MamaNurture Module 1 – Prenatal Yoga Teacher Certification (RPYT)
directed by Shannon Crow, ERYT500, RPYT and Kim MacDonald-Heilandt, RYT, RPYT
- Safely teach your pregnant students
- Asanas: alignment and modifications for pregnancy
- Cautioned and contraindicated poses and breath practices
- Common ailments of pregnancy and how to use yoga to relieve them
- Physiology & anatomy of each trimester
- Create a prenatal yoga class or private session
- Accommodate a pregnant student in your regular class
- Creating a restorative prenatal yoga class
When:
Friday, November 11 (10am-6pm)
Saturday, November 12 (11:30am-5:30pm)
Sunday, November 13 (11:30am – 5:30pm)
Where: Tone Studio, Owen Sound, Ontario
Prerequisite Courses: none required, but a 200-hour yoga certification or a regular yoga practice is helpful to have.
Cost: $330 if registered by October 12, 2016 or $350 after October 12, 2016
RPYT certification: 20 hours towards RPYT certification (85 hours) will be issued at the end of this course
About Shannon and Kim
Shannon Crow, E-RYT 500, RCYT, RPYT, CTYMP
Shannon Crow is a co-founder of the MamaNurture Prenatal Yoga School.
She completed her first yoga teacher training in 2006 in the Kundalini tradition. Since then she has continued her studies extensively, including completion of trainings in: Prenatal Yoga; Levels 1-6 Thai Yoga massage; 100-hour HeartRise Children’s Yoga; 100-hour Let Your Yoga Dance; Inner Quest of the Yoga Educator; and has assisted and directed many yoga teacher trainings.
Shannon has shared her knowledge and expertise in a variety of community programs, classes, and is Program Director at Tone Studio in Owen Sound.
As a Yoga Educator, Shannon is dedicated to helping students individually uncover and nurture their own unique expressions of yoga. Shannon is known for creating a playful, vibrant, and supportive learning environment that is accessible to everyone. She has three children that continue to teach and inspire her. Visit Shannon’s website.
Kim MacDonald-Heilandt, E-RYT, RPYT, RCYT
Kim MacDonald-Heilandt is a co-founder of the MamaNurture Prenatal Yoga School. Kim brings a wealth of experience as a mother, teacher, and co-owner and director of Gibbons Park Montessori School as well as founder of Live, Laugh, Breathe Yoga.
Kim became a Registered Yoga Teacher after graduating from DevaTree’s 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, and went on to complete The Mindful Mamas Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Lauryl Hicks, as well as her HeartRise Yoga for Children Teacher Training.
Kim is passionate about supporting women and their partners through pregnancy and childbirth and loves the creative energy and community that teaching prenatal yoga offers. She truly believes that it is through acceptance and positivity that women can find their strength and power in birth. Kim found yoga’s true bliss while pregnant with her first child, and has come full circle to now be able to share her knowledge and passion with teachers and moms-to-be! She combines her joyful sense of humour and playfulness with a profound belief in the strength of every woman. Her compassion for the changes pregnancy brings both emotionally and physically is the foundation for her challenging yet nurturing yoga experiences.