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Prenatal Yoga poses for the third trimester

Prenatal Yoga is of great support to deal with the physical, emotional and hormonal changes that women experience during pregnancy. Especially during the third trimester, when the belly becomes bigger, we might become tired easily, and experience the bittersweet emotions of the end of the pregnancy. In this post I share some key prenatal yoga poses that helped me to feel better during the third trimester and be ready for my journey into motherhood. It’s a gentle sequence of movement…

Yoga for lower back pain during menstruation

Most of the time, lower back pain during menstruation is caused by contractions of the uterus and yoga helps to relieve this pain. When the uterus contracts too strongly it can cut off the supply of oxygen to the nearby muscles, which is the reason pain occurs in the abdomen and radiates to the lower back and even to the thighs. A feminine approach to yoga develops flexibility and fluidity easing the unpleasant physical sensations and reducing lower back pain.…

The energetic place of the womb – Yoni Shakti

Yoni Shakti is women power, the cunt power as my teacher Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, describes it, claiming back dignity of this word. Shakti is the power of life itself, it is the feminine force. Shakti is the source through which Shiva materializes his seeds. Shiva is the supreme consciousness the pure being and Shakti is the power to action, the power to become. Yoni is a Sanskrit word that indicate the cosmic womb, the source, the female sacred space of the…