I believe:
Yoga is more than the poses
Pregnancy is a normal condition of the adult human
Yoga teachers have a unique role in pregnancy and birth
You're in the right place
Stop panicking when a pregnant student arrives for class
Learn everything you need to know to support your students in every phase of the pregnancy journey - from asana to mindset.
Add to your teaching toolbox by discovering, unpacking, and reimagining your biases, stories, and assumptions about fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and the myriad ways we experience parenthood.
Level I is the essentials
What happens in a pregnant body?
Learn about the trimester-based body changes that most impact a yoga practice.
- Why the first trimester is a whirlwind, why students feel tired, and how to support common challenges like nausea
- What is behind the second trimester modifications for the asana practice (and what NOT to say!)
- Additional considerations for the third trimester
Become a GREAT resource
The scope of your work is to educate students about their bodies, minds, and spirits. You do not have to know everything in order to resource your students. You just need to know where to send them next.
You will learn how to best resource your students with quality information & support.
Change the culture
The most powerful role we have as yoga & wellness professionals is our capacity to broaden perspective and support new stories. Culture is an agreement. We share the responsibility of creating the culture we desire.
You will learn how to foster a community and subvert unconscious & unskillful stories.
Please Preview
Help yourself to the introductory curriculum, available as a free preview and be sure you've taken my free course - The Five Things You Need to Know to Support Pregnant Yoga Students.
You'll get to explore actual coursework and see if our teaching & learning styles are a match.
Each module is formatted with short video lectures that are skillfully edited to make the most of your time with printable handouts to take with you.
Curriculum
Yoga is more than the poses
And I have built video lectures as well as downloads to remind you what to add in support of pregnant students, what to avoid, and what to keep in mind to elevate your vocabulary, phrasing, and cuing.
Curious beyond pregnancy?
I've got you
My live, virtual ongoing community is The Holding Space Ship, perfect for yoga teachers whose work is so often this nebulous idea of "holding space." Every week, we get together to learn and discuss what it is and how to do it better.
Yoga teachers are great resources - if you have students who are caring for a loved one after a hospitalization, this course offers some best practices to do it well. it is free and does not engage with any of my marketing materials.
And I have several courses for those who currently teach Yin yoga and want to add to their toolbox.
