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.
Part 1: Saturday 16 to Wed 20 January 2021
Part 2: Friday 19 to Sun 21 February 2021
The daily timings are 09.30 to 12.30 and 15.00 to 17.30 (UK time) / 10.30 to 13.30 and 16.00 to 18.30 Central European time. Check your local time zone on timeanddate.com
- 9.30 - 1230 Morning Gathering 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.
- 12.30 til 15.00 OFFLINE for grounding, connection and integration
- 15.00 to 17.30 Afternoon Practice Shakti Sharing Circles with TEA, and then afternoon practice and lectures