Yoga For Pregnancy › Women's Health › 30 to 45 mins › Vanessa Michielon

  • Prenatal Yoga - Nourish your Whole Body (for all levels and trimesters)41:53
    Prenatal Yoga - Nourish your Whole Body (for all levels and trimesters)

    Vanessa Michielon

    A beautiful prenatal yoga sequence to open your entire body with a slow and gentle sequence of seated and standing poses promoting mobility and strength, full of mindful variations to adjust your practice to what feels best to you today. Explore movements that help you create space in your pelvic floor and hips, such as Staff Pose, Dragonfly and Lizard Pose, and build safe stability with supported Side Plank and standing balances, such as Half Moon. You will close with a moment of contemplation and connection to your breath and your baby in a peaceful guided meditation. Suggested props: 2 bricks. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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  • Prenatal Pilates - Full Body Glow (for all levels, up until second trimester) 45:25
    Prenatal Pilates - Full Body Glow (for all levels, up until second trimester)

    Vanessa Michielon

    This Prenatal Pilates class for all levels, up until second trimester). It is also just a wonderful Pilates class for all round strength, for any body. This class integrates a variety of safe Pilates exercises to engage the full body to maintain optimal mobility and stability through the joints. Enjoy different abdominal strengthening exercises in a variety of position, to target all the core muscles without uncomfortable crunches. Also activate hamstrings and build up strength in the glutes with side laying leg patterns focusing on internal and external rotation in your hip joints. This is a complete and balanced Prenatal Pilates practice to practice a couple of times a week to uplift your mood and maintain wellbeing during pregnancy, but also for all of us at any time the body needs to be given a full body glow! If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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  • Prenatal Pilates - Arms and Back focus (for all levels and trimesters)27:58
    Prenatal Pilates - Arms and Back focus (for all levels and trimesters)

    Vanessa Michielon

    Strengthen the upper body, arms and back. Using an elastic band, or a long strap, or tins of beans work just fine too, this class targets your arms and back muscles. You will begin with standing arm exercises, such as biceps curls and triceps work, and explore further upper body focused patterns, including safe modified press-ups on your knees and triceps dips, with variations to suit your energy levels. The practice will help you improve your posture and strengthen your back, so that you can better accommodate the changes your body is going through, and reduce back discomfort and weakness. Suggested prop: long elastic band or tins of beans! If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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  • Prenatal Yoga - Breathwork and Stretches for Stress Relief (for all levels and trimesters)35:43
    Prenatal Yoga - Breathwork and Stretches for Stress Relief (for all levels and trimesters)

    Vanessa Michielon

    Embrace a peaceful, slowed down hatha class practice of breathwork and gentle seated hatha yoga to release muscular tension and flood your body with feel good hormones. Through Golden Thread Breathing, you are invited to slow down your exhalation, fostering a deep sense of relaxation. A sequence of seated and floor-based stretches targeting the neck, shoulders, back, pelvic floor and hips will then help you relieve muscular discomfort and feel more centred and relaxed. Suggested props: 2 bricks and 1 strap. Perfect for pregnant bodies in all trimesters, and all of us who have busy lives and would benefit from soothing the nervous system with stretching. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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  • Prenatal Pilates - Glutes, Legs and Hips (for all levels and trimesters) 33:09
    Prenatal Pilates - Glutes, Legs and Hips (for all levels and trimesters)

    Vanessa Michielon

    This surprisingly tough Prenatal Pilates class can be done all throughout pregnancy. It is great for everybody, pregnant or non-pregnant bodies will love this strengthening class. Build strength in the lower body and maintaining mobility in the hips. Feel your glutes burning with strong glute strengthening exercises and with safe exercises from side laying positions and all 4s. This is a complete lower body work that will leave you feeling stronger, energised and refreshed (and aware that maybe your glutes need some more love!). This class is particularly recommended for those who drive a lot, for after travel, or who have a more sedentary lifestyle as your lower back will love you after these strong strengthening and mobiliising exercises. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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  • Prenatal Yoga - Back pain relief (for all levels and trimesters)31:31
    Prenatal Yoga - Back pain relief (for all levels and trimesters)

    Vanessa Michielon

    A wonderful class for Prenatal back pain, suitable for all trimesters. This class can also suit most of us for most stages in life! Back pain and back stiffness is common during pregnancy, but also for all of us who live sedentary, modern lives. This class is the perfect antidote! Embrace gentle movements like thread the needle pose, open twists, oyramid pose and Happy Baby, which promote spinal flexibility and tension relief. The practice gracefully closes with heart-opening poses like Camel Pose and Bridge, leaving you feeling rejuvenated and empowered to navigate the physical changes of pregnancy with ease. Suggested props: 2 bricks. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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  • Prenatal Yoga - Hip Opening Flow (for all levels and trimesters)41:38
    Prenatal Yoga - Hip Opening Flow (for all levels and trimesters)

    Vanessa Michielon

    Our hips can suffer if we live a sedentary life, if we drive a lot, or we're athletic. This gentle, all-levels hip-opening slow flow is perfect for a prenatal practice (in any trimester), or for any of us with hips! This beautiful class gently mobilises and opens the hips and strengthens the lower body with wide legged forward bend, goddess pose and poses to open, strengthen and stabilise the hips, wonderful for pregnancy and for all of us. Suggested props: 2 bricks. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.



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