Program Overview

Inside is an innate wisdom that intuitively understands about the very natural process of birth. Help pregnant mothers connect with this wisdom, through a class specifically designed for the journey of pregnancy, childbirth education and therapeutics of movement and relief from common pregnancy-related aches and pains. Linking yoga postures with the breath can lead expectant mothers to new discoveries, bringing awareness to the mind, body and spirit, and also the spirit of our babies.

Learn how to create a trauma informed program in a calm, peaceful environment that will help strengthen the uterus and pelvic muscles, improve circulation, aid in digestion, exercise the spine and increase overall comfort of your students Yoga can also alleviate many of the discomforts of pregnancy such as nausea, constipation, varicose veins, swelling, back pain and sciatica. Learn to develop a safe, open community that will allows women to freely discuss any issues, from discomforts and concerns to the wonderful new changes that her body and baby are experiencing.

Details

• Dates: Can be done online anytime or you can join the next live session Summer 2024 - July 19-22 and 27, 2024 - practice classes Sundays at 10:30am and/or Wednesdays at 6:30pm

• Tuition: $989.00 (Atlas Yoga Teacher Training graduates enquire about discounted tuition and this program is included in the Atlas 500hr Yoga Teacher Training program electives)

  • Earlybird registration discount price 939.00 if registered and paid by May 1, 2024

  • Further discount if you register and pay for the 3 Modules of the Reproductive Cycle (Fertility/Conception, Prenatal, Postnatal) at the same time.

  • Fertility & Conception Yoga / September 2024

  • Postnatal Yoga / Summer 2024 - Tuition for all three modules is $2400.00

• Hours: 50 contact hours (qualifies as a specialization for 500 Hour Atlas Yoga Teacher Training)

*Please note: payment is required on receipt of notification of acceptance to the program

Prerequisites

• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training &/or Physical Education or Kinesiology Degree or other advanced education in anatomy and physiology
  Basic knowledge of Anatomy & Physiology

• If you are a graduate from another school of yoga, we will require a copy of your certificate, an up-to-date FirstAid/CPR/AED certificate and a copy of your syllabus to ensure that you have covered basic foundational principles assumed in this program. This may require that you do a small amount of work to understand basics in our teaching style.

Course Outline

• Prenatal Anatomy Review

• Posture analysis/alignment

• Core Concepts in class design/planning

• Partner and group work

• Measures of fitness

• Exercise precautions

• Music, fundamental choreography and cueing/leadership methods

• Warm-up and stretching principles

• Muscular conditioning and Flexibility training

• Class evaluation

• Health history forms, Par-Q, informed consent

• Bringing children into the world consciously

• Meditation for pregnancy & childbirth

• Pranayama

• Mantras for bringing a spiritual child into the world

• Mudras for managing common ailments of the pregnant body

• Private Yoga Therapy for the pregnant body

Your Instructor

Denise Davis-Gains has been teaching yoga since 1993. She has been teaching fitness and studying meditation since 1980. After completing her first certification with Susie Dias in Toronto, Denise actively sought to find time with senior teachers of this ancient tradition.  She holds two university degrees and continues to pursue higher education. Denise completed a course in Sanskrit with Jonathan Geen at McMaster University. She is trained in the Kripalu method of yoga, a very introspective style that incorporates vinyasa flow and postural analysis. She has been fortunate to be able to study with great yoga masters in the Ashtanga, Iyengar, Sivananda, Kundalini, Himalayan and other styles and schools and brings this variety of experience and style to this program. Denise has been training yoga teachers since 1997. Denise taught credit courses: Intro to Yoga; Intro to Yoga Therapy; Group Exercise and Physical Fitness in the Kinesiology department of Wilfrid Laurier University for 16 years and vocational fitness in the Community Services Department at Conestoga College. She has been a facilitator and Production & Staff manager in the Inner Quest Intensive, at the Kripalu Institute, Massachusetts (the Inner Quest Intensive in considered the most intensive and healing program that is run at this institution) and assisted in a programs in support of Parkinson’s patients and their care-givers and a nutrition program, “The Quest for the Limitless You” and “The Mindful Table: a Nutrition and Mindfulness program.”