Hear what past students are saying:
I have been practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years. And I also have 3 young boys now which well acquainted me with childbirth and carrying babies! So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that the hormone relaxin stays in the body up to almost a year post pregnancy. I now know how important it is to skillfully adjust the practice for the postnatal student. I think this is so beneficial to know when working with postnatal clients.
I truly loved working with Deb because I learned so much more about the entire process of pregnancy and beyond and it really deepened my ability to teach my postnatal clients and students.
I would like to offer rave reviews of Deb’s course, Teaching the Postnatal Student. Previously certified by Deb as a Prenatal Yoga Teacher, I know and trust her talent as a “Teacher of Teachers”, but the additional curriculum in this course was valuable in expanding my ability to teach Yoga to new mothers as well. Prior to teaching Yoga full time, I was a Labor and Delivery Nurse for many years, becoming a Clinical Specialist and then working as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner for over two decades. As a WHNP, I provided direct postpartum care to over thousands of women. The information covered in this course both reinforces and expands the clinical and practical aspects of care and recovery in a format that is both informed and nourishing.
As a prenatal teacher I felt that my prenatal training was so thorough. I was equipped with so much knowledge. I realized that I wanted to be able to offer my postnatal students more information, more poses that facilitated where they were with their bodies, and in general a more wide understanding of how very individual that time in a womans life is (much like pregnancy). The Teaching Postnatal workshop gave me the tools to address diastasis, back issues, strength building, pelvic floor work etc. We covered the main areas to focus on in postnatal and how to build a class for someone who is 6 weeks postnatal and 6 months postnatal. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who teaches yoga, and especially those who want to support women post pregnancy.
