Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training
Registration coming soonPregnancy Yoga Teacher Training
Registration coming soonIn-person 5 day intensive, plus online self-paced modules
100 hour Contemporary Yoga and Opti-mum certification programme
With KeiShana Coursey, Amy Massey, Haidee Stairmand and Karla Brodie
For Yoga teachers, health professionals and therapists passionate about women’s health during pregnancy, this programme provides information and tools to help you create yoga classes for pre- and post-natal women, and to integrate movement, breath and stress reduction into your classes and clinical practice.
This is a blended training, supported by a variety of online recordings to deepen your understanding, culminating in a five day in-person-training. The online masterclasses and movement practices can be explored in your own time prior to, or following the in person training.
Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training and Opti-mum have collaborated to bring together leading educators in the field of midwifery and Yoga.
Faculty include course director and midwife educator Keishana Coursey, Ayurveda teacher Amy Massey, and Yoga and movement teachers Haidee Stairmand and Karla Brodie. This is the fourth offering of the hugely successful Pregnancy Yoga teacher training which first ran in 2019.
Contemporary Yoga and Opti-mum Certification
Upon successful completion of all modules and assessments you will be eligible for a certificate of completion from Contemporary Yoga and Opti-mum. The course totals approximately 100 hours of in-person, online, personal study and assessment.
Have a question? Email us at: info@yogateachertraining.nz
This Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training is a collaboration with Opti-Mum, a pregnancy and parenting educational programme in New Zealand:
opti-mum.co.nz
Course Investment
Pregnancy Yoga Teacher In-Person Training + Online Modules
Early Bird: $1915
(Full price: $2220)
Reserve your place with a deposit: $500
Training Overviews
This training includes:
5-day in-person intensive
This in-person intensive provides the necessary components to create your fertility, pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes including information and tools to integrate movement, breath and stress reduction, into your clinical practice.
You will develop a comprehensive awareness of the physical, mental and emotional considerations attributed to the continuum of a pre-and-post pregnant person.
With KeiShana Coursey, Haidee Stairmand and Karla Brodie.
7.45 - 6pm daily at the St Heliers Community Centre, St Heliers, Auckland.
Ayurvedic Women’s Health
Self paced online delivery
Ayurvedic principles add a layer of awareness and alchemy between modern science and time-honored wisdom. Deepen your understanding of preconception, pregnancy and postpartum with insights from Ayurveda’s nourishing traditions of care.
This module is developed and taught by Amy Massey, PGDipHSc. BHSc. Dip Ayurveda. Dip Yoga.
Further information on the Ayurveda module here >>
Master Classes with Keishana
Educational video content - self paced online delivery
Access to an online series of master classes.
You will learn anxiety reduction techniques, mindfulness for the pregnancy journey, Yoga classes that can ease a tired body, optimal baby positioning, finding the basement, and deepen your understanding of challenges including the “red” and “green”. You can take as long as you need to work through and revisit each of these modules as you will have them for life!
More information about the birth mastery course here: opti-mum.co.nz/online-birth-mastery
Each video contains three core components (learn, breath and flow).
Julie Edlin, previous participant ...
The Pregnancy Teacher Training provided me with all the tools necessary to safely and effectively guide women through a Yoga practice during their childbirth journey.
The incredible wisdom and knowledge shared by the facilitators, allowed me to step competently into teaching Pregnancy Yoga with confidence soon after completion of the training.
As an extra bonus I have also been able to weave the learning I absorbed during the teacher training into my role as a midwife.
Julie Edlin, previous participant ...
The Pregnancy Teacher Training provided me with all the tools necessary to safely and effectively guide women through a Yoga practice during their childbirth journey.
The incredible wisdom and knowledge shared by the facilitators, allowed me to step competently into teaching Pregnancy Yoga with confidence soon after completion of the training.
As an extra bonus I have also been able to weave the learning I absorbed during the teacher training into my role as a midwife.
This Pregnancy Yoga Programme includes …
Hormones:
Understanding the physiological effect of hormones that challenge infertility, and changes that occur during pregnancy, labour, birth and breastfeeding.Anatomy:
The pregnancy continuum affects every single anatomical body system. An appreciation of this extraordinary adaptation will enhance your ability to facilitate.We will specifically explore pelvic floor, psoas, uterus, breast, centre of gravity effects on skeletal changes, and journey through the body systems.
Body diaphragms:
Practices that focus on increasing awareness of these diaphragms and their relationship to the body, therefore breath.Complications and Contraindications:
Safety, accountability and appropriate referral.Ethics:
Class design and private sessions.Asana:
Sequencing and modifications throughout the trimesters and beyond birth.Class Structure:
Exploring themes (teaching threads and loops).Sankalpa:
Inner resource, intention and connection.Sensory Mapping:
Cultivating a positive birth mind-set by utilising multi-sensory mapping.- How we do Life is how we do Birth:
Addressing thought, belief and behaviour in application to yoga. - Infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and birth trauma:
Loss, acceptance and trauma-informed yoga.
- The Culture of Birth Fear:
Understanding and supporting (from anxiety to confidence). - Optimal Fetal Positioning:
What hinders and helps the most common birth complication. - Restorative Yoga:
Creating the container for rest, repair and reset (props and support for pregnancy). - Pranayama:
Breathing practices to avoid and how to support this continuum. - Shakti:
Embodiment of the Feminine Divine (East meets West and how you find your space within). - Savasana:
Preparation, integration and the power of your language. - Ayurveda:
Ayurvedic principles infused throughout this training add another layer of awareness and alchemy between modern science and time-honoured wisdom. Deepen your understanding of conception, pregnancy and postpartum with insights from Ayurvedic philosophy and an exploration of Ayurveda’s nourishing traditions of care. - Circle of Change:
Personal Birth Processing - decompressing current expectations and unconscious demands of how pregnancy/birth, others and life should be. Birthing yourSELF into the art and science of Yoga. - Assessments:
Assessments will be both internal and external. A chance to practice and demonstrate whilst in your training, totally supported by the highly skilled team of trainers so you graduate feeling confident and prepared. External assessments will surround the training and ensure your knowledge and understanding of practices and principles for the Pregnancy Continuum.
Ayurveda For Women’s Health Module
Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum
Ayurvedic principles add another layer of awareness and alchemy between modern science and time-honoured wisdom. Deepen your understanding of women’s health with insights from Ayurveda’s nourishing traditions of care.
The Ayurvedic part of the training is taught by Amy Massey, PGDipHSc. BHSc. Dip Ayurveda (see bio).
What is Ayurveda?
Introduction to Ayurveda
Understanding the five elements
Doshas and Gunas; Dhatus and Srotamsi
Women’s Wellness
Embracing our seasons and cycles
Hormonal balance and reproductive health
Dinacharya and Rtucharya: Living life in rhythm and balance
Preconception
Traditions of preconception care for conscious conception
Cultivating a state of receptivity with meditation, mantra and mudra
Nourishing our reproductive system and bodily tissues.
Pregnancy
Ayurvedic perspective on fetal development and prenatal care
Interplay of doshas, koshas and vayus during pregnancy
Pillars of pregnancy care, sensory nourishment and self-care practices
Postpartum
Nurturing new mothers with traditions of postpartum care
Understanding postpartum as kaya kalpa
Baby’s constitution, connection and care
Ayurvedic Nutrition
An introduction to Ayurvedic nutrition principles
Nourishing foods for preconception, pregnancy and postpartum
Delicious recipes and special focus on healing spices
The course also offers further resources:
- Recommended reading, titles for more on Ayurveda
- Further education programmes and practitioners of Ayurveda
- Sanskrit, a glossary
The Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Faculty
KeiShana Coursey
KeiShana is a women’s’ health professional who has lived in the world of childbirth since her own pregnancy, near seventeen years ago. Until recently she practiced as a midwife in the community, focusing on homebirth and primary unit birth, until crossing the bridge into Christchurch Women’s Hospital, catching babies on the Birthing Suite and in theatre.
Having specialised in PTSD, trauma release (alongside generalised motivational sessions), as a coach her private work drew her out of the public health sector - where she continues to pour her passion into mind and body-based therapies.
“KeiShana never seems to utter a word that doesn’t have a powerful impact on the listener.”
Sonya Simpson, at the Hauora Yoga Conference
Amy Massey
PGDipHSc. BHSc. Dip Ayurveda. Dip Yoga. Cert Kinesiology. Registered Natural Therapies Practitioner.
Ayurveda has been guiding my day to day for more than a decade now, bringing greater balance, nurture and delight – especially with kitchen healing! As a way of healing, Ayurveda has inspired Somama Yoga & Ayurveda’s offerings of care. My work with women becoming mothers began shortly after the birth of my son, based on the traditions of Ayurvedic postpartum care and therapeutics of Yoga.
I’d come to yoga some years earlier when, brimming with exuberance, I signed up to a series of (hot) yoga classes. I thought I was just signing up for an exercise class. On the floor in a sea of nausea and a sweat puddle one day, I met an unfamiliar experience of boundless sensation within and all around me. Entirely accidental, that little happening set me on a path of personal practice that led eventually to teaching. Imbued with qualities of joyfulness and compassion, my classes focus on supporting women’s wellness, fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum rejuvenation for Mums, bubs and tots.
In both Yoga and Ayurveda, I’ve found there exists an embodied invitation to deepen our connection with the world within us and the world around us - and I look forward to sharing more with you on the mat.
Karla Brodie
Karla is an experienced and qualified yoga teacher. She is inspired to share the practice and philosophy of yoga in a simple, joyful, self-renewing way. Her practical and intuitive approach leads students toward a deeper experiential understanding of breath, balanced posture and integrated movement.
Karla specializes in restorative yoga, a deeply nourishing and balancing practice for the whole body and in particular the nervous system. She effectively works with students unwinding from high stress, fatigue and hyperventilation.
The foundation of Karla’s teaching is within the human developmental movement patterns. Embodying these self-renewing patterns restores effortless breathing, ease, fluidity and cohesion in movement. Karla’s teachings, interwoven with the traditional and eternally relevant eight limbs of yoga, offer a holistic approach to the practice of yoga.
Haidee Stairmand
Haidee brings a pragmatic approach to her teaching and offers students a clear, approachable and understandable way to develop their Yoga through self-sensing, and awareness.
She is passionate about making yoga accessible for all, enabling an individualistic approach.
She has a unique ability to connect to others in a simple but profound way and sees Yoga as a holistic therapeutic modality that encompasses traditional and contemporary approaches to the Practice.
Be inspired where you learn
This comprehensive pregnancy yoga teacher training takes place at the same awesome venue as our 200-hour teacher training venue - in beautiful St Heliers, one of Auckland’s most picturesque seaside suburbs.
With upmarket shops and cafes, a perfect swimming beach and an easy walk to the training venue, it’s a haven that’s the perfect place to immerse yourself into a Yoga training.
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