Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Inner Vision Yoga is excited to announce a certified 85 hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program that meets Yoga Alliance standards! Classes start February 25th.
Join us as in this comprehensive program that includes how to teach prenatal yoga to women in all stages of their pregnancy in a safe, holistic, and empowering way. Learn how to teach women during this amazing, life changing time of their lives to prepare themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually for the process of labor and birth. Yoga will be explored as a way to prepare for a conscious, transformational, and positive labor and birth experience. Explore at a deeper level how to help these women prepare for their birth process on an energetic level as well as a physical level as we create an environment where women can access their inner wisdom to birth with confidence.
Overview:
- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy both on the physical and the subtle body level.
- Appropriate lesson plans and specific asanas for each trimester of pregnancy
- Alignment techniques and appropriate modifications
- Psychological considerations during pregnancy and how to differentiate between high-risk and non-high-risk pregnancy.
- Relaxation and stress management
- Pranayama
CLASS DATES.
Class will meet at Chandler Studio 12:30-3:30PM on the following days:
MODULE 1
- Sat & Sun 2/25 & 2/26
- Sat & Sun 3/10 & 3/11
- Sat & Sun 3/24 & 3/25
- Fr 3/30 (12:30-3:30)
- Sat & Sun 3/31 & 4/1
MODULE 2
- Fri 4/13
- Sat & Sun 4/14 & 4/15
- Sat & Sun 4/21 & 4/22
- Sat & Sun 5/5 & 5/6
- Fr 5/18 (12:30-3:30)
- Sat & Sun 5/19 & 5/20
Full registration:
$1095.00 regular/ $895.00 early 21 days
Book list
- Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives by Deepak Chopra and David Simon
- Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide by Penny Simkin, et. al.
- Active Birth: The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally by Janet Balaskas
- Preparing for Birth With Yoga by Janet Balaskas
- Yoga for Pregnancy by Sandra Jordan
- Orgasmic Birth, DVD
Instructors:
Marcia Keilen is a registered nurse with a BSN in nursing from Arizona State University. She has worked as a labor and delivery nurse as well as a neonatal intensive care nurse. She is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator through Lamaze International and has taught childbirth classes at a major medical center. She is also a Master Herbalist and received this certification from the School of Natural Healing. She has also been trained as a Doula. She is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500-RYT level and also as a RPYT, registered prenatal yoga teacher. She currently teaches prenatal yoga at Inner Vision Yoga in Chandler and Tempe as well as teaching a workshop entitled Yoga for Labor and Birth for couples wanting a more natural/less medicated approach to their labor and birth experience. Her extensive knowledge and experience is reflected in her classes as well as her passion to help women tune into their inner wisdom as they prepare for the birth of their baby.
Maredith Estrada-Schroeder is a Administrator of the Teacher Training Program at Inner Vision Yoga. Her enthusiasm for yoga is apparent in each class she facilitates and her commitment to guide and mentor future yoga teachers will enable the student find their own unique path. Maredith has owned and operated her own daycare group home facility for over fifteen years.