Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Training

Our 90- Hour Teacher Training prepares you to:

  • Teach public prenatal and postnatal yoga classes, 1:1 sessions and specialty workshops (see below for details)

  • Support a pregnant person safely when they drop in to your public yoga class online or in-studio

  • Empower yourself as a pregnant person

  • Inform your one-to-one sessions with your yoga students, doula clients, midwifery clients and those you support as an L&D nurse or childbirth educator

  • Establish a deep and loving working relationship with pregnant people and their families during pregnancy and invite it to naturally flow into being their postpartum doula

The foundation of Birthing Mama is love. This teacher training offers techniques to manifest generosity and care, and to build a sustainable teaching practice. Trainees are asked to participate in self-reflection, class design and leadership, and exercises that strengthen our knowledge and intuition about the body and soul during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

The training consists of 23 video sessions that have been edited from the 2021 Livestream 90hr Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Training. You get to enjoy the convenience of an asynchronous course where you can work at your own pace while still receiving the warmth and personal relationship.

On-Demand Option

Our most flexible model of study to support your schedule, needs and pace. Training can be completed on your timeline, and features video recordings from a live training and check-ins with a lead teacher.

We turned the recordings of our 2021 online training into a beautiful asynchronous on-demand training. And this training is now available as part of the Sacred Window’s Studies packages.

Recommended Rate $889 OR included when you purchase the Sacred Windows Whole Path.

Live Option

Take the 90-hour Prenatal Training with a live group of peers, either in-person or online livestreamed via Zoom.

Dates and location for the next live training are TBD.

A certified Birthing Mama® teacher can teach the following:

  • Prenatal Yoga group classes and private sessions

  • Postnatal/Parent & Baby/Baby & Me Yoga group classes or private sessions

  • Sharing circles with specific focus points (fertility, conception, pregnancy, racial inequity, postpartum, motherhood, loss, menopause)

  • Prenatal Yoga for Couples Preparing for Birth Workshop

  • Mother/Birthing Person Blessings & Yoga Circles to honor the many rituals within the childbearing years

  • Deep relaxation, meditation and yoga nidra for the childbearing years

  • Birth Story Processing private or group sessions

  • Fertility, Conception, Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Yoga Circles

  • Holding Space for Loss groups or private sessions (may require additional training)

Our Program is Registered with Yoga Alliance

Lead Teacher

Corinne Andrews

Corinne is the co-director of Shraddhā Yoga, lead teacher of the 100-hour Yoga Immersion, 200-hour and 300-hour Shraddhā Yoga Teacher Trainings, the developer and lead teacher of the Birthing Mama® 90hr Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Training, and author of the new book Birthing Mama: Your Companion to a Holistic Pregnancy Journey. She has been teaching yoga to people of all ages (beginning in the womb!) since 2003.

Corinne trained in Classical Ashtanga Yoga as taught by Baba Hari Das, Embodyoga® with Patty Townsend (on-going since 2004), Shiatsu, Meridian Yoga, Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga, Mindful Grieving Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, MYT for Trauma, On-going Yoga Philosophy Studies, as a Birth Doula, Vedic Chanting and Sacred Windows. She is continuously upheld and inspired by her spiritual teacher GurujiMa and is deeply grateful for her presence and teachings of living yoga and a life divine here on earth. Her other great spiritual teachers are her two beloved teenage children and all that they have illuminated for her since conception.

Learn more about Corinne

Guest Teachers

  • Naima Beckles

  • Amy Wright Glenn

  • Rajaveni Balasundharam

  • Kristin Avonti

“Birthing Mama Prenatal Yoga Training is a beautiful balance of physiology, emotional awareness, and holistic preparation for birth and motherhood. Corinne’s instruction is inspiring and so personally restorative. I’m excited to share the gifts of Birthing Mama with my community.”

— Kindreth Hamilton, Integrity Women’s Health
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“Birthing Mama, taught by Corinne Andrews of Shraddha Yoga, is an incredible perinatal yoga training program that I would recommend to all birth workers. The training is comprehensive, covering conception to postpartum (which in Birthing Mama is considered 5 years after birth), with in-depth explorations into all aspects of pregnancy. Something I loved about Birthing Mama is that despite its name, it is designed for all gestating parents and is body inclusive and gender affirming. It also covers the perinatal experience for more than white bodies with emphasis on Black birthers which I found to be so important and illuminating. Thank you to Corinne for creating this lovely work!”

~ Alana Wilson, 200-hour RYT, R-PYT

Topics Covered

 

  • Anatomy and Physiology of pregnancy

  • Fetal Development

  • Common discomforts & remedies

  • Modifying Classic Postures for pregnancy/Posture Clinics and How to Modify for Pregnant Students in a regular class

  • Whole Body Support Templates

  • The 4 trimesters (3 trimesters of pregnancy plus the first month of postpartum period)

  • Emotionality During Pregnancy

  • Spirituality During Pregnancy and connecting to the Divine Mother

  • Intro to herbs and nutrition for pregnancy

  • Lungs, Breathing and Breath Practices

  • Chanting and Sounding Techniques

  • Visualization, Meditation and Yoga Nidra

  • Strengthening/toning and releasing your pelvis

  • Yogic Philosophy as it relates to pregnancy

  • Ethics of teaching prenatal yoga

  • Pregnancy Rituals & Holding Space for Loss

  • Honoring Inclusivity and Diversity

  • Abdominal Anatomy and Tone

  • The symbol of Mira Alfassa/”The Mother”, in practice and teaching

  • Stages of labor and birth, including anatomy

  • Nutrition & Herbs for Labor, Birth and Postpartum

  • Yoga for releasing, softening, opening for childbirth

  • Tools for finding comfort during labor

  • Prenatal yoga for couples preparing for birth

  • The energetic body in relation to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum

  • Creative Projects to cultivate awareness and presence

  • Self Care Practices

  • Subtle body theory and yogic philosophy as it relates to pregnancy and birth

  • Support for Optimal Fetal Positioning

  • Trusting Intuition, Seeing and Releasing fear

  • Appropriate use of Touch for Prenatal students

  • Restorative yoga for pregnancy

  • Breathing and meditation techniques

  • Sequencing for a prenatal and a postnatal yoga class

  • Postnatal/Parent and Baby Yoga

  • Postpartum recovery and rituals

  • Four faces/qualities of the Divine Mother

  • Marketing your practice and Business of Prenatal Yoga classes and workshops

“Attending the Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Corinne has transformed my understanding and connection to birth, motherhood, and the power of the divine feminine. This training was a perfectly-woven fabric of the physical aspects of supporting pregnant and postpartum mothers, through herbal remedies and yoga postures, and building the energetic presence to be truly present with and honor all women and their sacred process of becoming a mother. More than just a PYTT, this training has helped me grow into a better mother, stronger woman, and far more devoted yoga practitioner. I hope the wisdom and love that is so deeply embedded in this training can connect with all those who love mothers and babies far and wide.”

— Lily Vreeland, 2017 Birthing Mama® 90-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

Requirements for Certification

  • Practice/watch ALL videos included in this training

  • Reading for each of the 4 modules and homework that needs to be turned in to obtain certification — SEE HERE FOR DETAILS

 

Interested but want to learn more?

We’re more than happy to answer your questions or schedule a call — just send us a message below.

Purchase Corinne’s book: Birthing Mama: Your Companion for a Holistic Pregnancy Journey

Corinne “birthed” this book in 2021, and it is designed to be a guide along your journey of pregnancy and beyond. Material in the Prenatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Training forms the foundation of the Birthing Mama companion, and it is recommended reading for the course.

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