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Glad that you're here. Follow these steps before you dive into Section 2. This will help you feel grounded and prepared for your journey ahead.
This is the teacher training manual that the course follows. Feel free to print it out and take notes as needed. This is a helpful resource for beginning teachers when they are first learning to guide breathing exercises and guided meditations.
Find a comfortable, quiet spot to listen to this meditation, reflect upon it, and complete the womb connection journaling exercise, below.
This lecture discusses the main ligaments of pregnancy and how to understand them as they pertain to prenatal yoga.
This lecture will help you understand how yoga postures and movements can help reduce a mother's pregnancy discomforts.
This video explains why certain yoga postures can help provide body relief from pregnancy discomforts (like back pain/discomfort or round ligament pain). The sound goes out around minute 7.30, but you can follow along with your manual for further explanation. Additionally, I cover these postures and movements in more detail in Lecture 10: Yoga Practice for Back Discomfort.
This practice is a short one that I like to call a "movement snack break". Movement snack breaks are easy to do and can be done almost anywhere. I love to do these practices after prolonged times of sitting.
A general list and understanding of postures, movements, and breathpractices that are avoided in most prenatal yoga practices.
Adapting Yoga Asana for the 1st Trimester of Pregnancy. This is an interactive chapter. You will need comfy clothes and a few props to experience the modifications of the postures in your own body.
In this lecture, I will share how I structure my prenatal yoga classes with you. Then, you will have the opportunity to be a prenatal yoga student as I guide you through sequencing a class without props and a prenatal yoga class with props.
This warmup sequence was designed for the prenatal yoga class that does not have any props to use.
Put on your comfy clothes and take this full prenatal yoga class with me. After the student introductions and sharing time, this is what a typical prenatal yoga class looks like in the yoga studio studio.
Lecture class on the landscape and function of the female pelvic floor during pregnancy.
This is a 30-minute, interactive class. Grab your mat and props and change into comfy clothes and let's dive in!
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