How to Become a Prenatal Yoga Instructor

Prenatal yoga is becoming popular across the country. Prenatal yoga helps pregnant women stay healthy during their pregnancy, helps prevent common aches and pains and helps prepare the body for labor and childbirth. Many gyms and birthing facilities now offer prenatal yoga classes, making prenatal yoga instructors very needed.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Keep your day job. Prenatal yoga instructors probably only teach classes once or twice a week for about an hour. You are not be able to support yourself with just your income from these teaching these classes.

2. Understand what yoga is and have taken a few years of yoga classes. There are many different forms of yoga, and you should become familiar with at least one form. While becoming an instructor may sound like fun, you need to thoroughly understand yoga to teach it.

3. Consider becoming certified as a basic yoga instructor first. Most prenatal certification programs require that you're currently certified or are currently pursuing yoga instructor certification.

4. Find a prenatal yoga certification program such as Mamaste Yoga or the Whole Birth Prenatal Yoga Instructor Training.

5. Follow the course syllabus, completing all the requirements. Requirements include reading books, taking workshops, observing yoga classes, working with instructors, teaching classes and possibly an exam.

6. Decide whether you want your certification program to be registered with the Yoga Alliance. The Yoga Alliance registers individual instructors and educational classes so there is a standard yoga instructors have to meet to be certified. Go to the Yoga Alliance website for more information and for a list of schools.

Resources

• Go the Yoga Alliance for more information

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