Maternity Chakras Course

Maternity Chakras Course | Chakra Yoga & Holistic Birth Preparation

An immersive 40 hour online course exploring the seven chakras through pregnancy, birth and motherhood.

For pregnant women, yoga teachers, doulas, midwives,  and birth professionals

Maternity Chakras Course / Chakras in Pregnancy and Birth

Essential Information

The Maternity Chakras Course is a certified 40-hour, self-paced journey through the seven chakras, exploring how this ancient system of embodied wisdom can be understood and applied to the unique physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual experience of pregnancy and birth.

The course is open both to pregnant women seeking a deeper and more holistic way to prepare for birth, and to birth professionals who wish to understand the chakra system and incorporate its teachings and practices into their work with women.

Moving through each of the seven chakras, you will explore traditional teachings alongside their physical, emotional, psychological and energetic dimensions. Theory is woven together with movement, yoga, breath, sound, guided meditation, visualisation and personal enquiry.

For pregnant women, the course offers an opportunity to explore your own inner landscape as you prepare for birth: your sense of safety, creativity, personal power, relationships, voice, intuition and connection to something beyond yourself.

For professionals, it offers both a deeper personal understanding of the chakra system and a rich body of practices and enquiry that can inform your work with women during pregnancy, birth and the transition to motherhood.

The course is undertaken at your own pace and includes two 60-minute one-to-one sessions with Nadia, offering space for personal reflection, mentoring and integration of the work.

Maternity Chakras Course:

Pregnancy Yoga CPD/CE: 40 Hours
Accredited by Yoga Pros for eligible practitioners.

Course fee: £495

Please contact nadia@nadiaraafat.com for further information.

Why Explore the Chakras During Pregnancy and Birth?

Pregnancy and birth are far more than physical experiences. They touch every aspect of a woman’s being: her sense of safety, relationship with her body, sexuality, personal power, emotional life, ability to express her needs, intuition and spiritual identity.

The ancient chakra system offers a fascinating framework through which to explore these different dimensions of the maternity experience.

Each of the seven chakras represents a particular aspect of human experience, and each takes on new significance during pregnancy, birth and the transition to motherhood.

Through the Maternity Chakras, we explore how movement, breath, sound, meditation and personal enquiry can help women deepen their awareness, recognise their inner resources and approach birth with greater confidence and connection.

For birth professionals, the chakra system offers an additional lens through which to understand and support the emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual dimensions of pregnancy and childbirth.

To access the course, contact nadia@nadiaraafat.com

“I really enjoyed this course. I learnt a lot of new material to bring to my pregnancy yoga classes, it’s given me a lot of new ideas and it’s been wonderful to spend time with other passionate birth workers.”

Rosa Davies, Attendee, Maternity Chakras Course Feb 2022

“Thank you for the journey, it was truly so special and I really appreciate all the amazing lessons you had to share. “

Emma Southern, Yoga and Prenatal Yoga Teacher, March 2023

“For me Nadia’s knowledge, experience and teaching pulled together lots of separate threads combining ancient teachings and how they effect issues we face now in todays society. It’s not just about Chakras, its a rich and powerful journey through pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood and I feel so lucky to have been part of this training! ”  

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I recently attended Nadia online workshop “Maternity chakras” and I must say it was a truly enlightening experience. Nadia displayed a profound mastery of the subject matter, effortlessly guiding us through the intricate details of each chakra and their significance.

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Nadia’s course has been quite a transformative time for me. Through her knowledge, the practical sessions and the support of the group, I’ve been able to do a huge amount of inner work and am approaching the second half of my pregnancy feeling unbelievably empowered. It has also given me the strength, self-belief and confidence to follow my intuition and to speak up when things aren’t quite right. It’s simply amazing how much energy can shift within just a couple of weeks, with the right guidance. So thank you deeply, Nadia, for creating this special and powerful course…not only has enlightened my pregnancy journey, but my own personal journey too – and I’m very excited to share these lessons with my own prenatal students, too!

Stephanie Wall, Maternity Chakras 2023

“I really enjoyed the course. It helped me to understand the chakras in a deeper sense and especially how we can work with them in our practice with our clients during pregnancy, birth and beyond. Thank you, Nadia!”

Susanna P, July 2024

Maternity Chakras Course: Holistic Birth Preparation

The ancient chakra system with its structures of subtle energy pathways and confluence of energy centres has informed yoga practice for millennia It offers us all a truly holistic map to help us know ourselves fully and live freely.

The journey through the chakras is the journey of discovery and healing; travelled many times by yoginis but rarely in pregnancy.

And yet pregnancy is the journey from mystery to manifestation and from instinct to transcendence. Pregnancy is transformational whether you like it or not. When consciousness is brought to the process, the transformation can be healing, empowering, integrated and stabilised. As the body expands and the yoni opens so does the heart and the mind. Perceiving pregnancy and birth through the lens of the chakras enables deep insight into the multidimensional aspects of the experience and of the potential of yoga practice too.

On the 9-week Maternity Chakras Course you will learn both Chakra Yoga Training and Holistic Birth preparation :

  • Discover both the classical and modern western teachings and practices of Chakra Yoga and learn how to apply Chakra theory and practice to the maternity experience in this specialised professional training for yoga teachers, energy workers and birth workers instructed in the spiritual dimension of pregnancy.
  • Offer your students a clear and powerful holistic pathway through the pregnancy, birth and becoming mother/parent experience using the teachings and philosophy of the chakras.
  • Learn how to work with the subtle energetic body using the technology of yoga, and bioenergetics.
  • Learn how to apply chakra teachings and practices to the maternity experience so that you prepare your students in the best possible way for an empowered pregnancy, birth and postnatal experience.
  • Gain insights into space holding, pleasure practices and teachings to cultivate parental empowerment, navigating modern childbirth.
  • Learn practical ways to bring a spiritual dimension to your pregnancy yoga teaching.
  • Inspire your personal practice, your yoga teaching and the women you serve.
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Maternity Chakras Course Information:

The Chakras in Pregnancy and Birth

Session 1: Intro Session – Yoga as Energy Practice, Classical & Modern History of the Chakras, Overview of The Maternal Chakra Experience (recorded – with support material)
Session 2: Muladhara – The Pregnant GateKeeper: Discovering Your Cervix & Pelvic Floor;  Embodiment & Nervous System Down Regulation, Personal Sanctuary and Psychic Foundations; The Pelvic Floor (recorded with support material)
Session 3: Svadhisthana – Sexual Energy in Pregnancy, Birth and the Postpartum Period. The emotional life of pregnancy(recorded with support material)
Session 4: Manipura – Maternal Power & Vulnerability; the Interesting Path of Self-Advocacy and Submission;  – live and recorded
Session 5: Anahata – Honouring the Heart in Childbirth and Mothering, The Social Nervous System and Labour- live and recorded
Session 6: Vishuddha – Articulating. Pure and Powerful Expression; The Jaw and Pelvis Connection- live and recorded
Session 7: Ajna – Preparing the Deep Mind for Labour – live and recorded
Session 8: Sahasrara – Spiritual Emergency Becomes Spiritual Emergence- live and recorded
Session 9: Integration – Birth as Descent & Ascent – live and recorded

Each 2.5 Hr session includes a presentation, physical practice, meditation and mudra alongside group enquiry. All course participants are encouraged to bring their whole selves to the training and do personal practice work between sessions.

Who Is the Maternity Chakras Course For?

Pregnant women: Explore a holistic approach to birth preparation that brings together movement, meditation, emotional awareness and spiritual enquiry.

Pregnancy and postnatal yoga teachers: Deepen your understanding of chakra yoga and discover ways to integrate energetic and psychological enquiry into your maternity yoga classes.

Doulas and birth companions: Explore the chakra system as a framework for supporting women emotionally, physically and spiritually throughout pregnancy and birth.

Midwives and childbirth educators: Discover an additional holistic perspective on pregnancy, birth preparation, maternal autonomy and the emotional experience of childbirth.

Counsellors and therapists: Explore how the chakra system can provide a complementary framework for embodied enquiry into identity, relationships, personal power and the transition to motherhood.

More Testimonials:

“I loved this course, what a wonderful experience and sangha you created, via zoom no less. It was nurturing and nourishing and wonderful to connect with other expectant mamas in these strange times. I feel much more confident and I really noticed the shift from trepidation to excitement for my upcoming birth growing each week of the course. The penultimate class on the third eye with all of the breath work and meditation ushered me into experiencing a real sense of calm and readiness for motherhood and birth.”

JG Yoga Teacher, 

“Thank you Nadia for this course. I enjoyed it very much. It has enriched my prenatal and postnatal yoga teaching by opening the comprehension of chakras into a larger horizon of maternity and wellness.” GS
“Nadia is an excellent communicator and has a wealth of knowledge. She is masterly at combining past and present teachings..and maternity yoga” UB, Pregnancy Yoga Teacher
“Thank you so much. I loved every minute of our time on your course.” AV
‘Thank you for such wonderful training, I have loved it all,  it’s really affected me personally in such a positive way and influenced how I approach my pregnancy yoga teaching also!  ” SW Pregnancy Yoga Teacher

“Thank you so much for your offerings! I was so happy to be on your chakra course, it was such an intimate and empowering space,and I really had the feeling that all of your teachings and practices came from your heart <3″ E.X. Pregnancy Yoga Teacher

“I’ve been loving our Wednesday night sessions — thank you! Today’s heart chakra focused class felt wonderful! The more pregnant I become, the more the classes resonate with me week by week — it’s lovely! “ E.M. Attendee Maternity Chakras Course

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Meet Your Teacher: Nadia Raafat

Nadia Raafat is a London-based perinatal yoga and mindfulness teacher, birth doula, holistic pelvic health practitioner and psychosynthesis counsellor.

For almost two decades, she has supported women through pregnancy, birth and early motherhood, exploring the many ways women can resource themselves physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

A mother of four, Nadia developed the Maternity Chakras over ten years ago, drawing together her studies of traditional chakra teachings, yoga philosophy, embodied movement, mindfulness and psychology.

She is also an experienced teacher trainer, educating yoga teachers, midwives and doulas in the application of yoga and mindfulness to pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

Maternity Chakras Course

Essential Information

The course is undertaken at your own pace and includes two 60-minute one-to-one sessions with Nadia, offering space for personal reflection, mentoring and integration of the work.

Pregnancy Yoga CPD/CE: 40 Hours
Accredited by Yoga Pros for eligible practitioners.

Course fee: £495

Please contact nadia@nadiaraafat.com for further information.

To gain access the course, contact nadia@nadiaraafat.com

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“I feel very grateful to have had this opportunity to really explore my own pregnancy in such a deep and spiritual way. It has really opened my eyes to what a rich experience it is and to celebrate pregnancy and childbirth in a positive way. My main aim now is to continue my own reflections and practise – especially my meditation practise to further deepen my experience. then I really hope when I teach again i can share all this with others and encourage other women to try to access their spirituality as I feel its really lacking where I live.” SW