Hormones have a powerful influence on how we feel day-to-day, as well as on our fertility and overall health. Stress is a major factor affecting hormonal imbalance. As a stress reducer, yoga is a natural way to support and balance our hormonal system. But yoga does more than this!

As a long-time Yoga for Fertility teacher and fertility coach, I’ve seen that fertility challenges often require us to make many difficult decisions, sometimes without very clear information.

For every decision we face, there are two sorts of choices.

I recently received a note from Nancy, a Yoga for Fertility student: “I think my yoga practice really helped us achieve our dream of having a child. It was only when I was truly willing to let go and become parents in whatever ways manifested themselves that I finally got pregnant. Lynn reminded me that this is a basic yogic principle.”

In yoga, we call it the “monkey mind” because the mind likes to run around and get us into all sorts of trouble, just like a mischievous monkey. It runs off into the past, looking for things we wish would have happened differently, so that we can stress about them. It runs off into the future, looking for things that might or might not happen, that we can worry about.

When we have a thought, our brain makes neuropeptides, which are chemical messengers that take information about that thought to receptors on the cells. Scientists have found these receptor cells in every organ of the body!

While fertility coaching is always beneficial, there are several specific points where I highly recommend a fertility coaching session: Wouldn’t you love to have a guide who has been there before, who can help you avoid the pitfalls, help you ask the right questions, and head you on the most direct route to success?