Description
Are you a midwife or maternity support worker wishing to support pregnancy by offering appropriate and accessible prenatal yoga in a hospital or community setting?
Birthlight’s Perinatal Yoga for Maternity Professionals enables you to teach regular pregnancy yoga classes and workshops to those in your care. With online resources, recordings and a comprehensive manual to support your learning the course includes 3 in-person days and additional live online teaching with the tutor. Coursework is required to complete the full qualification documenting the planning, delivery, reflection on and feedback about teaching your classes.
On completion you will be able to:
- offer regular antenatal yoga classes in the community e.g. at Surestart/family centres or elsewhere, or in a hospital setting
- integrate some yoga into your existing workshops or pregnancy information sessions or even
- be able to offer simple helpful tips and practices to help alleviate common issues during pregnancy whilst seeing women individually during their appointments
- run birth ‘rehearsal’ workshops that welcome couples/ birth partners to learn how to use breathing, movements and positions in the labour process
- have more tools & practices from yoga to help in the labour rooms
- offer yoga practices for the very early postpartum- very simple, nourishing breath based practices that can be done in or on a hospital bed or at home on a home visit to initiate the recovery process after birth
Feedback from Previous courses:
“Great balance between discussion of theory and practical application. Enjoyed the aspect of being part of the class with pregnant women to have the opportunity to observe. A lot of content packed into three days but I really enjoyed it all!”
“This training was so different to expectations. Much more than learning a series of yoga positions- it is birth education on an instinctive level which has the potential to both inspire and energise women and their midwives and facilitate healthier approaches to birth and beyond.”
“Following the Birthlight course I feel able to go back to my work as midwife with a tool kit to share with my women to alleviate the common but often difficult complaints of pregnancy.”
“This course will equip you to embrace yoga and explore it in midwifery terms”
“Informative, relatable, thought provoking, grounding and warm!”
“I love the manual. Very well laid out, lots of practical information and pictures. Best course manual I have been provided with to date.”
FAQs
Do I need to be a Yoga teacher to take this course? No, as a midwife or other maternity professional you can join this course without any formal qualification in Yoga. However, we do expect you to be interested in and willing to attend yoga classes for yourself to gain experience and insight if you do not already do so.
How is this course different to the Perinatal Yoga training aimed at Yoga teachers? This course is aimed at those with experience of supporting pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum in a healthcare setting or with previous experience of doing so. Therefore we naturally do not cover the hormones of pregnancy and labour and the labour process. We cover less yoga poses than in our course aimed at yoga teachers but we do focus on the Birthlight Yoga practices that benefit all women whether they have any yoga experience or not. These practices are both accessible to the general population and effective in helping to stay or become active during pregnancy. They encourage better posture and in turn better breathing and better access to relaxation and the release of stress and tension. Our Birthlight practices also help avoid and alleviate common complaints of pregnancy and prepare the body and mind to approach birth with confidence and embodied practices to help.
Does this course qualify me as a Yoga Teacher? No. This course only qualifies you to teach prenatal and early postpartum sessions. You will not be qualified to teach other populations.
What about insurance if a want to teach classes privately outside of my healthcare role? Once you have satisfactorily completed the coursework you can obtain insurance with BGi.
What Coursework is required to gain this qualification?
Document, teach and reflect on 4 case study classes- if you teach a course of 6-8 sessions submit your full course.
observe minimum 2 other classes & document
- Choose 1 option: make a Presentation/ write an essay/ or answer 5 long questions
- Your tutor will read all your coursework and give detailed feedback. The tutor will also assess your demonstration of the poses and teaching during the in-person days in a friendly constructive manner.
Do you offer this training in-house?
Yes, we can offer this training in-house where the tutor comes to your location for the in-person days of the course. If you would like to discuss this option for your midwifery team or various staff members across your healthcare trust please email us: [email protected]
Who can I talk to to discuss if this course is the right choice for me?
Please email us on [email protected] or call us on 07375968711 and we can arrange a time to reach you if we don’t speak to you directly- please tell us the best times and number to contact you on.
