The four hour workshop is designed for yoga teachers to gain extra knowledge on how to incorporate postnatal women safely and effectively in to general yoga asana classes
Sally will introduce you to what is safe and unsafe to teach your postnatal clients and how to integrate mothers into your general classes, as well as more specific techniques for postnatal mothers.
Learning Outcomes:
How does being postnatal change the abdominal area, pelvic floor and pelvis
Yoga for the Postnatal Woman – Practical Session
How to incorporate a postnatal woman in to a general yoga class
Sally Parkes BSc has an honours degree in Sports and Exercise Physiology and is the author of best selling book The Students Manual of Yoga Anatomy. She has been teaching health and fitness since 1998 and certified as a Vinyasa Yoga teacher in 2004 with Paul Dallaghan.
Sally now runs retreats in the UK and Yoga Teacher Training programs in Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga and Pregnancy Yoga in the UK, Spain and Dubai. She presents fun and upbeat master classes and workshops at various health and well-being conferences including The Om Yoga Show in London and YogaFest Amsterdam, and writes regular articles for Ultra Fit, Yoga Magazine, Om Yoga Magazine and Gurgle Magazine, and is a book editor for publications such as ‘The Healing Yoga Bible’.
With a background in Iyengar and Ashtanga Yoga, Sally’s style of teaching Vinyasa Yoga is flowing and strong but allows time for the practitioner to align themselves and maintain steady breathing. She has also studied extensively with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, a leader in the field of women’s health, and draws from this knowledge when teaching her pre and post-natal yoga teacher training courses.
Sally is a registered Senior Yoga Teacher, an Experienced Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance US and a Yoga Elder with The Independent Yoga Network. She is also registered with FEDANT as a Ante-Natal Educator.