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:

• 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.

Maternity Chakras Further Course Information:

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.