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Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Starts: Friday, January 15, 2021 - 09:00

Ends: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 18:00

With:

Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Lisa White and guest tutors.

A message fromUma Dinsmore – Tuli
"I am delighted to welcome you to this exciting opportunity to complete my Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training course ONLINE for the first time! Sixteen years of running this course live has lead to the opportunity to share these authentic and effective teachings of Yoga Therapy to support and nurture pregnant and birthing women. I have combined the best material from the live courses together with the learning support technology of online circles, plus excellent video and audio material to share this course with you Live ONLINE."
Additional material will cover the art and science of sharing Pregnancy Yoga ONLINE!

This Live Online Course will include

Daily meetings on Zoom in a variety of different learning environments.
Full group live practice of Yoga Nidra (twice daily)
Full group live practice of mantra, sound work, pranayama (breath work) and asana, mudra, bandha, pregnancy Yoga.
Full group live lectures and talks from Uma and Contributing Tutors (twice daily)
Shakti sharing circles of nine students maximum, held by an experienced tutor (daily)
Pair work for discussion and learning consolidation and exploration

Eligibility is the same as for the usual LIVE version of this course - its is primarily for yoga teachers, but we extend a warm welcome to non-yoga teachers with a specialist interest in women's health and pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery.

This course is suitable for all, Including pregnant woman, also postnatal women and babies are welcome!

There is so much in yoga practice to support and nourish a mother-to-be, and there is so much in yoga that can be harmful or unhelpful during pregnancy, birth and postnatally. This uniquely comprehensive training in yoga for pregnancy and birth empowers you to share deeply nourishing practices of yoga for women during pregnancy, childbirth and in the immediate postnatal period.The course was established in in 2002, with the intention to share many of the less well-known practices of yoga that are of special benefit both to the pregnant woman and her unborn child. Movement, breath and Total Yoga Nidra are shared in supportive circles, and practices for postnatal healing and childbirth are also taught. Important issues such as early pregnancy loss, anxiety, grief and other challenges of pregnancy are addressed. Pregnant women and mothers with babes in arms are warmly welcome.

About the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

With contributions from a midwife and a detailed training manual this course provides both the theoretical and practical training necessary to teach yoga classes specifically for pregnant women. Sessions will include mantra, mudra, nada yoga and pranavidya practices, encouraging you to think for yourself and to develop your own style and method of teaching pregnancy yoga within a clear framework of safety guidelines. This course also includes some time on the early stage of postnatal recovery.

The emphasis of the course is on supporting healthy pregnancy through appropriate holistic yoga practices. There will be opportunities for teaching practice, as well as informal assessments during the course and you should be prepared for both a short pre-course assignment and written work during the course.

Uniquely, each day of this intensive training course begins with specially designed yoga nidra practices designed for pregnancy, and exquisitely beautiful meditations, sound practices and breath work that gives all students on the course a direct experience of the subtle power of yoga to support the transition to motherhood. There are also deep relaxation and sound practices in the afternoons, and a lot of direct and practical encounters with restorative yoga. The emphasis on practice experience and subtle yoga practice makes the learning process effortless and enjoyable.

The course has always included sessions on dealing with particular maternal adaptations to pregnancy which often cause difficulty, for example, pelvic girdle pain (PGP), pregnancy anaemia, high and low blood pressure, dizziness, heartburn, exhaustion, oedema, insomnia, haemorrhoids, lax ligaments, vulval varicosities and digestive disturbances. Strategies for dealing with these conditions include techniques for prevention, management, relief and on going self-care in one-to-one and group settings, as well as teaching a range of modifications for therapeutically appropriate yoga responses to these issues in general classes and in pregnancy yoga classes. Additionally, an entire afternoon is included on listening skills and basic ways to respond appropriately with yoga therapeutic techniques in relation to anxiety, grief, pregnancy loss, still birth and miscarriage.

In addition to specific skills for dealing with pregnancy related ailments, students also gain valuable transferable skills and experience in therapeutic and restorative yoga propping and yoga nidra, which is practised twice daily on this course

Pregnancy Yoga as Yoga Therapy

This Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training is entirely rooted in Yoga Therapy. It was originally developed by Uma as one of the modules of the old Yoga Biomedical Trust Yoga Therapy Diploma course and formed the basis of some of the trainings which she used to co-teach for Birthlight with Françoise Freedman. Much of the content grew out of Uma’s own research project (part of her special independent studies for the Yoga Therapy Diploma) into appropriately supportive and nurturing yoga for pregnancy, which she conducted during her own pregnancy with her eldest son. The course has been developed and expanded over the years to include the work Uma did when teaching yoga therapy classes for pregnant women at King’s College Hospital and St Thomas’s Hospital, which classes formed the basis of both her Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth book (Hodder Education) and Mother’s Breath which is a set text on the course.

“In my experience of running this course for the past fifteen years, I observe that yoga teachers who take this course leave with a transformed understanding of the importance of yoga therapy skills in relation to pregnant women, which they then transfer out across all of their yoga teaching.” – Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Schedule

The Rhythmic Daily schedule will include up to three X 2 hour meetings each day on Zoom Alternating between days with two meetings and days with three meetings , with plenty of time for integration, self-practice and OFFLINE recovery practices to ensure that you can learn in the most nurturing, well supported and effortless way.

Sample daily schedule:
(more details to come, FINAL SCHEDULE with all contributing tutors confirmed by 1 November. Please note this is a proposed schedule and there could be some small changes to these timings)

9am-12noon Morning Gathering with short break at 11am
Opening LIVE ONLINE practice of Total Yoga Nidra and practice of asana/pranayama, large group gathering, partner check in and morning lecture followed by short practice/ teaching practice.

12 til 3pm OFFLINE for grounding, connection and integration

3pm - 6pm Afternoon practice of Total Yoga Nidra followed by Shakti Sharing Circles with TEA, and then afternoon practice and lectures -

ALTERNATE DAYS
7pm - 9pm for Practice and TUTOR talks

Further information

Course hours: 46

Accreditation: Independent Yoga Network

Certification: On successfully completing all course requirements, you will receive a Yogacampus certificate of completion.

Maximum number of participants: 108

Venue and Travel info

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

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This training is offered ONLINE

Booking info

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Cost

The cost of this teacher training is £805

Booking

This course is run and booked by Yogacampus, click "Book Now" below to be taken to their website for booking.

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Statement of Inclusion

Are you pregnant? Breastfeeding? Do you have young children? Or perhaps you want to know more about your eligibility – Please see our Statement of Inclusion which is a genuine welcome from Uma and details the appropriate support for women considering attending any of her courses.

Coursework

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Pre-Course Preparation

For this teacher training, there is recommended pre-course reading and listening.

Reading

There is a long bibliography in the manual, but the single best book to get started with is

Mother’s Breath: a definitive guide to yoga breath, sound and awareness practices during pregnancy, birth, postnatal recovery and mothering by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli. Please read at least the first and last sections before the course begins. This book is currently only available as an e-book (click the link above).

Additional recommended reading below. It is not crucial that you get these two books but we would like you to look through them.

Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli (Hodder and Staughton 2008), is used throughout the course to refer to diagrams and practice descriptions.
Yoni Shakti – A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Listening

Once booked you will be given access to the following pre-course listening material:

Two mp3 audio recordings of practices described in Mother’s Breath
The mp3 downloadable version of the audio CD that comes with Uma’s book Teach Yourself Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth. This does not need to be listened to before the course (unless you want to).

Pre-Course Questions

There is pre-course work you will need to complete in advance of your arrival at the course. The pre-course assignments should be submitted to the course co-tutor (contact given on booking) no later than 1 week before the course start date.

These are the questions you need to answer:
Please write a brief written reflection addressing the following:

What experience do I have of yoga for pregnancy?
Why do I want to do this course?
What do I hope to get out of it?
What do I hope to put into it?

Please also provide the following information about yourself:

If you are a qualified yoga teacher - what yoga teaching qualification do you have? When did you gain this qualification? How long have you been teaching yoga?
If you are a trainee teacher - which organisation are you training with? When will you finish your yoga teacher training?
What specifically is of interest to you in teaching pregnancy yoga?
Do you have any previous experience of teaching pregnancy yoga (or of practising yoga whilst pregnant)?
Is there anything else that is relevant? Please let us know if you have any current health considerations. If you are pregnant you are welcome on the course however please do let us know your due date.

Pregnancy Yoga Class Observations

In preparation for the course, you also need to make observations of pregnancy yoga teaching styles. So please endeavour to sit in and/or participate in a minimum of five pregnancy yoga classes before the course starts if possible. Get to see as wide a range of different teacher in action as you can. If it is hard to get to live classes, then online and DVD classes are acceptable. You are very welcome to attend any one of the pregnancy yoga classes listed on the Womb Yoga website – this is a list of teachers who have trained with Uma.

During or after each class you need to complete a class observation form – this form will be emailed to you on bookin. The more time you take considering your responses to the classes, the more you will learn from what you observe. It really is worth thinking thoroughly about what you observe; this is why there are questions on the record sheet. You can do these handwritten or use an electronic version.

When you have made detailed observations, please SUMMARISE what you have learnt and write this in the summary document. Please send the Summary Observations to your course co-teacher

Coursework (During and After the Training)

There are also other short assignments and homework (in the form of preparing handouts and short paragraphs of reflection) during the course. Details of these will be in the course manual and are there to ensure you assimilate the course teachings. These will need to be completed in order to receive a certificate of completion.