Pregnancy is normal
Does your heart skip a beat when a pregnant student walks into your class?
Are you afraid to ask if someone is pregnant?
Is it hard to remember what pregnant students should and shouldn't do in yoga?
Do you believe that pregnant students can and should be able to do whatever yoga they want?
Are you afraid to ask if someone is pregnant?
Is it hard to remember what pregnant students should and shouldn't do in yoga?
Do you believe that pregnant students can and should be able to do whatever yoga they want?
Pregnant students are not broken, sick, or injured
&
that doesn't mean all yoga is right for them.
You're here because you want to support the pregnant students who come to your classes.
You want to feel confident about what they can and can't do... but more than that, you'd like to know why.
I'm so glad you're here.
Pregnancy is not an illness - it is a normal condition, and it's the most likely "condition" to walk into your yoga classes. You don't need to know everything about pregnancy to support your students, but knowing a few things would be helpful...
Pregnancy is not an illness - it is a normal condition, and it's the most likely "condition" to walk into your yoga classes. You don't need to know everything about pregnancy to support your students, but knowing a few things would be helpful...
A little of my back story...
I studied medical anthropology in college, which dropped me smack dab in the land of birth. Birth is a fundamentally shared experience - we were all born - and yet, many of us fear that we will hurt a pregnant student or their baby. Our Western understanding of birth is often taught through the lens of medicine, and communicated more viscerally through fantastical stories in fiction and media reports.
We are afraid.
I am not.
You don't have to be.
I trained as a midwife's assistant at The Farm, supported a home birth midwife, opened a prenatal yoga studio, worked as a doula. I've seen all sides of all sorts of births, and I've studied yoga for quite some time. Pregnant students flock to me, because I am not afraid of them. I noticed that so many other teachers would divert their students to other classes rather than learn a few simple things about how to support them, and put together this training to give you precisely what you need to feel confident.
And not afraid.
I studied medical anthropology in college, which dropped me smack dab in the land of birth. Birth is a fundamentally shared experience - we were all born - and yet, many of us fear that we will hurt a pregnant student or their baby. Our Western understanding of birth is often taught through the lens of medicine, and communicated more viscerally through fantastical stories in fiction and media reports.
We are afraid.
I am not.
You don't have to be.
I trained as a midwife's assistant at The Farm, supported a home birth midwife, opened a prenatal yoga studio, worked as a doula. I've seen all sides of all sorts of births, and I've studied yoga for quite some time. Pregnant students flock to me, because I am not afraid of them. I noticed that so many other teachers would divert their students to other classes rather than learn a few simple things about how to support them, and put together this training to give you precisely what you need to feel confident.
And not afraid.
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"Kari helped me to learn the essentials for supporting pregnant and postpartum women who walk into my class. She gave important specifics without getting overly complicated and sent me valuable resources after the training that I will continue to reference. Her knowledge on anatomical changes in mothers brought a strong level of confidence and trust to the training and helped bring understanding to pose adjustments. I would recommend Kari's offering to any yoga teacher as a way to approach a new level of skill and support of their students." - Kimberly Ghorai, co-owner, Meta Yoga
"I thoroughly enjoyed this morning’s seminar. I felt like you skillfully wove together the disparate pieces of knowledge and intuition that were log jammed in my brain. I feel much more comfortable and confident that I will be able to meet that next pregnant student with a welcoming smile rather than a panicked gasp." - Cheryl Case
“The most empowering components of this training for me (other than acquiring pure physiological knowledge I haven’t experienced firsthand, never having been pregnant) were:
Shifting my perspective from one of fear that I’d be inadequate as a yoga teacher when a pregnant or postpartum student walked into my class, into one of empowerment and feeling that I have so much knowledge and more to offer my students.
Realizing that as yoga teachers we have so much support and compassion in a world of stress and due dates and “your baby should be/do/etc this” and doctor visits and so many expectations - we can support women in coming home to themselves in this time in life and that is the magic of yoga." Liz, Liz Layne Yoga
"I thoroughly enjoyed this morning’s seminar. I felt like you skillfully wove together the disparate pieces of knowledge and intuition that were log jammed in my brain. I feel much more comfortable and confident that I will be able to meet that next pregnant student with a welcoming smile rather than a panicked gasp." - Cheryl Case
“The most empowering components of this training for me (other than acquiring pure physiological knowledge I haven’t experienced firsthand, never having been pregnant) were:
Shifting my perspective from one of fear that I’d be inadequate as a yoga teacher when a pregnant or postpartum student walked into my class, into one of empowerment and feeling that I have so much knowledge and more to offer my students.
Realizing that as yoga teachers we have so much support and compassion in a world of stress and due dates and “your baby should be/do/etc this” and doctor visits and so many expectations - we can support women in coming home to themselves in this time in life and that is the magic of yoga." Liz, Liz Layne Yoga
