This essential training for all yoga teachers and prenatal caregivers defines and applies the comprehensive and abundant gifts of yoga. In this intensive program, you will learn safe, healing, stress relieving techniques that will help guide a woman through all the phases of pregnancy. We will start with preparing for conception and continue through all the trimesters of the pregnancy to birth and the postnatal period with yoga modifications and techniques appropriate to each phase. We will define and make practical through hands-on and experiential sessions the following:

- Asana modification specific to each trimester

  and common conditions

- Meditation techniques

- Koshas, pranayama, chakras

- Anatomical and physiological changes taking place

- Mental and emotional changes

- Spiritual evolution taking place in both mother

  and child

- Teaching methodology: spotting assisting, 

  sequencing

- A family's journey: conscious evolution and process

- Restorative poses with guided imagery

- Ayurvedic techniques to integrate