We are excited to announce our Prenatal Teacher Training beginning this October.  If you are interested in participating, would like the below information in PDF format, or would like an application form, please email Jennifer@the-yoga-room.com

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Carried Downward Breath
with Juliana Mitchell

“Apana”, sometimes translated as “Carried Downward Breath”, is the Sanskrit word for the energetic force that moves from pelvis to earth. It is the tidal waves of Apana that delivers a child from the womb to its new life.

About:
Teaching Prenatal Yoga is a profoundly rewarding and enriching experience as well as an honor that demands a high level of skillfulness.  Participants in this program will be called upon to recognize and connect more deeply to their fathomless inner capacities, which they may call on their students to do the same during pregnancy, birth and beyond. With this as the base, a rich and precise layering of learned skillfulness will be cultivated.  Balancing a reverence for the study of Classical Yoga alongside an examination of the contemporary, scientific understandings of pregnancy and birth, students in this program will acquire skill-sets that are ultimately practical and useful.  Carried Downward Breath will leave its graduates confident, and ready to teach a beautiful, balanced and safe Prenatal Yoga class.  This program meets and exceeds Yoga Alliance CEU standards.

The curriculum includes studies of:
•    Pregnancy from physiological, emotional and energetic perspectives
•    Common pregnancy discomforts and the breath-work, Asana (including Restorative poses) and Vinyasa, that can help alleviate them
•    Which poses to avoid and why
•    The art of sequencing a cohesive class for a roomful of women with vastly differing levels of fitness, experience with Yoga and pregnancy related discomforts
•    The practical applications of connecting to and aligning from the vertical core (crown of head to birth canal) and its imperative in supporting a healthy, happy pregnancy
•    Crafting balanced relationship to Prana and Apana
•    “Seeing” where your student is blocking their energy flow and tools to help them yield to their breath
•    The energetic, emotional and physical attributes of the phases of labor
•    Movement and breath as tools for working harmoniously with the labor hormones
•    The importance of sound in labor and how to help your students open to their vocal channel
•    Studies of anatomical models
•    Guest teacher and acupuncturist Leah Kim will provide insight into pregnancy from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and teach some simple acupressure techniques
•    Yama & Niyama as the ultimate framework of support for the Prenatal Yoga teacher
•    Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 1.1-1.4, 1.26, 1.30,1.31 and 2.16 as guideposts in our work

Prerequisites:
This program is open to those who have completed a 200-hour Yoga teacher training program, have been teaching for a minimum of 6 months, and carry their own Yoga Teacher Liability Insurance.

Schedule:
4 Saturdays from 3pm-7:30pm & 4 Mondays from 1:30pm–6pm

Session #1
Saturday, October 16th
Monday, October 18th

Session #2
Saturday, October 30th
Monday, November 1st

Session #3
Saturday, November 13th
Monday, November 15th

Session #4
Saturday, November 27th
Monday, November 29th

Cost:
$599.00 (early registration discount) until September 15th, 2010
$699.00 after September 15th, 200

Requirements for Certification:
Attendance: Attendance at the entirety of the group class, onsite portion of the program is mandatory. No exceptions.
Homework: There will be homework due for every class including the first class.  There will be homework due in between each of the scheduled weekends.  All homework assignments are to be submitted on the assigned due date.
Study Partners/Groups: During the time in between each of the four sessions, you will need to meet with others in the training on your own time to practice (i.e. on at least 3 occasions you will need to meet.)
Required Reading: There will be required reading in advance of the first weekend and during the duration of the program. Please note: The cost of books for the required reading list is not included in the tuition and will total approximately $75.00 or less if you purchase used books.
Class Observation & Assisting: Participants will need to:
•    Observe at least 2 Prenatal Yoga classes at The Yoga Room by (latest) end of Nov. 2010.
•    Assist successfully in at least 1 Prenatal Yoga class at The Yoga Room by (latest) end of Dec. 2010
Prenatal Yoga classes at The Yoga Room occur Mondays 7-8:30pm in Long Island City.  Sundays 1-2:30pm in Astoria and Tuesdays
7:30-9pm in Astoria.
Final Project: The Final Project entails your planning and teaching a private, free class to 2 separate pregnant women on 2 separate occasions, as well as documenting the teaching of that class.  The plan for each class must be approved prior to the teaching of the class.  Documentation of the classes taught must be submitted and will need to meet certain criteria.  Submission of the final project can occur prior to December 31st, 2010 (early completion) or by (latest) February 28, 2011.  Please note: Your class observation & assisting must be completed before your final project can begin.
Successful Assumption of Information: Through class participation, homework, assistant teaching, and the final project, successful assumption of information is to be demonstrated.
Granting of Certification: When all of the above criteria is met satisfactorily, and within the timeframes agreed, and your final project has been approved, The Yoga Room will contact you to acknowledge your completion and you will be sent a copy of your certification.

Special note to those who teach in lineages which do not include poses that bear weight on the arms: You may be required to take a reasonable number of additional Sun Salutation premised classes at The Yoga Room to augment your ability to teach safe alignment when putting your prenatal students into -most notably - Cat/Cow.

About Juliana Mitchell:
Juliana Mitchell is certified to teach Vinyasa, Restorative & Prenatal Yoga, has studied with Master teachers in the US and in India and has been studying use of the breath to set our selves free since she was 19 years old. Juliana has also done training as a doula and has had the great honor of serving as birth coach for several of her Prenatal Yoga students. Her teachings and personal practice are greatly influenced by many avenues, Judith Hanson-Lasater and Patanjali among them.

About The Yoga Room:
Established in 2003, The Yoga Room has two new 5,000+ square foot studios located in Astoria and Long Island City, Queens. Only minutes from the subway, our LIC Studio is one stop from Grand Central on the 7 train and our Astoria studio is three stops from 59th & Lexington on the R train or from 53st & Lexington on the M train.  The Yoga Room is easily also accessible from anywhere in Queens and Brooklyn. Both of our studios have 3 beautifully-spacious practice rooms (one is dedicated solely to Hot Vinyasa and Bikram-style classes), a Great Yoga Wall, one Pilates room with apparatuses, holistic treatment rooms, open-air lobbies and much more.  Full-service changing rooms with showers and lockers make coming to class before and after work simple and convenient.  The Yoga Room offers more than 100 classes per week, including Hot Yoga, Vinyasa, Hot Vinyasa, Anusara, Mat Pilates, Barre Pilates, Pilates Apparatus, Hot Pilates, Prenatal Yoga, and Mommy and Baby/Toddler Yoga.