Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

This is an 85 hour training in accordance with Yoga Alliance standards. It is offered one weekend a month for four months. Led by Andrea Dixon (E-RYT 500), birth and postpartum doula.

Working with women during the special time of pregnancy is such a joy. It offers unique challenges and is incredibly rewarding.

From this teacher training, you will learn how to
        create sacred space for women to
                 honor their transformation
                                        to motherhood.

You will emerge from this training with the
                       practical tools and confidence
                                            to teach prenatal yoga classes.

In Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, students learn to:

·       Connect deeply with a pregnant woman’s experience and teach from a compassionate, empathetic place

·       Understand the culture of pregnancy and birth in the U.S. and other parts of the world, and how cultural norms affect a
        woman’s experience

·       Safely instruct prenatal classes, modify poses for pregnancy, and offer hands-on assists to pregnant students

·       Anatomy of pregnancy and birth

·       Instruct pregnant students in regular classes

·       Contraindications, cautions and safety during pregnancy

·       Address common pregnancy related complaints (tight hips, leg cramps, morning sickness, etc) with yoga

·       Teach specialty classes/workshops in restorative yoga and pre-natal partner yoga

·       Teach yoga for labor and birth preparation

·       Gain confidence through practice teaching and critique

·       Teaching skills unique to pre-natal yoga

·       Guide birth visualizations and meditations

·       Find your authentic teaching voice, specific to pre-natal instruction

·       Pranayama practices for pregnancy

·       View pregnancy and birth as a sacred, transformative time, and learn how yoga and mindfulness practices can
        empower women to embody and embrace this time

Location:
Blue Point Yoga
2816 Erwin Road, Suite 203
Durham, NC 27705

Dates:
February 27-March 1, 2015
March 27-29, 2015
April 24-26, 2015
May 29-31, 2015

Cost:
Early bird (paid in full by 12/1/2014): $975
Regular (paid in full by 2/20/2015): $1200

Please contact me for information about customized teacher training modules!