prenatal teacher training

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
with Leslie Lytle

June 19 - 22, 2008

Pregnancy offers women many physical, spiritual, and social challenges as they embark on the journey into motherhood. Yoga practice during pregnancy can help them prepare for these challenges with awareness, strength, and grace, and is rapidly becoming one of the most popular ways of preparing for childbirth. This 30 hour prenatal yoga teacher training course will provide you with a rich framework and effective tools to:

• Offer professional, responsible, and appropriate support to pregnant women.
• Understand the physiological and emotional considerations of the childbearing year so you can create your own prenatal classes from a solid foundation.
• Learn which yoga postures are especially helpful during pregnancy and how to adapt them as necessary.
• Address the common discomforts of pregnancy with specific yoga postures and sequences.
• Effectively market your prenatal program within your community.
• Encourage women to access and trust their own deep wisdom and strength.

The prenatal teacher training is open to yoga teachers and pregnancy health professionals with a strong yoga practice. It includes significant reading to be completed in advance of the training, a prenatal yoga manual, supervised teaching opportunities and post-training written assignments. Completion of a 200-hour yoga teacher training program or its equivalent prior to taking this training is strongly recommended. Approval of the instructor is required for applicants who have not reached this level of experience. Students who successfully complete all requirements of the course will receive a certificate of completion. A required reading list will be sent upon acceptance into the program. Students are responsible for the purchase of required textbooks, which may be obtained at a discounted rate through OmMama, LLC. To purchase textbooks please email info@ommama.com.

Approved for 30 Contact Hours toward the Advanced 300-hour Yoga Alliance Certification.

Times:

• Thursday, June 19 –Saturday, June 21 from 9:00 – 6:30 pm
• Sunday, June 22 from 9:00 – 4:30 pm

Fee:

• $625 with registration and payment in full received by May 15, 2008
• $695 after May 15, 2008. 

Teacher Bio:
Leslie Lytle combines a background in Iyengar style yoga and vipassana meditation with imagery, poetry, and a deep understanding of the experience of pregnancy and birth. Leslie has worked with pregnant women since 1992 as a massage therapist, labor assistant and yoga instructor, and currently directs the highly regarded prenatal yoga program at Yoga Source in Richmond, Virginia through her company, OmMama, LLC. She completed her undergraduate degree in Movement Studies in 1987, and is a Certified Movement Analyst and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Her background includes a Master's degree in Sociology where her research focus was Women's Experience of the Body and Health. Leslie has completed advanced training in prenatal yoga and childbirth education with Janice Clarfield, Colette Crawford, Elizabeth Noble, Ann Cowlin, Penny Simpkin and other notable instructors. Her goal is to empower women in their childbearing years to transition into parenthood with grace and awareness. For more information about Leslie and her work please visit www.ommama.com.

Comments from past participants:

• “This exceeded my expectations. I was unsure how this would be considering I'm not yet a yoga instructor, yet I felt welcomed encouraged, stretched, and embraced throughout. Leslie is an exceptional teacher with a treasure trove of knowledge that is quite amazing. I appreciate her love for yoga and her deep caring for all of us."
  -- Patricia Kinser, Nurse Practitioner
• "A truly heartfelt sharing and instruction to teaching prenatal yoga. I feel as if I have been given the tools to be able to start teaching prenatal and for continuing to learn about birth, prenatal and postpartum yoga. Thank you! "
  -- Vickie Christian, Yoga Instructor
• "I attended wanting to gain knowledge for my prenatal students, and ended up gaining knowledge about myself! Thank you for a very inspiring and empowering experience."
  -- Meichelle Norwood, Yoga Instructor

Feel free to download a copy of the application form here, or call (804) 359-9642 to receive one by mail.

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Application (.pdf)

To register, complete the application and mail it to:

Yoga Source
PYTT Registrations
3122 West Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23221