Prenatal Yoga Training | GOYA CEC & Yoga Alliance YACEP

Empower pregnant women through prenatal yoga with breath techniques, mindfulness, and gentle postures to prepare for birth. Cultivate non-attachment and inner strength to support mother and baby.

Explore prenatal yoga benefits for pregnancy, labor, and delivery, including breathwork (pranayama), meditation, and supportive postures that strengthen, relax, and connect mother and baby.

Explore fetal development across the weeks and trimesters, helping prenatal yoga teachers understand what students experience from conception to full term, along with symptoms and maternal changes.

Explore anatomical changes in pregnancy and their impact on breathing and circulation for safe prenatal yoga. Emphasize observation and gentle, adaptable breathing and posture options.

Explore common prenatal complications in yoga contexts, including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, gestational diabetes, and hypertension. Learn to tailor safe practices with confidentiality, pelvic considerations, and guidance from healthcare providers.

Angela guides a prenatal yoga sequence focused on strength and nourishment for moms in the making, blending breath awareness, mudras, and postures from seated grounding to goddess poses and meditation.

Design safe, all-trimester prenatal yoga classes that honor first trimester symptoms, fatigue, and balance, using props, modifications, and space for privacy, nourishment, and connection with baby.

Empower second-trimester students with thoughtful modifications and strengthening back care, breathing techniques, and bladder-friendly postures while avoiding inversions and supine positions after 27–28 weeks.

Guide students through the third trimester by offering flexible modifications, slow and stable sequences, and ample props, while communicating individual needs and safe options for squats and partial inversions.

Guide arm stretches on all fours from tabletop, with finger pads or fists, an elbow bend, and blocks to lengthen the upper back while drawing the baby into the spine.

Explore kneeling and standing wall stretches in prenatal yoga, including extended puppy variations, wall distance cues, and tips to draw baby into the spine for a safe stretch.

Guide prenatal students through seated spinal flex and seated cat-cow with comfortable variations. Emphasize mindful breath, earth connection, and visualization to create space around the baby.

Hold space for pregnant clients with mindfulness, breathwork, and movement, encouraging non-attachment to birth plans while acknowledging diverse care options.