Taking Yoga online - A real-life lesson in adaptability!

As we all froze in our tracks last March, we at ZenMuma and ZenKids scratched at our heads, lay on the floor for a while, and wondered what to do about the classes and trainings we had scheduled throughout the Spring and Summer. Slowly it became apparent that this was a real-life lesson in adaptability and change and that the sails needed some adjusting, so the yoga boat didn’t sink.

 It was quickly apparent that the market for pregnancy yoga, baby yoga, kids’ yoga and hypnobirthing classes hadn’t gone away – if anything it was more needy than ever! It was just all going to be online.

Freak out time. Online?!

 But what about connection, touch, community, sharing? How could we do all that online?

 This was a time to really find out what was possible.

 The first thing was to shift the classes online - and build communities just as before. The first class I personally taught online was pregnancy yoga, I was so nervous, how on earth was this wonderful gift of yoga flow and connection going to translate online? And then, just like magic, I pressed the Zoom ‘waiting room’ ENTER button and 20 bemused beautiful faces with big beautiful bumps appeared on my screen and the magic started. The magic continued into sharing circle, pranayama, asana, shavasana and closing circle until we all left the room 90 minutes later.

 It was profoundly beautiful, and touching, and real.

 Next baby yoga with 15 mums so desperate to learn some ideas of things they could do with their babies: bonding massage, developmental sequences, baby brain training and we sang, and we shared, we laughed and yes, we cried together.

These classes were truly special.

 Next came the ZenMuma and ZenKids Teacher training courses – they were scheduled to be held in Nottingham and Farnborough, now scheduled to be held ‘in your living room’ on Zoom – and again once we opened our Teaching Companions and got started on module one it was like we were all together in the same room.

 We keep talking about a ‘new normal’, now is not a time to resist it. Yoga teaches us we are not in control, that we can ebb and flow, we can breathe and move with the environment – now is a time to truly put that into practice.

 Never before have couples needed birth classes and hypnobirthing more. New mums need friendly faces to talk to weekly and crave baby ideas and we can beam them into their living rooms. Hundreds of thousands of pregnant women need their tribe to rely on, and we can provide that. And our kids! with growing anxiety and mental health issues becoming more prevalent than ever before we know how yoga can transport our children to imaginative lands and can help cradle our children and gently nudge their nervous system into the feel-good state enabling them to relax, find space and breathe.

 All our specialist teacher training in Pregnancy Yoga, Baby and Post-Natal Yoga, Children’s Yoga and Mindfulness (tots to teens) and Hypnobirthing is fully insurable and comes with an extensive training companion stacked with content to get you started in your new career.

 ALL our training (at time of writing) is contact training with the option to be online on Zoom if you can’t get to the training in person so you can be fully interactive in your training with us. We believe this is the best way to give you a full, real life experience.  Rather than you feel isolated by watching downloaded chapters – you are still with real people, in real time, doing a real course.

 In the event of lockdown or tier restrictions, all training will simply shift to zoom again. Seamlessly, easily, with little fuss – so we can still provide the training you want, and you can still teach your community of people who really need it.

 We also offer the option to repeat the training for free whenever you like, so you can top up on skills that may get forgotten and really teach full, interesting and engaging sessions. We know you can do this, because we have done it, and we do it now. Join our family, our tribe, and teach yoga to people in your community, but maybe even around the world as Zoom opens up our global family.

Book our award-winning, professional status, Yoga Alliance and British Wheel CPD certifications and join our inspirational and supportive teacher training courses today.

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