Teacher Trainings
YOGA ALLIANCE ACCREDITED 85-HOUR PRENATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE - NEW YORK
227 West 13th Street, NYC
Spring 2025:
Date TBD
Integral Yoga Institute - New York
Prenatal Yoga teacher training prepares Yoga teachers to teach Asana, Pranayama, chanting, visualization and relaxation techniques that support the specific needs of a pregnant person as well as a deep understanding of practices that should be avoided during pregnancy. The course includes an in depth review of anatomy and physiology of pregnancy. This training is an 85 hour Yoga Alliance accredited program.
Pre-requisite: 200 hr Yoga Teacher Certification.
ADVANCED PRENATAL YOGA TRAINING
NAMASTÉ YOGA, ANNECY, FRANCE - IN PERSON TRAINING
Date TBD
Namaste Yoga - Annecy, FRANCE
POSTPARTUM YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
NAMASTÉ YOGA, ANNECY, FRANCE - IN PERSON TRAINING
Namaste Yoga - Annecy, FRANCE
POSTPARTUM YOGA TEACHER TRAINING- ONLINE TRAINING
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE - NEW YORK CITY
Taught by Lara Kohn Thompson and Beth Donnelly Cabán
Open to certified Prenatal Yoga teachers. Doulas and health care professionals specializing in women’s health, pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal care are also welcome to apply. Some experience with Yoga is recommended, and an interview with the trainers may be required.
Personal Care, Adjustments, and Restrengthening. Emphasis is often placed on the process of labor and delivery, while little attention is given to the early postpartum period—a crucial and powerful time for a person’s recovery, well-being, and vitality.
In this training we will address aspects of the physical and emotional recovery and recuperation from childbirth. Learn tools you can use with people in the early weeks and months postpartum to support their healing and prevent injury. You will learn to guide your students through a gentle and safe asana practice, as well as tap into the power of deep relaxation, pranayama, and meditation.
We will gather tools from Therapeutic Yoga and include practical exercises and age-old techniques to assist people in recovering their core strength, rehabilitating and toning those areas that are most directly affected by pregnancy and childbirth: the pelvic floor and abdomen.
Learn ways to help people transition smoothly from their prenatal practice into the postpartum phase, and discuss ways to integrate those methods into people’s daily life and practice with a young child (or children).
Technological Requirements
Please be aware that you must have regular access to the Internet to participate in this online training. You must be able to run Zoom on your computer, and also have an active e-mail account for delivery of course materials.
Tuition: $550
Tuition includes a $100 non-refundable deposit due when submitting your application.
YOGA FOR LABOR & BIRTH TEACHER TRAINING - ONLINE TRAINING
DATES: TBD
Integral Yoga Institute - New York
This continuation of prenatal yoga teacher training will give you ways to guide people through practices that serve as comfort measures and coping strategies for late pregnancy, labor, birth and the immediate postpartum. The information in this training can be woven into prenatal yoga classes or it can be taught as a workshop or private session, and doulas and health care professionals are also welcome to attend.
Yoga for Labor and Birth will help people prepare physically, mentally, and emotionally for birth using various techniques and philosophies of Yoga along with the practice of effective pain-management strategies. Teachers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the anatomy and physiology of late pregnancy, labor, birth, and the immediate postpartum and effective ways to safeguard the universal needs of people through this process. We will explore positions, movement, and rhythms that influence fetal position, encourage progress in labor and support a greater sense of ease. We will work with breath and sound as ways to steady and calm the mind, induce relaxation, dissipate pain, and energize the body. We will work with touch—massage, counterpressure, acupressure points—as means to supply comfort, facilitate progress, and relieve pain. When the mind is free of tension and fear, the body is able to give birth with greater ease. We will practice relaxation techniques and visualizations for labor and birth.
Teachers will also learn about medical interventions and their potential impact on the birth process. Among the topics we will discuss are the use of heat and/or cold for comfort, eating and drinking as essential labor support, and the benefits of water in various forms.
Tuition
$525 / 475
