Home Yoga PYTT Welcome.
Welcome to Home Yoga Online Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training.
Today, I am sending you a to-do list of 6 items before our first Livecall. To summarize they are listed below, but you can also scroll down for more detail on each one.
1. Log on to Student Portal
2. Log on to Google Classroom
3. Block off your calendar
4. Review the Syllabus
5. Check out the book list
6. pre first-session homework assignment (scroll down a bit further).
Happy studies and I look forward to meeting you all in the Zoom Room!
For our first session and every session, come prepared to both take notes and move your body.
Wear comfortable clothes for yoga and bring pen and paper.
Have 2 blocks, 1 strap, 2 blankets, a Coregous ball, a Birth Ball, and a yoga mat set out for our prenatal yoga practices together each livecall meeting.
Lastly, a gift from me for us to practice together: during the months of September, October, and November (no class 11/26), you are invited to join as my guest for Sunday Yoga Church - Int/Adv Vinyasa Flow 10-11:30 am EST. (Value $150) Zoom Link here. If you are pregnant, please note, this is not a prenatal class but if a vinyasa practice still feels comfortable for your body, come and apply the prenatal modifications we will be learning together in the Training. Or, if you are pregnant, and would prefer to take my New Moon Prenatal Practice Group, this is also a free gift for you September, October, and November (a $225 value). You can join the Prenatal class using this Zoom Link each Sunday of these months 12-1:30 pm EST.
Warm Wishes,
Lily
1. Log on to the student portal:
https://www.lilydwyerbeggyoga.com/home-yoga-prenatal-yoga-teacher-training-portal
login hOMe
Before our first session - take a moment to familiarize yourself with our Student Portal where you will access Asynchronous Video Content and led prenatal practices.
2. Log on to the Google Classroom:
https://classroom.google.com/c/NjE2MzMzNzIyOTgz?cjc=3bv27n7
Before our first session- take a moment to familiarize yourself with our Google Classroom where you will find your manual, Livecall Recordings after they upload, Comprehension Quizes (be sure to write your name on your's!), handouts, Round Robin Assignments, chat board, and more!
3. Block off our Zoom Livecall Meetings:
October 7 | 8 (Sat and Sun) 2-6 pm EST
October 20 | 21 | 22 (Fri, Sat, and Sun) Fri: 4-8 pm EST / Sat and Sun: 2-6 pm EST
November 3 |4 | 5 (Fri, Sat, and Sun) Fri: 4-8 pm EST / Sat and Sun: 2-6 pm EST
November 18 | 19 (Sat and Sun) 2-6 pm EST
*****Join Zoom Meeting*****
Lily Dwyer Begg Yoga LLC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2343311677?pwd=N1gvVUxwNjFrblF5c2I4YmhnYk4zdz09
Meeting ID: 234 331 1677
Passcode: yogaparty
Same Link EVERY class. See you in the zoom room 12/10!
4. Familiarize yourself with our Course *** Syllabus ***
5. Your Book List:
I have separated the book list into the one required text to purchase ahead of our time together and the rest are personal recommendations you might choose to add to build your own personal prenatal yoga library. The recommended books are supplementary. We will not refer to them in this training, but they are a good place to look to go deeper and sources I treasure. The film can be easily rented online closer to its due date.
Required:
Your manual is shared in the google classroom and handouts will be shared there as the readings are due.
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
The Business of Being Born (film to rent)
Recommended: (you do not need to purchase these for the training unless you want to)
The Female Pelvis - Anatomy and Exercises by Blandine Calais-Germain
Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood by Geeta Iyengar, Rita Keller and Kerstin Khattab
Yoga Mama by Linda Sparrowe
Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic and Birth by Suzanne Arms
A Woman’s Book of Yoga by Machelle M. Seibel, M.D and Hari Kaur Khalsa
Mindful Birthing by Nancy Bardacke
Yoga A Gem for Women by Geeta Iyengar
Trailguide to the Body by Andrew Biel
Diastasis Recti by Katy Bowman
6. Your first homework assignment due for our first Livecall on Saturday, December 10:
JOURNAL QUESTION:
Practically speaking, we don’t remember birth and generally things before the age of 2 because the hippocampus structure in the brain is not fully grown. This makes memory dicey, although development does begin in the womb. The amygdala, in contrast, is the structure for emotional memory and is mature at early infancy. So where, in our brains, are these memories stored? Can they be accessed?
- Jesse Herman
Sit in meditation with a timer set for 20 minutes. You can sit cross-legged on a zafu or pillow. If it helps you to relax on your back or fetal position or child’s pose this is fine too. It is important that you are still for the duration of the 20 minute meditation. You will spend this time meditating on your own birth and your own experience in utero. Observe the emotions, sensations, and images that arise for you around your experience in utero and your birth. Let go of any birth story you have been told by family members and try to feel into your body for what this experience was for you. When you are done, immediately journal about this experience. What could you recall? How did you feel? Describe any emotions, sensations, colors, or somatic impressions of your own birth. What did you notice? How did it feel to connect to this part of yourself? Set a timer and spend exactly 20 minutes writing about the meditation in your journal. You will share some of these impressions with your cohort during our first session together.
Find your weekly asynchronous materials here.
Each week of training you will be responsible to watch the asynchronous lecture and come prepared to discuss. On our first and last weekend intensives, I recommend that you watch before the weekend. On the middle two weeks, you should watch the lecture and take the quiz any time after our Monday meeting and before our Friday meeting. There is a mandatory short online quiz to test comprehension after each video that you will find in the Google Classroom.
There are additional weekly prenatal and postnatal yoga and movement practices shared here to help inspire, build, and refresh your Sadhana.
If you miss a class, Zoom lectures will be posted in the Google Classroom and made available for 7 days after the class you missed.
You must catch up with any missed lectures before attending the next class section since content is cumulative.