The two week wait (2WW) for many of us can be a time of angst and uncertainty. It feels likes time almost stops and you are witness to every moment in every minute. Emotions and symptoms are heightened and you literally forget to breathe. Your body enters into a holding space while your mind is on a fast washing machine spin cycle. Your thoughts become a game of tug and war between hope and remaining positive, and is particularly difficult if you’ve had failed IVF cycles or miscarriages. So which yoga poses are best to support you during your two week wait?
Suppta Baddhakonasanana (Reclining Bound Angle Pose): Reclining with pillows supporting your spine and pillows under your knees and elbows if necessary with the soles of the feet together can be a powerful reclining position.
Upavistha Konasana: Bolsters (pillows) can be stacked to support torso and adjusted so forehead rests on top.
Savasana (Dead Mans Pose): Traditional Savsana, is a constructive rest pose during this time. A pillow can be placed beneath the knees as well. You can hold your hands on or above your pelvis in the downward facing triangle radiating warmth and breath into the belly.
Supported Bridge: Placing a pillow beneath the hips with the knees up to the ceiling can be helpful post transfer to work with the apana flow in the body. Even when you are in bridge on a pillow, small pelvis rocks with breath are helpful. We want to keep the blood and circulation moving and feeding the reproductive organs, which increases the likelihood of a healthy environment to conceive.
Vipari Karani (Feet up the Wall): Placing the pelvis on a pillow and putting your legs up the wall can be done in bed rest as well. This is a powerful immune booster and can aid in pooling energy in the pelvis and relaxing the reproductive organs increasing circulation and vitality.
Pelvic Rocks and Circles: help to stimulate the sacral plexus with the breath.
Supported Child’s Pose: Using a bolster, place the bolster between your knees. Allow your forehead to rest on a pillow, blanket or forearms. This is a powerful relaxation pose inducing rest, digest and nest.
