with Wendy Teasdill
Course Brief:
An in-depth course which prepares yoga teachers to teach specialised pregnancy yoga classes. The aim is to promote the safe teaching of yoga during pregnancy at all times while equipping teachers with the information and confidence to develop an individual approach. The course usually consists of three weekends which comprise forty two contact hours. Parameters and definite guidelines for safe practice are clearly supplied in the form of detailed handouts on conception, gestation, birth and post-natal conditions relating to both mother and baby, as well as on the appropriate asana and pranayama practices for each stage. Participants are expected to do back-ground reading and complete eight written assignments over the course, and should expect to spend at least twenty hours in home study, consisting of ten hours reading and ten writing.
It is also useful to observe other pregnancy yoga teachers in action and you are encouraged to start teaching pregnancy yoga as soon as you feel confident. You are expected to do an assessed teaching practice of 90 minutes with a minimum of 4 students at the end of the course, and a certificate is awarded upon successful completion.
Participants must be fully qualified British Wheel of Yoga teachers or accredited BWY teachers or, if they are qualified with another organisation, be fully insured through that organisation and become members of the British Wheel of Yoga in order to register on and participate in the course.
Download: course contents
Investment - Approximately £600-£650, depending on the location, payable in instalments.
Costs in addition to the course fee:
- British Wheel of Yoga registration fee of £60 (payable to the BWY and to be sent to Wendy with the deposit and application)
- Course books (Preparing for Birth by Andrea Robertson and Women’s Waterworks by Dr. Pauline Chiarellli - available from Wendy
- Transport
- £50 to your assessor for your assessed teaching practice (this may have gone up by the time you do your course - watch this space!)
- Accommodation if appropriate
Up and coming British Wheel of Yoga Pregnancy Yoga Modules:
* Yoga and Massage Centre, Swindon:
November 3rd/4th 2012; January 12th/13th 2013;
April 6th/7th 2013.
This is a new centre, doing well. Go to: www.swindonyogaandmassagecentre.co.uk
Please send completed application forms, along with:
*your deposit of £50 (payable to Wendy Teasdill)
*£60 registration fee (payable to the BWY, with your BWY number on the back), POST-DATED to a month before the start of the course
To:
Wendy Teasdill, 109, Benedict Street, Glastonbury, BA6 9NQ.
If you have any queries or would like more information, please e-mail me, giving me your phone number if you would like me to call you.
Funding: If you teach Yoga for a local authority or a Leisure Centre, it is possible they might fund part or all of your training. It is worth while finding out about it, as many people have had the cost of their training subsidised or fully funded in this way.
• Funding through County Sports Partnerships may be
available for prospective module students, as CSPs promote the increased accessibility of “healthy activities”. The possibility of funding could make a module accessible to teachers who may find the cost prohibitive. Contact details can be found on individual local websites, by googling ‘County Sports Partnerships’.
