Ep94: How Prenatal Yoga Can Improve Your Entire Birth Experience with Deb Flashenberg
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Today I'm joined by the wonderful Deb Flashenberg, founder and director of the Prenatal Yoga Center in New York City. We talk all about the benefits of prenatal yoga, why learning how to align your body & baby are so helpful for birth, and how yoga can help you practice autonomy over your own body & birth experience.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, you'll learn about one of my favorite things, prenatal yoga. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankin's, a board certified OBGYN who's been in practice for nearly 15 years. I've had the |
| 0:22.7 | privilege of helping over 1,000 babies into this world, and I'm here to help you be calm, |
| 0:29.3 | confident, and empowered to have a beautiful pregnancy in birth. Quick note, this podcast is for |
| 0:35.5 | educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. |
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| 0:45.1 | Now let's get to it. |
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| 1:13.7 | Nicole Rankins.com forward slash email. Hello, welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 1:20.9 | This is episode number 94. Thank you for being here with me today. So I'm super excited to be talking today about prenatal yoga. |
| 1:30.0 | I talked about it back in episode 30 of the podcast, and I definitely suggest that you listen |
| 1:35.8 | to that one as well. |
| 1:36.9 | But in this episode, we're talking about it again from a different perspective. |
| 1:41.9 | I have Deb Fleschenberg on the podcast, and she is the founder and |
| 1:46.8 | director of the prenatal yoga center in New York City. Along with being a prenatal yoga teacher, |
| 1:52.4 | she's also a labor support dula, a Lamage childbirth educator, and a mother of two. |
| 1:58.8 | After the challenging birth of her first child, Deb became incredibly interested in pelvic health, |
| 2:05.4 | and she has also since earned her pelvic floor yoga certification. |
| 2:11.0 | And for the past four years, she has also enjoyed being the host of the podcast, Yoga, Birth, |
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