85 hour yoga alliance registered prenatal yoga teacher training with sue elkind in frenchtown, new jersey
AWAKENING THE GODDESS - LIVE-STREAMED RECORDED AND IN-PERSON
2025: March 28-30, May 2-4, May 28-Jun 1, 2025
PLUS: four live Zoom calls 5-7pm ET: April 10, May 8, May 29, Jun 12
PLUS: Library of pre-recorded prenatal & postnatal yoga specialized classes (18 classes) you gain access to once you register and pay for training.
Learn how to support women during their journey into motherhood in this comprehensive training in prenatal yoga & conscious birthing with Sue Elkind, E-RYT 500, RPYT. Explore how to weave the great teachings of yoga seamlessly into Mother Nature’s blueprint, encouraging women to experience a more joy-filled pregnancy, empowered birth and confident postnatal transition.
An expansive training manual will be provided and students will be expected to complete homework assignments, including book report, observation and practice teaching throughout, and completion of Final Exam.
Teachers will also find this training applicable to teaching restorative, infertility, chair, partner, beginning and seniors yoga.
Weekends will include :
Part One
• The inner wisdom of Yoga in Pregnancy
• Benefits of Yoga in pregnancy
• The Essentials of a healthy Prenatal Yoga practice
• Hormonal Physiology of Pregnancy/childbirth
• Fertility awareness and Conscious Conception
• Trimester specific practices
• Prenatal Specific Anatomy & Physiology
• Yoga Biomechanics for Pregnancy
• Core and Pelvic Floor Health for Pregnancy
• The do’s & don’ts of the Trimesters
• Meditation and Mantra for Pregnancy
• Restorative Yoga for Pregnancy
• Prenatal Nutrition
Part two
• Prenatal Specific Anatomy & Physiology
• Pregnancy conditions
• Yoga Biomechanics for Pregnancy
• Trimester specific practices
• Essential oils and Pregnancy
• Hormonal Physiology of Pregnancy/childbirth
• Cellular memory of birth experience
• Yoga Biomechanics for Pregnancy
• Labor Support for Pregnancy
• Creating Themes to inspire your students
• Modifications and Alternatives in Postures
• Sequencing Prenatal Classes
• Prenatal Yoga Teaching Practicum
• Relaxation techniques to support birth
• 4th Trimester Support
• Postnatal nutrition
• Prenatal Yoga teaching practicum
• Structuring Prenatal Classes
• Modifications and alternatives in practice
Part three
• Teaching Pregnant Women in a Public Class
• Observation & verbal adjustments
• Sequencing for Pregnancy conditions
• Teaching Practicum for Pregnancy conditions
• Postnatal Specific Anatomy & Physiology
• Postnatal Core and Pelvic Floor Health
• 4th Trimester-specific recovery practices
• Final Pre/postnatal Yoga Group Practicum
• Restorative Yoga for Postnatal
teacher training schedule & tuition
Friday 4-8:00pm ET - Livestream/Recorded only
Saturday 12noon-8pm In Person & Livestream/Recorded
Sunday 12-6pm In Person & Livestream/Recorded
Training: $1775 by March 7 (paid in full), $1875 after - A monthly payment plan option is available if you need financial assistance based on $1875 and to be complete by end of May.
registration and cancellation policies
$275 deposit is required to hold your space. Once you are enrolled in the training, all deposits are non-refundable. One week prior to training, 50% is non-refundable. No refunds will be available once the training has started.
about sue elkind
My interest in prenatal yoga developed shortly after I began teaching yoga in the early 1990’s. During one of my first public classes, I encountered a pregnant student who was in obvious need of extra assistance. Trying not to panic, I instinctively gave her as many props as I could find to help her modify her practice and stayed close by to remind her to breathe! After the session, I called a seasoned prenatal yoga teacher and friend to consult about what I had done. First she assured me that I did not do anything wrong or harmful. She then offered me some useful advice based on her wisdom and personal experiences in pregnancy and prenatal yoga. From that first experience, I was truly inspired to see how yoga and the state of pregnancy were deeply connected. I continued to seek out prenatal trainings over the next several years, fortunate to be in Los Angeles where prenatal yoga was flourishing. There was an abundance of great inspiration, particularly the community woven together by Gurmukh Khalsa. What I found interesting was how different each prenatal yoga class was — depending on the teacher and their school of influence. When I became pregnant and decided to teach prenatal yoga, I used this multitude of resources I had gathered to help inspire my own voice to bloom.
NOTE: Below are the registration guidelines for Yoga Alliance. Note, you cannot register with them until you have completed 30 teaching hours post Sue’s full 85 hr training. DIG does not have to track everyone's 30 hours. Instead, everyone tracks and logs their hours directly on the YA website. Upon completion of your 30 teaching hours and logging of those hours, you will also scan your certificate to YA for registration.
RPYT (Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher)®
Training requirements:
✓ Completed a 200-hour training program with a RYS 200
✓ Completed a 85-hour training program with a Registered Prenatal Yoga School (RPYT)
Teaching hour requirements:
✓ Has at least 30 hours of teaching experience in prenatal yoga since graduating from a RPYS
Teachers can register as a RPYT if they have successfully completed both a 200-hour yoga teacher training program and an 85-hour prenatal yoga training that meet Yoga Alliance standards. Applicants must submit 30 teaching hours in prenatal yoga which must be completed after graduating from a RPYS (Registered Prenatal Yoga School).Currently, teachers with significant experience in prenatal yoga prior to 2011 can also register as a RPYT via grandfathering.