zenmuma Pregnancy Yoga teacher training

Our maternity, birthing and yoga experts have put all of our expertise into one training course to help you provide the safest, most inclusive, informative and inspirational pregnancy yoga classes.

Accredited as a British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance CPD and as a standalone certification in its own right.

If you would like to discuss a monthly payment plan contact us directly hello@zenmuma.co.uk

45-Hour Three-day contact training. £750

The Training 

Good Practise – the experience of pregnancy yoga. Distinguishing the key elements of ZenMuma pregnancy yoga. Understanding the relationship with health care professionals and considering what best advice and practise is. Seeing holistic issues in pregnancy and learning how to manage them carefully and professionally.  

Teaching methodology and Structure – the building blocks of every class. Specialising yoga to the needs of pregnant women, including practise and teaching skills for trimester-specific yoga techniques. Teaching the full range of yoga asanas appropriate for pregnancy and explaining the benefits. Including a downloadable manual of pregnancy yoga postures, and when they should be used. Techniques include: alignment for the expectant mother, how to practise yoga techniques safely, how to guide into stress management, mindfulness and relaxation.  

Anatomy and physiology – teaching a safe class. A discovery of the amazing, and ever-changing, pregnant body.  Development, adaptations and contraindications, what’s happening throughout pregnancy and what this means for your yoga instruction. Plus, guidance on additional needs including Pelvic girdle pain, pubic symphysis disorder, round ligament pain, and other common complaints.  Our content is written with editorial by our specialist physiotherapy expert.

Encouraging Better Births – understanding the balance of positive teaching when it comes to birthing. Being aware of special circumstances for birth and being mindful to teach inclusion. Teaching active birth techniques and pranayama for birth.  

Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, ethics and bringing the WOW to your class – the importance of building a community in your class, and how to do it. Encouraging pregnant women to self-care. How to lead a mindful pregnancy.  

Getting Practical – Plenty of practical yoga practise in the adapted sun salutation, yoga for pelvic girdle pain, yoga for baby positioning, yoga for pregnancy anxiety, yoga for mum and baby connection, mindful breathing, birth breathing, active birth, deep relaxation and much more!

Getting Started  - We include a module on ‘how to start and market your own business’. Learn what it takes to start your own business, and how to do it, from the ZenMuma and ZenKids consultants who have been running successful complementary health businesses, yoga centres and retreats for over 10 years. Including brand presence, business planning and marketing musts.

The Future – Find your venue, download your manual, understand how professional liability insurance works, decide if you want to become a ZenMuma license holder, or if you want to start your own business under your own brand, and get ready to teach!   

Certification – Jackie at ZenMuma will teach you all you need to know to successfully teach inspiring classes of your own and receive the Professional Pregnancy Yoga Certification.  

The assessment for certification includes: 

Full attendance of the course, 5 short essays, demonstration of safe teaching during the training. 

After the Training - You can choose to either do the training and set up on your own, or you can become a ZenMuma teacher using all our branding and becoming a ZenMuma license holder for just £50 a month. We also offer an annual complementary weekend yoga retreat in beautiful North Norfolk for license holders, a time to share, bond and connect with our special ZenMuma, ZenKids and ZenTeens community.

With each training you will receive:

• Lesson plans for classes to get you started

• A downloadable 140+ page training manual, so you have the support you need to develop your classes

• A free video of your training to refer to over and over again

• The opportunity to come back to our pregnancy yoga training for free, whenever you want to, as a refresher

• The ZenMuma stamp of approval logo and selected photographs to use

• Free access to our ZenMuma Newsletter

• Free access to our ZenMuma Practitioner Facebook Support Group

• An invitation to our annual ‘Nourish Your ZenMuma’ Conference, when we gather to support you with inspirational guest speakers, yoga workshops, advisors, influencers, and great nutritious food

In order to enrol in our Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Course, please pay the full course amount in our 'Shop' to guarantee a place and enrol on the course, or secure your place on your desired course with a £250 deposit, and pay in instalments. Please contact hello@zenmuma.co.uk if you have any further queries.

Please note: all payments are non-refundable and all dates are non-transferable.