Asanas for Pregnant Women

H2O Workouts offers a series of asanas that have been specifically designed for pregnant women in the water. Each exercises has been carefully chosen for its safety and effectiveness.

Take you workout to the water.

Be sure to first get the approval of your primary health care provider before beginning this or any other exercise routine.

Begin with feet 2-4" apart and your hands in the prayer position. Be aware of how the water is moving about you pushing in at all sides. Take a deep breath and slowly let it out. Find your balance and still point.

Look straight ahead and lower your head to a point that is about 45 degrees. Find a focal point there. Take a nice slow breath in and bend your left knee and place your left foot on the inside of your right leg. Exhale and balance yourself on your right leg. Breathe in and out normally.

Return to the starting position as shown in the first picture. Then inhale and bend your right knee and place the bottom of your right foot on the inside of your left leg. Breath normally as you find the balance.

Begin this asana in water that is chest level high. Spread your legs apart as wide as is comfortable with arms straight out at your sides. Turn your left foot to the side.

Look in the direction that you will be going. Inhale and bend your left knee.

As you exhale, place your left elbow on the thigh of your left leg and raise your right arm upward. Inhale and return to the starting position and repeat this exercise on the right side of your body.