JP Centre Yoga - PERINATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

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JP Centre Yoga

Boston, MA

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Purpose

This training balances lecture, embodied movement, hands-on assisting, practice teaching, and personalized feedback to ensure participants feel equipped to integrate perinatal considerations into all-levels classes or to confidently lead dedicated prenatal yoga offerings.

What to expect

In this training you will:

Learn how to safely adapt all-levels classes for pregnant and postpartum students.

Gain the tools to teach specialized prenatal yoga classes.

Understand the anatomy of pregnancy and the physical changes across trimesters.

Build confidence around addressing common ailments and how to offer effective modifications.

Explore movements that strengthen and support the body for birth and recovery.

Ground your teaching in the principles of social and reproductive justice, creating more inclusive spaces for all.

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Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are powerful transitions - times when yoga can offer grounding, resilience, and deep support. This 20-hour training invites yoga teachers to build the knowledge, confidence, and sensitivity needed to guide students through these unique life stages.

Core competencies

By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…

Teaching Skills	Design a full prenatal yoga class plan including warm-up, main sequence, pranayama, and savasana with modifications noted. Apply inclusive language and open-ended intake questions to gather information from a student before leading their practice. Develop a community resource list for postpartum support that includes local and national hotlines, peer groups, and health services.
Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Evaluate whether a given exercise or sequence increases intra-abdominal pressure in a way that may be unsafe for a given student. Develop a class structure that proactively addresses the most common discomforts for students in the second and third trimesters. Evaluate evidence-based guidelines around diastasis recti to determine which movements promote recovery versus strain.
Practice Skills	Design a full prenatal class sequence that integrates safe movement principles for students across all trimesters. Create a reference guide of posture modifications organized by trimester that a new perinatal teacher could use during class. Design a breathwork sequence for a prenatal class that supports parasympathetic activation without creating undue pressure. Evaluate a student's reported fetal position to determine which movement strategies may be most helpful and safe. Evaluate whether a postpartum student is ready to progress from gentle restoration to more demanding movement based on key indicators. Evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a given assist or prop modification for a student in the third trimester. Design a gentle, supportive yoga sequence for a student in the luteal phase or post-embryo transfer period. Create a plan for how to introduce prenatal modifications to a mixed-level class through verbal cueing alone.
Yoga History & Theory	Compare how different yoga traditions approach perinatal practice, noting benefits and limitations of each approach. Create a trimester-by-trimester reference guide that outlines movement priorities, cautions, and key physiological shifts. Develop a community care plan that connects perinatal yoga students to local and national maternal health resources. Evaluate a student's reported discomforts to determine which physiological changes are most likely driving those symptoms.
Lifestyle & Ethics	Create a communication guide for a perinatal yoga program that outlines inclusive language policies aligned with ethical teaching practice. Analyze potential ethical challenges unique to perinatal yoga—including power dynamics, emotional vulnerability, and clinical-adjacent settings—and develop principled, compassionate responses. Apply equity-centered principles to class design, pricing structures, marketing language, and community partnerships to increase access to perinatal yoga for underserved populations.