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Date	: 3 Nov to 5 Nov 2008
Venue	: Singapore

Pregnancy is a miraculous process of self-discovery and learning, and a time in which the practice of yoga matters can deeply affect the life not only of women, but of their unborn child. Pregnancy is a process of spiritual, physical and emotional transformation for women. You will learn how to teach yoga in a holistic manner and support healthy women through pregnancy and beyond.

Course Description

The Introductory Module One (25 hours) provides an overview of yoga and meditation practice throughout pregnancy, birth and beyond with a focus on yoga & meditation for the different stages of pregnancy. It is registered with the Yoga Teachers Association of Australia as a speciality module.

Jean also provides a comprehensive and intensive training course for yoga teachers, aspiring yoga teachers, pregnant women, midwives, doulas and anyone interested in yoga during and after pregnancy. It will provide existing yoga teachers and aspiring teachers with a 100 hour specialisation in yoga for this important time in a woman’s life.

Full Cost: SGD 950

Early Bird Discount: SGD 800
(by 30 Sep 2008)

Contacts

Christine Plaud
christine@innerkeys.com
+65 9021 6325

Victor Chng
info@yogainasia.com
+65 9826 0088

Note: Student who wishes to complete the 100 hour Pregnancy Yoga Specialisation will be able to deduct from this 25-hour training eventually.

Course Trainer:

Jean Byrne

Jean Byrne is an authorised Ashtanga Yoga teacher (AYRI Mysore) and a Senior Member of the Yoga Teachers Association of Australia, who specialises in the teaching of Pregnancy Yoga, Yoga for Active Birth and Post-Natal Yoga. She has taught pregnant women yoga for over 10 years, practiced yoga throughout her pregnancy and used yoga and meditation techniques to deliver her baby boy drug and intervention free in 2007. More recently she has been facilitating Active Birth and Preparation for Parenting workshops as well as preparing women emotionally, physically and spiritually for pregnancy and birth through the use of yoga and breath awareness.

Jean trains pregnancy and post-natal yoga teachers in Perth, Australia where she runs The Yoga Space. She has a keen interest in women’s experience of yoga practice and has just completed her PhD thesis exploring the intersection of yoga practice, women’s spirituality and Eastern Philosophy through the University of Queensland. Jean is co-editor of Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge 2008).

Module One Course Objectives:

To learn about the relationship between the practice of yoga and women’s life cycles.
To understand the medical and cultural context, both past and present, of pregnancy and birthing.
To understand the physical and emotional changes that occur for women and their babies at different stages of development, pre and post natal.
To understand how to teach healthy pregnant women appropriate yoga practices for the stage of their pregnancy.
To understand the common complaints, contra-indications and conditions during pregnancy and how to adapt yoga practice to these in order to teach safely.
To facilitate an understanding of how the teaching of pregnancy yoga can enable women to have a conscious and active birth and improve their birth experience and outcomes, so that teachers may then empower their students to birth consciously.
To learn and implement the theory of Optimal Foetal Positioning as it applies to yoga asana in their yoga classes.
To enable teachers to deliver interesting, informative and fun classes for women during pregnancy, for birth and beyond.

Certification

Upon completion of this course, students will be given a certificate of participation. This course is registered with YTAA (Yoga Teachers Association of Australia). For more information, go to : www.yogateachers.asn.au.