Teaching Yoga for Pregnancy
4-day Yoga for Pregnancy Course
Commences 20th Feb and runs 6th Mar, 20th Mar and 27th March 2010.
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The purpose of this four day course will be to give the yoga teacher a greater understanding of pregnancy and birth as it relates to teaching a pregnant woman in a class. Yoga can prepare a woman very effectively for giving birth by inspiring her to be in touch with herself and her baby. Yoga can help a mother to adjust to the many changes occurring inwardly and outside the body.I would hope to share with teachers my experience of working with pregnant women for over a decade. I would like to take them through the nine month experience of pregnancy ending with the miracle of birth, and relate this to how they as yoga teachers can aid this process and help a woman to get in touch with her inner power as woman and mother.
Taking women through the months of pregnancy is exciting and rewarding for a teacher, and I would hope teachers would finish the four days feeling more confident and informed when faced with a pregnant woman in their class.
I will be joined by a midwife who has experience of hospital and home birth, bringing to the course all the practical experience of pregnancy and birth.
Trish Malone
More about Trish Malone
I trained 1995 – 96, and then worked at the Active Birth Centre in London, before retuning to Ireland in 1998. I now live and work in Leixlip.
The Active Birth Centre created a new concept in pre and post natal education under the guidance of Janet Balaskas. Inspired by my work with Janet and other groundbreaking teachers, Sheila Kitzinger, Michele Odent among others, I believe in empowering women to discover and trust their innate ability to give birth.
I have three sons, one born in hospital in Ireland, on born in England and one born at home. Each experience of birth has been very different for me, and I hope to bring my own experiences and those of the hundreds of women I have taught over the past 12 years, to share with the yoga teachers attending this course.
More about Aileen Murphy
Aileen Murphy qualified as a midwife in 1994. She has worked in the UK before retuning to Ireland. She has worked in many different areas of midwifery care including community midwifery, water birth, home birth and hospital based maternity care.
Aileen has experienced the journey through pregnancy and birth both professionally and personally. This experience has made her both a wonderful teacher and support to pregnant women.