50-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training: The Foundations
50-Hour In-Person Prenatal YTT
Starts May 9th, 2024
Calling all yoga teachers, midwives, doulas, other health professionals, and experienced yoga students who have a desire to learn and/or teach prenatal yoga!
If you are a certified yoga teacher and feel inadequately prepared to assist, modify, and collaborate with your pregnant clients then this training is especially for you!
Our prenatal teacher training will teach you the specifics of the anatomy of a pregnant body, yoga poses for each trimester including the fourth trimester (postpartum), and props that best support the ever-changing body. Most importantly you will leave this training confidently knowing how to build your own prenatal yoga sets intelligently & intuitively for this diverse community.
You will learn prenatal hatha postures, kundalini kriyas, and healing meditations in this training as well as relaxation techniques and pranayama: skills that can be used throughout pregnancy as well as birth and the weeks following.
Our prenatal teacher training will ALSO teach you how to create and nurture community with your students, including special rites/celebrations to offer for mamas closer to their birthing time and establishing a safe and sacred space for their classes. We will discuss the cultural and ethnic diversity of our county and ways to support all family configurations. You will learn how to teach from an inclusive vs. assumptive position.
Throughout this training, you will also observe prenatal yoga classes in real-time with a de-briefing period immediately following. The practicum experience will provide a deeper understanding of the nature/structure of a class.
During this training, we will be creating a Brave Space - a place where we can explore our biases and blind spots, express any fears that may come up and seek support from a loving sangha. You will also experience a Kundalini Yoga rebirthing kriya to clear any subconscious stories you may be personally carrying and experience a deep sense of peace and renewal.
When you teach prenatal yoga, you are supporting people at a very important time in their life and your presence is meaningful. It is both an honor and a privilege to work with this population.
Who Can Take This Training?
This 50-hour comprehensive prenatal yoga teacher training is for yoga teachers, students with 2 years of practice, midwives, doulas, and other health professionals who have a desire to teach prenatal yoga. A working knowledge of basic alignment principles is required and all participants must have completed a 200-hour basic teacher training or have at least two years of yoga practice.
This course is a prerequisite for later modules that include Prenatal Partner Yoga, Prenatal Yoga: Pregnancy after Infertility, Prenatal Yoga Anatomy 2.0, and the 4th Trimester (to be held later this year, dates TBD).
Course Dates and Hours
This training will take place in person at Indigo Yoga in Walnut Creek, and your attendance is required. If you are not able to attend a session, please make sure to discuss this with your instructors before signing up for this training.
This training is held over two 4-day weekends from May 9-12 & 16-19, 2024. Times below include a 1-hour break each day.
- Thursday: 6pm-9pm
- Friday: 12pm-5pm
- Saturday: 8:30am-5:30pm
- Sunday: 11am-7pm
Lead Teacher,
Roxanna Kopp Smith
Roxanna is a certified Hatha, Kundalini, and Khalsa Way yoga teacher and has also been a Montessori preschool teacher since 1990. Since having her own children 25 years ago, she has been especially interested in supporting pregnant women through prenatal yoga, and is inspired to educate yoga teachers, students, doulas, and midwives on how to use the tools of yoga to support pregnant people and new parents in all stages of the childbearing year and beyond. She weaves her experience as a Montessori preschool teacher, Psychologist, Childbirth Educator, and mother into her work.
Roxanna currently teaches prenatal yoga at Indigo and is passionate about not only teaching and supporting mamas but creating community and lasting connections in a mindful, supportive and nourishing environment.
Course Fee
Tuition:
- $1,395 Early Bird (ends April 10, 2024) - Save $105!
- $1,500 After 4/10/2024
Refund & Cancellation Policy
- All cancellation requests must be in writing.
- 50% refund if canceled by April 20, 2024.
- No refunds after 4/20/2024.
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