Prenatal Yoga in Overland Park | Full Circle Yoga KC

Why Prenatal Yoga?

January 23, 2018 by Full Circle KC

You’re growing to have a baby!!! With growing a baby comes a myriad of emotions: pure excitement, worry, terror, doubt, sadness, joy, love, empowered, apprehensive and much more. Your body is changing every day and often pregnancy brings with it discomfort. Prenatal Yoga can support you on one of the most powerful life experiences you’ll have!

Prenatal Yoga can play an important role in finding balance and relaxation in a multitude of ways as one travels through pregnancy.

Offers comfort measures to those nagging aches and body discomforts
Offer positions that can support labor and delivery
An educated Prenatal Yoga instructor can suggest various poses for different situations during pregnancy, labor and delivery to support mom and baby.
Practice techniques to work through your birthing journey like visualization
Practice breathing, one of the most important tools a Mama will take into her birthing journey.
Receive affirmation that your body is beautiful you are strong.
Unite and receive support and community from other strong women on the same journey as you.
Help you build your toolbox for your baby’s day of birth.
Offers coping mechanisms’ for labor and delivery
Provide supportive ways for partner to be actively involved in the birthing journey.

At Full Circle Yoga KC our prenatal yoga offers a supportive class that mamas at all stages can practice and build their physical and emotional strength in preparation for their birthing journey.

Happy New Year from Full Circle Yoga KC

January 11, 2018 by Full Circle KC

Happy New Year’s From Full Circle Yoga KC!

December 2017 went out with a bang with 10 babies being born! Congratulations to each of you Mamas who delivered little bundles of joy in 2017 and welcome to Motherhood! January 2018 is starting off with an exciting number of new Mamas finding Full Circle Yoga KC.

Full Circle Yoga KC is coming up on its one year anniversary! I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I started this journey. There are so many journeys we go through in life, some planned some unexpected. I try to embrace each one as they come. You all have been my inspiration this past year as I met you and heard your stories. I hold your stories with care and deep appreciation. You’ve inspired me to become a better yoga instructor, to be a better listener, to continue to find a balance of relaxation and challenge in our yoga classes. You even inspire me to run longer as my inner voice says “hey, you tell your Mamas they can do anything for a minute, you can run for one more minute.” Thank you.

I’m so excited to start a Mama’s Corner starting on the every third Wednesday of every month. Our first gathering will be February 21^st. We will have BYOB at 9:00 am (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE FROM NORMAL TIME), followed by a time to connect with other Mama’s. It’s an opportunity to share tricks of the trade as well as the bumps in the road of motherhood and build community as we share in the most rewarding yet most challenging job ever! Snacks will be provided. Class is $5.00, please register online.

Here’s what happening in January:

Prenatal Yoga Classes– This class is appropriate for all stages of pregnancy as you experience and enjoy your changing body. Geared for all experience levels, in this class you’ll learn yoga poses, breathing techniques and meditation that support a healthy pregnancy and prepare you for labor and delivery.

Mondays at 7:00 pm

Thursdays at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm

Saturdays at 9:30 am

BYOB– This class embraces your recovering body through gentle movement. You’ll appreciate the supportive community of others who are sharing in the transformative journey of parenthood.

Wednesdays at 10:00 *** Except third Wednesday of every month BYOB class will begin at 9:00am and Mama’s Corner at 10:00am.

Prenatal Partner Yoga– It’s an opportunity to connect with one another and share in the journey of pregnancy. Partners can be empowered through learning poses and visualization tools that will help support mama during labor and delivery.

Thursday January 25^th at 6:00pm **this will be in place of prenatal yoga

Hatha Yoga- A class that emphasizes strengthening the physical body by focusing on body posture and breath control. This class is open to everyone. It’s a great class for postpartum moms who need some time on the mat by themselves.

Saturdays 8:00 am

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Young Living Essential Oil 101 Class- Come or stay after class to learn about the amazing benefits Young Living Essential Oils can have for you and your family.

Saturday January 27^th right after prenatal yoga at 11:00 am

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Some day we may get snow! Please check our website calendar for cancellations due to inclement weather.

The Light In Me Honors The Light In You!

Be Well,

Jenny

Q & A Time | What is Cranial Sacral Treatment

November 14, 2017 by Full Circle KC

What is Cranial Sacral Treatment (CST)? It is a gentle noninvasive form of bodywork to realign the head, spinal column, and sacrum for restored balance. I like to describe it as chiropractic work without the manipulation. And, the best kept secret for body balance!

I was hesitant to go to a chiropractor because I didn’t want physical manipulation and I didn’t want treatment to become a part of my routine. However, after recently having my first cranial sacral treatment I was amazed at my improved overall feeling of balance and alignment. For weeks my hamstrings had been tight despite yoga, stretching and strengthening. With the cranial sacral treatment it made an immediate difference in the tightness!

Cranial Sacral Therapy can be a wonderful way to care for yourself while pregnant as well as postpartum. Our center of gravity shifts, we gain weight during pregnancy, our body is working overtime to grow a little human all of which can disrupt our balance and create discomfort. Postpartum, we are reconnecting with our bodies, we find ourselves in the most peculiar positions for nursing or feeding, and general anxiety of parenthood can throw our balance off, again, creating discomfort.

Recently, Full Circle Yoga KC joined up with Lee Veal to offer a special event for mamas and partners. What an incredible class that allowed mamas and partners to add to their toolbox! Lee Veal, Advance Cranial Sacral expert, showed simple movement techniques partners could offer mama to support her throughout pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum. Mamas were then able to provide the same resistance work to their partner so each could feel restored balance. The class focused specifically on the Psoas and Piriformis muscle to help align and open the pelvis.

Full Circle Yoga in Overland Park was founded in 2017 by yoga teacher Jenny Hellman focusing on wellness in the early stages of family life from prenatal to early parenthood and the older adult years. Full Circle Yoga KC is an Overland Yoga Studio specializing in Prenatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Partner Prenatal Yoga and Chair Yoga for seniors.

10 Ways to Prepare for Labor

September 26, 2017 by Full Circle KC

Full Circle Yoga KC offers prenatal classes that mamas at all stages can practice and build their physical and emotional strength in preparation for their birthing journey. Here are 10 ways to prepare for labor:

Discover the power of pregnancy yoga
Practice visualization
Educate yourself about labor, birth, and postpartum options
Write a birth plan
Enjoy a date with your partner at partner prenatal yoga
Find a doula you and your partner connect with
Eat Well
Fill your tank with words of affirmation
Walk….a lot!
More pregnancy yoga

Should You Choose A Midwife?

September 13, 2017 by Full Circle KC

You don’t know what you don’t know….until you know! Pregnancy is a journey of learning and becoming aware of the many choices you have as a soon-to-be mama!

We started with a wonderful OBGYN but due to insurance we were unable to continue with her care. The silver lining was learning more about the choice of using a midwife. I was blessed to have two normal pregnancies. When my husband and I started consciously picturing how we wanted our birthing journey to look like: in the hospital, one of unmedicated vaginal birth, natural labor and delivery, as little medical intervention as possible (assuming I and baby were safe and healthy) we decided the best fit to our birthing team would be a midwife. We can’t say enough about how amazing our midwife was for the birth of our two children.

Choosing a midwife is on the rise. Midwives have a philosophy of committing with women to support and carry out chosen birth plans. We found that our midwife educated us along the way helping us create the birth plan, asking us questions we didn’t even know to ask, or encouraging us to think about things we hadn’t considered. She allowed and encouraged us to be active participants in the planning of our birthing journey.

Midwives offer a lot of support emotionally to laboring mother and family. They become your coach and look you in the eye when the tough gets tough. With a midwife you feel like you’re in it together to the finish line. The support goes beyond birth to postpartum.

Midwives offer medication-free ways to manage pain such as, laboring in a tub, sitting in a shower with water flowing down your back, changing positions, massage, birthing ball, and visualization. Midwives support the idea of continued movement in intermittent fetal monitoring during labor.

Educate yourself about your options, there’s a lot to consider when it comes to giving birth. Listen to your gut, you need to feel safe and comfortable with where you choose to have your baby and who you want on your team.