Pregnancy comes with all sorts of aches and pains as your sweet bundle of joy rapidly grows. Relax and stretch your muscles by attending a prenatal yoga class. Prenatal yoga classes come with an added bonus, too! Outside of relaxation, it helps prepare your body for birth by stretching and strengthening your muscles and building your flexibility.
Guide to Prenatal Yoga Classes around Indy:
Central
City Yoga
Phone: 317-920-YOGA (9642)
Address: 2442 Central Ave, Indianapolis
Description: Come experience a radiant pregnancy and prepare for a healthy birth in Prenatal Yoga with Kelly Shull. New students and experienced yoginis alike will enjoy this unique balance between an active and meditative practice. Yoga creates space and ease in the body and connects the heart and mind. Prenatal yoga can also aid in the relief of swollen ankles, lower back pain, sciatica, nausea, and depression. Connect with your breath and deepen the bond with your baby and your rapidly changing body by learning to trust your body’s innate wisdom. Prenatal Yoga will provide the calm stillness you desire while building the necessary strength and stamina you will need for your growing belly, birth, and motherhood. Family, friends, and partners are welcome to join in the practice. City Yoga has plenty of blocks, blankets, and bolsters but you are welcome to bring a pillow from home for a comfy final relaxation.
Invoke Studio
Phone: 317-631-9642
Address: 970 Fort Wayne Avenue, Suite C, Indianapolis
Description: Gracefully flow through guided meditation, breathing, and movement that cultivates your ability to relax while strengthening the muscles that support your growing baby. This class balances the physical, spiritual and emotional bodies through a flowing series of postures, offering modifications for different stages of pregnancy. All levels welcome.
North
Body Mind and Core
Phone: 317-696-0720
Address: 1344 South Rangeline Road, Carmel
Description: Body Mind and Core’s prenatal class is designed to meet all the changes that women experience through the stages of pregnancy. The class will explore breathing techniques, lots of juicy hip openers and strengthening the body for birth. This class is designed for women prenatal, postnatal, those participating in fertility treatments, and those seeking to better understand their body.
Indy Parks Prenatal Yoga
Phone: 317-327-7275
Address: Broad Ripple Park, Meeting Room
Description: Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and enjoy the physical and emotional benefits of prenatal yoga. The class will help prepare for birth, and help tone up after birth. It will also help reduce aches and pains related to pregnancy and help speed up recovery postpartum. Please bring a yoga mat and a dense pillow or a thick blanket to class. Registrations for the January 6 – March 2 session are still being accepted. Or check out the March 16 – May 4 session.
Invoke Wellness Center
Phone: 317-802-1374
Address: 1315 W. 86th St., Suite D, Indianapolis
Description: Gracefully flow through guided meditation, breathing, and movement that cultivates your ability to relax while strengthening the muscles that support your growing baby. This class balances the physical, spiritual and emotional bodies through a flowing series of postures, offering modifications for different stages of pregnancy. All levels welcome.
Source Yoga
Phone: 317-915-9642
Address: 8609 E. 116th Street, Fishers
Description: Taught by certified prenatal yoga instructor and Birth Doula, Mimi Sosa, this soothing class guides moms-to-be through gentle yoga poses to increase energy, reduce stress, and support a healthier pregnancy and delivery.
If you have or know of a local yoga studio with prenatal classes that we left off of this list, let us know at [email protected].
