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Postnatal & baby yoga

British Wheel of Yoga module in Postnatal yoga (3 weekends)

This is six day module running over three weekends:
First meeting: January 19 & 20 2008
Second meeting: February 9 & 10 2008
Third meeting: June 7 & 8 2008

Second 2008 course dates:
July 12 & 13,
October 25 & 26
November 22 & 23

Open to yoga teachers from all traditions, who are already teaching pregnancy yoga and who wish to teach baby-friendly postnatal yoga classes.

After the success of last year’s pilot course, the British Wheel of Yoga has  confirmed that this course can run again this year, with validation as a British Wheel of Yoga Short Course.

This means that all teachers on the course need to be registered with the British Wheel of Yoga as members (not necessarily teaching members).  To join the British Wheel, please access their website at http://www.bwy.org.uk/join/join.asp

Comments from last year’s students:

"…Inspirational and encouraging … What I liked most about the course was the breadth of it – all dimensions of the postnatal experience and teaching postnatal women put it on the map! Personally being so welcomed with my baby, my own postnatal experience has been immeasurably enriched."

"The couse always honours the range and complexity of the postnatal experience.  So much knowledge and experience is behind the course.  It’s a really solid and inspiring foundation for would be postnatal yoga teachers."

"It has been very nurturing, all the lovely yoga nidra / relaxtion practices. I loved the practices and the small supported group. It was useful having real class situations with mums and babies turning up."

"It was great to have real mums and babies to teach. The hand out manual and recommended reading was great.  It was nice to have different teachers… the great speakers, they were wonderful.  Naomi Stadlen was a treat to have in."

"I thought the course was thoroughly detailed, very comprehensive and informative…the pratical and theoretical aspects of the course were very well balanced.  I particularly enjoyed making the connection with the Yamas and Niyamas at the start and the end."

"I liked the flexibility of the course.  Being able to bring my own daughter and the openess of the teacher to the course being really flexible for mums."

"The pre-course information was very helpful. Really excellent, informative and organised folder – best pre-planning I’ve ever seen!…So much energy, intelligence, experience and hard work is evident in the course planning."

"I thoroughly enjoyed the course and found it inspirational and encouraging.  I would recommend anyone who teaches antenatal yoga to do this course as well – it is well worth it."

Cost £500, including:

uma and yinkaThis is the first British Wheel of Yoga course in postnatal yoga. It has been designed by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, who is the course tutor. Joining her in teaching the course will be independent midwife Teresa Arias (South London Independent Midwives), osteopath Yinka Vogel and hypnotherapist Nirlipta Tuli.

The aims of the course are:

  1. to provide an holistic approach to the practical application of yoga in postnatal recovery
  2. to enable students to re-consider pertinent aspects of yoga philosophy in relation to this major period of change in women's lives, and offer a practical framework for the integration of these philosophical and spiritual approaches to the teaching of postnatal recovery yoga
  3. to encourage a critical awareness of a range of different attitudes to postnatal recovery (both within different traditions of yoga practice, and in a wider cultural sense) in order to empower students to evaluate others' perspectives and develop a clear rationale for their own approach to the uses of yoga for postnatal recovery

Course objectives are to enable students to:

  1. plan and teach yoga courses (and individual sessions) including asana, pranayama, relaxation,nada yoga and meditations for postnatal recovery for women from six weeks to twelve months after the birth of their babies.
  2. demonstrate an understanding both of the key principles of anatomy and physiology relevant to the postnatal period (including lactation), and of the social and psychological changes characteristic of the transition to motherhood.
  3. teach with an informed sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual experiences of postnatal women.
  4. teach within the appropriate safety guidelines (as may be later agreed by the British Wheel of Yoga) for this type of yoga practice
  5. plan and teach (groups and individuals) the basics of yogic approaches to baby handling and carrying (from newborns to eighteen months) in so far as this impacts upon maternal posture, strength and vitality.

Please note: The focus of this course is upon postnatal recovery. It does provide training in handling mother and baby dynamics in group sessions, including handling, lifting and interactive yoga practice, but if your interest is upon infant and child's development and classes which have more focus on babies and children in family groups up to age three / four, then you should investigate the Early Years Yoga Training offered by Uma at The Life Centre.

For a chat about the course please call Uma or Lisa on 0787 215 1122

Application process:

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