Yoga Classes San Francisco

85-hour Yoga Alliance Registered Program

Learn to teach yoga to pregnant women. Support them through pregnancy and birth, and help shape a future filled with consciously-nurtured future yogis.

Yoga Garden SF  (YGSF) is a leading national center for prenatal yoga teacher training, with graduates successfully teaching throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. Our program is one of few who offer Yoga Alliance registration as a Prenatal Yoga School (the only nationally-recognized standard for prenatal yoga teacher training), giving our graduates an assurance of quality and a unique advantage to become a Yoga Alliance® Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT®)

In the YGSF 85-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, you will learn to successfully teach yoga to pregnant and postpartum women.

• Learn which yoga postures are appropriate for pregnancy and postpartum care, including any special modifications.
• Understand the physiological, emotional, and social considerations of childbearing and parenting.
• Recognize the common discomforts of pregnancy and the postpartum period, and discover how postures and sequences can support women through this process.
• Receive hands-on training and feedback in practice classroom settings.
• Experience giving support to mothers, assisting mother-infant bonding and fostering community among new mothers and parents.

The YGSF Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is for:

• Certified yoga teachers earning CEU’s specializing in prenatal and postpartum yoga or seeking Yoga Alliance registration as a Prenatal Yoga Teacher.
• Students currently enrolled in the Yoga Garden SF 200-hour Teacher Training Program seeking an emphasis in prenatal and postpartum care.
• Experienced yoga students (with permission from the instructor) interested in becoming prenatal yoga teachers.
• Birth Professionals (childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, nurses, OB/GYN’s, etc) interested in learning how yoga can benefit their clients and how to add yoga to their care modalities

Curriculum

This 85-hour course  includes the following but is not limited to:

• Safe and therapeutic asanas (poses) and sequences for each trimester and the postpartum period.
• Anatomy and Physiology of pregnancy and the postpartum period.
• Yoga philosophy:  Yoga Thought Meets Modern Birth
• Observation and teaching in prenatal yoga classes.
• Yoga’s application for common discomforts of pregnancy and pain management during labor.
• How to creative a richly supportive environment for mothers, babies and families.
• Teaching Skills to refine the art of communicating the practice and benefits of yoga to others.

Instructor: Marisa Toriggino

Marisa Toriggino, E-RYT & PRYT, has been studying and teaching yoga since 1987. She is a certified and nationally-registered yoga teacher with over 20 years of teaching experience. She has been influenced by her experiences in India, her own spiritual practice and her extensive studies with many teachers including, Paramhansa Yogananda, Yogi Bhajan, B.K.S. Iyegar and Geeta Iyengar.  This journey has helped to inform her personal life and yoga practice.

Marisa has a B.A. from UC Berkeley, a Certificate from the Rudolf Steiner College in Administration for spiritually based organizations and is an active member of the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. She owns Yoga Garden of San Francisco and enjoys family life with her husband and two young children.

Faculty:  David Nelson

Teaching Skills instructor

Faculty:  Laura Repetto

Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy and the postpartum period

Laura is a certified massage therapist and anatomy and physiology instructor. She enjoys unraveling some of the mysteries of the human body and shares her passion for learning with her students.  She  teaches the A& P for YGSF’s  200 hour Yoga Teacher Training program and is the mother of twins!

Schedule

This teacher training will be offered twice in 2012:

Spring Training: April 20-29, 2012

Program Starts Friday, April 20, 2012 and ends Sunday, April 29, 2012

November 2-11, 2012

Program Starts Friday, November 2, 2012 and ends Sunday, November 11, 2012

Course requirements for Yoga Alliance 85-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher registry:

To become certified by Yoga Garden SF and to be recognized by Yoga Alliance to teach prenatal yoga you must complete all of the requirements for CEUs (above) and:

1. Be a certified yoga teacher OR complete Yoga Garden’s SF 200-hour Teacher training program
2. Attend and complete the Prenatal Teacher Training program
3. After completion of the program, teach 30 hours of prenatal yoga.

Upon successful completion of requirements #1 and #2 above,  teacher trainees will be certified to teach prenatal yoga by Yoga Garden SF. After completing requirements # 3 above, they will qualify to register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher – RPYT. You may also be considered for the Yoga Garden SF teaching staff.

Complete the free, online application here.

Registration and Fees

The program tuition is $1,095, and a $100 discount is given to the first 5 people to register with their $250 deposit.

To register:

1. Complete the Application for Admission.
2. Register with your $250 deposit here. (If for some reason you are not admitted to the program, your deposit will be refunded.  It is not refundable for any other reason.)
3. After you have registered, you will receive your reading list and pre-class homework assignments.

Payment Plans:

Reserve with a $250 non-refundable deposit.  Full payment must be made within 14 days prior to the start of the class. We will happily set up a monthly payment plan to suit your needs.  Start the process with your deposit.

Tuition and Refund Policy:

Full payment is due 14 days before the first day of the training to reserve your place in the course. Refunds are available up to fourteen days before the training begins, less the $250 deposit. After that  date, no refund will be given for any reason.

Accommodation resources here.