DAWN WRIGHT
Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training: 4-day Immersion
This 4 day intensive training will provide the tools for teachers to deliver safe, creative and nurturing classes to women during all stages of their pregnancies – whether you’re integrating pregnant students into your class or teaching dedicated pre-natal classes.
What can I expect?
Who is it for?
Key Topics
The journey of pregnancy Understanding the physical and emotional journey of pregnancy.
Teaching considerations Asana, meditation and pranayama for pregnant students.
Sequencing How to structure a pregnancy yoga class with confidence.
Open class integration Supporting pregnant students within a mixed class setting.
Birth and beyond Active birth techniques and postnatal awareness.
Course Hours
Contact hours
Reading hours
Assignments, observations and lesson plans
Dawn Wright
The entire pregnancy yoga teacher training course is led by Dawn Wright who is one of our principle teachers for the Advanced Yoga & Teacher Training Programme. Her approach is nurturing and supportive, giving students the space to explore their own yoga practice and to safely, informatively and creatively expand their teaching. Dawn is a mother of 3 children and found yoga to be a powerful tool to her physical and mental well-being both pre and post-natally. She is passionate about sharing practices which support women during this special time, teaches weekly pre-natal classes and runs Birthing Preperation workshops. She has been teaching pregnancy yoga for many years and trained with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about the course, commitment, assignments and qualification process.
About Teaching Pregnancy Yoga
You don’t need to have had experience of Pregnancy Yoga, but you will need to have a strong motivation to want to learn to teach Pregnancy Yoga and have read the pre-course reading prior to taking the course.
If you are a health care professional or therapist who works with pregnant women you are able to attend to deepen your knowledge and experience, please contact the studio to discuss your suitability to attend the course before booking. However you will not be qualified to teach Pregnancy Yoga as a Yoga Teacher unless you have completed the minimum 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training programme. In this instance you will still receive your Certificate of Attendance or Certificate of Completion upon receipt of your assignment.
Purchase and familiarise yourself with Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, ISBN-10: 1444100971, ISBN-13: 978-1444100976.
Observe or attend 2 pregnancy yoga classes, with a minimum duration of 60 minutes each. Ideally, one should be in person, while the other may be online or via DVD observation. You will need to make notes on the practices, modifications and sequences and bring these to the training, as they will form part of the training content.
We will look at the journey of pregnancy from both a physical and emotional perspective. The course explores safety and practical considerations for teaching asana, meditation and pranayama for pregnant students, as well as how to sequence lessons in a pregnancy setting.
This includes partner work, group teaching practices, integrating the needs of a pregnant student into a regular class, active birthing techniques and teaching considerations for the postnatal student.
Due to the timings of this 4-day intensive, there is not the opportunity for personal mentoring during the course itself. Post-course, there may be the option to arrange a personal mentoring session with Dawn through Skype or FaceTime at an additional cost.
About The Commitment For Teaching Pregnancy Yoga
We make our cancellation and refund policy transparent, ensuring it is available before booking, at the time of booking and on your receipt confirmation.
Please read this carefully. All clients are asked to agree to Whitespace terms and conditions when booking a course or workshop.
If Whitespace cancels an event
You will receive a full refund, or the option to transfer to another workshop or receive credit on your Whitespace account.
If you cancel your place
If you notify us within the cancellation window, you may receive a refund, less any deposit or admin fee, or transfer to another workshop or receive credit.
Cancel at least 60 days before the start date.
Refund less 10% admin fee.
Cancel at least 90 days before the start date.
Refund less non-refundable deposit.
Transfer to another student
If you cancel outside the cancellation window, no refund is available. You may pass your booking to a friend at no additional cost, provided we are notified by email.
If the event is full and we can fill your place from the waitlist, we will offer a refund less a 20% admin fee, or credit your Whitespace account for future purchases, valid for 1 year.
Leaving an event
We aim to support students wherever possible. However, if a student chooses to leave a course or programme, we cannot provide a certificate or graduate them from the training, and event fees cannot be refunded.
Teacher availability
If a teacher is unavailable due to illness or emergency, an alternative teacher will be arranged wherever possible. For retreats, we strongly recommend adequate insurance, as we cannot reimburse cancelled travel or personal expenses.
The course is a 50 hour course, made up of the following:
24 contact teaching hours.
26 non-contact hours, including class attendance or observations, reading the course book, some evening preparation during the course between training days, and 2 assignments.
To obtain the 50-hour Pregnancy Yoga Teaching Certificate, you need to have attended 100% of the training. Otherwise, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance only for the number of hours attended.
Please plan ahead, as requests to leave early or arrive late cannot be accommodated. If there is space, it may be possible to attend the missed day when the course is next run at Whitespace Studio. There would be an additional fee for this and it is subject to availability.
About The Assignment & Qualification
No, this is not mandatory. The assignment is a way to demonstrate a level of competency, showing that the learning has been integrated and applied to a teaching setting.
If you have no intention of teaching Pregnancy Yoga, you do not have to complete this, although you are welcome to. For teachers wishing to go on and teach Pregnancy Yoga, the assignment is necessary to obtain certification.
You will have 2 months to complete the written assignment. The assignment will be explained in full detail during the training, and the exact deadline date will be given to you.
Completion of this course will contribute towards your Continued Professional Development, CPD points. Please check with your awarding body, such as BWY, Yoga Alliance or FRYOG, about the specifics of how you record these. If you require a signature, please bring your forms along to the training.
Provided you have maintained your commitment to the course, you will be given an opportunity to re-submit your assignment.
