again for all your help. I'll keep in touch. Harriet Troncale


Paul with Elwood & Martina.
Mothers Barbara and Charlotte attended Prenatal Yoga together in 1998.




PRENATAL YOGA
Through the practice of a Yoga that uses the power of the breath, a woman can maintain her nature to give birth overcoming fear and weakness.

We keep awareness of the needs of the developing child, while finding a practice best suited to the mother.

This is a 12 WEEK COURSE designed for the 2nd & 3rd trimesters.


COUNSCIOUS BIRTH

THE BUTTERFLY that COULD NEVER FLY

Any Body. Any Condition.
At Any Age.
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(212) 472-YOGA (9642)

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Any Body. Any Condition.
At Any Age.

YOGA for ALL®

(212) 472-YOGA (9642)

Mother & Father Prenatal Yoga Class

We acknowledge the essential work of the father and siblings in the process of pregnancy and birth. Prenatal yoga classes are a unique way to honor, develop, and nurture familial relationships. Younger siblings begin to create a relationship with their new brother or sister that is loving and noncompetitive. Fathers take time to really tune into the process, physically, psychically, and emotionally. Mothers feel vitally supported by the participation of the whole family. And the child in utero is extraordinarily welcomed and loved!



Conscious Birth

The birth of your child will resound throughout our society. Birthing and social conditions reflect each other. When there is a shift in our relationship to birth there will be a parallel shift in our overall quality of life on the planet.

Present day birthing conditions are indicative of the way we live. They often include physical constraints, numbing medication, and cesarean operations. These methods, often for the convenience and protection of the physician, distance parents and children from directly experiencing the power and beauty of birth.

Children need to be born, naturally. Our entire physical make-up and psychology is greatly affected by the birth process. When a man and woman takes responsibility for the birth of their child, they are making one of the greatest social changes that one could make on our planet.

We need to think about this. We put the responsibility in the doctor's hands, The doctor, avoiding lawsuits, is not often acting in the best interest of the child. The labor is a forming of an essential bond between parents and child. Drugs and shortcuts are wise to be avoided in the healthy situation.

When parents-to-be take responsibility for the delivery of their child, they take a giant step toward the transformation of our world. That child has a chance to develop properly, with a relationship, a deepened bond to the parents. Parents willing to face the pains, trials, and joys of natural birth and parenting are birthing a healthy world community.



The Butterfly that could never fly

One day a small opening appeared on a cocoon, and a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened!

In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

 

Excerpt from "THE EIGHT HUMAN TALANTS" GurmukhKaur Khalsa