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Q&A: Is Backbending During Pregnancy Safe or Not?

By Sarah Powers — 2007

Different yoga systems have different answers. Sarah Powers addresses the debate of whether backbending during pregnancy is safe.

Read on www.yogajournal.com

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Diane Stein’s Guide to Goddess Craft

Originally published as The Women’s Spirituality Book, this guide describes the beliefs and practices of the Goddess craft as it relates to the daily lives of women. It emphasizes achieving power and control through healing, visualization, Tarot, and the women’s I Ching.

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Diane Stein
2024
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Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul: Stories to Warm the Heart and Honor the Relationship

The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most profound bonds in life. A mother feels her daughter's first kick during pregnancy, labors to bring her daughter into the world and watches as she takes her first breath of life.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dorothy Firman
2024
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Daughters and Mothers: Making it Work

The mother/daughter relationship is one of the most intense relationships a woman will ever experience-it is strong and primary. This first and essential relationship has a powerful, though often subtle, effect on an adult woman's interactions with her mate, children, friends-and herself.

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Julie Firman, Dorothy Firman
2003
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Peace and Freedom: Black Women’s Yoga and Health Freedom

Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D. is a Professor of Black Women's Studies and serves as Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.

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Stephanie Y. Evans
2021
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Stress Management Speaker Series with Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, professor and director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. The title for her talk is "Black Women’s Yoga Memoirs Before and After 1975: An Intellectual History of Inner Peace, Self-Care and Stress."

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Stephanie Y. Evans
2020
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A New Way to Think About the Transition to Motherhood | Alexandra Sacks

When a baby is born, so is a mother—but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of transition to motherhood is often silenced by shame or misdiagnosed as postpartum depression.

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2018
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The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga: The Essential Guide to Complete Mind/Body Fitness

Approximately 16 millions Americans now practice yoga on a regular basis. Devotees can't rave enough about this ancient art of meditation, breathing, and physical postures that calms the mind and slims the body. Unlike fitness fads, yoga is worth the hype.

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Kathryn Budig
2012
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Slim Calm Sexy Yoga: 210 Proven Yoga Moves for Mind/Body Bliss

Study after study has shown that yoga offers a multitude of benefits for today's stressed out, busy woman, including a trimmer body, stronger immunity, lower blood pressure, improved mood, better sex, and more! In this comprehensive manual, you'll find more than 200 body-shaping and life-changing...

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Tara Stiles
2010
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Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships

A multidisciplinary approach to health to mother coping with the challenges of raising young children in the twenty-first century presents hundreds of practical ideas on ways to help mothers enhance their moods, promote energy and health, and build intimacy with partners, discussing diet, stress...

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Rick Hanson, Jan Hanson, Ricki Pollycove
2002
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