Virtual Yoga for Fertility Care
Personalized holistic yoga supporting reproductive & menstrual health on your preconception journey
Class Description
This offering is designed to holistically foster fertility, promote well-being, and support preconception on your family planning or formation journey – lifestyle improvement preparation, preserving your fertility, egg or sperm retrieval or freezing, trying to conceive (TTC), IVF and other fertility treatments, embryo freezing, treatment recovery, embryo transfer, or waiting periods – using the 8 limbs of yoga. These sessions also support monthly menstrual health. Benefits of Yoga for Fertility Care • Reduces stress and cortisol levels naturally by engaging the parasympathetic nervous system, which may boost egg quantity or quality and implantation • Promotes circulation to reproductive organs and reduces discomfort from treatment side effects through safe yoga postures and dynamic movement • Aids in maintaining physical strength, mobility, energy, and focus on and off the mat • Eases tension and reduces anxiety by providing a supportive community nurturing fertility, creating a comprehensive experience that promotes physical and emotional well-being • For those with ovaries: Excludes inversions, twists, or high-impact pelvic movement so you can maintain practice while reducing risk of exercise-induced ovarian torsion • Yoga for fertility over 6 weeks was shown to reduce anxiety by 20%. (Jasani, 2016) Class includes yogic tools such as fellowship (sangha), yamas (restraints), niyamas (observances), asana (posture), pranayama (breath, life force), pratyahara (sense withdrawal), dharana (concentration), and dhyana (meditation). Preparation • Wear Comfortable clothes, layers if you run cold • Bring a yoga mat, water bottle, two yoga blocks (or books), and a yoga blanket (or bath towel) • Ground floor studio, bathroom, lounge • Register ahead, class package available Who Should Attend? This preconception class is open to all sexes, genders, and levels of experience with yoga. This class can be beneficial to students seeking to, • Manage stress or balance hormone levels, even when not trying to conceive or preserve fertility • Foster long-term fertility years in advance of trying to conceive, egg freezing or fertilization • Practice in community whether forming family naturally or with the help of science • Benefit from yoga during egg/sperm donor selection, embryo results or implantation waiting period, surrogacy, adoption • Support monthly cycles, menstruation, pelvic floor
Cancellation Policy
Public class or private session reservations may be rescheduled online no later than 12 hours in advance. Public class or private session reservations may be canceled no later than 24 hours in advance. In all other cases, such as no show, classes are paid in full and non-transferrable, non-exchangeable, and non-refundable.
Class Location
Private yoga studio behind Mobu dance studio at 1605 Church St. 1605 Church Street, San Francisco, California, USA