My yoga workshops, "Fertility Concerns: Reducing Stress," offer a chance for women facing this special challenge to explore together how simple yoga postures and breathing exercises can help them manage their lives with less stress. The workshops emphasize stress reduction in a holistic sense, and also include some postures and other elements focused on fertility. Please contact us with any questions or to arrange a workshop for your organization.

There is documented evidence that mind-body approaches, including yoga, can help boost fertility rates. However, evidence about specific correlations between yoga and fertility is mostly anecdotal. Here are links to some articles about stress, fertility and yoga:

"Infertility and Stress," Alice D. Domar:

http://www.boulderpsychotherapy.com/articles/Infertility/InfertilityandStress.pdf

"Alternative and Complementary Therapy: Yoga for Infertility":

http://www.fertilitycommunity.com/fertility/alternative-and-complementary-therapy-yoga-for-infertility.html

"Fertility Yoga":

http://www.sharedjourney.com/nat/yoga.html

"Yoga for Fertility and Conception," Jaki Nett:

http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/958

"When You Want to Have a Baby...But Can't," Judith Hanson Lasater:

http://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/586

You may also want to learn more about the general effects of stress. Here are links to articles about the physiology of stress, including some articles about how yoga can help:

"Physiology of the Stress Response," Stephen Palmer: http://www.managingstress.com/articles/physiology.htm

"This is Your Body on Stress," Roger Cole:

http://www.yogajournal.com/health/1514

"Inhale, Exhale, Relax!," Richard Rosen:

http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/1523