Learn to safely guide women during their Pregnancies with yoga
In partnership with the best expert in the field of
women’s health: Birthlight
Women often join yoga for the first time during pregnancy, do you want to be their teacher?
As a pregnancy yoga teacher, you become their confident, inspiration & support person. And possibly: their yoga teacher for the rest of their lives.
Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and early Postpartum (Perinatal Yoga) is taught as an experiential journey from conception to labour and the early postpartum period. Become a competent teacher who safely guides women through their life transitions with teachings from the heart
You learn how to teach practices that enhance well-being at each stage of pregnancy. All practices are taught with relevant anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and labour in an integrated way. Theory is never separated from practice but always blended for a deeper understanding of the beneficial effects of yoga in each trimester.
In addition to learning how to offer a safe and competent perinatal yoga class, you will learn how to help pregnant women through their individual journeys, while encouraging connections and friendships among mothers to be. Learn how to create a supportive group atmosphere that becomes a part of women’s life.
We offer these courses every year and also add special workshops.
Perinatal (Pregnancy & Yoga Teacher Training) Part 1 & 2 | Offered once a year
Postnatal Teacher Training | Offered approx once every 18 months
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) days | Offered in between and we are always changing the topic.
‘‘Mothering the mother’ is an essential foundation for a woman’s ability to nurture her baby.’’
About Birthlight
Françoise Freedman: Founder Birthlight
Birthlight has been a pioneer course provider in Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth in the UK and internationally since the 1990’s. Founder Francoise Freedman brings her experience as an expert yogi, women’s health advocate, anthropologist and recognised wisdom elder from the Amazon jungle into all her work. During her post-doctoral fieldwork as an anthropologist in Peruvian Amazonia, Françoise was deeply inspired by her initiation from a shaman midwife. The experience of living with rainforest people for her first two pregnancies was life-changing and led to the formation of Birthlight in 1984.
Dr Françoise Freedman is recognized as the “Grandmother of Water Babies” around the world for her groundbreaking ideas and developments in baby swimming and baby yoga. She is an accomplished writer and has published ten books internationally: Aqua Yoga for Pregnancy (1998), Baby Yoga (2000), Postnatal Yoga: Strengthening Body And Spirit After Birth (2000), Water Babies: Teach Your Baby The Joys of Water – From Newborn Floating to Toddler Swimming (2001), Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond (2004), Yoga for New Mothers (2005), Yoga & Pilates for Everyone (2005), How to Teach Your Baby To Swim (2010), Yoga for Mother and Baby (2010) and Step-By-Step Yoga For Conception, Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond (2013).
Birthlight’s approach strives to enable women to give birth with minimal intervention, yet acknowledging that this may not be possible for all women. Most valued is the physical and emotional nurturing of women so that they can approach labour and birth with calm confidence, vibrant core strength and with full use of their breathing capacity.
Yoga Moves is proud to partner with Birthlight, Francoise Freedman and Kirsteen Ruffell to further your career.
Perinatal Yoga training
Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and early Postpartum
UPCOMING:
You will change lives
I really love the Birthlight approach, so this fits perfectly in my development as a pregnancy and postnatal yoga teacher.
Martine B.
Impressions
“We practiced and learned so much, with extra attention to safety in each pose and the wellbeing of the expectant mother throughout the whole pregnancy.”
“Birthlight made my teaching more organic and full!”
“It has completely changed how I teach prenatal yoga! I hope to continue giving a safer better improved class.”
“It’s a warm and complete training to integrate pregnancy in your teaching. Kirsteen gives you enough information and trust to transform in a good pregnancy yoga teacher with safe and playful classes in a loving environment.”
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