Exploring the Pregnant Goddess: Why take a Prenatal Yoga & Birth Course?
Have you wondered how you can best serve this sacred time in a woman's life? What is safe and effective for our bodies and minds in pregnancy?
We often are intimidated with what to do with our changing bodies, and professionals may lose students or clients because of our inability to offer adequate support during pregnancy and postpartum, oftentimes referring out.
Birthworkers, yoga teachers, or if you are a pregnant goddess, these universal tools can be used to enhance awareness and knowledge for women in pregnancy. All are welcome who wish to learn more about pregnancy, lifestyle, and birth tools for a healthier more connected pregnancy.
There are many benefits to maintaining or even starting a yoga practice during pregnancy and because of this, many pregnant people turn to yoga during this special time. This course will give you the tools and the confidence to be able to offer yoga options to women in a safe and supportive way, as well as breathing practices, mindfulness tools & birth tools like using a robozo or peanut ball. Explore the anatomy of pregnancy with a midwife, and gain awareness of different birthing options available in our community.
Educational Credentials
Curriculum
Basic Course Syllabus:
- Cultivating a Prenatal Community & holding space for Empowered Birth
- Role of a Prenatal Practitioner in a pregnant goddess's experience
- How to create & hold space for clients and students or yourself!
- Western approach to pregnancy vs. Holistic/Traditional approaches
- Clearing up misconceptions about birth & models of care
- Prenatal Anatomy & Body Changes
- Yoga Asanas for Pregnancy, Safety, Prop Usage & Contraindications
- Pranayama for Pregnancy & Labor
- Yoga Nidra
- Mantra
- Prenatal Yoga Classes Samples
- Outside the box birthing tools
- Aromatherapy & Herbal Considerations
- How to Network
What you will learn:
- Perfect for bodyworkers, integrative health professionals, yoga teachers, doulas, health coaches, and anyone looking to understand pregnancy
- Learn the physical and emotional components often experienced in pregnancy and postpartum
- Anatomy and physiology basics
- Mental and emotional considerations (birth-giver and baby's perspectives)
- Yoga classes, teaching tips, popular posture variations, and more
- Pregnant Goddesses are welcome!
- No experience Required
What is included:
- 100% in-person training with experts with an online supplemental resource center
- Certificate of completion
- Continuing education certificate available upon request
- 15 YA CE Hours - YAECP
Prenatal yoga changed the course of my pregnancy, labor, and birth. What I learned in prenatal yoga sparked such intensive research about the birth process and my options that I changed my entire birth plan from a hospital birth with an OBGYN to having a home birth with a midwife and a doula.
Danielle - First Time Mama & Prental Yoga Student
Your Teachers
Jennifer Langsdale MS C-IAYT Director of Wild Nurturer Wellness Academy
Christine Cassella - MS, Homebirth Midwife, Herbalist, Doula & Birth Educator
Jennifer Langsdale MS C-IAYT Director of Wild Nurturer Wellness Academy
Jennifer Langsdale MS | C-IAYT | Clinical Holistic Aromatherapist | Yoga Therapist , your director, is a 20 Year Yoga & Wellness Professional, Owner of The Wild Nurturer Wellness Studio & Aromatherapy.
She is a Certified Yoga Therapist & Highly Educated Aromatherapist living near Cleveland Oh. She has certified over 100 individuals in Yoga, Yoga Therapy and now Aromatherapy. Jennifer has a Master's of Science focused on Essential Oil Research.
She has hosted yoga trainings at her own studios and around Cleveland since 2009.
Jenna Hull - PNY Teacher, Doula, Pregnancy & Birth Educator
Christine Cassella - MS, Homebirth Midwife, Herbalist, Doula & Birth Educator
Jennifer Langsdale MS C-IAYT Director of Wild Nurturer Wellness Academy
Jenna Hull has taught prenatal yoga since 2015. She is a trained and experienced doula (DONA) and educated in Spinning Babies, along with skills and experience using the rebozo, birth ball, and peanut ball. Jenna is also an Advanced Reiki Practitioner. She authored Inspired Birth - Affirmations for the Childbearing Year, illustrated by local artist Brittany Selfe Paynter.
Jenna is mama to three children, her greatest accomplishment. All babies were born at home and it was a life changer. Jenna became impassioned about empowered birth and has brought that energy and love to prenatal yoga.
Christine Cassella - MS, Homebirth Midwife, Herbalist, Doula & Birth Educator
Christine Cassella - MS, Homebirth Midwife, Herbalist, Doula & Birth Educator
Christine Cassella - MS, Homebirth Midwife, Herbalist, Doula & Birth Educator
While women’s health and feminist issues have always been central to my life it was when I became pregnant with my first (unborn) child that I realized how little I knew about pregnancy and birth. This led to a cascade of research that opened my eyes to the importance of the childbearing year for both women and children. Not all births will be perfect. Not all births will go exactly as planned, but women and children always deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. . To that effect, I began training to be a birth doula with Birth Arts International in 2017 and finished my certification in 2019. I also began pursuing the path of Midwifery in 2018 and am studying to become a Certified Professional Midwife. I hold a Master’s Degree in Biology through Case Western Reserve University. I spent 5 years studying the health and wellness of nonhuman primates, earning my PhD candidacy along the way.
