Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training
w/ Toni Osborne
4 DAYS OVER TWO WEEKENDS
1-8pm Saturdays, 12-5pm Sundays
at Kindred Studio or live online
Postnatal
1 & 2 March
8 & 9 March
This comprehensive 4 day intensive (In Studio) training at Kindred Yoga Studio with Senior Yoga Teacher Toni Osborne focuses on how yoga can enrich the daily experience and aid the healing of postpartum students
Physically // Mentally // Emotionally // Spiritually
through this very important time of transition before and after pregnancy.
This Course is particularly useful for yoga teachers, yoga graduates, birth workers, midwives and doulas who are passionate about raising the standard of guided postnatal recovery and individual care through yoga.
Participants in the course can expect a supportive environment for interactive learning, open discussions, practical experience of teaching, observations, feedback, how to build classes and the importance of a safe community at this time.
They will gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to hold safe, balanced classes that address ways to effectively release tension, balance the nervous system, realign, strengthen the postnatal body and how to include babies within the practice succesfully.
Our participants will leave feeling inspired to create their own inclusive, accessible, group classes that parents and babies enjoy and benefit from.
They will learn how to tailor the practice to support the varying needs of each student within a group class and individually for private yoga sessions.
Postnatal Yoga Training
Postnatal Yoga Training: 25 hours
This training focuses on the multi-faceted healing journey of the postnatal parent directly after giving birth and the many months to a year that follow.
This unique training is parent focused, whilst still including babies within the classes. We take a thorough dive into all the elements that build firm foundations to rebuild vitality and strength from the inside out after childbirth.
Participants will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to support individuals within their group classes.
Every parent has a unique birthing experience and may require techniques specific to their personal healing, working with special considerations including diastasis (muscle separation) prolapse, coccyx pain and anxiety.
We will also learn when it is important to refer individuals to other specialists.
Toni Osborne has been teaching postnatal yoga full-time for over ten years with glowing testimonials and students returning with their second, third and fourth babies and has also applied the shared principles for her own postnatal healing, strongly believing that we can feel much stronger after we birth our babies, if we allow ourselves to start again with loving kindness from the beginning, starting with our breath.
“The heart of postnatal healing starts with the breath, our prana, our life force. The breath is the foundation that influences the physical, mental and emotional aspects of postpartum recovery”
Toni Osborne
This part of the course is also suitable for keen practitioners wishing to learn more.
In this condensed yet thoroughly comprehensive 25hr Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training program, students gain a thorough understanding of…
Sequencing and class planning honoring the physical and emotional needs of new parents at different stages of their healing journey, learning how to structure classes to provide a balanced practice that addresses strength, flexibility, relaxation, and mindfulness for every student.
Creative sequencing covering themes, elements and chakras.
Students learn inclusive, effective communication skills to guide and support postnatal students in their yoga practice. This includes learning how to offer clear instructions and provide safe hands-on adjustments with consent, sensitivity and care.
Ethical Considerations involved in teaching yoga to postnatal women, including issues of consent, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity, learning how to create an inclusive environment that respects the diversity of their students.
Students have the opportunity to teach a postnatal yoga class and receive feedback to support their growth as teachers.
Continued Support and Resources: After completing the training, students are provided with ongoing support and resources to help them continue their professional development as postnatal yoga teachers.
The physiological and emotional changes that occur after childbirth.
In-depth anatomy of the postnatal body, the pelvic floor and corrective exercise considerations.
Safety guidelines: Students are taught how to sequence and modify traditional yoga poses to make them safe and accessible for postnatal students.
Contraindications and precautions to ensure the safety of their students.
Pranayama: Breathing techniques specific to the postpartum period to reduce anxiety, balance the nervous system, bond with the baby, strengthen and increase energy.
Asana Adaptations: Students learn specific yoga poses that help with common postnatal discomforts, how to release tension, increase mobility, how to strengthen key areas to align and support the spine and restorative poses that promote relaxation.
Meditation and Relaxation: Practices that promote mental and emotional well-being, including chanting, mantra, mudra, visualisations, guided meditations and yoga nidra to help reduce stress, improve sleep quality, to enhance the experience of the transition into parenthood.
The importance of a welcoming environment, community, class set up and the safe use of props.
MEET YOUR TEACHER
toni osborne
A love of dance started with a scholarship to Italia Conti Academy in 1987 and Toni has not stopped exploring new ways to enjoy and teach movement ever since.
Alongside dance contracts, she trained and worked as a Personal Trainer and Sports Massage Therapist from 2003 and also started practicing yoga around this time.
Toni decided to share the benefits of yoga by taking her first teacher training with yogahaven in 2012 and has been teaching and studying yoga full time as a career ever since.
Whilst teaching full time, Toni has remained a student, has a regular yoga practice and has invested in studying extensively with inspirational teachers.
Toni is eternally grateful to all her teachers for their generous sharing of knowledge, they have not only enriched her personal practice through pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood but also transformed her perspective on yoga and life itself.
With over two decades of teaching movement, Toni is passionate about providing inclusive and supportive classes which allow pregnant and postnatal students to be valued as part of a welcoming yoga community throughout some of the most transformative times in their lives.
what to expect if you enrol
12 days of In Person Training with Toni Osborne - 6 Intensive weekends
Carefully selected Guest Tutors
Pregnancy Yoga teaching manual and/or Postnatal Yoga teaching manual
Class structuring plans
Written assignments
Quizzes to support learning
Reading lists
Online resources and pre recorded classes to observe and support learning
The option of attending three In Studio Observations of Postnatal Yoga Classes
1hr Private Session with Toni Osborne - Online
Teach a 60 minute postnatal yoga class online with Toni - Practical examination
tuition fees
Postnatal Yoga Training: 25 hours
£375
BOOK BOTH: Prenatal & Postnatal for £100 off
£1050
6 month payment plans available for an additional includes £35 GoCardless admin fee.