appleyoga Pre and Postnatal Teacher Training - appleyoga presented by Katy Appleton

appleyoga Pre and Postnatal Teacher Training

Are you passionately drawn to teaching women through their pregnancy, birth and transition into motherhood?

Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn's appleyoga approach to Pre and Postnatal yoga is an intelligent and grounded methodology that is easy to learn and teach.

Set over 7 days, 2 weekends - this course is a 88hr YA accredited teacher training, based in London. It provides a stimulating yoga education covering a comprehensive and relevant range of subjects taught from creative perspectives by highly experienced, knowledgeable and inspiring teachers. You will become empowered to skilfully guide women in this natural process and precious time of life.

Learn to teach safe, effective, sensitive and uplifting classes, guiding women into the sacred landscape of their bodies, minds, and hearts, to connect with their babies and to embrace this new phase of their lives.

Learn to empower women and tap into their psychological process giving them tools and the confidence to listen inside and make conscious choices for their life in pregnancy labour and motherhood.

The appleyoga approach to Prenatal Yoga

appleyoga's fully comprehensive prenatal training offers transformational yogic tools that provide safe, inspiring, nurturing and grounded support for women and their babies in pregnancy.

Pregnancy is completely natural process and we focus on providing our teachers with a balanced understanding of the emotional and psychological journey into motherhood as well as the relevant and precise anatomy and physiology. This enables our teachers to guide women into their own intuition with integrity and awareness.

As a prenatal yoga teacher trained with appleyoga it is vital to be able to create a consistent and supportive space for women at their most intense period of change in life. These classes offer women a time to come together and practice yoga with clear and confident teachers that will form the basis from which they can embody their new roles in life with grace and clarity.

You will finish the Prenatal training with:

Ready to teach full spectrum prenatal yoga classes with teaching skills in breath, relaxation, sound, contemplation and asana.

Able to adapt a regular yoga class to support pre-natal needs.

Knowing how to adapt yoga asana for prenatal women and treating common ailments with in the class.

With an understanding of how different cultures have viewed women in pregnancy and birth throughout the ages and why this is relevant to teaching yoga today.

With fine-tuned teaching set of appleyoga pods, breath work, kriyas & more.

A clear understanding of the 7 Spiritual Truths and how they inform a personal teaching style.

An insight into the spiritual process of a teacher and how it allows us to hold the space for students with more integrity.

The appleyoga approach to Postnatal Yoga

appleyoga's postnatal training offers full spectrum yoga that can all serve to firm a foundation of physical emotional and spiritual health from which women can flourish as mothers and in all the roles they play.

It can and often does take months for women to have re discovered their embodied strength and remembered who they are in the context of their new life. Practiced wisely, yoga can form the basis for this new exploration.

This is a daunting time for new mothers and creating a class designed to support them on many levels can help them feel centred, give them a more positive outlook and provide access to simple tools to empower themselves throughout their day on and off the yoga mat.

You will finish the Postnatal training with:

Key principles of Yoga practices adapted for post natal bodies.

Yoga and Pilates apple pods designed to focus on re-establishing core strength, whole body realignment specifically the spine and pelvis and joint stability.

Clear simple and safe ways to adapt a regular yoga practice for a post-natal women to empower them.

How to work with key ailments and complaints based on a grounded understanding of the anatomy and physiology of a postnatal body.

A clear understanding of the 7 Spiritual Truths and how they inform a personal teaching style.

An insight into the spiritual process of a teacher and how it allows us to hold the space for students with more integrity.

You will be welcomed into the appleyoga teacher training community, a wonderful support network of gatherings, online resources, yoga education and like-minded spirits!

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Dates

Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training Dates
7 day Pre & Postnatal Teacher Training Course

Set over 2 weekends
Prenatal - 4 days - Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun
Postnatal - 3 days - Fri, Sat, Sun

2012 Dates: TBC May/June or earlier
We thank you for your unwavering patience!

Location

Fees

Pre & Postnatal TTC rate: £800 - payable in instalments
2012 dates released May/June or earlier!

Includes:

68 contact hours with appleyoga teachers and guest lecturers.
observation classes at any appleyoga pregnancy class.
appleyoga Prenatal Teacher Training Manual
appleyoga Postnatal Teacher Training Manual
access to appleyoga’s online community website facility
appleyoga’s Pre & Postnatal video pods
Venues for training

(terms and conditions apply)

Deposit
We review your application and upon acceptance we will ask you for a £300 non-refundable deposit. This is payable by cash, cheque or bank transfer.

The remainder of the fees can be paid by instalments or all at once but are due by the start of the course. This is payable by cash, cheque or bank transfer.

Course Content

The contents of the course will be divided up into the following areas:

Main body of study (approx 44hrs) with Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn
• Detailed master classes to explain the use of asana, pranayama, meditation and kriyas specifically in a pre and postnatal context
• Detailed asana technique classes to apply appleyoga's methodology ready to teach safe and effective pre and postnatal yoga
• Practical teaching time
• appleyoga pre and postnatal class layout and class planning
• Learning pre and postnatal applepods
• Learning how to sequence classes with vinyasa krama - using this approach to teach regular classes with pre and postnatal students
• Understanding how to theme classes
• Understanding common ailments in pregnancy and post birth and creating safe and intelligent options to balance and relieve
• Music, intentions and poetry integration for classes explained
• Review time of course content
• Assistance in assessments & Om work

Anatomy (approx 9hrs) - with Kicki Hansard, Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn
• Pre and postnatal Anatomy and Physiology
• Anatomy and Physiology of the labour process

Philosophy (approx 4hrs) with Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn
• An overview of the Chakra system & Nadis
• The 7 Spiritual Truths

Psychology (approx 3hrs) with Katy Appleton, Lisa Larn & Kicki Hansard
• Looking into the psychological journey into motherhood

Breath (approx 3hrs) with Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn
• Understanding Breathwork in pregnancy, labour and beyond
• Safe and effective breathing techniques in pregnancy
• Understanding breath physiology and the nervous system in labour

Mama Sutras (approx 2hrs) with Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn
• The Mama Sutras explained
• How to use the Mama Sutras personally and offer them in your teaching practice

Ethics (approx 1hr) with Katy Appleton and Lisa Larn
• Ethics & guidelines

Om Coursework & Assessments for Graduation (approx 20hrs)
• Pre-course reading
• Pre-course essay
• Journaling – self study (during the course)
• Exam on course content (during the course)

To be handed in no later than 1 month after the end of the course
• One essay on a chosen element of the 7 Spiritual Truths (Post course)
• One 20 minute video assessment teaching a pre or post natal appleyoga class (Post course)
• Written course plan of 6 Pre-natal yoga classes (Post course)
• Written class plan of 1 Post-natal yoga class (Post course)

Strong recommendation
• Observation and assistance of 3 or more classes with Katy (this is not a requirement for graduation)

Testimonials

"Once again appleyoga has delivered an intelligent, inspiring and comprehensive training which enabled me to walk away feeling well informed and confident about teaching yoga both pre and postnatally. The course was clearly devised with a great deal of passion and sensitivity, love and experience and the results are a credit to Katy and appleyoga. Whether you're looking to build on existing teaching skills, want to help women pre and post natally or have an interest in yoga within pregnancy on a personal level I cannot recommend this course highly enough!" Phillipa Woodgate

"appleyoga's pre and postnatal teacher training was a comprehensive and highly inspirational course developed with heart, soul & a wealth of experience from Katy and her team. The methodology, physiology and anatomy of pregnant women, sequencing of appropriate vinyasa kramas, theming and class planning are designed to equip teachers to teach contemporary pre and postnatal classes. I am truly delighted about teaching specialised yoga classes that will empower, strengthen and relax women during their pregnancy, birth and beyond." Lauren Grove

Faculty

Founder and Director of appleyoga, Katy Appleton has been practising yoga since 1995 and has taught internationally as a registered teacher (E-RYT 500 level) with the Yoga Alliance since 1999.
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"If you're really listening--if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break, its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonder." ~Andrew Harvey
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Kicki Hansard is a certified birth and postnatal doula with experience in all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. During the last 8 years, she has been preparing couples for the arrival of their baby and supported many of them through the birth and postnatal period. Kicki is also a doula trainer and has trained over 200 aspiring doulas.
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