As she works her way through the onset of labor and the inevitable birth of her first natural child, Angelina Jolie is practicing a daily yoga regimen to help her encourage the onset of labor and an easier birth.

This primarily mental preparation goes on throughout the entire birth process, and Jolie being in labor is now in full lotus mode.

Lifestyle Weekly spoke with Jolie's personal yoga guide, Maryam Askari, whom Jolie met in Paris. Says the instructor of her famous client, who according to reports is currently in labor in Namibia, the actress got into yoga when she was taking pre-natal classes with adopted son Maddox, 3.