Poppy Perinatal Yoga Teacher Training

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Poppy Perinatal Yoga

Program Instances

Hybrid

Dates: TBD

100 hours • TBD

Houston, TX, US

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Purpose

This training delivers to you:

EDUCATION: Provide the most up-to-date and evidence-based information about how to best support pregnant and postpartum people.
EMPOWERMENT: Encourage self-advocacy through informed decision-making and integration of knowledge on and off the mat
EMPATHY: Support an individual’s needs instead of upholding ideology

What to expect

Daily pregnancy or postpartum yoga practices (meditation/pranayama/asana)
Lecture and Q&A sessions
Construct sequences for common pregnancy and postpartum conditions and receive feedback (e.g., pubic bone pain, prolapse, swelling, nausea)
Hands-on assists workshops
Childbirth Preparation Workshop
Pelvic Anatomy and Physiology Workshop
Energetics for Conception, Pregnancy, Labor & Delivery, and Postpartum Workshop
Reproductive Justice Workshop
Herbs for Birthing and Postpartum People Workshop
Complete a daily quiz if you wish to receive a certificate of completion.
Poppy Perinatal Yoga Training downloadable e-manual that encompasses 150+ asanas in full color with detailed instructions, articles, and class sequence examples.

Style/Lineage

Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery are rich and intense experiences. The yoga practices taught in the Poppy Perinatal Yoga School are designed to help people:

balance and align the body and emotions
skillfully soften and relax within intensity
increase stamina and endurance for the realities of labor, childbirth, and postpartum recovery

The pranayama and asana practices meet you where you’re at and accommodate your needs during pregnancy and post-birth, whether you need a slow/gentle practice or moderate to more athletic practice. This approach to pregnancy and postpartum yoga is Forrest-inspired in sequencing structure and incorporates specialized core exercises designed for supporting prenatal and postnatal people.

Core competencies

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

Practice Skills	Practice pranayama appropriate for pregnancy and postpartum by understanding the effects of each type of pranayama and by modifying traditional techniques when needed. Practice asana appropriate for pregnancy and postpartum with use of optimal breathing, alignment, movement, and props.
Teaching Skills	Create pregnancy and postpartum yoga sequences that follow the poppy perinatal yoga sequencing structure. Guide a 60-minute pregnancy or postpartum yoga class by composing a unique sequence for a pregnant or postpartum student with specified conditions and adjusting teaching instruction and pose variations in real-time according to what the student needs. Plan specialized poses and exercises for various circumstances like bed rest, pubic bone pain, prolapse, diastasis recti, abortion, miscarriage, or pregnancy loss.
Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics	Apply understanding of optimal core alignment by describing how to align the pelvis and ribcage in a way that meets each pregnant and postpartum individual's abilities and needs. Describe optimal breathing by explaining the action of the mouth, ribcage, and abdomen during the process of breathing.
Lifestyle & Ethics	Apply principles of reproductive justice to your teaching, your actions, and how you interact with your world by assessing what you will do as an individual and as part of a collective to make impactful changes no matter how small. Understand your scope of practice as a pregnancy and postpartum yoga teacher by knowing the professional limits of your actions and speech and when to refer students to someone else for care.

AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires. Students rate how well the program delivered them.

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Group Project Or Presentation
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Written Submission

You will demonstrate your understanding of what is taught by 1) participating in group sequencing projects during training hours, and 2) completing daily quizzes (multiple choice and written submission).