European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ROLE OF YOGASANA IN PREGNANCY

Veena A. Patil, *Sakshi Sachan, N. B. Swami, Bhagyashri Khot and Priyanka Sankpal

ABSTRACT

Yoga is spiritual science i.e. mind body binding practice encompasses a system of Asan, pranayama and meditation. A mother nurture and carries a baby for nine long months and hopes that the baby comes in the world as healthy. Prenatal yoga shows a lot of benefit in pregnant women who suffer from depression, stress, low back pain and lack of sleep. It is absolutely necessary for pregnant women to maintain her physical and mental health both for her own sake and sake of the child. Number of studies shows that yogasan during pregnancy improves high risk pregnancy. An integrated approach towards yogasan during pregnancy is that it is safe and leads to improve outcome such as for improving birth weight, decrease intrauterine growth retardation either in isolation or associated with pregnancy induced hypertension with no increased complications. Largely achievable health of a baby is depends on the mother diet and physical activity. Yogasan encourage the normal labour and decreases the rate of caesarean section.

Keywords: Pregnancy, Yogasana, improve outcome, normal labour.