**Accepting applications for January 2027

Cityoga’s comprehensive 85 hour training draws on Kelly and Lisa’s 40+ years of combined experience of teaching prenatal yoga, birthing children, and assisting other births, bringing you the best best practices in terms of safety, sequencing and teaching techniques. This training will give you the confidence to absorb and embody the specialized knowledge of appropriate asanas and other yogic practices for safely teaching yoga throughout all stages of pregnancy.

This is Indiana’s only school to offer a 80hr Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training (RPYT). Deepen your knowledge and grow your passion for supporting health and transformation during pregnancy with Kelly Shull and Lisa Daugherty. In one of the few Registered Prenatal Yoga Schools, this training will teach you how to confidently lead a holistic and supportive prenatal yoga class that gives a connection with breath and inner strength, as well as, develop the physical strength and endurance to support the birthing process. Cityoga’s RPYT will provide the skills, techniques and credentials needed to specialize in this growing and popular area and modality of yoga teaching. Learning to teach Prenatal Yoga is a wonderful way to diversify your skill set and what you are able to offer to the community. Designed for those who are interested in acquiring the tools necessary to assist others in order to enhance and empower their experience during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, labor and delivery and postpartum. Full of practical, philosophical, mythical, archetypal knowledge, wisdom and stories, this training will assist you to better serve the pregnant people in our yoga communities.

Topics to be covered:

• Anatomy and physiology of the pregnant person and baby throughout the three trimesters of pregnancy
• Mental, emotional, spiritual changes, gifts and challenges a pregnant person might experience
• Labor and delivery: different stages of labor and birth and how to prepare for an empowered birth experience
• Safety guidelines and contraindicated poses and practices
• Prenatal yoga postures, alignment and sequencing for each trimester
• Adjustments and modifications with props
• Learning how to provide a safe space and create community in a yoga class
• Yoga for common pregnancy complaints
• Pelvic floor health and stability
• Language and cultural awareness
• Working with props to modify and adapt to the different stages of pregnancy
• Prenatal restorative yoga, including a variety of stress relieving techniques
• Meditations, visualizations and affirmations
• Pranayama for pregnancy and childbirth
• Prenatal partner yoga
• Singing and ceremony to honor the sacred body and experience of fertility
• Ethics of teaching Prenatal Yoga
• Women’s health and the postpartum period
• The sacred fourth trimester
• Postpartum Nutrition
• How to support families in the early postpartum period
• Baby Massage

By the end of this training, you will have developed an instructional foundation of skills in prenatal yoga that will allow you to add a new and vibrant dimension to your yoga instruction and/or in your career as a birth worker or childbirth educator.

Important things to note...

• CITYOGA is a Registered Prenatal Yoga School (RYPS) through Yoga Alliance. Graduates will be eligible to receive the Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT) certification upon completion.
• Required reading will be provided once registered for training

Standards of Curriculum and CITYOGA’s 100 hour Certification Requirement include:

• 200-hour yoga teacher training program (RYT-200)
• 64 hours of Prenatal Education and Training in the studio (5-weekend modules)
• 10 hours of Prenatal Yoga Class Observation
• 10 hours Student Teaching Practicum
• 10 hours of homework with required reading. *Required reading will be provided once registered for training

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Module 1: Foundations of Prenatal Yoga and Birth
In this module you will start to explore the changes of the pregnant body during each trimester and how the body changes in pregnancy and postpartum (the fourth trimester). You will gain a solid foundation of physiology and anatomy and break down the poses and alignment which can be most beneficial, as well as, which poses to avoid. Module one will also examine and discuss a brief history of pregnancy and current birth culture in the US, the chakra system and pregnant energy body, pelvic floor yoga and anatomy and fetal development. We will have experiential practice with movement and asana and also take time to dive into our required and recommended reading. Cityoga Certification and Yoga Alliance requirements will be discussed, as well as required class observation hours and attendance expectations. We will have group discussion centered on required readings, as well as embodied teaching practice.

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Module 2: Asana, Alignment, Sequencing, Props, Relaxation and Sacred Ceremony
During this module, you will learn yoga sequencing, theming, cueing and assists. The pregnant body changes so much throughout pregnancy and you will be learning proper alignment with the support of props for common discomforts, ailments, and complications. We will take a deep dive into the birth journey and the holistic stages of birth so that you may prepare your students for postures that can help during different stages of labor. You will learn about how to create a safe and inclusive space for ALL students and explore gendered language in birth. You will also begin to teach in groups in a fun and friendly environment in order to gain confidence and get more comfortable with the prenatal language and begin to find your own style of prenatal yoga teaching. We will also explore the history and ceremony of singing to honor the sacred body. We will have group discussion centered on required readings, as well as embodied teaching practice.

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Module 3: Visualizations, Affirmations, Pranayama, Birth Goddesses and Archetypes
We will begin to look more closely at birthing, labor and delivery. We will take a deeper look into visualizations, affirmations and pranayama that are essential tools and can enhance your students' yoga practice and birthing process. We will learn about various birth goddesses and archetypes. In this module you will give a short presentation on a subject of interest related to childbirth and prenatal yoga. This module also has assigned reading, as well as, an assigned documentary which looks at the current maternal health crisis and birth inequities, which will be part of the group discussion. We will also have group discussion centered on required readings, as well as embodied teaching practice.

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Module 4: Bringing It All Together, The Business of Teaching Yoga, Teachback Practicum and Supporting Your Community
We will discuss the business of teaching Prenatal Yoga and set goals of how we want to contribute to our community by sharing a self reflection of our experience and what we have learned. You will also teach a thirty minute prenatal yoga class for your teaching practicum requirement, that will allow for practice and supportive feedback from your classmates and lead trainers, in a nurturing setting so you will feel ready and prepared to go out and teach your own class. There will also be a closing ceremony and graduation celebrating all of the sacred and practical knowledge shared throughout the training and honor the community and friendships that were formed over the course of the teacher training.

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Yoga Alliance

85 hour Yoga Alliance Continuous Education (CEU) Credits available!

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