Yoga brings down stress and enhances powers of relaxation. It boosts physical strength, stamina and flexibility also giving you greater powers of concentration and self-control. Yoga intensifies tolerance to pain and enhancing mental clarity. Yoga also improves blood circulation and cleanses and improves overall organ functioning.

Yoga is good for pregnancy. Yoga has 5 vital tools that gear you up for pregnancy. Using all these tools together will ensure that you have a smooth pregnancy.

Practicing yoga will give you more chances of having a normal delivery. But more importantly, yoga helps in the physical and mental development of your baby while inside the womb itself.

The 5 tools are:

• Consult a yoga instructor and do some basic yoga exercises. These exercises will work on the pelvis to ensure a smooth pregnancy and a relatively easy childbirth. They also make sure that optimum supply of blood and nutrients go to the developing fetus
• Do your Pranayama or breathing exercises. They will ensure that you and your unborn child get the maximum amount of oxygen. This will make sure that you and your child are healthy after a normal pregnancy
• Mudras are the poses that stimulate the mental and physical being. They have powerful effects on a woman's reproductive organs
• Meditation will help you resolve the fears and conflicts, which are common during pregnancy
• Yogic sleep or deep relaxation is particularly effective during pregnancy for physical and mental relaxation as well as for childbirth preparation

Practice these yoga routines regularly. You will not only be on your way to a healthy pregnancy but will also be giving your child an opportunity for best development.

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