Postnatal yoga classes not only create community and connections for mums but with increasingly timed 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 postnatal yoga teacher 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.

How the course is delivered

This innovative, online training course contains all of Amy's 12+ years of experience and knowledge in teaching pregnancy yoga classes and running a yoga business supporting bumps, mums and little ones.

Delivered as follows:

• At your pace, self-led, training videos (12 hours)
• Recorded live postnatal and mum & baby yoga classes for observation (2 hours)
• The business of teaching postnatal yoga training (2 hours)
• Personal support as you train via email.
• Individual feedback on assignments.
• Access to Amy's supportive yoga teacher's FaceBook community.
• 12 months of ongoing access to all course content.
• Access to any live rounds of course*

*Live round dates 2025 6th, 13th, 20th June & 4th, 11th, 18th July

The Course Content (syllabus)

The postnatal Period

• A Mother’s health and well-being.
• 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 breastfeeding 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 7-inch softball.
• 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.
• Breathwork, 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.
  

Who is the course for?

This training is open to all yoga teachers, and non-yoga teachers from related professions such as midwifery, medicine, doula, health workers, fitness instructors, body workers or education. The course is for those who want to teach yoga to mums-to-be and use yoga to create community and support for women at a time in their lives when they need it the most.

With ever-increasing time-pressed NHS services, your postnatal yoga classes will become a source of support, information and positivity, to guide women through early motherhood. This is needed now more than ever!

The course is also for those suited to this type of training, who are looking for a flexible online course that they can do around their other commitments.

Please note it is not for those who struggle with self-paced training.

Time commitment

You can join the course anytime and it takes roughly between 2 to 4 months to complete.

There are approximately 16 hours of pre-recorded training, combined with additional reading, study and assignments.

*Assignments are submission of a postnatal yoga class lesson plan and a 15 to 30-minute recording of you teaching a postnatal yoga class (with to without baby)

**You have a total of 12 months to complete the course and access to the training and all online content.

Hi, I'm Amy!

I'm an experienced yoga teacher, trainer and educator, who has a deep commitment to ensuring women have access to high-quality pregnancy yoga classes. I have had the honour of teaching postnatal yoga for over 12 years, and for the first part of my teaching career I built a thriving yoga business mainly around teaching yoga to mums and mums-to-be, I would love to help you do the same!

A yoga teacher of 15+ years and educator of 25+ years I am home to trusted yoga teacher training.

However, deciding who to train with is an important decision, if you have any questions for me about this training course do feel free to email me at [email protected]

Terms and conditions

The course costs £497, payment made in full, or 5 monthly payments of £100.

Refund Policy

Due to the online nature of the course once your place is paid for it is non-refundable. If you opt for the 5-month payment plan and miss a payment you will lose access to all online course content. All payments are non-refundable.

Completion of the course (T&Cs)

Students should complete 100% of all course content and assignments, upon completion a certificate will be issued with the IPHM, and you will be qualified to teach postnatal and mum & baby yoga.

Access and time limits

You can start this course today.

You have 12 months of access to all online course material from your initial course purchase. You also have access to any live round of this course within your 12 months.

*Live round dates 2025 6th, 13th, 20th June & 4th, 11th, 18th July

Why 12 months? - Online courses offer flexibility, but I want you to finish this course and this time limit helps you to complete this epic training.

Accreditation

The course is accredited by International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM). However, you do not need to be an IPHM member to complete this training and teach pregnancy yoga.

You can see my IPHM listing HERE

By purchasing this course you are agreeing to all the T&Cs laid out above, including the refund policy.