Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training | BLENDED

Alexa Dean + Guest Teachers | 25 Jan - 4 Feb 2024 | 60 hours | Price: £695

Pregnancy is often the time when many are introduced

to yoga and all of its benefits. In pregnancy yoga can help with having a mindful pregnancy, nourishing and strengthening the body as well as preparing it for labour. Our intensive Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training offers a balanced mix of theory, holistic, technical, practical and spiritual approach providing students with valuable knowledge and tools to teach yoga to pregnant women safely and confidently. The course

includes 3 days in person in the studio and 3 days livestream online. It is ideal for qualified yoga teachers, recent teacher training graduates or those still completing their yoga teacher training who want to specialise in pregnancy yoga or gain

knowledge to work with pregnant women confidently in their general yoga class. This training is also beneficial for keen yoga practitioners who are pregnant, birthkeepers, doulas and midwives, childbirth educators and complementary therapists to enhance their professional skills and build a new career path.

This 6-day Pregnancy Yoga course will give you the tools and the inspiration to confidently teach mothers-to-be in specialised Pregnancy classes as well as in general classes.

This course can be attended as a stand-alone course or as an optional module on our 3 00-hour programme.

We are offering 2 bursary spots for this course – one for low income, the other one for BIPOC community.

You can read more about our Bursary programme and apply HERE

Course Overview

The training is focused on how yoga and childbirth education can be integrated for health and well-being through the different stages of pregnancy. We will explore the principles of anatomy and physiology, safety issues, and the spirituality and emotional experience at this stage of a woman’s life cycle. Through the processes of discussion, experiential work, assignments and yoga practice, students will learn to support and empower pregnant women on their path to motherhood.

Course Content

What to expect from the course

Two long weekends with Alexa Dean and Special Guests
An in-depth Pregnancy Yoga teaching manual
In-depth review of Childbirth Education
Practical tools to teach a safe and comprehensive class including poses, themes and sequences specific to pregnancy yoga
Integrate yoga props and small equipment into classes
Importance of the environment and set up of classes for pregnant students
Take and teach a well-rounded yoga class with the pregnant community that honours a woman’s mind and body at this special and sacred time
Deep exploration of anatomical and physiological changes of the pregnant body
Review structuring a pregnancy class and poses to do and not to do
Adapt the class for those with injuries and/or common ailments such as lower back pain, pelvic girdle pain, low/high blood pressure and fatigue.
Feel confident adjusting regular poses for pregnant students
Instruction for how to teach virtually

What is expected of trainees

Complete two intensive weekends with Alexa
Be prepared to teach fellow teacher trainees as well as pregnant women
Complete reading from the book list
Complete written assignments
Take and participate in a minimum of 4 pregnancy yoga classes in your community
Complete the practical portion of your final exam, teaching a 75-minute pregnancy yoga class. This class must be recorded and shared with Alexa for assessment

About Lead Trainer Alexa Dean

Alexa is a Doula, Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator, Yoga Teacher, Massage Therapist and Co-Founder of ‘London Bliss Doulas’ established in 2012. She passionately believes in active, positive and conscious birthing and in supporting women all the way through their own private and amazing experience of becoming a parent. She encourages women to intelligently align mind and body, enjoy their pregnancy and the empowerment obtained through knowledge and understanding of the process of birth.

Alexa qualified as a Hatha Yoga Teacher at Triyoga London and Vinyasa Flow Teacher in India. She then specialised in Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga with Nadia Narain and continued her studies with YogaBirth, a program set up by Active Birth teachers that combines Yoga with Childbirth Education. Lastly she took up the Khalsa Way Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, developed by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa (USA) based on Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Alexa is also a Relax & Renew® Restorative Yoga Teacher having trained with Judith Hanson Lasater (USA). She certified as a Doula guided by revolutionary childbirth pioneer Dr Michel Odent, studied Hypnobirthing with Katharine Graves and EFT Tapping with Sue Beer and Emma Roberts. She is a Massage Therapist with experience in Fertility, Pregnancy, Postnatal and Baby Massage. Alexa also trained as a Midwife Assistant at The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee, founded by Ina May Gaskin, the pioneer of natural birth in the United States.

You can visit Alexa’s website here

Guest Teacher Topics & Biographies

A series of guest teachers impart a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of ante-natal care. These include (subject to change):

Avni Trivedi – ’Finding alignment and easing ailments in pregnancy’

Avni is a Women’s health osteopath with a special interest in pregnancy and birth. She has lectured in pregnancy and birth at the University College of Osteopathy. Avni has a MSc in paediatric osteopathy from the renowned Osteopathic Centre for Children. With an insatiable appetite for learning and development, Avni has also trained to become a doula with Michel Odent and Doula UK, and trained in zero balancing, family constellations, NLP, medical acupuncture, cranial osteopathy, reiki and shiatsu. Her podcast ‘Speak From the Body’ encourages people to reconnect with the wisdom of the body. Avni has an intuitive and practical style that can be both strong and gentle. For more information visit www.avni-touch.com

Emily Housman – ‘Labour & Birth – a physiological and evolutionary perspective’

Emily has worked for over 15 years with families and children through specialist education, therapy and maternity care. She trained as a midwife in London and currently works as a continuity midwife in Norfolk. She is certified in Hypnobirthing, Imagery and Hypopressives and runs courses for women and couples to more confidently navigate their pregnancy and birth, as they become parents. Whatever birth women have, her vision is to facilitate intelligent and empowering birth experiences for families welcoming the youngest generations into this world. For more information visit www.emilyhousman.com

Justine Sipprell – ‘Pelvic floor health in pregnancy, birth and postpartum’ .

Justine Sipprell is a mother of 2 and has been working as a Shiatsu therapist, Doula and Pilates teacher for the past 15 years. She is passionate about improving women’s experience of birth and early motherhood. She has been teaching pelvic floor workshops for the past 5 years, introducing women to the Hypopressive method. Practicing the Hypopressive series or incorporating the technique into your personal practice can improve posture and breathing technique, alleviating pain in the body. Hypopressives build core strength through reduction of abdominal pressure rather than increasing abdominal pressure as more traditional exercises can do. It is used for the treatment of prolapse, stress incontinence, hernias and haemorrhoids. For more information visit www.core4pelvicfloor.com

Maika Prevosti – ‘Nourish pregnancy through taste: an Ayurvedic soulful guide to nutrition’.

Maika is a qualified Ayurveda Practitioner and Nutritionist with a passion for interpreting the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to suit modern lifestyles and make it relevant and accessible to our lives today. Her personal journey since 2003 has seen Ayurveda empower and transform those committed to making a profound and positive change. Having qualified from College of Ayurveda UK and done her internships in India, she enjoys sharing her knowledge through workshops and individual consultations for those wanting more in-depth personalised advice. She also has a background of 16 years as a teacher which now helps her to interpret people’s needs from all ages and backgrounds. Becoming a Reiki Master, Massage Therapist, Pranayama and Meditation Practitioner (Yogalap) and Buteyko Practitioner (Buteyko Clinic International) have added an invaluable tool in her therapeutic approach to efficiently support patients with tailored solutions to improve emotional and physical well-being. For more information visit www.maikaprevosti.com

Michaela Kalusová – ‘Conscious Baby’

Michaela Kalusová is a co-founder of Jemne Zrozeni (CZ), London Bliss Doulas (UK) and Ammadula Akademie (CZ). Her passion is pre and perinatal psychology and the support of women who have experienced sexual or birth trauma. She practices EFT, DreamBirth visualisations, Matrix Re-imprinting and Matrix Birth Re-imprinting. She regularly runs hypnobirthing courses, conducts seminars, webinars, online courses and trains doulas and hypnobirthing lecturers. She works closely with doula colleagues to improve maternity care in Czech Republic. For more information visit www.michaelakalusova.co.uk

Ruth Ehrhardt – ‘The Basic Needs of a Woman in Labour’.

Ruth Ehrhardt is the mother of 4 home birthed children, a South African traditional midwife, author of The Basic Needs of a Woman in Labour, birth and midwifery teacher, as well as a yoga practitioner of 21 years. She is the daughter, grandaughter and niece of midwives, so it seems this work was in many ways predestined from birth. Ruth has an innate love and trust for birth, women’s bodies, and babies’ intelligence. In her teaching and work, she mainly focuses on guarding and protecting the environment for pregnancy and birth, as opposed to guiding or facilitating the actual birthing process. For more information on Ruth visit truemidwifery.com

Thando Zwane – ‘Becoming an inclusive birthworker’

Thando is a Birthkeeper; a facilitator of the holistic aspects of birth and beyond. Working with families in London and beyond, she brings the sacred and science together in a grounded and knowledgeable way. A birth & postnatal doula, doula mentee, hypnobirthing teacher & birth preparation educator, she is also the co-founder of Birthing in Colour, a charity established to inform Black & Brown birthing people of their choices & rights and reduce the disparities faced during the perinatal phase. For more information visit www.paramanabirthkeeper.co.uk

Avni Trivedi pregnancy yoga — Avni Trivedi

Emily Housman pregnancy yoga — Emily Housman

Justine Siprell pregnancy yoga — Justine Siprell

Maika Prevosti pregnancy yoga — Maika Prevosti

Michaela Kalusová pregnancy yoga — Michaela Kalusová

Ruth Ehrhardt pregnancy yoga — Ruth Ehrhardt

Thando Swane pregnancy yoga — Thando Swane

testimonials

Alexa taught us how to build nourishing, safe, woman and baby focused classes. The training has been like no other yoga course that I have done and I mean that in the best possible way! She is a kind, fun and light-hearted trainer who generously shared her platform with others that inhabit the birth world. By hearing from doulas to midwives, osteopaths to hypopressive trainers, birth educators to campaigners we, her students, received a thoroughly well-rounded learning experience. Alexa's presentations were delivered to a very high standard and the handbook she has written continues to be a fantastic reference for class planning. The coursework and business plan help you stay focused during the training and cement what you have learnt once the course is complete. The concluding 1:1 is the best gift of all because its an opportunity to directly benefit from Alexa's experience and wisdom. Her first cohort learnt on Zoom but regardless, Alexa's warmth, passion, creativity and zest for (new!) life was transmitted through our screens.

Pippa

“ Alexa’s advice and knowledge about all things pregnancy and labour is incredible. ”

Lindsey

" [Alexa's] teaching really touched me, wonderful energy and warmth. Alexa creates a space for calm consideration, somewhere to let go and share. Her experience as a doula means that all the movements she incorporates to her classes will serve you during birth as well and because she knows what your body and mind will go through her sensitive targets make everything feel really great. "

Fiona

" Alexa is a fantastic teacher and goes above and beyond with help and advice "

Cordelia

"Alexa’s teachings come straight from her heart. Her years of experience and practice shine through. For a subject that can feel intimidating, as there is so much to take in, Alexa delivered the material in manageable components, encouraging us to always practice what we learned. The manual she put together was also a work of love and filled with so much valuable information. Not only this but the speakers that came to the course added a variety of voices and really helped me integrate this new knowledge. Before I trained with Alexa, I was uncomfortable teaching pregnant students. Now I have a growing confidence and a continual support, from my group of fellow students and even Alexa herself."

Course Dates

The course has the following modules scheduled:

Thursday 25 Jan 2024 INTRO - VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM

6-8 pm
Friday - 26 Jan 2024 DAY 1 - VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM

9-6pm
Saturday - 27 Jan 2024 DAY 2 - VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM

9-6pm
Sunday - 28 Jan 2024 DAY 3 - VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM

9-6pm
Friday- 2 Feb 2024 DAY 4 - IN STUDIO

9-6pm
Saturday- 3 Feb 2024 DAY 5 - IN STUDIO

9-6pm
Sunday - 4 Feb 2024 DAY 6 - IN STUDIO

9-6pm

Pricing

The cost is £695 for the full 6-day training
A non-refundable deposit of £200 is required on booking.
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300 hour students get a 10% discount on this training if they have booked three trainings with us (priced at £395 or more) including one core module. Email  us if this is the case and the discount will be applied when the balance is taken.

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