Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

This is an 85 hour training in accordance with Yoga Alliance standards. It is usually offered one weekend a month for four months.
​Led by Andrea Dixon (E-RYT 500), birth and postpartum doula.
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Andrea will teach you how to:
  • Connect deeply with a pregnant people'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 person'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 prenatal 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 people to embody and embrace this time
Location:
Blue Point Yoga
2816 Erwin Road, Suite 203
Durham, NC  27705

Please contact me for information about upcoming prenatal yoga teacher trainings and customized teacher training modules!