Medical Yoga

Pregnant/maternity

Several international studies show that yoga training during pregnancy leads to less pain before, during and after birth. Learning to breathe correctly, being aware of which positions are appropriate for the body is important.

Medical Yoga Pregnant balances and supports the hormonal system so that the pregnant body gets full support to be able to carry out its mission in the best possible way. In Medical Yoga Gravid you learn how to strengthen both mother and child during pregnancy and during birth. You will also learn how both mother and child get the best out of the maternity period.

Enrollment

The education is also suitable for trainers, therapists, doulas, midwives or others who have a special interest in pregnancy, birth and women's health.

Medical Yoga Pregnant/maternity training is perfect for you who are a yoga teacher and want to teach your own pregnancy yoga courses or adapt your teaching for pregnant women. It is also suitable for you who work with pregnant women on a daily basis, as a therapist, therapist, doula or midwife and want to equip your toolbox with safe and good tools.

Gravidyoga represents the essence of feminine yoga: a listening, intuitive and nurturing practice that brings us closer to our feminine power.

Through this education, you learn that pregnancy yoga must not be a modified and flawed variation of a traditional yoga, but a full-fledged, edifying practice in its own right.

Among other things, you will learn:

How to set up a full-fledged yoga practice for pregnant women
How to facilitate pregnant women in your "regular" yoga classes
What processes take place in the body during the various stages of pregnancy and how to plan teaching around this
Breathing exercises, positions and different sequencing

Adaptations in relation to the time of pregnancy and various ailments in the individual
How to facilitate rest through relaxation techniques and use Medical Yoga in the process
How to integrate childbirth preparation into teaching
How to create a community and safety through teaching and look after each individual participant
What happens in the body during pregnancy and birth
How Medical Yoga can strengthen the mother and the child?
Relaxation
Awareness training
Positions during birth
How to support mother and child after birth

Practical info

Course holders are midwives Kine Fossum and Cathinka Devor.
You can read about their background under the tab "resource persons".

The certification course runs over two days

You get a manual with theory and yoga programs.

Price: NOK 4990

Start-up: Date to come