MA® YOGA TEACHER CERTIFICATION
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is just the beginning.
Welcome to the Ma Yoga® Teacher Certification Page!
Hi I’m Jessica. I’m so glad we found each other! Whether you’re looking for prenatal yoga teacher training, Ayurveda for women or yoga therapeutics for women’s bodies, you’re in the right place.
I started teaching prenatal yoga right after my first regular yoga teacher training in 2001. I knew nothing about pregnancy! Except the basics. I knew some do’s and don’ts, and I had a lot of fear.
It wasn’t until I started asking myself “what is the opportunity that pregnancy brings us?” that I started to fall in love with supporting, guiding, and inspiring moms-to-be. 
The answer? Many pregnant women slow down and start to listen inward in a whole new way.
This time is a doorway for so many women into yoga, self-care, and turning nurturing energy inward.
And it isn’t just about pregnancy!
That’s why I named my yoga school “Ma Yoga.”
The syllable “Ma” in every language means “mother.”
In Sanskrit, the ancient language of yoga, “ma” also means “the highest, most powerful, wise and nurturing” – as in “Ma Kali”, the Mother of all Goddesses.
Whatever’s gestating in you – whether it’s a baby, a project, or a newly evolved version of yourself – these nurturing practices and principles will help you become a powerful co-creator in your own life, so you can birth your dream.
This year only Yoga Alliance is allowing for the Ma Yoga® Teacher Certification Program (RPYT) to be
100% ONLINE.
Join us from your living room starting September 23rd!
The 85-hour Ma Yoga® Prenatal Yoga Certification Program is a comprehensive, deep dive into yoga for women:
- Adjust regular poses and sequences for pregnant students, and confidently create specific sequences for pregnancy
- Inspire students with themes for your classes, to motivate and transform students on all levels
- Use birth as guru to discover the keys to co-creation, and manifest your desires more easefully
- Confidently help people out of pain on and off the mat with the Five Sacred Steps of Alignment
- Learn nourishing and nurturing self-care practices for busy women, from age-old Ayurveda, the sister science to yoga
- Include new avenues for impact and financial reward in your teaching career
- Help students, clients, and YOU connect to feminine wisdom, power, and nurturing energy
- Be part of a growing, global teacher tribe who are drawn to guide, support and inspire women in their childbearing years
I’d never taught before this program. It gave me the confidence to be a teacher…As a teacher, I love helping moms get their minds and bodies ready for labor. As a doula, I know which poses are good for fetal positioning and labor – and it makes my job easier because by the big day, the things they need to do are second nature.
I am now empowered in my own practice and life with the tools I received related to how life create itself, on and off the mat. This program helped me shift the way I deal with aches and pains, enhance my daily routine, and interact with my community. I feel so grateful for the knowledge gained from this life-changing program.
I have more confidence with moms that come to me so depleted, because through Dina Charya (daily rhythms) and MAyurveda “Anchor Practices” I know how to help them have more energy and heal more fully. I love that we have this community where I can go for inspiration and support as a yoga teacher, on and off the mat.
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In The Yoga of Pregnancy teacher training, you’ll explore the challenges and opportunities of the journey to motherhood using alignment-based yoga as your guide. It will help you to:
- Feel confident adjusting regular poses for pregnant students
- Teach poses, themes and sequences specific to prenatal yoga
- Understand labor and how to use yoga to make it an empowering experience for mamas
- Stay up-to-date and inspired with evergreen access to more than 100 + pages of support materials in the “Ma Yoga Living Room”
- Incorporate rewarding new career options, whether you just want to teach yoga, or you dream of adding in a “Mama Circle”
The Yoga of Pregnancy may be taken for Continuing Education or as part of the Ma Yoga Teacher Certification Program (RPYT).
The Yoga of Healing for Women Yoga Teacher Training
Our bodies change so much throughout the childbearing years. Knowing how to help move toward the body’s natural integrity can be the difference between strength and freedom. With the “Five Sacred Steps” of alignment in this yoga therapeutics teacher training, you’ll be able to:
- Relieve students’ pain in common poses like downward dog, cobra and chatturanga
- Use simple alignment actions off the mat to support healing for back, knee, wrist, neck, shoulder, and jaw issues, as well as mental/emotional conditions like anxiety, depression, and disconnection
- Address birth-related conditions including infertility, back labor, pelvic instability and diastisis recti with alignment-based yoga
- Adapt the chakras to support postpartum healing
- Become a powerful co-creator in your own life, using alignment to give birth to whatever is wanting to be born through you
The Yoga of Healing may be taken for Continuing Education or as part of the Ma Yoga Teacher Certification Program (RPYT).
MAyurveda: Living Ayurveda Training
The 5,000-year old wellness principles of Ayurveda (“the science of life”) are more relevant than ever before. MAyurveda is a body of knowledge that’s pared down, essential practices and principles to help women in their childbearing years incorporate powerful routines and rhythms into our busy day. In this 6-session, online training, we will learn how to:
- Use food as medicine for you and your loved ones
- Balance your constitution based on small shifts in your food, sleep, and daily rhythm routines
- Incorporate powerful self-care routines that give you more energy, better sleep and digestion, and a stronger immune system
- Create a daily rhythm that supports your natural physiological clock
- Incorporate Ayurvedic lifestyle principles into your teaching to help students and clients make transformative lifestyle shifts.
MAyurveda may be taken for Continuing Education or as part of the Ma Yoga Teacher Certification Program (RPYT).
Ma Mentorship
Being in a supportive, nurturing environment is one of the pillars of transformation. If you’re doing the full Ma Yoga Teacher Certification Program, you’ll have learned a LOT in The Yoga of Pregnancy and The Yoga of Healing. After these two, you get one-on-one time with a Senior Ma Yoga Teacher Training, who will help you integrate what you’ve learned, and take the next steps in your teaching. The Ma Mentorship will help you:
- develop go-to sequences that you can use and build on
- use alignment instructions in your teaching to make sure each pose is safe, healing, and transformative
- relieve aches and pains in class with simple verbal and physical adjustments
- weave personal themes to uplift and inspire your students
- get support for taking your next steps as a safe, effective, and powerful teacher
The Yoga of Birth Class Online
In this 6-session, live online labor education course you’ll learn about all the choices and challenges around labor and postpartum. Guided by two highly trained, experienced doulas and Certified Ma Yoga teachers, you will travel through the stages of labor learning how to:
- navigate the challenges of birth using breath, meditation, asana, and mudra
- make choices that are right for you based on no-slant pro’s and con’s
- prepare your body and mind for labor so you can feel confident and calm
- access the power withim, far beyond what your mind thinks you have
- recover postpartum and thrive as a mom
The Yoga of Birth Class Online may be taken as birth preparation, for Continuing Education or to fulfill birth education requirements for the Ma Yoga Teacher Certification Program (RPYT).
Where will I be after the Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification Program?
By the end of this 85-hour training, you will be able to:
- submit your certificate to Yoga Alliance for your Registered Yoga Alliance Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RYPT)
- confidently guide and inspire pregnant women, both in regular yoga classes and prenatal yoga classes
- get students and clients out of musculoskeletal pain, both in poses and off the mat
- share simple lifestyle practices that improve energy, sleep, immunity and digestion with loved ones, students and clients
- get support from our growing, global Ma teacher tribe of like-souled women, all drawn to support women as they transition into mothers
The modules are designed to be taken in any order. Each training is foundational and transformational.
To complete the program…
Take these trainings:
- The Yoga of Pregnancy and Postpartum
- The Yoga of Healing for Women
- MAyurveda: Living Ayurveda for Women
- Labor education – either your own doula training, or our online The Yoga of Birth in October
Do this homework for each training:
- The Yoga of Pregnancy (Prenatal 1) – Do write-ups for 3 Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga classes, and 3 Ma Yoga Mom + Baby classes; if you’re not local, on Zoom
- The Yoga of Healing for Women (Prenatal 2) – Ma Mentorship – work with a Certified Ma Mentor to incorporate Yoga of Healing principles into your teaching, through video and phone sessions – become an even safer, more effective and more inspiring yoga teacher.
Apply for Ma Yoga Certification:
- Once you’ve completed above, apply for Certification
- Have your Certification Call with Jessica to discuss career opportunities now available to you!
- Submit your Certificate to Yoga Alliance
Once You’re Done:
- Apply to start a Mama Circle in your own neighborhood, and receive marketing and business support
- Feel confident teaching pregnant women in your regular yoga class
- Include in your “business funnel” private yoga and healthy living sessions for women in their childbearing years
Thinking about getting your Ma Yoga/Yoga Alliance RPYT Prenatal Certification, but not sure it's for you? Schedule a free 30-minute Dreams and Visions call with me.
I look forward to helping you find your authentic life path, so you can make the biggest impact with your gifts.
Your Investment for the full Ma Yoga®/ Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification Program
Here’s the breakdown of the value in the program:
- The Yoga of Pregnancy & Postpartum (Prenatal 1) – $497/$450 early bird
- The Yoga of Healing for Women (Prenatal 2) – $497/$450 early bird
- MAyurveda: Living Ayurveda for Women – $350
- Ma Mentorship – $200
- 6 months of Ma Yoga Living membership – $108
- Certification Fee – $30
Total value: $1680
The full Ma Yoga Certification Program price also does not include the cost of required labor education. You might choose to take your own doula training, OR take our online course, The Yoga of Birth ($350).
Your investment: $1297 when you purchase in full.
You save $350, PLUS receive a free private session with Jessica on any topic anytime during the program if you purchase by September 1!
We start September 23!
Fill out the form and I’ll reach out. Plus, I’ll send you my free ebook, The Yoga of Pregnancy for Teachers!
