Our Yoga Teacher
Beishen has been practising yoga for many years before she finally took up her first 200-hours Yoga teacher training in Singapore and started teaching group yoga classes in 2013. She further studied in Melbourne for another 3 years for a 500-hours Yoga teacher training certificate, specialising in advanced yoga anatomy, and then ventured out to teach private yoga lessons. When the lockdown started in 2020, she dived into the studies of the Yoga Sutras and began to attend meditation and breathing courses and lessons. She has a keen eye and a deep understanding of movements and postures, which she uses as a tool for her students to create body awareness and relieve pain. She is also attentive and well-versed in various breathing techniques, which she uses as an aid to foster clarity of mind and reduce anxiety in her students.
Pregnancy Yoga
Pregnancy can be a period of excitement, yet it can also be challenging for a lot of women. Pregnant women go through various physical and physiological changes during the different stages of pregnancy. These changes can often cause physical or mental discomfort to the mum-to-be. As the pregnancy progresses, learning to adapt your movements and breathing to cope with the changes will help you feel more comfortable during the pregnancy. It is recommended that you start pregnancy yoga 16 weeks into pregnancy.
What is in a pregnancy yoga session?
The session will take you through a series of gentle movements and breathing techniques that are appropriate to your condition. At the end of each session,Beishen will give you a written practice routine that is suitable for you to practice at
home. If you signed up for a few sessions, the practice will be a repetition and progression from the previous week so that you can understand better what you have learned and can apply the breathing techniques naturally during birth. It is recommended that you practice twice each week and 15 minutes every time to achieve your goal in doing pregnancy yoga. In addition, before you deliver, you can also request a session to create a birthing plan that aligns with your goals in yoga with Beishen.
What are the goals of pregnancy yoga?
The goals are non-exhaustive, but here’s to name a few salient ones:
- Stable moods – Staying active and practicing mindful breathing are proven to reduce mood swings during pregnancy.
- Maintaining mobility and strength – Pregnancy hormones loosen your ligaments (especially in the pubic bone), thus on top of maintaining mobility, developing sufficient muscular strength in the lower body becomes ever more
so important during pregnancy leading to delivery.
- Improving delivery experience – for first-time mums-to-be, the unknown can be quite terrifying, thus building enough groundwork, ie making sure the body is adequately strong and flexible, practice slow and steady breath to be able
to apply them instinctively during delivery, and having a birthing plan in hand, will keep your mind grounded before the baby arrives.
Postpartum Yoga
Although having a newborn can be overwhelming, it is essential to remember that putting your self-care first gives you a larger capacity to care for your newborn. Practising yoga after giving birth not only helps your body recover and heal at a steadier pace, it also alleviates postpartum depression. It is recommended that you rest up until 6 weeks after delivery for natural birth and 8 weeks for C-sec before starting postpartum yoga.
What is in a postpartum yoga session?
The session will focus on learning how to engage your core to recover physically and physiologically and practicing controlled breathing to ground your mind. The
sessions are dynamic but gentle and slow in both movements and breath. At the end of each session, Beishen will give you a written practice routine that is suitable for you to practice at home. If you signed up for a few sessions, the practice will be a repetition and progression from the previous week so that you can feel improvements and the practice can have more grounding in your life. It is recommended that you practice twice each week and 15 minutes every time to achieve your goal in doing postpartum yoga.
What are the goals of postpartum yoga?
The goals are non-exhaustive, but here’s to name a few salient ones: - Strengthening – your abdominal and pelvic floor area becomes weak after giving birth, thus one of the main goals of postpartum yoga is to restore these
muscles for them to return to a balanced and healthy state. - Grounding – taking care of a newborn can be demanding and can create stress and anxiety, thus staying active and practicing controlled breathing can be a great tool to stay grounded.
