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 birth, and create these much needed connections.

This 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 know to run a yoga business teaching pregnancy yoga.

How the course is delivered

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

• At your pace training videos
• Recorded pregnancy yoga classes for observation
• Monthly question sessions
• Personal support as you train and beyond via email
• Personal reading, research, assignments and teaching practice
• Personal feedback on assignments and teaching practice
• Supportive course private community away from FaceBook
• Outstanding post-course support with 12 months of ongoing access to all online content, and community

*Please note enrollment on this course is closing on 1st June 2024. You have 12 months to complete the training and access to the online content and community. New course coming soon, join the waitlist HERE.

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 pregnancy yoga classes will become a source of support, information and positivity, to guide women through their journey of both pregnancy and birth. 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. It is not for those who struggle with self-paced training.

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 4 hours a week, you are encouraged to complete the course within 6 months and need to have completed the training by 1st June 2025.

The Course Content (syllabus)

Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth

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
  
  

PLEASE NOTE THIS COURSE IS NOW CLOSED FOR ENROLMENT NEW COURSE COMING SOON JOIN THE WAITLIST HERE

Terms and conditions

The course costs £549, payment made in full, or 4 monthly payments of £140, enrolment is closing on 1st June 2024, from which point you will have 12 months of access to the course.

Refund and Cancellation Policy (T&Cs)

Due to the online nature of the course once your place is paid for it is non-refundable.

Attendance and completion of the course (T&Cs)

Students should complete 100% of all course hours, content and assignments, upon completion a certificate will be issued, and you will be qualified to teach pregnancy yoga.

Course to be completed by 1st June 2025, certification will not be issued beyond this point.

Access and time limits

You have 'lifetime' access to all online content and our community space. "Lifetime access" is defined as 12 months from course purchase. You will have access to the course, community and Amy's support until 1st June 2025.

Accreditation

The course is accredited by International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) and as a Yoga Alliance Professionals Specialist training course.

However, you do not need to be a member of either awarding body to complete this training.

You can see my IPHM listing HERE

You can see my YAP listing HERE

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

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