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 people 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 people to honor their transformation to parenthood.

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

In Prenatal Yoga Teaching Training, students learn to:

  • Connect deeply with a pregnant person'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 pregnant 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 prenatal yoga
  • Guide birth visualizations and meditations
  • Find your authentic teaching voice, specific to prenatal 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 teacher trainings and customized teacher training modules!