Yesterday, Monday September 14th, prenatal classes began at Ishta Yoga Studio. Class runs from 12:30-1:45pm on Mondays and Thursdays. Ishta is located at 56 East 11th St…in the heart of coffee-shop-ville. I must say, there seem to be more college students than pregnant women floating around the immediate neighborhood. However, I know they are out there because not everyone wants to have a baby in Brooklyn. Hey, I even have two in-laws with fabulous lofts in downtown Manhattan…with kids. It can be done. I even miss the city sometimes…just don’t let my Brooklyn neighbors know that.
Back to prenatal yoga though, that’s what my blog is really about. So, I have a student with twins whose doctor is letting her think about a vaginal birth, a woman who had twins by cesarean trying for a VBAC, and my last mommy trying it natural at the Birth Center. I am thinking that downtown Manhattan might really be the hip equivalent to the “granola beltway” of say, Vermont, where I am from. Vermont is for Nature Lovers. I have a friend in VT that had a home birth and let the umbilical cord and placenta fall off on its’ own…(more natural). She walked around for days with her baby and a colander with her placenta in it. To me that seems a bit…(more nasty). However, this is a whole other post…
So, my hip, earthy, manhattan moms have come to yoga at Ishta. We worked on our kegels, our abdominal exercises (Tupler Technique–saving our rectii muscles and lower back from a lifetime of inadequacy), did our mock contractions, strengthened our muscles and indulged in yummy stretches.
I hope to see some more Mothers-to-be at Ishta. If you know anyone in the Granola Beltway send them on my way!
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