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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.


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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!
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