Our approach to Fertility & Conception Yoga

The Fertility Yoga Teacher Training program is about learning to communicate on a cellular level, from deep in our imagination where creative instincts live and have meaning.  It invites the yogi/yogini to trust the wisdom and creativity of the body, mind, spirit, dreams, and shadows and bring these resources into the experience of co-creating reality.  Every creative process involves a dimension of pilgrimage.  Samasā yoga sees the act of procreation as a special kind of school, a place of learning inside each of us where our relationship to creativity has the potential to teach us lessons about ourselves that are inseparable from what we birth.  This program is about the rich inner world of procreations and our relationship to self, other and the community around us.

Inside is an innate wisdom that intuitively understands about the very natural process of birth. In the program you will learn to help clients connect with this wisdom, through a yoga practices specifically designed for the journey from love to pregnancy, reproductive health education and therapeutics of movement and relief from common fertility issues. Linking yoga postures with the breath can lead clients to new discoveries, bringing awareness to the mind, body and spirit, and learn to call in the spirit of our baby.

Learn how to create a program in a calm, peaceful environment that will help strengthen/release the uterus and pelvic muscles, improve circulation, aid in digestion, exercise the spine and increase overall comfort of your students. Yoga can also alleviate many of the discomforts of fertility treatments. Learn to develop a safe, open community that will allows women to freely discuss any issues, from discomforts and concerns to the wonderful new changes that her body facilitate in the process of preparing for pregnancy.

Details

  • Dates: Next session, June 10 - 18, 2024 (if you are not available during the live online sessions you can listen to the recordings at your own pace - also you can take longer to complete the course if you cannot work on it full time.

  • Tuition: $989.00 (AYTT graduates enquire about discounted tuition and is included if you are registered in the 500hr YTT program)

    • Earlybird registration discount if registered and paid 60 days before program starts.

    • Further discount if you register and pay for the 3 Modules of the Reproductive Cycle (Fertility/Conception, Prenatal, Postnatal) at the same time. Prenatal Yoga March 8-14, 2022, Postnatal Yoga April 11-15, 2022 - Tuition for all three module is 2400.00

  • Hours: 100 hours (qualifies as a specialization for 500 Hour Atlas YTT)

*Please note: payment is required on receipt of notification of acceptance to the program.

PREREQUISITES

  • 200 Hour YTT &/or Physical Education or Kinesiology Degree
    Basic knowledge of Anatomy & Physiology

  • If you are a graduate from another school of yoga, we will require a copy of your certificate, an up-to-date FirstAid/CPR/AED certificate and a copy of your syllabus to ensure that you have covered basic foundational principles assumed in this program. This may require that you do a small amount of work to understand basics in our teaching style.

COURSE OUTLINE

  • Anatomy Review

  • Conception

  • Issues in Fertility

  • Posture analysis/alignment

  • Core Concepts in class design/planning

  • Partner and group work

  • Measures of fitness

  • Exercise precautions

  • Music, fundamental choreography and cueing/leadership methods

  • Warm-up and stretching principles

  • Muscular conditioning and Flexibility training

  • Class evaluation

  • Health history forms, Par-Q, informed consent

  • Bringing children into the world consciously

  • Meditation for fertility & Conception

  • Pranayama

  • Mantras for bringing a spiritual child into the world

  • Mudras to enhance fertility.

  • Private Yoga Therapy for the pregnant body

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Denise Davis-Gains has been teaching yoga since 1993. She has been teaching fitness and studying meditation since 1980. After completing her first certification with Susie Dias in Toronto, Denise actively sought to find time with senior teachers of this ancient tradition.  She holds two university degrees and continues to pursue higher education. Denise completed a course in Sanskrit with Jonathan Geen at McMaster University. She is trained in the Kripalu method of yoga, a very introspective style that incorporates vinyasa flow and postural analysis. She has been fortunate to be able to study with great yoga masters in the Ashtanga, Iyengar, Sivananda, Kundalini, Himalayan and other styles and schools and brings this variety of experience and style to this program. Denise has been training yoga teachers since 1997. Denise taught credit courses: Intro to Yoga; Intro to Yoga Therapy; Group Exercise and Physical Fitness in the Kinesiology department of Wilfrid Laurier University for 16 years and vocational fitness in the Community Services Department at Conestoga College. She has been a facilitator and Production & Staff manager in the Inner Quest Intensive, at the Kripalu Institute, Massachusetts (the Inner Quest Intensive in considered the most intensive and healing program that is run at this institution) and assisted in a programs in support of Parkinson’s patients and their care-givers and a nutrition program, “The Quest for the Limitless You” and “The Mindful Table a Nurtition and Mindfulness program.”