Prenatal yoga

Prenatal yoga is as interesting as it is complicated. You’re dealing with hormonal women who don’t want to work out. Pre and post-natal regimens can only be crafted on learning the client’s history. Soha Ali Khan is experimental. I began training her in her fourth month of pregnancy. The thing with pregnancy is that things change by the week. There is so much that happens, especially in the second trimester, that the body can feel significantly different in the first two weeks of the fifth month than in the last two. We had to alter workouts accordingly. With Soha, we made her do exercises like sweeping the floor while doing a duck walk, in her fifth month. 

That is something we couldn’t do in the first month because it involves deep squats which would put pressure on the groin. One celebrity came to me with a low-lying placenta. I trained her in seated and supine postures over routines that changed weekly. Her placenta was in place in five months.