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Teacher Trainings
offered at Yoga Ananda
Yoga Ananda is pleased to
host the following teacher training programs for adults and
children's yoga...
 Prenatal
Yoga Teacher Training
Dates: Fri, Sat, Sun 7/9/2010 - 7/11/2010
Meet and greet: Thurs, 7/8/2010 at 5:30PM
Time: 9:00 AM - 600 PM
Tuition: $345 before 6/15, $375 after
Prenatal Yoga
Center is thrilled to bring its Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training to
Yoga Ananda. This comprehensive 24 hour training is for
those who want to dive into the world of prenatal yoga and work with
this very specialized population. This Prenatal Yoga Teacher
Training course offers the skills to teach prenatal and postnatal
yoga, meditation, relaxation techniques, labor support skills and
conscious birthing. Our goal is to reawaken a woman's innate wisdom
by dispelling cultural fears of childbirth and enabling her to make
educated, empowering choices about how she want to birth her baby.
Curriculum:
* Anatomical and physiological changes during pregnancy and how they
relate to yoga
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Principles of alignment
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Appropriate Asanas (Poses) and Pranayama (Breathwork)
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Contra‐indicated poses during pregnancy
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Exploration of the emotional and physical changes in all 3
trimesters of pregnancy
* How
to use props to help modify asanas for pregnancy
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Strengthening the abdominal and pelvic floor muscles during
pregnancy
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Class observation and sequencing including how to conduct “circle
time” and introducing themes for group inquiry
* Yoga
therapeutics for pregnancy
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Childbirth Preparation Exercises
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Explanation of fetal position. What poses are beneficial and what
poses should be avoided during later pregnancy
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Common discomforts of pregnancy and how to work with them using
asana
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Childbirth Education class which
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Partner Yoga and Massage Class
* A
prenatal Yoga Teacher’s responsibilities and boundaries.
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Postnatal yoga – rebuilding the pregnant body, including poses to
discourage and encourage.
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Practice teaching prenatal yoga classes with the pregnant students
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Discussion of current childbirth practices in our country
This certification training is open to Certified Yoga Teachers,
Teachers in training. Teacher Trainees are expected to already have
obtained the knowledge of how to sequence a basic hatha yoga class,
an understanding of alignment and be able to proficiently explain
it, properly apply hand on adjustments and comfortably take the seat
of a teacher. We are also opening participation in the course to
Labor Support Doulas. However, the doulas will not receive a
certification in prenatal yoga and will not participate in teaching
the open class to the pregnant community.
Debra Flashenberg, CD(DONA), LCCE, E-RYT 500
(Director of the Prenatal Yoga Center, Prenatal & Postnatal)
Debra is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music with a
degree in Musical Theater. She has spent most of her life performing
and was introd uced to yoga through a choreographer in 1997. After
several years as a yoga student, she decided to continue her
education and became certified as a Bikram Yoga instructor. In 2001
Debra headed out to Seattle to study with renowned prenatal yoga
teacher Colette Crawford, R.N., at the Seattle Holistic Center.
Debra has received a certificate for Vinyasa Yoga from Shiva Rea,
with whom she continues to study. Debra has also studied the
Maternal Fitness Method with Julie Tupler. In 2004, Debra completed
the OM Yoga advanced teacher training with Cyndi Lee. Debra
currently studies with Cyndi Lee, Genevieve Kapular, and Susan "Lip"
Orem.
After being witness to several "typical" hospital births, Debra felt
it was important to move beyond the yoga room and be present in the
birthing room. In 2003, Debra attended her first birth as a DONA
certified labor support doula. In that short period of time, Debra
has attended about 75 births. She is continuously in awe of the
beauty and brilliance of birth.
In 2006, Debra received her certification as a Lamaze Certified
Childbirth Educator. In September of 2007, Debra completed a Midwife
Assistant Program with Ina May Gaskin, Pamela Hunt and many of the
other Farm Midwives at The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee. Most
recently, Debra had the incredible experience of helping one of her
clients give birth on the bathroom floor. Luckily, the EMS arrived
seconds before the baby did!
Drawing on her experience as a prenatal yoga teacher, labor support
doula and childbirth educator, Debra looks to establish a safe and
effective class for pregnancy and beyond.
 Nikita
Maxwell
(Prenatal, Postnatal)
Originally a dancer, Nikita discovered yoga in 1997 and very quickly
realized there was more to this practice than just physical fitness.
Through the combination of breath, sound, movement and consciously
working with the mind she glimpsed the potential for more space,
ease and calm in the mind and body. After leaving the dance world in
2004, she began teaching yoga, training at OM Yoga Center with Cyndi
Lee, Jennifer Brilliant, Dana Strong and Joe Miller. In 2005, she
had an overwhelming sense that she should teach prenatal yoga. In
June of that year, she completed Janice Clarfield's prenatal teacher
training and, already eight weeks pregnant, started teaching
pregnant women. Her son, Mars, was born in February 2006 and
daughter, Echo, was born in November 2008. Having practiced yoga
through both pregnancies and beyond, Nikita is amazed at the extent
to which yoga has the capacity to give us strength, confidence, and
freedom in an ever-changing body as well as help us find a little
peace, calm and perspective as we create, birth and mother our
children.
Nikita is a member of the teacher training faculty at the Prenatal
Yoga Center and assisted Deb Flashenberg in creating the teacher
training curriculum. She is also trained as a doula, but has put
that on hold until her children are older.
Testimonials
“Through this training, not only did I learn a lot of pertinent
information regarding pregnancy and birth, I also rediscovered a
love of teaching that I have been able to apply to all of my
classes”. - Karen Langan, Prenatal Yoga Teacher
“Deb and Nikita have constructed a comprehensive training
that will allow a teacher to truly "teach the people, not just the
poses" with an understanding of all of the intricacies of the
pregnancy, labor and birth processes. I would HIGHLY recommend this
training to any yoga teacher”. - Aimee McCabe, Prenatal Yoga Teacher
“I appreciate a structured and well thought our curriculum
for the program. Your expertise is very precise”. - Dina M.
Giugliano, LMT, CD(DONA)
Foundations Training: November 2010
 The
original program that revolutionized the way yoga is taught to
children. This groundbreaking work introduces the YogaKids approach
to asana, breathing, teaching and relaxation. You’ll ground in the
concepts and methods as developed by award winning yoga for children
pioneer, Marsha Wenig, during her 25 years of study, research,
practice, and teaching.
Benefits:
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Achieve understanding and fluency in the benefits of yoga for
children
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Gain the tools to empower children through yoga
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Awaken the YogaKid within you
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Certificate of completion for 32 hours of YogaKids training.
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This prerequisite course prepares you, should you choose, to
participate in the
YogaKids
Teacher Certification Program which includes the
Home Study
Practicum and “Transformations” the 7 Day Advanced Intensive
to earn the designation of
Certified YogaKids Teacher (CYKT).
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