MA YOGA® PRENATAL YOGA CERTIFICATION
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is just the beginning.
Welcome to the Ma Yoga® Prenatal Yoga Certification Program!
Hi I’m Jessica. I’m so glad we found each other! Whether you’re looking for prenatal yoga teacher training, yoga therapeutics for common aches and pains, or Ayurvedic self-care routines and daily rhythms for busy women – 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. 
After decades of teaching pregnant women, I’ve come to see pregnancy as a doorway to our highest Self.
Pregnant mamas tend to slow down and listen inward in a whole new way.
They’re open to learning new ways to nurture themselves.
And when we turn nurturing energy inward, we can access our highest, “Ma” Self.
The syllable “Ma” in every language means “mother.”
And 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 – learning and incorporating the nurturing Ma Yoga practices will help support its birth into the world.
This year only Yoga Alliance is allowing for the Ma Yoga® Prental Yoga Certification Program (RPYT) to be
100% ONLINE.
Join us in your living room starting February 10th!
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
- Teach safe and transformative prenatal yoga classes
- Use birth as your guru to understand the keys to co-creativity in your own life
- Confidently relieve common pains and birth-related conditions, on- and off-the-mat
- Explore Ayurvedic self-care practices, natural remedies and daily rhythms for busy women
- Include new business offerings for greater impact and financial reward
- Be part of a growing, global teacher tribe so you’re always supported on your teaching path
- Connect to your own feminine wisdom, power, and nurturing energy
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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The Yoga of Pregnancy Prenatal Teacher Training
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 yoga poses for pregnant students in regular classes
Teach prenatal yoga classes that are safe, strengthening, and transformative
Understand Mom and Baby Yoga and how to handle the benevolent chaos
Travel through the trimesters using the “Five Sacred Steps” to address the challenges and opportunities of this potent time
Receive support afterward to create your own “Mama Circle”, and teach prenatal yoga online
The Yoga of Pregnancy may be taken alone for Continuing Education credit, or toward Prenatal Yoga Certification (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
Support healing for back, knee, wrist, neck, shoulder, and jaw injuries, 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 the Five Sacred Steps
Use the chakras to support postpartum healing
Become a powerful co-creator in your own life, using the Five Sacred Steps to give birth to whatever is wanting to be born through you
The Yoga of Healing may be taken alone for Continuing Education credit, or toward Prenatal Yoga Certification (RPYT).
MAYURVEDA: LIVING AYURVEDA TRAINING
The 5,000-year old wellness principles of Ayurveda (“the science of life”) are more relevant than ever before with our stressful, busy lives. MAyurveda is 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
Know your unique constitution and how to find balance with small shifts in food, sleep, and daily rhythm routines
Incorporate easy self-care routines that give you more energy, better sleep and digestion, and a stronger immune system
Learn daily rhythms that will help you and your family have more energy, sleep better, and stay healthy
Incorporate Ayurvedic practices into your offerings to help clients enjoy vital wellness
MAyurveda may be taken alone for Continuing Education credit, or toward Prenatal Yoga Certification (RPYT).
MA MENTORSHIP
After The Yoga of Healing, you’ll receive one-on-one help creating prenatal sequences and themes you can use right away. Your Ma Mentor will help you integrate what you’ve learned, and become a safer, more impactful, and more inspiring teacher. 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
Inspire with personal themes to uplift and transform your students
Become more confident as a teacher and make a bigger impact with your gifts
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 stages of labor using breath, meditation, asana, and mudra
Make choices that are right for you based on no-slant pro’s and con’s
Prepare body and mind for labor so you can feel confident and calm
Access feminine wisdom and power, 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 Prenatal Yoga Certification (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.
Thinking about getting your Ma Yoga/Yoga Alliance RPYT Prenatal Yoga 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 Prenatal Yoga Certification Program
- The Yoga of Pregnancy & Postpartum (Prenatal 1) – $497/$447 early bird
- The Yoga of Healing for Women (Prenatal 2) – $497/$447 early bird
- MAyurveda: Living Ayurveda for Women – $347
- Ma Mentorship – $200
- 6 months of Ma Yoga Living membership – $108
- Certification Fee – $30
Total value: $1680
Your investment when you register for the full Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification Program: $1297.
You save more than $300, PLUS you receive six months Ma Yoga Living membership, which includes unlimited Ma Yoga Anytime classes, FREE weekly live online Ma Yoga for Anyone classes with Jessica, and 40% off live online Prenatal/Mom classes.
Otherwise, you can pay as you go, and membership is $18/month. Make sure to sign up at least two weeks in advance to use Early Bird Discounts.
For prices, dates, deets, and register, please go to the Events page.
Fill out the form and I’ll reach out with info, dates, and prices plus my ebook, The Yoga of Pregnancy for Teachers!
