Learning self-care techniques as well as massage for your baby can help ease the physical and emotional stresses of parenting. Infant massage benefits include regulating sleep patterns, improving brain development and immune functioning, stimulating sensory functions, increasing blood circulation, relieving infant colic/stress/assisting in more productive digestion, balancing respiration, boosting self esteem for both parent and baby just to name a few. In this course, you will learn various self care routines for stress relief & management, as well as an introduction to Infant massage like the best time to do massage, learning cues and reflexes, learn/practice active exercises and a few key strokes as well as participation in support group discussion.

As a yoga teacher, we want to serve every person that walks into our room. All practitioners deserve our guidance and knowledge to keep them safe while moving them through the practice. Pregnant women, superheros non-withstanding, have particular considerations. Do you feel confident guiding a pregnant woman in your regular asana class? Can you challenge her with exercises that will help her through her labor while still moving your class along? This is multitasking at it’s finest, but I promise, I will show you that it is not only fun but you have a chance to truly make an impact on a woman. And, quite possibly, our future.

As yoga teachers and healers, it is likely you will encounter clients who are healing from Trauma. There may be students or clients in various stages of PTSD or working through the layers of healing. Occasionally the physical and energetic work can also unexpectedly activate flashbacks and or physical and emotional responses. It is vitally important that as practitioners, we are trauma-informed in order to ensure we do not cause un-intentional harm. This workshop presents a holistic view, with the most current cutting edge science and information on the approach of working with trauma from a physiological, neurological, psychological, emotional and spiritual viewpoint. We will engage in an open and powerful conversation, furthering basic knowledge of how to work with the complexities that may be present, while understanding how to hold our own trauma informed boundaries, so we can best support the process of healing.

This workshop discusses the various systems of the body, from hormonal to skeletal, to give participants a greater understanding and appreciation of how beautifully we are designed to give birth. For pregnant mamas interested in knowing more about their powerful and shifting body as well as anyone working with or on a pregnant goddess.