Postnatal Yoga Training Course

Postnatal yoga classes not only create community and connections for mums, but with every increasingly time-pressed NHS services, postnatally women face a lack of support and education, your yoga classes for mums with little ones are needed now more than ever!

This Yoga Alliance Professionals accredited, specialist training course, will enable you to teach postnatal rehab yoga, covering diastasis-recti and prolapse, and mum & baby yoga classes. This business positive training also ensures you have the knowledge to run a yoga business creating, thriving classes and support for mums and their little ones.

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HOW THE COURSE IS DELIVERED

This innovative self-paced study training combines flexible, online training with excellent individual support, delivered through a creative mix of:

• At your pace training videos (18 hours)
• Recorded postnatal and mum & baby yoga classes for observation (4 hours)
• Monthly Question Sessions (10 hours, in-person)
• Personal support as you train via email. (4 hours, in-person)
• Personal reading, research, assignments and teaching practice (10 hours, self-study)
• Personal feedback on assignments and teaching practice (4 hours, in-person)
• 1 x 60-minute 1:2:1 mentoring call, with a business focus on teaching pregnancy yoga (1 hour in-person)
• Supportive course community on Circle, think FB but a million times better! ( 10 hours+, in-person)
• Outstanding post-course support with ongoing access to all online content, and our community space for the lifetime of the course*

*Lifetime access is defined as a minimum of 12 months of access post-course purchase to all online course content, and community space.

COURSE CONTENT (syllabus)

The postnatal Period

• A Mother’s health and wellbeing.
• The first 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and beyond.
• Common physical issues, including diastasis-recti, and wrist, back and knee pain.
• The impact of pregnancy, and labour on the pelvic floor and pelvis.
• The impact of breast-feeding on the body and our yoga practice.

Yoga for Postnatal rehabilitation 

• Postnatal specific asana practices 6 weeks, 12 weeks and beyond.
• Rehabilitation yoga for diastasis-recti
• Yoga for the “core”, the process of re-discovery.
• The pelvic floor; traditional approaches to the pelvic floor and functional use of the pelvic floor in movement.
• The use of the 7inch soft ball.
• Pranayama and relaxation in the postnatal period.

Mother and Baby Yoga Classes (6 weeks to 10 months)

• Baby development 6 weeks to 10 months.
• Asana for mother and baby together, including songs, movements, and sensory props.
• Yoga and simple massage for babies.
• Ways to hold, lift and carry baby safely.
• Breath work, mantra/sound, and relaxation for mother and baby.
• Class plans and sequences for mother and baby yoga.
• Real class observations.

The business of teaching postnatal yoga

• Class times, venues, and pricing for mum & baby yoga
• Options for delivering postnatal yoga, including 1:2:1 packages and online courses
• How to grow a thriving community of mums with little ones

TIME COMMITMENT

You can join the course anytime and it takes between 3 to 6 months to work through the course and complete assignments, dedicating roughly 3 hours a week, however, some students take longer or shorter time depending on their other time commitments. You are encouraged to complete the course within 6 months.

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