Since yoga and doula services have well documented positive influences on stress reduction and teach life skills for dealing with stress and trauma we can have major impacts on reducing generational trauma and increasing positive gene expression that can impact multiple generations.

Teaching pregnant people to regulate their nervous systems using movement and mindfulness and creating a regular practice can help make changes in the actual tissue of the brain and gene expression. This can give them tools to handle the stress of having being a new parent. When new parents have tools to regulate their own nervous systems they will also be able to affect the nervous systems of their babies giving them the building blocks to be able to handle stress more effectively themselves.

This has far reaching impacts leading to:

• Fewer behavioral issues
• Fewer learning disabilities
• Better mental health for children
• Improves cognitive and motor development
• Reduces the chances for mood disorders and behavioral issues.
• Improves stress reactivity of infants…which has been linked to emotional temperament later in life
• Improves infant growth
• Decreases chances for low birth weight & preterm birth
• Increase resilience and ability to regulate their nervous systems