Prenatal Teacher Training
Home Yoga
Prenatal Teacher Training
Yoga Alliance Registered | 100% Virtual
2026 Cohort
Teach prenatal yoga with confidence, clarity, and deep respect for the pregnant body.
This is not a scripted, one-size-fits-all prenatal certification.
This is a skill-building, anatomy-rich, spiritually grounded training that prepares you to think critically, teach responsively, and support pregnant and postpartum people with intelligence, compassion, and strength.
Led by Lily Dwyer Begg
with guest faculty including a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist, trauma-informed yoga teacher & full-spectrum doula, and childbirth educator with 20+ years of experience.
👉 Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training (RPYS)
👉 Graduates with an existing RYT 200 may register as RPYT
Who This Training Is For
This training is for you if you want to:
Teach strong dynamic prenatal yoga practices from an understanding that birth and parenthood require stamina
Move beyond pregnancy fragility myths and postpartum “bounce-back” culture to teach prenatal yoga from an empowering evidence-based approach
Understand why you’re offering each pose, breath, and cue
Support students across all trimesters and postpartum
Learn anatomy in a way that actually makes sense in the classroom
Hold space for pregnancy as both physical and spiritual transformation
Strengthen your own critical thinking and get support in your unique contribution as a teacher rather than memorize cookie cutter formulas
You are welcome here if you are:
A yoga teacher or aspiring teacher
A birth worker, doula, or caregiver
Pregnant, postpartum, or trying to conceive
Called to understand pregnancy more deeply
(Yes — you can take this training even if you do not have a uterus or have never given birth.)
What Makes This Training Different
🌀 Strength-based & evidence-informed
Pregnancy is not an injury or illness. It is preparation for a major life event.
You’ll learn to teach prenatal yoga that builds strength, stamina, and resilience — physically, emotionally, and energetically.
🧠 Deep anatomy you can actually use
Graduates consistently say the Pelvic Floor Anatomy module is the best anatomy education they’ve ever received in a yoga training.
You’ll learn how anatomy shows up in real bodies, real classes, real moments — not just on slides.
🔍 Critical thinking over memorization
No rigid sequences. No dogma.
You’ll learn how to problem-solve, adapt, and teach to the individual within a group — the most essential prenatal teaching skill.
🤍 Integration over overload
This program prioritizes:
Practice teaching
Feedback
Integration
Time to embody what you’re learning
So you leave confident — not overwhelmed.
🌿 Sacred space & true community
Each cohort is intentionally small and deeply held.
We begin each session with the traditional teacher–student prayer, honoring the shared learning path and the humanity each trainee brings.
Many graduates describe the cohort bonds as life-changing.
What You’ll Learn
You will learn how to:
Teach prenatal & postnatal yoga safely and intelligently
Modify poses for all trimesters and common pregnancy discomforts
Skillfully sequence classes that support endurance, comfort, and calm
Support emotional regulation, breath awareness, and nervous system health
Teach labor-supportive breathing, relaxation, and mindfulness practices
Understand cultural attitudes toward birth and birthing choices
Guide postpartum recovery with strength and compassion
Signature Modules Include:
4-hour Pelvic Floor Anatomy Deep Dive with Pelvic Floor PT Julie Everett
Reclaim Your Center: Lily’s acclaimed postpartum breath & movement program
Trauma-informed care, pregnancy loss, and healing after birth with Raquel Nweze
Energetic body & subtle anatomy during pregnancy
The magic of labor: Phases of labor, pain management from mindfulness to medicine, birth plan and rights to choose!
Raquel Nweze
Emily Pelton
Dr. Julie Everett
Pricing
Early Bird: $1,150
A nonrefundable $500 deposit reserves your space (Deposit must be made before January 21 to lock in EarlyBird Rate.)
Balance due 2/14.
Regular Rate: $1,350
2 FULL Scholarships for BIPOC students. Application deadline TBD. Apply HERE
If you apply for the BIPOC Scholarship and do not receive it, you will be offered an opportunity to enroll at the expired Early Bird Rate.
Space is limited. Minimum of 10. Maximum of 24 so we all fit in a single Zoom screen.
Payment Plans are available: Select 3 monthly auto-bills of $450 each payment if that works better for your financial situation instead of one full payment. Please note there is no earlybird pricing for the payment plan.
The Home Yoga Prenatal Yoga School is an eligible Yoga Alliance RPYS.
Required Texts and Materials:
All the selected portions of texts required for this training will be shared with you digitally through your student portal which is shared with you one month before the course start date. You will receive a digital manual written by Lily on the first day of the training and excerpts of texts including Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife by Margaret Charles, Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin, and Yoga of the Subtle Body by Tias Little
Required Reading List:
Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife by Margaret Charles (digital copy of selected readings available inside the course)
Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin (digital copy of selected readings available inside the course)
Yoga of the Subtle Body by Tias Little (digital copy of selected readings available inside the course)
Home Yoga PYTT Course Manual (digital copy included in training welcome packet)
Required Props:
mat
2 full size firm yoga blocks
1 long (10-12 foot) looping/locking yoga strap
2 pillows or bolsters
2 yoga blankets
birth ball or yoga chair
About Lily Dwyer Begg, your Lead Trainer:
Childbirth and motherhood have been my most transformative spiritual teachers and inform every aspect of how I live and teach. I teach an active style of prenatal yoga because I believe that empowered birth and motherhood require great strength and stamina in body, mind, and heart! Pregnant people are not injured or sick, they are training and conditioning for a major life event. My classes focus on physical stability, emotional integration, fostering community among students, easing common pregnancy discomforts, and holding space for students to open to the fullness of their experience.
My goals as a prenatal yoga teacher are threefold:
to help you feel as strong, integrated, comfortable, and capable as you can in your shifting and changing body each day during pregnancy
to support your nervous system and protect your grounding so that you are capable of meeting your child’s birthing day with calm, deep trust in your experience, and a feeling of empowerment - no matter what kind of birth you envision or have.
to practice prenatal yoga wisely thinking forward to best support the most efficient recovery postpartum.
I have practiced for over two decades and taught yoga full time since 2006. I have taught in yoga studios internationally, worked with an NBA basketball team, an NCAA diving team, professional dance companies, and therapeutically with private clients and pregnant people across the globe.
I have studied with Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest, Christina Sell, Don and Amba Stapleton, David Moreno, yoga for scoliosis with Elise Browning Miller, Ayurveda with Kameko Shibata, Prenatal yoga with Marisa Toriggino, and Hypnobirthing with Yael Tober Quittner. A former massage therapist specializing in Sports Massage and Deep Tissue work, I have studied anatomy with Art Riggs and Thomas Myers. I currently make my home in Baltimore with my husband and two young sons.
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