Pregnancy yoga training course

Pregnancy yoga classes create community and connections for mums-to-be, who need this now more than ever. Train to teach pregnancy yoga, support women through their pregnancy and births and create these much-needed connections.

This Yoga Alliance Professionals accredited, specialist training course, will enable you to teach pregnancy yoga and yoga for birth, safely and effectively, creating thriving classes and communities for mums-to-be. This business-positive training also ensures you have the knowledge to run a yoga business teaching pregnancy yoga.

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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 pregnancy 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 - Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth

Anatomy and Physiology 

• The physiological changes, hormones and emotions from conception to labour.
• Labour, a ‘normal’ labour and other courses of labour.
• The pelvis and pelvic floor in pregnancy and labour.

Complications in pregnancy

• Common conditions of pregnancy, including pelvic girdle pain.
• The dark side of pregnancy, bereavement and grief.

Yoga Asana

• Yoga through the 3 trimesters.
• Optimal foetal positioning and asana.
• Precautions, prohibitions and modifications including safely integrating women with pelvic girdle pain into a class.
• Using props in asana: gym balls, pilates balls, blocks, bolsters, cushions, chairs, and straps.
• The pelvic floor; traditional kegels, postural asanas for pelvic floor and the integration of the pelvic floor in movement.
• Yoga for birth preparation and discussing labour with sensitivity.

Pranayama, meditation and visualisation 

• Breathing practices for pregnancy and labour.
• Working with sounds, mantra and mudra.
• Visualisations, affirmations and meditation for pregnancy and labour.

Planning and teaching

• Lesson planning and class sequences for pregnancy yoga.
• Real class observations

The business of teaching pregnancy yoga

• Class times, venues, pricing and workshops for pregnancy yoga
• How to grow a thriving community of mums-to-be

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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