The Flow of Life Yoga/85-hr Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training: Spring '24 [Live on Zoom]
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  • $1,000 or 7 monthly payments of $144

[LIVE ON ZOOM] 85-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

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85-Hour Yoga Alliance Approved Registered Prenatal Yoga Training


April 27- 28th

May 25-26th

June 8-9th

9am-4pm EST

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Want to ...

~Deepen your teaching skills?
~Support students in every stage of their pregnancy, fertility, and postpartum journey?
~Learn the fundamentals of fact-based childbirth education?
~Implement a functional, movement-based prenatal yoga practice?
~Cultivate community?

Sign up for your Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Flow of Life!
“This is an unbelievable training that benefits anyone working with pregnant or postpartum people. At first I thought I would use this training to just add to my birth knowledge as a birth worker but now I’m already trying to save for a 200 hour class to offer my community prenatal yoga! If you want to have a sense of community, learn at a reasonable pace, and have fun this is the training for you!”
〰️ Testimonial from one of our recent PYTT Graduates, Dana

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Why Choose the Flow of Life Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training?

  • Fact-based, inclusive childbirth education: Our course will include childbirth education that is designed to give yoga teachers access to accurate and up to date information about childbirth.
  • Community: Throughout the Flow of Life training, trainees will feel the value of community. We believe that strong communities lead to healthy pregnancies and families. This training will demonstrate how to hold spaces for people in all stages of pregnancy.
  • Functional Movement Practice: We approach yoga asanas based on functional anatomy. Our trainees will learn:
    • Why some asanas are beneficial for pregnancy
    • Why some asanas are not beneficial for pregnancy
    • How to alleviate common pregnancy aches and pains
    • Pelvic Floor health
    • Tools to relieve discomfort and develop coping skills

What’s unique about our approach?

Inclusion: We believe all pregnant people deserve to feel safe in their bodies, to be respected in their choices and to be seen, heard and valued. We will model inclusion in our classes, inclusion in our language and inclusion in our actions. We are committed to continue learning more about our own biases in order to better serve a diverse community of people.
"A lot of my trainings have offered SO much knowledge, but less on how to structure a class. . . . [This training was] informative, engaging, well-structured, dynamic, and PRACTICAL."
- Brook G., Recent PYTT Graduate 

What you will learn in this program:

  • To teach functional prenatal yoga and movement to support pregnancy, labor, birth and parenthood.
  • How to safely adapt poses for pregnancy. Modifications, contraindications and benefits for each trimester.
  • Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy.
  • The process of birth in all forms.
  • How to sequence safe and effective classes to aid in pregnancy, labor and birth.
  • Discover your own facilitation skills, how to hold space and speak from your heart.

What will our time together look like? Check out this sample schedule:

Saturdays:

9am Prenatal Yoga Practice 
10:30am Yoga Philosophy Topic
12:30pm Lunch (30min) 
1pm Movement | Embodied Child Birth Education | Guest Speakers
3pm Interactive Group actives & time for Q&A with Roxy and Sue Ann 
4pm Closing and wrap up

Sundays:

9am Prenatal Yoga Practice 
10:30am Yoga Philosophy Topic
12:30pm Lunch (30min) 
1pm Movement | Embodied Child Birth Education | Guest Speakers
3pm Interactive Group actives & time for Q&A with Roxy and Sue Ann 
4pm Closing and wrap up

Interested? Have more questions?

Send us an email at info@theflowoflifeyoga.com
info@theflowoflifeyoga.com

Learn About Our Faculty

We are so honored to offer a variety of guest lecturers, instructors, and practitioners as vital voices in our training. We believe their varied perspectives and experiences make this training all the richer and more applicable to our trainees.

Sue Ann Fisher

Sue Ann is passionate about functional movement, philosophy and body | heart | mind alignment. With a deep understanding of movement, she is able to guide students more fully into their own bodies. Sue Ann is deeply grateful for her time studying and practicing at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga. She is the owner and lead instructor at West Asheville Yoga in North Carolina.  Sue Ann holds an 800 hour Vijnana Yoga Certificate, a 500 hour Yoga Alliance Certificate and a 85hr PYTT.

Together, she and Roxy co-founded Flow of Life Yoga to create a perinatal community focused on embodied childbirth education and support. 
West Asheville Yoga

Roxy Robbins

Roxy Robbins combines her powers as an experienced doula, childbirth & movement educator and bodyworker to provide birthing families comprehensive support. Her passion lies in reproductive health and believes it is a human right that families have access to the support and education they need to have a positive informed experience in pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Together, she and Sue Ann co-founded Flow of Life Yoga to create a perinatal community focused on embodied childbirth education and support. 
roxydoulayoga.com

Bali Mitchell

Bali is the founder of Moving Mountains Doula Services; they are a Labor and Birth Doula with a passion for birth, reproductive justice, and advocacy. Moving Mountains Doula Services promises to provide not only emotional, informational, & physical support; this doula promises to help preserve the memory, advocate, and to provide support to whoever else you have as a support person. Moving Mountains Doula Services main objective is to help you have the tools needed to have a brave birthing experience.
Moving Mountains Doula Services

Melissa Poole

Melissa, Certified Nurse Midwife, specializes in the fields of pregnancy, birth, postpartum, breastfeeding, newborn care, family planning, & wellness promotion. She has practiced in community settings, hospitals, freestanding birth centers, and internationally.

She has practiced yoga for 14 years and appreciates its lessons in connecting the mind, body, and spirit as well as in building community. She is passionate about educating people in their options and promoting shared decision making in healthcare.

Kerry Tobin

Kerry, doctor of physical therapy specializing in pelvic health, pregnancy, postpartum and orthopedic conditions, wants to shout from the rooftops that no one should have to live with pain or bowel, bladder or sexual issues. 

Kerry graduated with a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Buffalo in 2014 after studying exercise science in undergrad and working as a personal trainer. In 2017, she obtained her Certification in Orthopedic Manual Therapy through the Institute for Advanced Musculoskeletal Treatments. She is also trained as a birth and postpartum doula through DONA internation
Kerry Tobin Physical Therapy

Fully Recorded, On-Demand 85-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

On-Demand | Self-Paced | 15 Modules
Register here!

Contents

Whiteboard/Class notes

Standing Sequences.pdf
group class plan.pdf
wordmap from theme.pdf
Themes.pdf
introtopregnancy.pptx - Microsoft PowerPoint Online.pdf
FOL_PregnancyDiscomfort.key

Recordings

Day 1 class 1 4.24
Day 1 Class 2 - Melissa
Day 1 Class 3 - Roxy prenatal yoga
Day 1 Class 4 - structure of a class
Day 2 class 1 - roxy practice + models of care
Day 2 Class 2 - SueAnn + Melissa
May 26 Practicum
May 26th Rolling Video
May 26th Pains and Paulina
May 25 th standing poses
May 25th pelvic pt
Round ligament

Welcome to Flow of Life's 85-hr PYTT!

Mission Statement:
 Our training is a comprehensive, 85 hour RPYT for yoga teachers who want to deepen their teaching skills, and for students in every stage of their pregnancy, fertility and postpartum journey. Our program focuses on fact-based childbirth education, functional movement-based yoga practice, and community. 
Join the PYTT Facebook Group here!
To complete: Contact list
Live on Zoom Link
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Manual
Buddies!
To Join: WhatsApp Link
To Complete: Wavier

Weekend 1 Prework - To WATCH or REVIEW before weekend 1

Intro Video - WATCH THIS BEFORE WE START OUR TRAINING
Evidenced Based Birth - Intro & Stages of Labor
Evidenced Based Birth - Stages of Labor Part 2
Why Practice Prenatal Yoga - Watch before Saturday of Weekend 1
Safe Prenatal Yoga Practice - Watch before Saturday of Weekend 1

Quiz

Birth Trivia

Movie & Book Report

These individual assignments are to be completed on your own time. For the movie assignment, you will turn in a summary and reflection (see assignment for particular questions) after watching, and for the book report, you will make a creative response that you will share the last week of our training. 

We so look forward to hearing your reflections and seeing what you come up with!
Independent Reading Assignment
Movie Night Assignment
movie.mp4
Guiding Questions

Intro to Childbirth as it Relates to Prenatal Yoga



Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87668583999?pwd=eTNYWDdDWDlRTE9RdDQvdkxrdzl1Zz09





Props Needed: 2 blocks, a blanket, a yoga mat, and a strap


Topics: In our first weekend together we are going to cover the following:

  1. Intro to labor and birth

  2. Models of Care

  3. Stages of Labor

  4. Complications/ variety of birth

  5. Pelvis and Posture during Pregnancy

  6. The Birth Ready Pelvis

  7. Restorative Poses for Prenatal Yoga


Our special guest instructors will include:

  • Melissa Poole, Midwife

  • Kerry Tobin, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist


Below you will find all of the materials you need for each day in the training. Please be sure to see the *prework* section to find what you need to complete before today's sessions.


Understanding Models of Care
PYTT_ Models of Perinatal Care.pdf
Stages of Labor
Labor Day
Pain Management During Labor
Position During Labor and Pain Management
Relaxation for Pain Management
Radiolab - placentas
Bali's slides - Participant DEIB the Flow of Life Yoga.pptx (1).pdf
Bias-Free Communication

Unexpected Paths in Labor

PYTT-Comps of Pregnancy.pdf
The Cascade Effect of OB Interventions
Complications

Structure of a Prenatal Yoga Class



Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87668583999?pwd=eTNYWDdDWDlRTE9RdDQvdkxrdzl1Zz09




Props Needed: 2 blocks, a blanket, a yoga mat, and a strap

Below you will find all of the materials you need for each day in the training. Please be sure to see the *prework* section to find what you need to complete before today's sessions.

Pregnancy and Posture
Pregnancy and Posture 2
stations, sequencing, themes.pdf
Flow of a Prenatal Yoga Class
Common Pregnancy Discomforts & Remedies
Prenatal Yoga Themes
stations, sequencing, themes.pdf

Rolling

rolling-theraputics.mp4
gmt20220303-214638_recording_640x360 (1).mp4
rolling-theraputics.mp4

Sample Practices



Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87668583999?pwd=eTNYWDdDWDlRTE9RdDQvdkxrdzl1Zz09





Props Needed: 2 blocks, a blanket, a yoga mat, and a strap

*this weekend you will also need two yoga tune-up balls or tennis balls!



In weekend 2 we focus on the Art of Teaching Yoga.  Last weekend we covered a LOT of anatomy and childbirth ed.  Now, we look at how to integrate this into classes. 

Here are some of our focuses:

  • Stations of a prenatal yoga class

  • Sequencing a prenatal yoga class

  • Yoga for the Pelvic Floor and Pelvis

  • Common Pregnancy Discomforts, aches and pains and how to address them in classes. 

  • Myofascial Release for pregnant bodies

  • Diversity and Inclusion

  • Coping Strategies 



Below you will find all of the materials you need for each day in the training. Please be sure to see the *prework* section to find what you need to complete before today's sessions.

Sample Floor
Holding Space
Sample Quadraped
Sample Standing
Restorative/Floor Poses
Seated Poses
Seated 2
Quadraped Poses
Wall Poses
Lunge Progression Poses
Standing Poses
Prenatal Partner Yoga
Baby & Me Yoga
Prenatal Practice
Practice: Gratitude Flow + Meditation
Practice: Funked Up Shoulders
Practice: Pelvic Stability
Practice: Organize the Pelvis
Practice: Prenatal Flow 8
Practice: Prenatal Flow 7
Practice: Prenatal Flow 6
Practice: Prenatal Flow 5
Practice: Prenatal Flow 4
Practice: Prenatal Flow 3
Practice: Prenatal Flow 2
Practice: Prenatal Flow 1
Practice: Perinatal Flow 2
Practice: Perinatal Flow 1
Practice: Fertility Flow