Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training
£395.00
This training is open to all yoga teachers, and non-yoga teachers from related professions such as midwifery, medicine, doula, health workers, baby massage and fitness instructors, body workers or education.
With ever-increasing time-pressed NHS services, your pregnancy yoga classes will become a source of support, information and positivity to guide women through their pregnancy and birth journey. This is needed now more than ever!
Mums and mums-to-be need community, connection, support and education now more than ever, and your yoga classes can provide all of this. This pregnancy yoga teacher 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 know how to run a yoga business, teaching pregnancy yoga.
COURSE CURRICULUM
Anatomy and Physiology
- The physiological changes, hormones and emotions from conception to labour.
- Labour, ‘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
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