Welcome to our Ma Yoga/Yoga Alliance RPYT Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training – and so much more!

I started teaching prenatal yoga right after my first regular yoga teacher training in 2001. I knew enough about how babies are created, but nothing about how we can becoming powerful co-creators.
In the only prenatal yoga teacher training available at the time, I learned a lot about what NOT to do and how to teach a gentle, restorative practice. What I felt and still believe strongly is that prengant women need their strength as much as anyone else.
And I also sensed that this time was so much more than challenges. That there was an opportunity here to be discovered….
I began to notice that pregnancy is one of those times when we slow down, listen inward, and start to honor what we hear again.
I saw that for so many women, this time is a doorway to becoming a mother not just to our baby, but to ourselves.
The syllable “ma” in every language means “mother.”
In Sanskrit, the ancient language of yoga, it also means “the highest, most powerful, wise and nurturing” – like “Ma Kali”, the Mother of all Goddesses.
By nurturing ourselves, we start to access the depth of power and wisdom within us.
It all starts from discovering how to nurture whatever’s gestating within us: a baby, a project, or a vision for who we’re becoming.
As a Kinesiologist and Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, I had learned specific theapeutic alignment principles and I began adjusting them to address the needs of pregnant women. I call them the Five Sacred Steps, and each principle continues to guide me as a prenatal yoga teacher to this day. I started guiding other prenatal teachers through The Yoga of Pregnancy yoga teacher training weekends starting in 2004.

When I got pregnant in 2006, I’d been teaching prenatal teacher trainings for a while and I thought I was well-prepared prepared to be a mom. Wrong!
I found myself lost without the parts of my identity that had for so long made me feel like me. I couldn’t get anything done, I was exhausted and depleted and having trouble losing the extra weight, and the hardest part: I didn’t have time to do yoga.
The long, focused practices I had come to love were no longer accessible. But I didn’t think it was fair that just because I was a mom, I had to give up yoga.
I honed yoga down to its essential practices and principles, so I – and other moms – could get the breathing, meditation, alignment and strengthening during naps, while baby is playing – even while we’re holding baby. I shifted the practices so they were more focused on core strengthening, helping us find our new identity, and grounding us in our feminine wisdom, power, and nurturing energy. I called it Ma Yoga.
As for life off the mat – I wanted to be healthier, but I didn’t want to live in the kitchen. I began studying Ayurveda again when my daughter was one (the 5,000 year old wellness system that was traditionally part of yoga), and found myself able to provide healthy food, good self-care and energizing daily rhythms for me and my family.

I gathered what I experienced as essential basic healthy lifestyle routines for women (Dina Charya,or “Anchor Practices”) – that even the busiest of us can all fit in to our day to give us more energy, help us sleep better, and allow us to find our ideal weight. I put them all together in six ebooks and phone calls for the online teacher training, MAyurveda: Living Ayurveda for Women.
I put these modules together into what I feel is the most comprehensive program that provides the broadest understanding of yoga for women available. Here are the elements of the 85-hour, Yoga Alliance-registered Ma Yoga Certification Program:
- Prenatal 1: The Yoga of Pregnancy and Postpartum prenatal yoga teacher training
- Prenatal 2: The Yoga of Healing for Women yoga teacher training
- Ma Mentorship: One-on-one work with a senior Certified Ma Yoga teacher trainer
- MAyurveda: Living Ayurveda training for women in their childbearing years
- Labor Education: either a doula training you take on your own, or our online teacher training, The Yoga of Birth
- Class writeups: Take live online Ma Yoga classes at www.MaYogaLiving.com
To find out when we are offering our trainings, just go to our Ma Yoga Living Calendar.
I look forward to supporting you on your path!
The Ma Yoga/Yoga Alliance RPYT Yoga Certification Program will give you the tools to:
Our curriculum is comprehensive, combines Eastern tradition and Western knowledge, and supplies you with the tools to guide women throughout their childbearing years.
Ma Yoga Certified teachers get free business coaching to partner with local mom businesses and offer prenatal and mom yoga in their own neighborhoods. So far, we’ve helped over 20,000 women prepare for labor and motherhood, learn how to relieve their aches and pains, and use the challenges of this time to become the “Ma” they want to be.
We would love to have you part of our nurturing, ever-growing teacher tribe!
I tried to make it as easy as possible for busy yoga teachers to take a prenatal yoga teacher training OR get their RPYT Certification:
Join us in our vision: a Mama Circle in every village in the world!
Email me for your free 30 minute Prenatal Dreams and Visions call to discuss the program and different career possibilities.
Throughout the training period and after, you will be in partnership with an open-hearted, loving group in which we will act as midwives for each other as we give birth to ourselves as wise, powerful, nurturing women teachers for mamas.
Looking forward to finding out how I can support you on your path!
Testimonials from those who have completed the training
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I’d never taught before this program. It gave me the confidence to be a teacher...As a teacher, I love helping moms get their minds and bodies ready for labor. As a doula, I know which poses are good for fetal positioning and labor - and it makes my job easier because by the big day, the things they need to do are second nature.
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I am now empowered in my own practice and life with the tools I received related to how life create itself, on and off the mat. This program helped me shift the way I deal with aches and pains, enhance my daily routine, and interact with my community. I feel so grateful for the knowledge gained from this life-changing program.
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I have more confidence with moms that come to me with aches and how to get them out of pain, and through learning Dina Charya (daily rhythms) I know how to help them have more energy. I love that we have this community where I can go for inspiration and support as a teacher, and that we all also create our own little communities in our neighborhoods!
Let’s Get Started!
Let’s connect! Fill out the form and I’ll reach out. Plus, I’ll send you my free Yoga of Pregnancy for Teachers ebook!
