Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training & Pregnancy Yoga Studies

With Keishana Coursey, Amy Massey, Haidee Stairmand and Karla Brodie
New dates coming soon

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training & Pregnancy Yoga Studies

With Keishana Coursey, Amy Massey, Haidee Stairmand and Karla Brodie
New dates coming soon

Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training and Opti-mum present Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training and Pregnancy Yoga Studies with Keishana Coursey, Amy Massey, Haidee Stairmand and Karla Brodie.

For Yoga teachers, health professionals and therapists passionate about women’s health, 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 the third offering of the hugely successful pregnancy yoga teacher training which first ran in 2019.

The two pathways are:

  • Contemporary Yoga and Opti-mum Certification

  • Pregnancy Yoga Studies

 

1. Contemporary Yoga and Opti-mum Certification:

Upon successful completion of all modules you will be eligible for a certificate of completion from Contemporary Yoga and Opti-mum.

If you opt for this pathway you will register for all modules:

  • Module 1: Pregnancy Yoga Essentials (you have two study options – see further below)
  • Module 2a: Ayurveda For Women’s Health (Flexible delivery mode): and
  • Module 2b: Optimal Baby Positioning (Flexible delivery mode)
  • Module 3: Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

 

2. Pregnancy Yoga Studies:

If you opt for this pathway you may register for one or more modules. Certificates of completion are not available in this pathway. However, if requested, we are happy to provide email confirmation of module attendance.

 

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

KeiShana and Amy at the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training at Contemporary Yoga
KeiShana from Flow Therapuetics Pregnancy
Flow Therapuetics Pregnancy Yoga
Flow Therapuetics Pregancy
Flow Therapeutics Pregnancy Support

Course Investment

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Pathway
(All modules/Certification option)

Early Bird: $1915

Pregnancy Yoga Studies
(Price per module)

Module 1: Essentials: $430

Module 2a: Ayurvedic Women’s Health: $180

Module 2b: Optimal Baby Positioning: $105

Module 3: Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training: $1270

Module Overviews

Module 1: Pregnancy Yoga Essentials

(Please note: This module is a pre-requisite for Module 3: Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training).

If you’re a Yoga teacher who feels anxious when someone says they’re pregnant and you wonder what you should be saying, how to adjust your class, or how to create a class suitable for pregnancy - then this extended weekend workshop is for you.

Total Module Hours: 18

Restorative Yoga at the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Module 2: Pregnancy Yoga Flexible Learning

There are two parts to this module:

1. Ayurvedic Women’s Health
Ayurvedic principles add another layer of awareness and alchemy between modern science and time-honoured wisdom. Deepen your understanding of preconception, pregnancy and postpartum with insights from Ayurveda’s nourishing traditions of care.

Further information on the Ayurveda module here >>

The Ayurvedic part of the training is taught by Amy Massey, PGDipHSc. BHSc. Dip Ayurveda. Dip Yoga.

Recorded sessions
Total Hours: 10

 

2. Optimal Baby Positioning
This online workshop will provide you with an understanding of the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and birth, and what gets in the way. You’ll learn how to support pregnant women in your classes - to suggest adjustments and to modify existing practice.

If you are embarking on the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Certification, this component is critical to your learning.

Total Hours: 8 (includes 5 ½ hours personal study, reading, reflection and review)

KeiShana Coursey and Amy Massey on the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Module 3: Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

(Please note: Students enrolled in this module must have completed Pregnancy Yoga Essentials (Module 1).

For Yoga teachers passionate about women’s health this training provides the necessary components to create your fertility, pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes. For women’s health professionals and therapists, this training provides the information and tools you need to integrate movement and breath, therefore stress reduction, into your clinical practice.

You will receive a comprehensive awareness of the physical, mental and emotional considerations attributed to the continuum of a pre-and-post pregnant Self. Explore Yoga’s potentiality to address primary health outcomes of fetal and maternal wellness and go beyond anatomy and asana into the transition from maiden to mother.

Total Hours: 75

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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.

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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.
KeiShana Coursey and Karla Brodie on the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training
  • 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, course director for the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

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

KeiShana’s Profile   |  opti-mum.co.nz

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.

Amy’s Profile  |  somamaveda.com

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.

Karla’s Profile  |  karlabrodie.co.nz

Haidee Stairmand

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.

Haidees Profile  |  revelyoga.co.nz

A day in the life of a Yoga student

This is an 80+ hour Training where a small portion may be self-led study time in preparation for assessment.

Below is a sample of your day…

7:30-9.00am Asana class - from Self to All

9:00-9:30am Breakfast

9:30-11:30am Ethics, structure, planning

11:30-1:30pm Teaching methodologies

1:30-2:30pm Lunch

2:30-4:30pm Anatomy & physiology – East meets West

4:30-5:30pm Practical applications & assignments

5:30-6:00pm Restoration and integration

Plus regular opportunities for tea and discussion with your teachers and fellow students.

A day in the life of a Yoga student

This is a 75 hour Training where a small portion may be self led study time in preparation for assessment.

Below is a sample of your day…

7:30-9.00am Asana class - from Self to All

9:00-9:30am Breakfast

9:30-11:30am Ethics, structure, planning

11:30-1:30pm Teaching methodologies

1:30-2:30pm Lunch

2:30-4:30pm Anatomy & physiology – East meets West

4:30-5:30pm Practical applications & assignments

5:30-6:30pm Restoration and integration

Plus regular opportunities for tea and discussion with your teachers and fellow students.

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Supporting the Mind-Body through the Continuum of Fertility, Ante-Natal, Birth and and Post Natal Yoga

26th-29th October
31st October - 3rd November

A day in the life of a Yoga student

This is a 75 hour Training where a small portion may be self led study time in preparation for assessment.

Below is a sample of your day…

7:30-9.00am Asana class - from Self to All

9:00-9:30am Breakfast

9:30-11:30am Ethics, structure, planning

11:30-1:30pm Teaching methodologies

1:30-2:30pm Lunch

2:30-4:30pm Anatomy & physiology – East meets West

4:30-5:30pm Practical applications & assignments

5:30-6:30pm Restoration and integration

Plus regular opportunities for tea and discussion with your teachers and fellow students.

Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

Supporting the Mind-Body through the Continuum of Fertility, Ante-Natal, Birth and and Post Natal Yoga

26th-29th October
31st October - 3rd November

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.

More info on the venue

What Our Graduates Say (read more here)

 

There is a richness and depth to this content with its real-life (on and off the mat) applicability. I have been moved by the sincerity and support of the teachers. I am so excited to share these teachings in a way that is accessible and empowering for students and wider community members.

Amy Massey

This training has been an incredible gift for me and I am excited to share the teachings with others.

Stephanie Leighton

An outstanding teacher training that integrated so much valuable information from truly knowledgeable, gentle, kind human beings.

The knowledge shared I will value for life, and continue to thread through my own teaching.

Fleur Easter

Those who are serious about where to invest their time and money in a Yoga Teacher Training, can rest assured that the Contemporary team deliver a comprehensive training which enables a solid foundation from which to grow. Highly recommended.

KeiShana Coursey

Karla and Neal have created a course that is completely inclusive and is infused with kindness, curiosity and wisdom. All are welcome in the practice of Contemporary Yoga.

At the end of this course I am more knowledgeable, more able, more confident and more authentic. I have been moved and changed through this journey.

Shelly Fitness

Four generous and vastly different teachers combine to offer something more unique and valuable than expected. It is beyond yoga as I knew it — it was an investment in the rest of my life.

Sarah Hart

I would recommend this course to everyone, even those who are not into yoga or those who have not tried yoga before. This course is for everyone.

Kelly Rijnaarts

I am really glad I chose this training because it has given me tools to communicate with any kind of student as well as connecting my personal practice to a field of infinite potential. It offered a perspective of yoga that is deep yet accessible. The teachers have incredible knowledge and experience but most importantly creative ways of sharing their knowledge.

Chloé Lebee

I can truly say that this training would benefit any yoga teacher - in fact, any person with a yoga practice. I not only gained a more compassionate perspective to yoga, but also toward myself.

Simply fantastical.

Summer Knight

Thank you I am inspired, amazed, changed, still learning, moved. I am inspired to keep on learning and exploring and this course has totally changed my view and perception of yoga in a profound way.

Anne de Brouwer

All teachers bring to this amazing training a vast experience, each one of them with their own identity and authenticity.

The Contemporary Yoga approach is to truly explore Yoga as a discipline which includes movement principles, patterns, Yoga traditions, anatomy, physiology, and much more.

This is the training that you really need - it will change your everyday life.

Valentina Piantoni

Contemporary Yoga has changed the way I move - through life!

Karla, Neal and Haidee’s passion is contagious and this course is a real journey to embrace.

Marika Berney

The level of care, creativity, and personalization that Contemporary Yoga brings to the practice is incredibly special.

Stephanie Leighton

Karla, Neal, Sam and Haidee offer such rich tools and concepts within this course. There’s a real consideration around feelings of safety and support which I appreciated so very much.

You will be offered the juiciest of fruits and from their it’s your turn to squeeze the juice out and into your palms. An incredibly self-empowering training offering an alternate approach to traditional forms of Yoga.

Holly Hepburn

The manual is an amazing resource and always will be.

Meghann Stewart

Contemporary Yoga is connecting yoga back its roots in a very exciting, stimulating and open minded way.

Michaela Robinson

What a transformational Yoga teacher training! These four amazing teachers create incredible alchemy in teaching Yoga. They create such a safe learning environment and there is wonderful support throughout. I highly highly recommend the courses at Contemporary Yoga.

Yumi Drozdowski

This training surpassed all expectations - challenging, inspiring, and deeply informative. It has opened my eyes to a whole new world of yoga!

Bridget McNamara

Contemporary Yoga has given me more than what I’d expect from a teacher training course. All the teachers are truly experts in what they do and their passion is infectious.

Alana Chao

… diverse, enlightening and empowering. The course exceeded my highest expectations and has equipped me with a toolbox of yoga teachings that I could apply in many circumstances to a wide variety of students.

I was lucky enough to be part of two different cohorts and in both I was surrounded by a delightful collection of beautiful individuals from very different backgrounds and of vastly different ages.

Cam McLeay

The learning environment was so supportive, inclusive and warm. Being able to immerse in this process was so valuable for my learning and development.

Dianne Hollands

This training delivered on every level. The teachers, who embody Yoga fully and want to share and guide us. The facility, the students themselves. A wonderful, life-enhancing, entry into the teaching world.

Andrea Fletcher

This is an invaluable course that will expand your love and understanding of yoga beyond what you ever thought was possible!

Mia Pistorius

This Yoga teacher training and experience completely exceeded my expectations. There is so much intentionality from the teachers from the course materials, resources, programming and delivery that the entire experience feels like a Masterclass in unity. Every single topic we learned was applicable and necessary to my journey, learning and development as an aspiring Yoga teacher.

Dianne Hollands

The training was such an amazing, exploratory journey of movement, anatomy, philosophy and so much more conveyed with enthusiasm, kindness, realness and acceptance.

I learned so much that I didn’t know I wanted to know and am excited to continue my Yoga journey.

Nadia Benton

What a way to further study and get deeper in my spiritual journey.

Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training has created the most valuable pathway for me to explore and dive within myself.

A journey – Shola home!

Emiliano Tade

All teachers bring to this amazing training a vast experience, each one of them with their own identity and authenticity. 

The Contemporary Yoga approach is to truly explore Yoga as a discipline which includes movement principles, patterns, Yoga traditions, anatomy, physiology, and much more.

This is the training that you really need - it will change your everyday life.

Valentina Piantoni

I strongly recommend this training. It’s a life-changing experience. The way I see things, smell, feel and my energy have completely changed throughout the course consistently. Beyond expectation. Absolutely worth the investment after many long years I’ve finally met myself!

Simply, divine! Organic! Full of love!

Monica Yoon 
Monica Yoon

Contemporary yoga training has been the ‘icing on the cake’ and if you are ‘stuck’ or need a nudge in the right direction don’t hesitate and sign up now! You will never regret it!

Fiona Ross 
Fiona Ross

I am a physiotherapist and as well as gaining vital skills to teach yoga I have also gained insight and knowledge that I will apply in my physiotherapy career.

Sarah Diskin 
Sarah Diskin

How wonderful, magical and unique it is when people come together and harmonize, creating a field that becomes nourishing for all participants and where many unique expressions find a safe place to share who they are and how they feel. 

The teachers have been so good at conveying the teachings through their joy, enthusiasm and love for Yoga.  They have been delicate, sensitive, caring to each and every participant.

Belinda Bettini 
Belinda Bettini

Meditation practices were brilliant, as were the talks. A wealth of knowledge.

Melissa Gardiner 
Melissa Gardiner

This training surpassed all expectations – challenging, inspiring, and deeply informative. It has opened my eyes to a whole new world of yoga!

Bridget McNamara 
Bridget McNamara

All teachers bring to this amazing training a vast experience, each one of them with their own identity and authenticity. 

The Contemporary Yoga approach is to truly explore Yoga as a discipline which includes movement principles, patterns, Yoga traditions, anatomy, physiology, and much more.

This is the training that you really need – it will change your everyday life.

Valentina Piantoni 
Valentina Piantoni

I would recommend this course to anyone wanting to do Yoga teacher training. It is so much more than that – a life-changing, amazing experience.

Lutza Szabo 
Lutza Szabo

I’ve learnt so much about Yoga and myself, met so many wonderful people, and have made lifelong friends.

Hope Anderson 
Hope Anderson

The manual is an amazing resource and always will be.

Meghann Stewart 
Meghann Stewart

I have enjoyed it so much and feel I have taken so much away into my everyday life as well as my Yoga. Karla, Neal and Haidee are all unique and true to their core. I look forward to earning so much more from them.

Abbie Rose 
Abbie Rose

Four generous and vastly different teachers combine to offer something more unique and valuable than expected. It is beyond yoga as I knew it — it was an investment in the rest of my life.

Sarah Hart 
Sarah Hart

A life-changing experience with lovely teachers!

Carolyn Austin 
Carolyn Austin

Contemporary Yoga has given me more than what I’d expect from a teacher training course. All the teachers are truly experts in what they do and their passion is infectious.

Alana Chao 
Alana Chao

The learning I have gained from this course of really helped me find not only my yoga knowledge, but myself. I thank the team for the amazing work they put into this course, as I have come out of it with a new perspective.

As I leave the training I can confidently say that I have come closer to my true nature, and I’m able to come closer to this more and more every day.

Dea Bashota 
Dea Bashota

The Contemporary approach to Yoga is so much more than how we move on the mat. It speaks to how we move through life. How we are in relationship to self and in relationship to others.

Thank you for an incredibly potent, immersive and all-round epic training.

Steph Le Gros 
Steph Le Gros

This training has been an incredible gift for me and I am excited to share the teachings with others.

Stephanie Leighton 
Stephanie Leighton

This Yoga teacher training has been the perfect grounding and base for springing forward into my teaching and personal practice journey. I am so inspired and invigorated to learn more and continue to explore all the concepts and topics that we have delved into.

Thank you so much to all of the incredible teachers for their wisdom, kindness, professionalism and generosity during this teacher training and beyond.

Dianne Hollands 
Dianne Hollands

This was a really warm, exciting, encouraging and profound learning experience. The facilitation was awesome and there was such a wonderful sense of community amongst the practitioners. A beautiful balance of life-to-life and individual learning. I am so inspired to continue with the practice and to find ways to integrate it into other areas of my life and to share it with others.

Emma Willis 
Emma Willis

Contemporary Yoga is not so much a style but an approach to movement that combines ancient wisdom and modern research. The depth of knowledge the teachers can give you is immeasurable, and you’ll never look at Yoga in the same way.

Victoria Kvasniak 
Victoria Kvasniak

The level of care, creativity, and personalization that Contemporary Yoga brings to the practice is incredibly special.

Stephanie Leighton 
 Stephanie Leighton

Those who are serious about where to invest their time and money in a Yoga Teacher Training, can rest assured that the Contemporary team deliver a comprehensive training which enables a solid foundation from which to grow. Highly recommended.

KeiShana Coursey 
KeiShana Coursey

I can truly say that this training would benefit any yoga teacher – in fact, any person with a yoga practice. I not only gained a more compassionate perspective to yoga, but also toward myself.

Simply fantastical.

Summer Knight 
Summer Knight

I was amazed by the depth and breadth of yoga on the human mind and body that the teachers of this course have.

Sarah Diskin 
Sarah Diskin

I am really glad I chose this training because it has given me tools to communicate with any kind of student as well as connecting my personal practice to a field of infinite potential. It offered a perspective of yoga that is deep yet accessible. The teachers have incredible knowledge and experience but most importantly creative ways of sharing their knowledge.

Chloé Lebee 
Chloé Lebee

This course will really make you think about Yoga. It’s full of creative, fun and innovative thinking that will enhance your own practice and enliven your own classes.

This is Yoga for life!

Clare Leitch 
Clare Leitch

The learning environment was so supportive, inclusive and warm. Being able to immerse in this process was so valuable for my learning and development.

Dianne Hollands 
Dianne Hollands

All teachers bring to this amazing training a vast experience, each one of them with their own identity and authenticity.

The Contemporary Yoga approach is to truly explore Yoga as a discipline which includes movement principles, patterns, Yoga traditions, anatomy, physiology, and much more.

This is the training that you really need – it will change your everyday life.

Valentina Piantoni 
Valentina Piantoni

I feel enriched on many levels… Yoga history, Somatics, anatomy, business aspects, understanding movement much more deeply and absorbing it into my body not just my head.

Excellent value for money. I will be forever grateful and am excited about the future once more.

Helèna Morgan 
Helèna Morgan

Karla and Neal are incredible. They are truly exceptional teachers. They have such care, and hold such safe, honouring spaces, in a way I haven’t experienced with any other Yoga teachers.

Tui Williams 
Tui Williams

I could not be happier to have chosen this course. It has completely exceeded any expectations.

Rob Dawson 
Rob Dawson

Contemporary Yoga has changed the way I move – through life!

Karla, Neal and Haidee’s passion is contagious and this course is a real journey to embrace.

Marika Berney 
Marika Berney

My Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training not only taught me to deepen my Yoga practice, it taught me to live a better life.

Spending 18 days around these teachers who live and breathe Yoga, exuding loving kindness and care in every moment, not to mention life-long friends I have made with my peers has made for me an experience I will never forget.

This training went above and beyond my expectations.

Leon Campbell 
Leon Campbell

This training delivered on every level. The teachers, who embody Yoga fully and want to share and guide us. The facility, the students themselves. A wonderful, life-enhancing, entry into the teaching world.

Andrea Fletcher 
Andrea Fletcher

Karla, Neal, Sam and Haidee offer such rich tools and concepts within this course. There’s a real consideration around feelings of safety and support which I appreciated so very much.

You will be offered the juiciest of fruits and from their it’s your turn to squeeze the juice out and into your palms. An incredibly self-empowering training offering an alternate approach to traditional forms of Yoga.

Holly Hepburn 
Holly Hepburn

This training has awakened in me the huge possibility that awaits. Moving away from the scripted style of teaching a new found freedom has been found an an excitement and what awaits. Thank you.

Sophie Hartnell 
Sophie Hartnell

Contemporary Yoga is connecting yoga back its roots in a very exciting, stimulating and open minded way.

Michaela Robinson 
Michaela Robinson

Karla and Neal have created a course that is completely inclusive and is infused with kindness, curiosity and wisdom. All are welcome in the practice of Contemporary Yoga.

At the end of this course I am more knowledgeable, more able, more confident and more authentic. I have been moved and changed through this journey.

Shelly Fitness 
Shelly Fitness

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 
Julie Edlin

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