Pregnancy Yoga teacher training
29th & 30th April, 1st May 2025, 9.30-5.30pm (gmt)
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.
Good Practice – 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 practice is. Seeing holistic issues in pregnancy and learning how to manage them carefully and professionally.
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.
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!
The Training
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.
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 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.
45-hour total, with three-day contact training on zoom, or in person. £595
Norwich, Norfolk UK, Nationwide & Internationally Live On Zoom. Accredited as a British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance CPD and as a standalone certification in its own right. For private training on Zoom to dates that suit you or to discuss a monthly payment plan contact us hello@zenmuma.co.uk
the future
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 Future
Find your venue, download your manual, understand how professional liability insurance works, set up your brand, and get ready to teach!
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.
Train to become a pregnancy yoga teacher training and help support pregnant women in your local area. Teach classes that provide a safe space for mums to come together and bond with each other and their growing bump through movement and mindfulness.
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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
In order to enrol in our Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Course, please pay the full course amount in our 'Shop' to guarantee a place, or secure your place on your desired course with a £250 deposit, and pay in instalments. Please note: all payments are non-refundable and all dates are non-transferable.
any questions?
For any questions about the courses or packages we offer, please get in touch. No previous experience is needed to start your journey to becoming a fully qualified teacher. Begin a new and rewarding career path today!