This training module focuses on developing your ability to provide pregnant women with safe, effective, and fun yoga practices throughout every stage of their pregnancy. The program emphasizes positive teaching techniques, proper sequencing, safety considerations, and easy modifications to make each class a fun and rewarding experience for everyone. Finally, you will learn not only how to create safe programs, but how to make those yoga practices transformative for your students or yourself during this special time in a woman’s life.

 

This module is suitable for:

 

• Yoga teachers who want to add prenatal yoga classes to their teaching schedule.

• Yoga teachers who want to be prepared for prenatal students who may attend classes.

• Pregnant women who have practiced yoga and want to continue their practice during their pregnancy.

• Medical and health professionals or childbirth educators who work with pregnant women (physicians, nurses, midwives, doulas, etc).

 

The Benefits of Yoga For Pregnant Women

 

• Improved strength, flexibility, and endurance

• Reduced back pain and sciatica

• Relieving stress and anxiety

• Improved sleep

• Improved breathing and lung capacity

• Better digestion

• Help in maintaining and improving posture

 

These are just a few of the many benefits for pregnant women when they learn yoga from you.

This training offers 12 Continued Education credits with Yoga Alliance.