Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training

80HR BODYMIND BIRTHING PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA & BABY BONDING TEACHER TRAINING

January - March 2027 | Online + In Person in Tunbridge Wells

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Don't just learn how to modify yoga for pregnancy. Learn how to support women through pregnancy, birth and early motherhood.

Pregnancy and postnatal yoga are specialist areas of teaching.

A pregnant woman doesn't simply need a gentler yoga class. Her body is changing, her nervous system is adapting, she is preparing physiologically and emotionally for birth, and she may be navigating an enormous amount of information and uncertainty.

After birth, everything changes again.

This 80-hour specialist teacher training will give you the knowledge, practical skills and confidence to support women throughout this extraordinary transition - from pregnancy and preparation for birth through to postnatal recovery and life with a new baby.

ONE TRAINING. TWO CERTIFICATIONS.

Pregnancy → Birth → Postnatal

On successful completion of the training you will be qualified to teach:

BodyMind Birthing Pregnancy Yoga
Pregnancy yoga incorporating birth preparation, breathing, hypnobirth principles and antenatal education.

Postnatal Yoga & Baby Bonding
Specialist postnatal yoga supporting recovery, rehabilitation, emotional wellbeing and bonding with baby.

This means you can potentially support the same woman throughout her pregnancy, as she prepares for birth, and when she returns to yoga with her baby afterwards.

Just £750 for both certifications.

Payment plan available. Secure your space with a (non-refundable) £150 deposit.

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2027 TRAINING DATES

The course combines live online learning with three in-person training days in Tunbridge Wells (at the Yoga House - 10 mins walk from the station).

3 January - Online
10 January - In Person, Tunbridge Wells
31 January - Online
7 February - In Person, Tunbridge Wells
28 February - Online
7 March - In Person, Tunbridge Wells

Sessions run from 10am - 6pm.

The training includes approximately 45 hours of live tutored contact time, plus a minimum of 35 hours of self-study, assignments, further research, class observation and teaching practice.

Maximum 10 trainees

I deliberately keep each cohort small.

With a maximum of just 10 students, there is plenty of opportunity to ask questions, practise teaching, discuss individual scenarios and receive personal feedback and support throughout the training.

THIS IS MORE THAN LEARNING WHICH POSES TO MODIFY

Pregnancy and postnatal yoga teacher training needs to go much further than learning a list of contraindications and adaptations.

To teach pregnant and postnatal women well, you need to understand the bodies in front of you - but you also need to understand birth, recovery, the nervous system, pain, breathing, confidence, autonomy and the enormous physical and emotional transition into motherhood.

We'll explore all of this.

You'll learn how to create safe, intelligent and enjoyable yoga classes, but you'll also develop the confidence to hold the space around them and help them create a community of support.

You'll learn how to support a student who is frightened about birth.

How to respond when someone arrives with pelvic girdle pain.

How to help women explore breathing, movement and positions for labour.

How to support someone preparing for a Caesarean birth.

How to create a postnatal class where women can recover and rebuild without feeling pressured to "bounce back".

How to hear a difficult birth story without feeling that you have to fix it.

And how to build classes that create the kind of community women often desperately need during pregnancy and early motherhood.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

MODULE 1 - UNDERSTANDING THE PREGNANT BODY

  • Understanding the pregnant body

  • The trimesters

  • Hormones through pregnancy and birth

  • Postural changes

  • Pelvic floor anatomy

  • Emotional considerations

  • Breath changes during pregnancy

  • Pregnancy pranayama

  • Breathing for childbirth

  • The nervous system and its relationship with birth

  • Brain changes during pregnancy

MODULE 2 - TEACHING PREGNANCY YOGA

  • The powerful role yoga can play in preparation for birth

  • Class management and checking in with your group

  • Holding space and creating community

  • Pregnancy-related conditions and contraindications

  • Trimester considerations and modifications

  • Sequence building

  • Using props

  • Creating meaningful pregnancy yoga themes

  • Adapting your teaching to the individual woman in front of you

MODULE 3 - THE BODYMIND OF BIRTH

Pregnancy yoga isn't simply physical preparation.

In this module we'll explore the relationship between body, mind, nervous system, expectation and our experience of sensation.

  • The Mindbody / BodyMind

  • Hypnobirthing

  • Pain psychology and pain perception

  • Teaching mindfulness

  • Pancha Koshas

  • Chakras in pregnancy

  • Shiva and Shakti energy

  • Mudras for pregnancy and birth

MODULE 4 - ACTIVE BIRTH & ANTENATAL EDUCATION

A pregnancy yoga teacher is often one of the people a woman sees most regularly during her pregnancy.

Understanding birth allows you to support your students with far more confidence and context.

We'll cover:

  • The anatomy and physiology of birth

  • Movements and positions for labour and birth

  • Comfort measures

  • Common interventions

  • Supporting a student preparing for a Caesarean birth

  • Autonomy and informed decision-making

  • Navigating the maternity healthcare system

  • Helping women build confidence in their ability to ask questions and make choices

THEN BABY ARRIVES...

Pregnancy yoga is only half of this training.

The postnatal period brings an entirely different set of physical, emotional and social considerations.

Your second certification prepares you to teach specialist Postnatal Yoga & Baby Bonding classes.

MODULE 5 - UNDERSTANDING THE POSTNATAL BODY

  • The physical, emotional and social realities of the fourth trimester

  • Nervous system considerations

  • Using breathing and mindfulness to support regulation

  • Creating a safe space for birth stories

  • Understanding postnatal pelvic floor issues

  • Caesarean birth recovery and healing

  • Upper and lower crossed syndrome

  • Postnatal nutrition

  • Common postnatal issues affecting wrists, knees, ankles, shoulders and posture

  • Breathing for recovery

  • Core and pelvic floor rehabilitation

  • Supporting recovery from diastasis recti

  • Hormonal and emotional considerations

MODULE 6 - TEACHING POSTNATAL YOGA & BABY BONDING

And then there is another member of your yoga class to consider...

The baby.

We'll look at how to create classes that support the mother while incorporating her baby in a way that feels enjoyable rather than chaotic.

You'll learn:

  • Working safely and confidently with babies

  • Songs and baby massage

  • Ways of including and distracting babies during class

  • Postnatal sequencing

  • Complete class planning

  • Modifications

  • Appropriate onward referrals and complementary support

  • Setting up and developing your pregnancy and postnatal yoga business

WHY TRAIN WITH ME?

I've been teaching yoga since 2000.

When I became pregnant with my first daughter in 2001, my own relationship with yoga changed and I discovered the area of teaching that would become my life's work.

I began teaching pregnancy and postnatal yoga in 2002, established my pregnancy and mum & baby yoga business in Kent in 2006, and have been training teachers since 2010.

So what I bring to this course isn't only information from teacher-training manuals.

It's more than two decades of actually sitting in rooms with pregnant women and new mothers.

Thousands of conversations.

Thousands of bodies.

Birth stories, difficult pregnancies, wonderful births, complicated births, Caesarean births, babies who sleep through class and babies who absolutely do not.

I've seen our understanding of pregnancy, birth, the nervous system, pain, movement and postnatal recovery evolve enormously during that time - and my teaching has evolved with it.

My qualifications include:

  • 500hr British Wheel of Yoga Diploma

  • Birthlight Perinatal Yoga

  • Active Birth Teacher, trained by Janet Balaskas

  • Hypnobirth Teacher

  • Mindfulness & Mindful Parenting Teacher

  • Advanced Women's Wellness Coach

  • Trained Doula, trained with Michel Odent

  • Mindbody Practitioner

  • Developmental Baby Massage Teacher

And I'm also the mother of two now-grown-up daughters.

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WHAT PAST TRAINEES SAY

"I have just completed my Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training with Brigid and can't recommend the course (and Brigid) more highly! It's the perfect top-up to the 200 hour yoga teacher training, and has given me the confidence and knowledge to work with women during these wonderful moments in their lives.

This is also a wonderful course for any woman who wants to understand their pregnancy and postnatal options more deeply, to allow a real sense of self-empowerment.

Brigid is a true leader in this field and I can't wait to get started - thoroughly inspiring!"

- Felcia, 2023 Graduate

AFTER YOUR TRAINING

I don't want you to finish the final training day with a certificate and then wonder:

"Right... what do I do now?"

Every cohort has its own WhatsApp group and you'll receive three months of mentoring support with a monthly zoom call after your training (or message me anytime with questions).

This gives you somewhere to bring the questions that inevitably appear once you begin putting everything you've learned into practice.

TAKE BODYMIND BIRTHING INTO YOUR OWN CLASSES

Qualified 200hr yoga teachers who complete the training can teach their own independent pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes.

You will also have the option to become a licensed BodyMind Birthing teacher.

The licence allows you to combine your face-to-face classes with the BodyMind Birthing digital course hub, giving your students access between sessions to:

  • Pregnancy yoga videos

  • Hypnobirth practices

  • Mindfulness for birth

  • Breathing practices

  • Antenatal education

  • Home learning and practice

The digital content is worth £99 per student, allowing you to offer something considerably more comprehensive than a weekly pregnancy yoga class alone.

THE BODYMIND BIRTHING TEACHER LICENCE ALSO INCLUDES:

  • Unlimited student access to the BodyMind Birthing course hub

  • Listing in the BodyMind Birthing Teacher Directory

  • 8 hypnobirth scripts to use within your own classes

  • Ongoing connection with the BodyMind Birthing teaching community

Annual licence: £300
or £25 per month

The licence is completely optional.

INVESTMENT

£750 FOR TWO SPECIALIST CERTIFICATIONS

You don't have to pay the full course fee at once.

Payment plan:

£150 non-refundable deposit

followed by

4 monthly payments of £150

With only 10 places available, early booking is recommended.

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Not sure if this training is right for your? Message me and we can chat.

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FAQ

  • This training is open to qualified yoga teachers. Having that foundation means everyone arrives with an existing understanding of yoga teaching, so we can hit the ground running and spend our time focusing specifically on the skills, knowledge and practical experience you need to teach pregnancy and postnatal yoga.

    Some pregnancy yoga teacher trainings are designed to accommodate both qualified teachers and those completely new to teaching yoga. By keeping this training specifically for existing yoga teachers, we don’t need to spend valuable course time revisiting the fundamentals you already know - which gives us much more space to really dive into pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period and how to adapt your teaching for this very particular stage of a woman’s life.

  • Yes. As long as you have the appropriate underlying teaching qualification and have updated your insurance, you can begin teaching group sessions after completing the taught element of the training.

    Until your coursework has been successfully completed, your certification will be considered provisional, and you may wish to reflect this in how you describe or price your classes.

  • No.

    Your own experience of pregnancy or motherhood is not a prerequisite for becoming an excellent pregnancy or postnatal yoga teacher.

    The training will give you the specialist knowledge and practical understanding you need to support the women attending your classes.

  • Every cohort has a private WhatsApp group, and you'll receive three months of mentoring following the training.

    This includes access to a monthly group Zoom session with me where you can ask questions, discuss classes and get support as you begin teaching.

  • Yes.

    Pay a £150 non-refundable deposit to secure your place, followed by four monthly payments of £150.

  • The in-person sessions are held at:

    The Yoga House
    Upper Cumberland Walk
    Tunbridge Wells

    The studio is approximately a 10-minute walk from Tunbridge Wells railway station.

READY TO ADD PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA TO YOUR TEACHING?

This training isn't about memorising a list of poses that pregnant women can and can't do.

It's about developing the knowledge, judgement and confidence to look at the woman in front of you and know how to support her.

Through pregnancy.

As she prepares for birth.

And when she returns to you with her baby.

80 HOURS | TWO CERTIFICATIONS | MAXIMUM 10 TRAINEES

January - March 2027

£750 or 5 payments of £150

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