PRE & POSTNATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
Fully accredited with Yoga Alliance Professionals
Pregnancy and early parenthood mark a profound and meaningful stage of life, and for many, it’s their first introduction to yoga.
Training to teach pre- and postnatal yoga allows you to deepen your own practice while developing the skills to support others with care, confidence, and understanding.
This course goes beyond physical postures, giving you the tools to guide new and expecting parents through a time that calls for strength, connection, and compassion for both parent and baby.
COURSE AIMS
✓ To provide a foundation of prenatal yoga so you can develop and teach specialist classes, courses, or workshops for pregnant yoga students.
✓ To build on the yoga teacher’s knowledge, skills and confidence so that they can advise pregnant students in their general classes.
✓ To provide a basis in parent and baby yoga so that yoga teachers can continue to support their students post pregnancy and provide a safe, happy place for new parents and babies to practice yoga together, up to crawling).
✓ To provide an understanding of the postnatal body, pelvic floor health and abdominal health on which yoga teachers can develop and teach specialist classes, courses, or workshops for anyone in their class who has ever had a baby and even those who have not.
(A pelvic floor is for life.)
✓ To build your yoga knowledge, your confidence, skills and understanding as a yoga teacher so you can teach prenatal, postnatal and parent and baby classes with joy
COURSE CONTENT
The Anatomy and Physiology
of Pregnancy, Birth and beyond
ॐ Anatomy of the female pelvis
ॐ Physiology of pregnancy: the three trimesters
ॐ Labour and birth
ॐ Pain management and common medical interventions
ॐ The fourth trimester
ॐ What is your core?
ॐ Baby’s early development
Asana for Pregnancy and beyond
ॐ What to do and what to avoid
ॐ Gentle Flow - prenatal yoga practice the power of finding ease.
ॐ Centring, limbering, strengthening, and quietening postures for pregnancy
ॐ Asana to support postnatal recovery
ॐ Asana for parent and baby classes
Course planning and the power of intention
ॐ Lesson plans for pregnancy yoga and post natal/ parent and baby classes classes
ॐ Planning courses or one day workshops
Yoga Wisdom Teachings
ॐ The eight limbs revisited
ॐ Yamas and niyamas for pregnancy and parenthood
ॐ Ida and pingala revisited
ॐ The yoga sutras: Effortless effort
ॐ Ethical questions around pregnancy and birth, your personal philosophy
Pranayama - Breathing Techniques for
pregnancy and labour
ॐ Breathe awareness
ॐ Breathe for movement
ॐ Calming breathes (guiding hormonal change)
ॐ Breathe for labour
Relaxation
ॐ Yoga Nidra
ॐ Sankalpa
YOUR FACILITATOR FOR THIS COURSE
Lead Trainer
Clare Bassett
Clare is a passionate yoga teacher with many years experience teaching and teacher training.
After developing her own self practice, she sought to go deeper and trained as a yoga teacher under Roy Griffin, Michael McCann and Marie Quail with the YTTC in 2009.
Her approach to teaching is strongly learner centred and fun loving, encouraging teachers to continuously explore their yoga and develop their own practice as well as their teaching in order to enjoy life more and teach from the heart.
COURSE PRE-REQUISITES
Candidates should have an understanding of yoga, and will be required to keep up their own regular yoga self practice as part of this course. It is designed for yoga teachers or birth professionals with a deep interest in yoga.
All sessions must be attended. Missed sessions will have to be made up in order to complete the course successfully.
Assignments are given on the first weekend of the course. They are designed to equip the prenatal yoga trainee teacher with the necessary skills to enable them to teach safely and with confidence.
Teaching practice will take place throughout the course and trainees are encouraged to make arrangements with qualified prenatal/ postnatal yoga teachers to attend or if possible, assist in their class in order to gain valuable extra teaching practice.
As well as providing each student with the necessary skills for teaching pre and postnatal yoga, the course gives an excellent opportunity for personal development and growth.
A Certificate in teaching Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga will be awarded on successful completion of the course.
DATES, COST & LOCATION
In-studio Training:
28th to 30th August 2026
11th to 13th of September 2026
Times:
6pm - 10pm Friday
10:30am - 7pm Saturday and 10:30am to 6:30pm Sunday
Online Training:
Wednesdays live on Zoom
26th August
2nd, 9th, 16th, 30th September
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Ganapati School of Yoga, Mallow Cork
Investment: Early Bird €1100 inclusive of VAT before May 15th 2026
Full Cost €1400 inclusive of VAT due 8th of July 2026 which becomes non refundable by this date.
Payment Plans Available. Contact us for info.
Non-refundable deposit of €250 is necessary to reserve your place at this course*.
*If you need to cancel, this deposit can be transferred to another student who has not yet enrolled in the same training."
Join us on this journey to cultivate awareness, presence, and a deeper connection to both yourself and those you teach. Whether you’re looking to support others through pregnancy and early parenthood, or to expand your own understanding of this unique stage of life, this course offers a supportive and nurturing space to learn and grow.
Sign up today and develop the confidence and skills to guide parents and babies with care, clarity, and compassion.
TESTIMONIALS
“Recently finished my 200Hrs Yoga Teacher Training with Ganapati School of Yoga.
What an amazing experience!!!
Claudia, Pablo and John are the crown jewels of teaching.
The course is not only for experienced yoga practitioners!
I would recommend for anyone who wants to understand real values in life an spend some time with extraordinary people.
Philosophy, history, anatomy are just a few additions on top of the learning and practice of different yoga styles and techniques.
It is a life changing experience for sure.
Looking forward our next journey with the Ganapati School of Yoga team!
Namaste“
Zoltan Dancsa
“I completed the 200 hr teaching course with Ganapati school of yoga. I found this course so professional and beneficial. Claudia, Pablo and John have so much experience and are always ready to motivate and give a helping hand.
The atmosphere was so friendly and welcoming.
I met so many wonderful people, gained skills and so much knowledge.
The teaching practice has really benefitted me and I have become more aware of my own practice. I would highly recommend this course.”
Aoife Foley
”I recently took part and completed the 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in Ganapati School of Yoga. It was an amazing course and an amazing experience. I went into it just expecting to gain knowledge about yoga but gained so much more. In one month my own practice has developed so much more than I could have ever thought.
The teachers who facilitated the course Claudia, Pablo and John were amazing, I could not have imagined 3 better teachers to have delivered it, I looked forward to going in every single day.
We also didn't spend all our time in the school but went on walks and did classes down in the park which was very nice. I am so glad I have done this course and would recommend it to anyone interested in yoga even if you don't want to be a teacher.
For me it has been life changing. I am so happy and grateful I had the chance to do this course.”
Caitlin Cahil
“I think everyone should do this yoga teacher training course,
even if you don’t plan to teach at all!
It gave me such an insight into yoga itself, the history, the philosophy and the more detailed instruction for each pose. It gave me a greater appreciation for the art of yoga.
I met amazing people along the way and our teachers Claudia, Pablo and John couldn’t have done more to support and encourage us. The best 4 weeks I have ever spent on myself’