whYoga for pregnancy
Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Resource
This training resource will prove invaluable to yoga teachers, and yoga teacher trainees or pregnant women searching for knowledge and understanding of this transformative and profound experience. Earn Yoga Alliance 'Continuing Education Units' with this resource, constituting a minimum of 5 Non-Contact CEU's.
The resource focuses on the physiology of birth, the spirituality of the birth, guidelines on the correct use of asanas and ways of using yoga to strengthen the mind and the body.
The Resource
Document One - Physiology: Working through the manual written by Vicky Oliver. The manual includes extensive notations on the physiology of birth. The aim of this manual is to introduce all prospective teachers of pregnant women and pregnant women to a demystified and demedicalised approach to pregnancy, labour and birth. The following will be explored:
- the neo-cortex
- oxytocin,
- adrenalin
- unexpected birth
- lotus birth
- first aid obstetrics
- ultrasound
- nocebo
- lipids
- primal health
- induction
- postpartum
- breastfeeding
- presentation terms
- C Section
- participation of men
- the ultimate bIrth story
Document Two - Yoga Techniques: This manual offers you practical advice on writing classes for pregnancy and the post partum phase and how to work through class structures. The following are explored:
- a holsitic approach
- postures during pregnancy
- contraindications
- 10 point checklist
- first trimester
- second trimester
- third trimester
- sample classes
- postnatal yoga
- mother and baby yoga
- breath
- meditation
- chanting
- whYoga surya namaskar
- chandra namaskar
- mixed ability class
Optional Practical: You are invited to join Vicky in one of her evening pregnancy classes. This is then followed by a general yoga class for your own practice. Here you will see how Vicky adapts a class to fulfil pregnant students and then uses the basis of this class and expands upon it to fulfil general yoga practitioners.
Cost:
£60 for the resource including practical
£50 for the resource excluding practical
There is a 10% discount to those who have completed the Yoga Bananas Course.
The course is sent by email as a PDF document.
Vicky is a very knowledgeable, fun and confidence building individual. The course material is thorough and met both my personal and professional needs. As a mother the physiology part of the course gave me a better understanding of birthing, offering some key information which may completely improve my experience of birth the second time. Professionally, I was able to write my own 6 weeks course material as soon as the course was completed. I am now opening my 3rd weekly Pregnancy Yoga class in Reigate, Surrey, through my local company www.yogamoo.com, only 3 months after completing the course.
Laurence Turner