The Whole Mama Yoga 85-hour Prenatal and Postnatal YTT — ONLINE Spring - Summer 2022
May 18-22 and June 1-5, ONLINE
This course is an 85-hour training in accordance with the Prenatal Teacher Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA). All weekends are required to fulfill the standards of the prenatal 85-hour training as outlined by YA.
ONLINE DATES & HOURS:
This program meets in two chunks in 2022:
May 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22
June 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
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Wednesdays 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Thursdays 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Fridays 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturdays 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sundays 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
The needs, joys, and challenges specific to women and birth parents before, during, and after childbearing offers teachers the opportunity to affect and deeply connect with women during these momentous, transformational times in life. This 85 hour intensive will focus on a wide range of yoga for women and birth parents in all phases and stages of parenthood and motherhood—from fertility and preconception to prenatal and postnatal yoga to yoga for parent and baby and beyond. It meets the requirements of the Prenatal Teacher Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA).
This unique offering is perfect for yoga teachers, doulas, childbirth educators, and other care providers. Our Whole Mama Yoga training goes beyond the traditional offerings of a prenatal yoga teacher training, and supplies students with much-needed information for their childbearing-age clients. In this intensive, trainees will learn:
Compassionate and thoughtful yoga instruction for people in all phases of parenthood
To safely teach an empowering and supportive prenatal yoga class to women and parents with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs
Yoga and meditation practices to support women and parents-to-be struggling with fertility challenges
Pre and postnatal modifications for students attending regular yoga classes
Anatomy of pregnancy, labor, and birth
Physical and emotional impacts of pregnancy
Cultural perspectives on pregnancy and birth, and how these perspectives can affect personal experience
How yoga beautifully supports the physical and emotional changes of pregnancy
How yoga can be a tool for social justice in pregnancy, birth, and new mothering / parenting
General health and nutrition, in addition to yoga practices, that can be helpful leading up to pregnancy
Pranayama practices for pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum
Truths and myths about pregnancy
Contraindications during pregnancy
Meditation, visualization, and yoga positions that can be helpful for labor and birth
To teach effective yoga, meditation, and massage techniques for partners during pregnancy and labor
Safe and effective strategies and yoga practices for rebuilding strength and flexibility after childbirth
General information postpartum physical changes, health, and healing
To safely teach a healing and helpful postnatal yoga class with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs
To teach baby and parent/caregiver yoga classes
To teach mothers and parents to integrate yoga and meditation into “life after birth”
How to film classes or livestream classes to reach mothers and parents when they can’t make it to a studio
Questions? Contact us at [email protected]!
THIS PROGRAM IS FULLY ONLINE! WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?
We will still meet for required hours, listed below, but all hours will be online.
Online hours will be via Zoom, with Alexandra, Lauren, and a host of experts who join in!
You will be asked to record yourself teaching and upload that recording—we’ll give you clear instructions on how to do this!
Access to Adobe and Powerpoint and comfort using Zoom may make this easier to navigate.
TUITION:
All Weekends / Full PYTT (meets YA Prenatal Yoga 85 hour YTT requirement):
$1200 on or before April 18, 2022
$1400 after April 18, 2022
We also have a reparatory discount and a gratitude discount option. Please see below.
LOCATION:
This program is fully online! If you are local to the Chapel Hill / Carrboro, NC area, you are invited to meet with us in person at any point during or after the training.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Cancellations made up to two weeks before the start of the training will be refunded less $100 processing fee.
Cancellations made within two weeks of the start of the program will be refunded 50%.
Cancellations made once the program begins will not be refunded.
30% REPARATORY / GRATITUDE DISCOUNT FOR OUR PYTT
As part of our ongoing anti-racist and anti-xenophobic efforts, we are pleased to announce a 30% Reparatory / Gratitude Discount for our PYTT.
About our Reparatory Discount for Black, Indigenous, and Non-White people:
We recognize that the United States is built on centuries of racialized injustice. We acknowledge the appropriation of land from Indigenous communities, the forced unpaid labour of Black people, the internment of Asian-Americans, and the countless other historical injustices experienced by the racially marginalized. We acknowledge the racialized oppression that still rages around us. As a part of our commitment to be actively anti-racist, we offer a need-blind Reparatory Discount on class passes and teacher-trainings to anyone who self-identifies as Black, Indigenous or otherwise Non-White. We will never profile you, even for a discount. If you self-identify as BINW and would like to accept this small gesture of reparation, please email us or verbally inform us before registering for the PYTT, so we can provide you with an appropriate code for registration.
About our Gratitude Discount for Indians and Indian-Americans
Yoga is an ancient sacred practice originating in India; it shares roots with Hinduism, Buddhism, and other subcontinental-Asian religions. While we honour the agency of the Indian entrepreneurs who popularized yoga in the West, we acknowledge that the practice has been co-opted by American corporations and currently brings profit chiefly to white American teachers. We also acknowledge the xenophobic and racist discrimination faced by Indians in America.
As part of our commitment to honour the people from whose cultural practice we draw profit, physical wellbeing, and spiritual growth, we offer a need-blind Gratitude Discount on class passes and teacher-trainings to Indians and Indian Americans. We will never profile you, even for a discount. If you self-identify as Indian or Indian-American and would like to accept this small gesture of gratitude, please email us or verbally inform us before registering for the PYTT, so we can provide you with an appropriate code for registration.
(The Reparatory or Gratitude discount is taken from the $1400 full tuition and cannot be used in addition to the early bird tuition of $1200. The Reparatory or Gratitude discount brings the program cost to $980.)