mother and baby yoga teacher training
fully integrated yoga for mothers and babies from birth to four years - incorporating yoga for postnatal recovery, baby yoga and yoga games for families with toddlers
For yoga teachers and trainee teachers who wish to teach specialist yoga for mother and babies. This 6 day teacher training will cover the period from birth to age four and will fully integrate mother and baby yoga (from birth to walking) and yoga for toddlers and their parents together.
This course is one of the only fully comprehensive training courses in the UK for yoga teachers to teach mother and baby and family yoga classes from birth to pre-school. The training will be highly practical, providing a sound foundation in the yogic understanding of ethics, respect, kindness and energetic harmony between adults and children. The course will include short written assignments and case studies within a fully supported framework for study. To facilitate effective learning and assimilation of the wealth of material covered, the training will be spread out over 6 months, with the basics being taught in the initial 3 day session with time then being given for students to observe classes, complete practical assignments and to put the principles into practice.
The course will cover:
postnatal recovery yoga for healing and vitality;
asana, pranayama, mudra, meditation and deep relaxation with babies for each developmental stage during the early years together with sample class plans;
the conscious and positive use of yoga to build physical and emotional contact between parents, babies and young children and how yoga can be used to promote joy in family life;
group dynamics, the use of language, yoga games and songs and pair work in family yoga sessions.
Teacher: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Venue: Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre, 33 Manor Place, London, SE17 3BD (off the Elephant and Castle end of Walworth Road).
Cost: £525
Dates: Fri, Sat, Sun 14th, 15th, 16th May 2010 and Sat/Sun 10th and 11th July 2010 and Sat 16th October 2010 (total 6 days)
Times: 10am - 5pm each day.
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Uma Dinsmore-Tuli was first introduced to yoga at the age of four, and has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1986. Together with her husband, Nirlipta, she founded Sitaram Partnership in 1998 to provide an authentic experience of appropriate yoga practice for the whole family - from unborn children, to their parents, siblings and grandparents. Uma has a PhD in Communications from London University, a diploma in Yoga Therapy from the Yoga Biomedical Trust and is a recognised teacher of the British Wheel of Yoga. She also teaches the British Wheel of Yoga Module in Pregnancy Yoga, and designed the British Wheel Module in Postnatal Yoga and is a training tutor on the Yoga Biomedical Trust/Yogacampus yoga therapy courses. Uma has produced several pregnancy and family yoga CDs and, most recently, the widely acclaimed book Mother's Breath, a definitive guide to yoga breathing, sound and awareness practices during pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery. www.sitaram.org
Open to existing yoga teachers of any yoga tradition with an interest in teaching specialist mother and baby and family yoga and to trainee yoga teachers from any teacher training course, so long as they have some experience of teaching. Applications must be submitted to Yogacampus on the downloadable application form.
Students on the Yogacampus Teacher Training Diploma who attend all six days may count this as one of their approved intensives. However, as the course requires some teaching experience, it may not be taken either as a first intensive or within six months of starting on the Yogacampus Teacher Training Diploma.
