Benefits of Prenatal Dance: Spirit in Motion™

During pregnancy your body is changing every moment! Wow! Prenatal Dance: Spirit in Motion™ is a wonderful way to make time and appreciate the amazing transformation you’re in! A whole other person is developing and relating to you 24/7, but since it’s such an organic process much can get missed and overlooked. Prenatal movement, dance, and yoga calms your mind and helps you soften into your experience – even the discomforts. Movement and breath are quick and easy ways to help bring about emotional and hormonal regulation. It is well recognized that hormonal balance help babies’ brains develop, especially the higher functioning parts of the brain. How wonderful is nature that a dancing, happy mom makes for a smart baby! This is certainly incentive to be very aware of stress, because chronic stress is understood to cause prenatal and perinatal problems.

In Prenatal Dance: Spirit in Motion™ you’ll learn and explore what makes you feel balanced, present, and centered simply with your attention, breath, and movement. If you know how to bring yourself to a centered places by your choice and attention then you can be confident that you will be able successfully soothe and comfort your baby. We now know that a mother’s nervous system has direct impact on her baby and her baby’s temperament.

  • Prenatal Dance: Spirit in Motion™:

    • Increases Energy
    • Decreases Stress and Anxiety
    • Improves Sleep
    • Improves Circulation
    • Prepares the body, mind, and spirit for a more conscious, and even joyful experience of labor and birth
    • Promotes Bonding and Attachment between Mother and Baby
    • Provides a Community of Support Amongst Pregnant Women
    • Increases Positivity
    • Promotes Emotional, Hormonal Regulations
    • Supports Relaxation and Ease
    • Fun, Creative, and Socially Satisfying

Dance and movement of this nature significantly helps in pre-birth and post-birth. Once you have gotten the learning in your body, you will have the somatic memory and skills to resource yourself post-birth!

Feeling connected to one’s body from the inside out, in a sense grounded, opens up a world of ease and support. Staying in connection with one’s self- body, thoughts, sensation, and emotions is a necessary part of the strong foundation for healthy rewarding motherhood. Modeling self-care and practicing ways to connect with yourself now, before your baby comes (whether this is your fist, second, or third) is essential to creating a supportive, nurturing, self-respecting experience of mothering. Anything and everything you can do now, while pregnant, to help you relax and feel uplifted, trusting, and optimistic will serve you, your child, and family from now on. Using positive movement and activities will reduce the potential for any unwanted outcomes of antenatal stress and/or depression.

In these classes or privates you are shown how to be fully present to the joys and challenges of your pregnancy moment-to-moment, and to bond with the precious, little one growing inside you.