
Explore the benefits of pregnancy yoga for mom, safety across trimesters, and pelvic floor strengthening. Learn about anatomy, pregnancy-friendly poses, class sequencing, pranayama, meditation, and path to Anjali certificate.
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Prenatal yoga builds flexibility, strength, and posture to ease pregnancy and backache, while boosting energy, mindfulness, relaxation, pelvic floor strength, and a deeper connection to the unborn baby.
Reflect on your intentions as a prenatal yoga teacher and what you aim to bring to pregnant women. Read these intentions before each class to reconnect with your deeper purpose.
Explore how a pregnant body adapts through three trimesters, from uterus and bladder changes to breathing, back pain, and hemorrhoids, with yoga techniques to support mom and baby.
Explore baby's development through weeks one to forty, covering three trimesters, neural and organ formation, fetal milestones, and how the amniotic sac, placenta, and mucus plug support growth.
Strengthen the pelvic floor during pregnancy with yoga-based cues, guiding women to activate muscles that support the bladder, uterus, and bowel, and practice controlled breaths with ten-rep sets.
Pregnant women experience pelvic girdle pain from pelvic joint stiffness or misalignment; seek medical care and use bridge and tabletop leg lift to strengthen pelvic floor, core, and back.
Explains what a hernia is, how pregnancy-related abdominal pressure can cause it, how ultrasound can distinguish fatty tissue from an organ, and why pregnant clients should avoid abdominal poses.
Diastasis recti is the separation of abdominal muscles during pregnancy, often from overexertion. Avoid backbends and any posture that stretches the abdomen; seek medical guidance and use side bends.
Understand how pregnancy increases abdominal pressure and constipation, weakens the pelvic floor, and causes hemorrhoids affecting up to 50 percent of women; avoid deep squatting postures such as goddess pose.
Understand how pregnancy raises blood demand and progesterone relaxes vessels, causing low blood pressure with dizziness and nausea, and practice yoga safely with slow transitions from forward folds to standing.
Gestational diabetes, diagnosed for the first time during pregnancy, affects moms and babies and is managed through diet, exercise, and possibly medication; yoga supports these moms with doctor clearance.
Explore carpal tunnel during pregnancy, including how wrist swelling can compress nerves and cause numbness and tingling. Practice wrist and forearm stretches during yoga with modifications avoiding weight on wrists.
Learn gentle pranayama and breath work for pregnancy within pregnancy yoga teacher training, focusing on non-holding breaths, wave breathing, and simple cues to calm the nervous system.
Enhance your pregnancy yoga teacher training certificate course with meditation for prenatal classes, guiding mom to ease anxiety and deepen connection with her baby.
Connect your body and baby through a restorative meditation that quiets the mind and deepens intuition and gratitude. Visualize your baby resting in the peaceful, nourishing environment you create.
Experience a pregnancy-focused meditation that anchors present-moment awareness, eases anxiety and tension, and fosters calm, centered relaxation through guided breath cues and gentle visualizations.
Learn postnatal yoga guidelines to safely support healing, pelvic floor and core rebuilding, and emotional well-being with doctor clearance during the first 6–12 weeks after birth.
Postnatal yoga poses ease back and shoulder tension from breastfeeding while restabilizing the core and rebuilding strength. Explore tabletop, side plank, legs up the wall, and circle of joy.
Keep your pregnancy yoga insurance up to date, confirm coverage with the studio or obtain your own public liability policy, and discuss medical clearance, indemnity, and safety measures with mom.
Email: anjaliyogaacademy@gmail.com
Welcome to the Anjali Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Course!
This course will teach you everything you need to know to teach safe, fun and calming pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes!
Our course is a Yoga Alliance approved continuing education course.
The Anjali Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Course will cover:
Pregnancy yoga benefits - including the physical, mental and emotional benefits
Intentions - your intentions as a teacher and mums intentions in a yoga class
Safety - how to keep mum and baby safe in your yoga classes
Anatomy - we will cover the pregnant body by trimester, baby's development, the pelvic floor, common issues during pregnancy and hormones
Pregnancy friendly yoga poses - learn the top 25 yoga poses that are great for the pregnant woman, our exclusive yoga pose guide will include video instructions of each pose, the English and Sanskrit names, pose benefits, contraindications and steps for each pose
Sequencing - how to sequence a good pregnancy yoga class
Sample pregnancy yoga class and class theme ideas
Pranayama, breath work and meditation for pregnancy
Postnatal yoga guidelines - how to guide mum through a yoga class when she is recovering from pregnancy and birth
Postnatal yoga poses
Legal matters for prenatal and postnatal classes
You will also receive wonderful resources with this course including a printable workbook with all of the information from the course, two fully illustrated, printable yoga pose guides, one for prenatal yoga, the other for postnatal yoga detailing over 30 yoga poses and printable PDF meditation scripts to guide your students through calming, pregnancy focused meditations.
All of our resources are exclusive to Anjali Yoga!
This course will provide you with all of the skills, tools and knowledge you need to confidently and safely teach prenatal and postnatal yoga classes.