About the program
Prenatal Yoga is a supportive system for a healthier and easier pregnancy. With breathing exercises, yoga postures, meditation and concentration studies, it aims to help expectant mothers prepare better for birth physically, mentally and spiritually. Each of the 3 trimesters has its own specific asana, breath and meditation studies.
Program content
- Quarterly periods of pregnancy
- Changing hormones during pregnancy and their effects
- The importance of yoga in the birth process
- History of prenatal yoga
- How are pregnancy exercises structured and what are their benefits?
- Planning of yoga postures and breaths according to all three trimesters
- Effects and solutions of changing posture in pregnancy
- Changes in skeletal system and holistic approaches during pregnancy
- Heat rules in pregnancy
- Six major concerns in the process of pregnancy
- General processes and disorders during pregnancy
- Yoga as physical, mental and spiritual support
- Changes in the respiratory system during pregnancy and pranayama studies that can be used in pregnancy
- Basic philosophy of yoga and ethical rules
- How to create a prenatal yoga lesson plan?
- Pregnancy-specific concentration and meditation studies
- Relaxation work
- Massage techniques
- Pregnancy physiology
Certification requirements
At least 70% on the written exam; completion of written and practical assignments within one year. The "Yoga Alliance approved 85-hour Prenatal Yoga Trainer Training Certificate" is awarded.
Photos from the program
Photos from the prenatal yoga trainer training program.
Our graduates tell their stories
Post-training experiences of our graduates who completed this program.
Gamze Gözener
Prenatal Yoga Trainer Training · 2020
“I am the only trainer in Çeşme who offers prenatal yoga classes all twelve months of the year.”
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Thanks to my Doula & Childbirth Preparation Educator and Breastfeeding Consultant certificates, I had started working actively as a consultant. The cases I encountered showed me how important it is to prepare for birth and the postpartum period with prenatal yoga. My research led me to Etkin İnsan.
Alongside my work in childbirth preparation education and breastfeeding consulting, I also planned to teach prenatal yoga to expectant mothers. After completing my training and practicum classes, I began teaching prenatal yoga classes.
I am the only trainer in Çeşme who offers prenatal yoga classes all twelve months of the year. At my Doula Alaçatı studio, I give private prenatal yoga and partner yoga sessions.
Thanks to my trainer Alper Bayraktar, I chose to walk the path of yoga, and I am about to complete my next goal, the 200-hour adult yoga trainer training. I intend to teach classes full of light to adults, just as I do with my dear expectant mothers.
Elif Aya
200-Hour Yoga Trainer Training · Children’s Yoga Trainer Training · Prenatal Yoga Trainer Training · 2017
“On this path called yoga, which I set out on toward myself, I thank first my trainer Alper, and then all my fellow trainers, for everything they have given me.”
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Elif, who practiced yoga on her own, joined the Etkin İnsan family in 2017 with the idea of becoming a trainer. Her path began with the Module 1 children’s yoga trainer certificate and continued with the Module 2 certificate, and she became one of the first trainers in Turkey to earn it. After the children’s yoga trainings, she took the 200-hour yoga trainer training in Olympos. While she started teaching at a private school, she also completed the prenatal yoga Module 1 and Module 2 trainings.
Elif says she came home from her trainings with a great deal of learning, awareness, lovely memories and valued people in her heart. “On this path called yoga, which I set out on toward myself, I thank first my trainer Alper, and then all my fellow trainers, for everything they have given me; each of them was a beautiful story of its own,” she says.
Elif says her philosophy of life used to be “from good to better,” and that she has now added “forget the incident, keep the lesson.”
Today she has wonderful experiences with children at two daycare centers affiliated with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies and at a private school, while also working with nearly 200 women and a prenatal class at a cultural center.
