Pregnancy Yoga Intensive
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Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Date for 2010: 11th-13th June & 10th-12th September 2010, 10am-5pm; Cost £550
Eligibility: Existing yoga teachers of any yoga tradition with an interest in teaching specialist pregnancy classes; trainee yoga teachers from any teacher training course, so long as they have some experience of teaching.
Applications must be submitted to Yoga Campus- on the downloadable application form.
http://www.yogacampus.com/
Any queries on Teacher Training Intensives should be directed to 020 7042 9900,
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Students on the BCY or Yogacampus Teaching Diploma who attend all seven days may count this as one of their approved intensives. However, as the course requires some teaching experience, it may not be taken either as a first intensive or within six months of starting on the Yogacampus Teaching Diploma.
A personal message from the course teacher:
Thank you for your interest in pregnancy yoga teacher training. In recent years pregnancy yoga has become very popular, and there now are quite a few courses offering training for teachers in this field. I view this as a positive development, enabling you as a prospective trainee to choose a course that most precisely meets your needs, and enables you to teach your students appropriately.
When you are weighing up the relative benefits of the courses on offer, it is helpful to know the key differences between them. In brief, the training I offer equips you to:
· design and teach appropriate yoga classes and private sessions to all pregnant women, including those with previous yoga experience and practice and those who are new to yoga, and those in the early postnatal stage;
· teach a full range of holistic yoga techniques that enhance a woman's experience of pregnancy as a preparation for motherhood, and in the immediate postnatal period, including asana, paired asana, pranayama, nada yoga, mudra, bandha, mantra, prana vidya, dharana, meditation, and pratyahara through yoga nidra (deep relaxation);
· understand the philosophical and spiritual basis of yoga in the context of the emotional journey towards birth and motherhood, and to use that understanding as the basis of all pregnancy yoga teaching, and for the immediate period of postnatal recovery.
The course involves obligatory detailed observations of pregnancy yoga classes and/or DVDs (as broad a range of approaches as you are able to find), and three short assignments that help you to focus your learning in a practical manner by creating handouts, publicity material and health questionnaires for your future students. The sixth day of the course involves an appraisal session, at which your teaching is observed by experienced pregnancy yoga teachers. The appraisal is conducted in a supportive and mutually respectful manner, so that most trainees find this experience to be hugely enjoyable, and often comment that the appraisal session was one of their favourite parts of the course.
To help you make an informed decision about whether this training is the one for you, I warmly encourage all prospective trainees to attend, if they are able, any of the Sitaram yoga for pregnancy classes or birth rehearsal workshops in London or Bristol. These classes are all taught by teachers who have attended my training courses. Details of these classes are here - www.sitaram.org - and we have an open door policy for all trainees. If you are not within easy reach of London, then the best way to get a feel for the approach of the course is to take a look at the pregnancy yoga disc of the DVD set Mother Nurture Yoga, available on www.yogamatters.com. If you do decide to go ahead and apply for the course then your observation either of the taught class or the DVD class can count towards your required class observations.
If you want to know more, then please read on:
One of the distinctive features of the training I offer is that it encourages you to think for yourself and to develop your own style and method of teaching pregnancy yoga within a clear framework of safety guidelines. I have been involved in training pregnancy yoga teachers with a number of different organisations since 2001, and my own personal practice since 1984 has been inspired by a range of different yoga traditions, so the
courses I run tend draw on a wide variety of different influences. This is why I am very happy to be working with Bristol City Yoga, whose courses have established an enviable reputation for promoting an inspiring and eclectic range of all that is best across many yoga traditions. First and foremost though, I am a yoga therapist, so everything I train teachers to do is grounded in sound anatomical and physiological principles, observing sensible health and safety guidelines.
One of the other distinctive features of this training is that it gives equal emphasis to each of the pancha kosha (physical, energetic, emotional, wisdom and bliss bodies).
This means that the training provides balanced instruction across all of these topics: asana, pranayama, nada yoga, mudra, bandha, mantra, prana vidya, meditation and yoga nidra (deep relaxation). We also focus an entire day on the needs of the early stages of postnatal recovery.
You will notice from my biography that I am mother to three children, and author of three books all related to yoga and women's health. Both as a mother and a writer (and as someone who spent ten years lecturing in higher education) I am wholeheartedly committed to sharing the benefits of yoga for all women at all stages of their lives - I aim to do so with clarity, passion, and to the highest possible standards. I am very proud of the detailed course manuals which I provide for my trainees, and the thorough training I offer in all of my courses, and I am happy to answer questions from trainees, prospective trainees and graduates of the trainings I offer.
My aim is to give you the information and practical training you need to enable you to respond with joyous creativity to the needs of your pregnant students.