Whether you are an established Yoga teacher, a doula, a healthcare practitioner, a mother, a gatherer of wimyn or all of the above, our 10 day Mystical Mama training and retreat is an enriching learning experience you don’t want to miss.  Chances are very high that you are serving a pregnant womyn, especially a sister, friend, client or student. Learning how to safely nurture our mothers is the cornerstone to building healthier communities all over the globe!

A pregnant womyn is a living, breathing and walking temple of creativity and grace. She needs to be encouraged to listen to her body, to spend time in nature, to eat nourishing foods and to move in safe and primal ways. Yoga to the pregnant mother is so nurturing to both herself and the baby within. Yoga may be the only time in her day that she carves out to be connected with self and breath and baby, making this a beautifully sacred time in her life. She may be encouraged by the dominant culture to just live as normal, however, we believe she is to be treated like a Goddess!

Here are 5 things that you will learn in our Mystical Mama Training:

1. How To Tailor A Yoga Class For Pregnant Mothers

Our program is hands on and experience based. It is rooted in hours of detailed posture break-downs, practice teaching and class design. If you are a current Yoga teacher, you will learn how to teach specific prenatal yoga classes or modify all poses to suit your pregnant students in all level classes. If you don’t teach yoga but work with pregnant wimyn, you will learn how to add private yoga sessions into your scope of practice. If you are curious for yourself and your circle of friends, you will learn how to design a personal prenatal yoga sequence that will be beneficial information for a lifetime!

2.  How To Honour All Aspects of the Divine Feminine

We spend a lot of time learning multiple ways to lavish and dig deep into the life of the pregnant mother. We explore topics of nourishment and nutrition, how to examine her dreams and day visions, how to conduct a sacred Mother’s Blessing, how to make and use plant medicine and placenta remedies, body butters, sacred art and more!

3.  What Holistic Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood Look Like

Our whole training is broken down into trimesters and we journey deeply into each stage of pregnancy, including anatomy and physiology. We also give you the opportunity to undergo your own unique transformation through the trimesters, birth and postpartum phases. We explore how wimyn give birth not only to babies, but how in fact we hold the very seeds of creation in our womb space at all times! One of the most exciting cultural and deep learning experiences of the training is the afternoon we sit and learn from the Indigenous Guatemalan midwives over tea and snacks.  

4. How To Create Ceremony and Care For Self

We won’t just be speaking about Yoga in pregnancy, we will be living and embodying the very essence of this transformation over our 9 nights and 10 days together.  From daily meditations and yoga classes, to journeying through the Peruvian medicine wheel, sharing delicious meals together, hiking up volcanoes, swimming in Lago Atitlan, sharing circles in the tea house ~ we will have so much time to learn, grow and retreat together!  

5.  How To Take This Information Back Into Your Communities

This course was created and taught by Mothers, doing the work of creating and birthing babies and raising those babies while serving their respective communities. It takes a village! And we want to learn and share alongside you. We want to share what works for us, and we want to know what works for you. We will share and create real plans for how to create wimyn’s circles and how to integrate our learnings into the world.

We can’t wait to see you in Guatemala this January 6-15!  Come and join us! Space is limited to ensure a deeply connected and intimate group so register today to avoid disappointment.

**Image captured by Adelaide Rogers Photography