Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

– Foundation Course

with Beth Donnelly & Lara Kohn Thompson

For over 20 years, Beth Donnelly and Lara Kohn Thompson have been partnering to train yoga teachers and health professionals in the art and science of perinatal yoga. With their combined backgrounds in movement, science, and tradition, they bring a wealth of knowledge, compassion, and practical expertise to this Yoga Alliance–certified Prenatal Teacher Training.

This joyful and in-depth training invites you into the unique journey of prenatal yoga, where the perinatal cycle touches both the primal and the divine. Prenatal yoga provides vital support for people as they attune to the profound physical, emotional, spiritual, and social transformations of pregnancy. Through accessible and powerful practices, teachers will learn how to help students cultivate balance, resilience, and ease during pregnancy, labor, birth, and early postpartum recovery.

What You Will Learn

  • Anatomy & Physiology of Pregnancy
    A clear and comprehensive foundation in the stages of pregnancy, fetal development, and the physiological changes in the body. Learn the range of physical changes and challenges during pregnancy and when to suggest students seek medical or therapeutic care.

  • Asana & Sequencing
    How to adapt and skillfully sequence yoga postures for each trimester, including safe modifications, contraindications, and supportive use of props.

  • Teaching Methodology
    Frameworks for designing and sequencing safe, empowering, and flowing prenatal classes that integrate physical alignment with breath, mindfulness, restoration, and community connection

  • Holistic Tools for Pregnancy & Beyond
    Exploration of yoga philosophy, chanting, pranayama, meditation, and visualization as tools for navigating pregnancy and the early postpartum journey.

  • Labor & Birth Preparation
    Practices and techniques that support the body and mind in labor, including breath work, visualization, movement, and positions for comfort and progress. 

  • Trauma-Informed Teaching
    How to create safe, inclusive, and supportive spaces where students feel seen and heard, and where shared experience deepens community.

Structure of the Program

  • 60 hours of in-class training with Beth and Lara, combining lecture, discussion, experiential practice, and teaching labs.

  • 25 hours of out-of-class study, including prenatal class observations, required reading, and homework assignments to deepen integration.

Beth & Lara bring a unique blend of wisdom, humor, and heartfelt commitment to supporting teachers who wish to serve pregnant and postpartum communities. This training is more than professional development—it is a guided mentorship that will help you deepen your own practice of stillness and presence, to listen more fully, and to serve with knowledge, humility, and compassion.

 

Training Schedule:

Friday, January 9th, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm

Saturday, January 10th, 1:00 - 8:00 pm

Sunday, January 11th, 1:00 - 8:00 pm

Friday, January 16th, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm

Saturday, January 17th, 1:00 - 8:00 pm

Sunday, January 18th, 1:00 - 8:00 pm

 

Friday, January 23rd, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm

Saturday, January 24th, 1:00 - 8:00 pm

Sunday, January 25th, 1:00 - 8:00 pm

Tuition

$500 deposit required to reserve, which will go towards your tuition.

Early Bird Special by December 1, 2025 - $1300

after December 2, 2025 - $1450

**Pre-requisite: 200 hr Yoga Teacher Certification. Please fill out the application here. Once your application has been submitted, please make your deposit here. Payment plans available. (Studio credit if cancelled by December 9th.) Reach out with any questions: hello@brooklynflow.com.

Lara Kohn Thompson is a certified Yoga teacher and trainer (E RYT 500; RPYT). She is a Prenatal teacher trainer for the Integral Yoga Institute and a certified APOR practitioner (approche posturo - respiratoire) with a focus on prenatal, birth and postpartum. She has trained extensively with Blandine Calais Germain, a physical therapist and author of many books on the study of anatomy for movement. Lara is certified in Germain's Anatomy of Movement series specifically designed for pelvic floor health and core training: "Perinee et mouvement"® and "Abdos sans risque"®. Along with her group classes Lara offers individualized physical care and training for women through the childbearing years, Integrated pelvic floor health for women at all stages of life as well as and Birth early postpartum workshops for couples .

Beth Donnelly began her formal yoga training at the Integral Yoga Institute in NYC in 1997 studying with Sri Swami Satchidananda, Swami Ramananda and Kali Morse. She has been teaching prenatal yoga since 1998 and has been attending births at homes, hospitals and birthing centers since 2001. Beth is a registered nurse, a midwife assistant and labor support doula through The Farm in Tennessee. She served on the Board of Directors of the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York (CEAMNY), and has trained with Janet Balaskas and Michel Odent at the Active Birth Centre in London and prior to that, earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in cultural anthropology and public health. Beth lives in Western MA and works a registered nurse at Mount Holyoke College.