Kunga Pre/Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training

This 3-day Kunga Pre- & Post-Natal Yoga Teacher Training is designed for yoga teachers, yoga teachers in training, midwives, doulas and bodyworkers who work with pregnant women and pregnant women. The intention of this training is to help your students prevent common discomforts of pregnancy while helping to enrich the childbearing experience. Through lecture, discussion, partner participation, self-reflection and practice of the fundamental elements of prenatal yoga, this training helps prepare and empower teachers to guide women through birth and into motherhood.

BENEFITS OF THIS PROGRAM:

• Aids in stress reduction, flexibility and relaxation
• Prepares body for labor positions
• Use yoga to facilitate an active, upright birth
• Learn how certain postures can help keep the abdomen tight, preventing sagging and reducing the appearance of stretch marks
• Use gentle twists to alleviate tension in shoulders, neck and spine
• Learn how breath work can aid in natural abdominal breathing during 1st/2nd stage of labor
• Understand how yoga will allow you to tune into the body, listening and accepting what is physically and emotionally happening in the body
• Learn which asanas done during pregnancy can help to relax the body and mind after baby is born