This Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga training qualifies as 85 Yoga Alliance hours towards the Doron Yoga Training.

You must mention code: Doron Yoga and check in with Doron to make sure you get the hours.

This amazing Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training RPYT) and Doula Training and Certification program is offered by Jennifer (Wolfe) More, creator of the best selling Prenatal Yoga DVD series, Complete Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga and the Dolphin Doula birth method.

Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
85Hr. RPYT (Yoga Alliance Approved)
July 20-30, 2013

Nandi Yoga, San Mateo, CA (25 miles south of San Francisco)
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Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga and Dolphin Doula are very excited to be able to offer this combination Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher training and Doula Certification course. The unique structure of this training allows participants to be immersed in pregnancy and childbirth in a way that will prepare them to embark on a whole new career as a prenatal yoga teacher and a doula. The prenatal yoga training weaves in many doula training components allowing the trainings to be intertwined and only requiring two extra days of training after the 10 day prenatal yoga training to finish the equivalent of a 50 hour doula training.

This is a great opportunity to learn the skills to fully support women in finding their strength and potential as they move through the amazing and powerful journey of pregnancy AND childbirth.

This course is intended for Yoga instructors who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the unique needs of their pregnant yoga practitioners, and safely guide them through all 3 trimesters of a healthy and active prenatal yoga class as well as addressing the needs of the postnatal student.

Qualified graduates of this 85 hour training are eligible for the RPYT (Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher) designation from the Yoga Alliance.

In Jennifer’s experience teaching yoga for the past 17 years, studying with Doug Swenson and other amazing teachers, attending over 450 births /10,000+ hours with laboring women as a doula and childbirth educator, Jennifer has witnessed the powerful impact that Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga can have on a pregnant woman’s health, well being, confidence and postpartum recovery.

In her Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga trainings, Jennifer adapts Vinyasa Yoga for the needs of pregnant women, providing a system that works with the pregnant body without sacrificing the intensity that you need to prepare for childbirth. This unique approach to prenatal yoga gives pregnant women the opportunity to safely remain active and challenged in their vinyasa practice. The strengthening that occurs in this Prenatal Yoga practice prepares the necessary muscles for labor and childbirth, often resulting in shorter labor, less pain, and fewer interventions, including a decrease in the need for Cesarean sections. Learning to link breath and movements in a constant flow greatly increases the ability for women to work with their bodies, increasing the likelihood of a more natural and joyous birth experience.

This Prenatal training is unique in that Jennifer’s vast childbirth experience gives her the ability to teach much more than just prenatal yoga. Jennifer integrates techniques to allow women to get in touch with their bodies and the sensations they feel. These techniques are immensely powerful in labor to help change the fearful negative perspective many women have about birth. She trains teachers to help women find their strength and power while surrendering and focusing during yoga and childbirth. Jennifer believes that prenatal vinyasa yoga can be the catalyst for a positive and life changing experience of birth.

Make a real difference in the quality of childbirth and pregnancy in your community. Students who complete this teacher training will be inspired and prepared to work with pregnant women and their families and guide them through a challenging, safe and effective prenatal yoga practice.

This Comprehensive Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training includes:

• Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga ~ Asana and Flow
• Prenatal variations and alternatives
• Teaching Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga
• Teaching Gentle Prenatal Yoga
• Poses that pregnant students should avoid
• Pregnancy precautions and warning signs
• Being responsible with your pregnant students
• Modifications for pregnant students attending regular flow yoga classes
• Different levels/different bodies
• Class sequencing
• Modifications for each of the 3 trimesters
• Yoga for common pregnancy discomforts
• Psoas in motion
• Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic teaching
• Intro to Childbirth Education
• Understanding the pregnant body
• Understanding prenatal procedures and complications that your students may be experiencing
• Stages and phases of labor
• Common pregnancy discomforts, health concerns, and precautions
• Warning signs of prenatal health issues
• Pregnancy exercise myths vs facts
• Keeping pregnant women safe and working with the medical community
• Pregnancy Anatomy
• Understanding the pelvis and pelvic floor muscles as they relate to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum
• Fetal position variations
• How to achieve and maintain optimal baby positioning
• Muscle release techniques
• Labor Anatomy, understanding labor and childbirth
• Partner Yoga
• Prenatal partner yoga and adjustments
• Yoga and massage during Labor
• Beyond prenatal yoga asana ~ Relaxation techniques for childbirth
• Postnatal Yoga
• Postnatal precautions
• Postnatal asana and flow
• Diastasis recti identification and treatment
• Yoga after cesarean birth or other medical interventions
• Teaching mixed pre and postnatal classes

Contact us at: info@prenatalvinyasayoga.com

A few words from students that have completed this training…

Dear Jennifer, I just want to thank you for this past week. The training was absolutely fantastic and I got so much out of…much more than I expected. You are such an inspiration and your passion and enthusiam is so contagious. I am really excited to help share all of this knowledge and to learn so much more about the whole prenatal yoga world. Thank you, thank you and thank you again, and also thank you to your beautiful sister, Liz. You are both so wonderful and I hope to see you again.

I very much enjoyed the training. Jennifer was very knowledgeable and great at balancing out lectures with the actual practices; also wildly entertaining and funny. It helped keep me interested and excited for what was next.

…very knowledgeable, experienced, and had answers to almost everything and found the answers she did not know.

…Super knowledgeable, great instructor, great resources and manual and great exercises. I learned so much not only to help students, but for myself. I’m really glad I did not miss this experience

Fantastic! Something all yoga instructors should do/experience. I’ll highly recommend your course, website and DVDs to students, instructors and moms.

I Just wanted to thank you again for a truly amazing teacher training experience. I never imagined how enlightening, empowering and transformational the training would be. So exciting to have been shared this gift!

I love the way Jennifer teaches, I feel honored to have had the opportunity to take this training.

I was actually really impressed! When I signed up for the course, I was super excited, but thought it was going to be entirely focused on yoga and variation of the poses, etc…suddenly the course begun and I found myself learning a BUNCH of things about pregnancy, labor, birth and post-natal stuff! I learnt things I didn’t actually think I’d be learning until I was pregnant myself, and it was beautiful and amazing!

The amount of information that Jennifer gave us was unbelievable, and the way in which she conveyed all that info was fantastic. The passion that she has for what she does really shines through in every little thing she teaches. It was fantastic and I feel really blessed to have had Jennifer as my teacher…and as an inspiration! I actually asked my boyfriend if we could move to California when we’re married and pregnant with our first child, just so Jennifer can be our doula :P!

This was one of those choices that I know I will NEVER regret.

I really enjoyed taking Jennifer’s course, she really inspires me, her style, her voice during savasana, and the quality of information she gave us.

thank you for these beautiful days!! i felt myself full of love and i begin to share all the things i learnt with my friends. it is just amazing!!! for me it was dream and you did that it is now a realty!!!! thank you!!