Program Description

This training prepares Yoga teachers to teach classes in Prenatal Yoga.
The specialized prenatal practices help the students tune into the needs and changes of pregnancy and promote relaxation and suppleness. An in-depth review of the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, labor and birth sets the foundation for teachers understanding of the myriad benefits of Hatha Yoga for pregnancy.

Teachers will gain extensive experience with asanas well-suited to pregnant women and a thorough understanding of contra-indications during pregnancy. The training will attune teachers to the profound physical, emotional, mental and spiritual transitions of pregnancy and birth and demonstrate how tools such as chanting, pranayama, deep relaxation and meditation can be effective ways of coping with these changes.

This course is open to Yoga teachers who have completed a Yoga Alliance-certified 200-hour Yoga teacher training program.

Beth Donnelly Cabán is an Integral Yoga certified instructor (hatha yoga, meditation, therapeutic yoga, prenatal, postpartum and labor Yoga).
She has been teaching prenatal yoga since 1998, co-teaching in the IYI Prenatal Teacher training program and attending births since 2001.
She is also certified as a midwisfe assistant (The Farm), a labor support doula (DONA), and a childbirth educator (CEA/MNY). Beth has trained with Janet Balaskas and Michel Odent at the Active Birth Centre in London, and holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in cultural anthropology and public health.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and son.

Please join us for the rare opportunity to learn how to teach Integral Yoga to pregnant women.