Practicing Yoga Nidra can help calm the nerves.

This practice is for new parents to invite deep relaxation, calmness and more during times of stress and or tiredness.

Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep is a powerful practice in which you learn to go deeper in a state of sleep and wakefulness. The practice helps to move from the conscious wakeful mind and tap into the subconscious mind and can often lead us into the unconscious mind (sleep state).

The practice involves various series of practices: body scan, breath awareness and image visualization and more under the guidance of an instructor.

Yoga Nidra helps in activating relaxation, decreases anxiety, improves functioning of the endocrine system (hormones), calming the nervous system from fight and flight mode to rest and digest mode, crucial during pregnancy and there after.

It is best to be most comfortable in any position that you enjoy. It can be done either lying down on a mat or a bed or seated on an easy chair with a blanket to cover your body and pillows under your knees or back or other pros that may aid in comfort. Eye pillow is an excellent pro over your eyes to give a weighted sensation.

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