Yoga exercises for Oblique Muscles for New Moms

The period immediately after you deliver your baby is one where you body has to be gradually nourished to enable it to get back to its normal chores once again. During pregnancy, especially during the advanced phases, you would have slowed down your pace of activities. This would have brought about a certain stiffness and lethargy in your movements.

During your post-delivery period you will need to do certain exercises that will help your body to regain its suppleness. But you need to go about doing these exercises with due caution. You will need to consult your gynecologist before you start doing any of these exercises. Some of them would have to be modified to suit your medical condition. If you have delivered your baby, by being operated in the cesarean section, you will need to postpone doing any exercise by a few weeks till you recover fully. Your gynecologist would be the best person to guide you on this.

When you start doing any exercise, you will also need to do so under the guidance of a yoga tutor. Learning to do any yoga pose, the right way is very necessary if it is to have its desired salutary effect.

Start doing the Yoga exercises for oblique muscles by lying down supine on a yoga mat. Bend your legs from the knees and lift your knees, to make your legs appear as an inverted V. Now inhale deeply, and as you exhale, draw your belly inwards and push the floor down with your feet and shoulders, to lift your hips slightly off the mat. Engage the muscles of your abdomen, and then lift your shoulders and head off the mat.

Raise your right arm and reach out to your left knee. When you do this, retain the left arm on the mat and press the mat down with your left palm to help you to raise your body off the mat. Pause in this position for some time, and then lower your shoulders and head to the mat. As you hold on to this position, initially your pelvis might shake. You will be able to stabilize your pelvis when you get used to doing this pose over a few days.

When you lower your shoulders and head to the mat, you may move your right arm above your head. Now repeat this step by using your left arm instead of your right. Repeat these steps for between three to five times or as long as you are comfortable and then exist this pose. Take care not to overdo it in your initial enthusiasm.

This pose will help you to overcome the stiffness in your hips that you experience in the immediate post-delivery period.

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Yoga Exercises for New Moms: Yoga Exercises for Oblique Muscles

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