Yoga Way to Birth Online Teacher Training

BODY-CENTERED

PROCESS-ORIENTED

EXPERIENTIAL

PRACTICE-DRIVEN

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward

Being a childbirth educator is one of the most rewarding, fulfilling, and challenging educator privileges. It takes knowledge, passion, creativity, humility, and confidence to guide parents-to-be through a subject matter of such brevity, variability, significance, and uncertainty such as labor and childbirth.

The Yoga Way to Birth Teacher Training provides you with the information, tools, and questions to meet those responsibilities and deliver a successful class.

RELATIONAL MODEL OF BIRTH

The Yoga Way to Birth is an engaging, holistic childbirth preparation program inspired by experiential and practice-driven teaching traditions. It approaches birth as an embodied, relational experience, i.e. an experience generated by the body and reflected upon by the mind.

Through yoga, meditation, self-inquiry practices, and discussions we look at birth through the lens of the body, reflect on what the body experiences and knows from moment to moment, and how this experience can guide mothers in labor.

Humans have used the principles and practices of yoga for centuries to understand themselves better, and to live healthier and more balanced lives. Yoga and meditation offer practice-based experiences involving the body in mindful inquiry. This inquiry brings us into relationship with ourselves, provides the context for self-exploration and learning, and affords intuitive guidance throughout the process of life, labor, and birth.

TRAINING FORMAT

Our training teaches you the core elements of the Yoga Way to Birth childbirth preparation curriculum and enables you to integrate them into childbirth classes you are already teaching, designing, or hoping to teach.

Comprised of 4 self-paced modules that include quizzes, assignments, and online support, it is the foundation course for becoming a certified Yoga Way to Birth instructor. If this is your intention, additional course work, and mentoring are required. The Yoga Way to Birth class curriculum, including detailed teaching plan, will be shared with you at that time. For more questions, please contact us.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Duration: 4 month online access

Course fee: $83

For questions and application information, please contact us.

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Syllabus

  • MODULE 1 THE PATH OF THE TEACHER: Language & Communication / Teaching methodology / Learning styles / Transformational learning / Conceptual understandings / Guided meditation instruction
  • MODULE 2 YOGA IN CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION: Foundations of classical yoga / Yamas & Niyamas / Koshas / Yoga for pregnancy
  • MODULE 3 LABOR 101: Coming to terms / Physiology of labor and birth / Contraction design / Uterus anatomy / Labor positions & comfort measures / Hormones in birth / Processing of birth fears / Being with pain / Baby’s journey
  • MODULE 4 YOGA WAY TO BIRTH: Guiding principles / Theoretical models of birth / Relational model of birth / Labor yin-yang / Body’s central agenda / Labor rehearsal

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