Prenatal Teacher Training
Home Yoga Prenatal Teacher Training
100% virtual
Yoga Alliance Registered Training
with Lily Dwyer Begg
Choose Love over Fear.
Join Lily Dwyer Begg and guest teachers including a pelvic floor physical therapist, a trauma informed yoga teacher and full spectrum doula, and a doula with over two decades experience supporting childbirth for an online Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training.
Within four weekends of immersive study, practice, and processing you will gain real skills and confidence to support pregnant and postpartum people to call on the ancient mind/body wisdom of yoga during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Teachers with a current RYT 200 designation with Yoga Alliance may register as a RPYT upon completion of this training.
What makes this program different?
We believe that pregnancy, birth, and parenting require tremendous strength and stamina and so we share a strong, empowering, yet evidence-based approach to prenatal and postnatal yoga.
We approach pregnancy and postpartum as deeply spiritual and transformative times and so our classes incorporate an innate physicality as well as dedicated time for meditation, chanting, breath work, community-building, and concrete steps for taking the practice off the mat and into the spaces of pregnancy, labor and delivery, and parenting.
Lily brings a rich specificity to her teaching that comes from over two decades in the field of yoga.
Our Guest Faculty bring diverse perspectives rooted in decades of experience in their fields, including: Pelvic Floor PT, Full Spectrum Doula, Doula and Childbirth Prep Ed, and Trauma Informed Yoga.
Trainees and graduates of this program have noted that the ample time to integrate, practice-teach, and receive detailed feedback from Lily and their peers has given them new insights into their teaching unlike other TT programs that oversaturate with too much information and theory and not enough time for integration and practical application.Grads of this program consistently report that the Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor module with the Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist is hands down the best anatomy module they have ever received in a YTT
This program encourages critical thinking and problem solving, which requires a deeper level of understanding than memorized sequences and top-down dogmatic approaches to yoga, theory, and alignment. Home Yoga PYTT welcomes your questions and is based on self-inquiry. We will never make you feel small for asking a question.
We believe the art of teaching prenatal yoga requires a capacity to problem solve, think on your toes, and teach to the individual within a group setting since each trimester is unique and the pregnancy discomforts specific to each student and energetic needs in the class setting are unique. Adapting to these challenges makes graduates not only excellent and well-prepared pre and postnatal yoga teachers but also builds the skillsets for working with private clients and providing better instruction in all their yoga classes.
Trainees and graduates of this program love the close-knit and positive group dynamic fostered within each training cohort. Lily believes deeply in intentionality of weaving sacred space and honoring each individual within a group for their unique strengths. Each session begins with the auspicious teacher-student prayer for harmonizing our energy and acknowledging the challenges that may arise on any learning path of growth. Each trainee feels respected for the wisdom, perspective, and experience they bring to the cohort. Each group creates bonds together that are deeply transformative, uplifting, and form lifelong friendships.
Trainees and graduates of this program love the close-knit and positive group dynamic fostered within each training cohort. Lily believes deeply in intentionality of weaving sacred space and honoring each individual within a group for their unique strengths. Each session begins with the auspicious teacher-student prayer for harmonizing our energy and acknowledging the challenges that may arise on any learning path of growth. Each trainee feels respected for the wisdom, perspective, and experience they bring to the cohort. Each group creates bonds together that are deeply transformative, uplifting, and form lifelong friendships.
Who is this program for?:
The training is open to yoga teachers, aspiring yoga teachers, birth workers, anyone who is pregnant, trying to get pregnant, or postpartum, and anyone who feels called to learn more about pregnancy and yoga. (And yes - you can take this training even if you do not have a uterus and even if you have never had a baby.)
3 Components of this Training:
Live Zoom Call Schedule (recorded if you miss a session)
October 10 | 13, 2024 : 4-8 pm EST thu | 2-6 pm EST sun
October 15 | 17 | 20, 2024 : 4-8 pm EST tue/thu | 2-6 pm EST sun
November 5 | 7 | 10, 2024 : 4-8 pm EST tue/thu | 2-6 pm EST sun
November 14 | 17, 2024 : 4-8 pm EST thu | 2-6 pm EST sun
Recorded Lectures on your private Teacher Trainee Portal through my website
Each week you will be responsible to find 90 minutes to watch/listen to recorded content to prepare for our group live zoom calls and an equal time to practice and integrate your notes on the recorded content so that you have a strong grasp of the materials. Expect to spend 2-3 hours on recorded lectures and content review each week.
Once you complete payment and registration for the training, you will receive a welcome email the first week of September to create a login to access the Teacher Trainee Portal on my website.
Sadhana - making sacred space for yoga practice in your life
A sadhana is a sacred yoga practice - a weaving of pranayama, meditation, self inquiry, intention, and yogic theory into the fabric of the yoga poses - so that the practice can work its magic in your life on and off the mat. Yoga is a cumulative path. The only way to embody the teachings and so be able to share them with others is to commit to your Sadhana. You can certainly feel, too, when a teacher does not practice. Their classes begin to feel dry and lifeless - they have lost the thread of the living practice. We must keep one foot in the river of the Sadhana to remain effective teachers. And so, each week, there will be two practice recordings added to your private Trainee portal through my website. Whether you are pregnant or not, I would like you to continue practicing prenatal yoga with these videos twice a week to learn to modify and make space for the pregnant body as well as gain inspiration in sequencing and theming your own prenatal yoga classes. Expect to spend 2-3 hours on personal Sadhana each week.
Course Content:
Understand the benefits, contraindications, and modifications of prenatal and postnatal yoga postures
Learn how to address common pregnancy discomforts and support individualized student’s needs
Learn Lily’s acclaimed Reclaim Your Center program of breathwork and movement for gently toning the deep core and supporting new moms postpartum
Practice asana, meditation, and pranayama to unearth your unique teaching voice, presence, self-inquiry, and intuitive connection to the practice
Learn how to skillfully sequence and theme a prenatal yoga class that can support your students to find comfort in their bodies, build endurance and stamina for birth and parenthood, develop compassion to navigate their inner emotional world, and gain skills for staying calm in the face of intensity.
Explore the Energetic Body during pregnancy
Learn affirmations, relaxation techniques, breathing, and mindfulness exercises to cultivate calm during labor and delivery
Discuss Birthing Choices and Cultural Attitudes towards birth
4 hour deep dive into anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and the Female Pelvic Floor with our expert Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist guest lecturer Julie Everett
2 hour deep dive into the world of a full spectrum doula, infertility, pregnancy loss, and healing after a traumatic birth with our expert Doula and Prenatal Yoga Teacher owner of Teach Her Yoga, Raquel Nweze
and more!
You will Receive
digital download of the 260 page course manual written by Lily with over 100 pages of color photos of postures, mudras, bandhas, meditations, and mantras
lifetime access to the asynchronous course videos in the Student Portal
Video Recordings and Illustrations of 4 Perinatal Yoga sequences (Water Element - all trimesters prenatal flow, Earth Element - 3rd Trimester Prop-Focused Practice, Space Element - Restorative Yoga, Pranayama, Energetic Body Practice, and Fire Element - Postpartum Reclaim Your Center Practice)
Lifetime SoundCloud access to the 5 chants we learn in this training
Lifetime access to Digital Slides for Presentations on Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor, The Business of Yoga, The Energetic Body, Pregnancy and Yoga, Postpartum and Yoga, and Postural Assessment Teaching Clinic
Certificate of Completion from Home Yoga Online Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Teachers with a current RYT 200 designation with Yoga Alliance may register as a RPYT upon completion of this training
Guest Lecturers
Raquel Nweze (she/her) is a E-RYT 500 trauma-informed yoga/meditation teacher, sound healing facilitator, and full spectrum Doula residing in Houston, Texas. She was first introduced to yoga and the holistic healing arts while in college in 2005. Raquel’s approach to wellness is centered in embodying these practices as self-care to heal and support the whole self. She began teaching in 2011 and has since completed over 1,000 hours in continuing education. Beyond education the practice of yoga has been her key to embodying self-care, self-compassion, and radical self-love. What she loves most about yoga is that it meets you where you are in life and that it will always be for those who are willing to meet themselves on the mat.
Dr. Julie Everett is a Physical Therapist with over 15 years experience specializing in sports, pelvic floor, and cancer rehabilitation. She is the owner and operator of Everett Physical Therapy, LLC where she uses her skills to help people return to sport, excel in functional performance and become pain-free for daily activities.
Dr. Everett has a strong interest in helping people reach their full potential. She is a Women’s and Men’s Pelvic Health specialist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, Cancer Rehabilitation specialist and general orthopedist. She often is called to work on patients who have complex pelvic floor dysfunction who are experiencing pain and dysfunction. She also excels in treating thoracic dysfunction, myofascial restrictions, dysfunctional movement patterns, and post-partum recovery.
She has been a teacher to both students and health professionals, sharing her knowledge and helping others develop their skills. She has been active in community with local and national support groups, treated patients internationally, and has provided expert advise to national publications. Since the beginner of her career she has worked with professional athletes of the NFL, MLB and LPGA. She also has worked at world-renowned hospitals, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Pennsylvania Hospital, where she has developed her skills and promoted community education on the importance of preventative and total body health.
What separates Dr. Everett from others in her field is her innate ability to view and treat the body as a whole. She prides herself on the ability to see global dysfunction and uses varied and individualized techniques to return patients to pain-free movement. She is certified in Functional Dry Needling, Active Release Techniques, Myofascial Therapy Kinesiotaping, FMS and SFMA. She also is constantly staying on top of cutting edge evidence-based treatments and techniques. With the use of her Sport psychology/Sport medicine undergraduate degree she also focuses on the mental aspect of recovery.
Emily Pelton Founder and Managing Director Emily Pelton continues her legacy through mentoring the next generation of doulas as well as cultivating and maintaining professional relationships within the Baltimore birth and small business communities. She has supported growing Baltimore families for nearly two decades through hospital and private childbirth education and as an in-demand solo doula, eventually transitioning into a partnership, then leading an agency of doulas. In addition to operating her own business since 2002, Emily is also responsible for having trained hundreds of new birth and postpartum doulas from 2014 to 2017, both across the country and internationally. Emily’s calm, confident presence combined with her vast experience make her Baltimore’s leading expert in pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
Raquel Nweze
Emily Pelton
Dr. Julie Everett
Pricing:
Early Bird: $1,150 by 9/10/24
A nonrefundable $500 deposit reserves your space (Deposit must be made before 9/4/23 to lock in EarlyBird Rate.) Balance due before start date of program.
$1,350 after 9/10/24
Register with a friend and each pays $1,008.
2 FULL Scholarships for BIPOC students. Application deadline 9/3/24. 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. See below for 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
Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
Yoga of the Subtle Body by Tias Little
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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