Table 2.

Examples of M-Yoga instructor’s language

Bring your awareness and focus inward to your breath

Watch your inhalation and your exhalation

Allow your inhalation to bring an extension to your spine

Allow your exhalation to bring a release of your shoulders

Observe the base of your posture equally balancing your weight on the four corners of each foot

Move into the posture without jerking or forcing

Observe your breath and body without commenting or analyzing

Observe and accept where your body is today, moving with awareness and modifying the pose as necessary

Bring your attention to your breath and to your center where your baby is, always practicing with awareness of your growing baby

Inhale the breath and lengthen the spine, on your exhalation move into the pose

Start the pose from afresh as we repeat it on the second side

Practice the pose for your body today without judgment

Observing if you need to come of a pose, and coming out of the pose with the same awareness and attention as we had going into the pose

Release more completely into the pose with each exhalation

Relinquish your will to do, and allow yourself to be in the pose