This 40-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is an immersive, in-person training designed for those who feel called to support pregnancy with skill, integrity, and care.

Offered at Pranify Yoga in Kelowna, this training unfolds slowly over four months, allowing time for integration, embodiment, and lived practice. Rather than a compressed or fast-tracked format, this training honours the rhythms of pregnancy itself — adaptive, intelligent, and deeply human.

Curated for yoga teachers and devoted practitioners, this training provides a comprehensive foundation in the anatomy, physiology, energetics, and lived realities of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Participants will learn how to support pregnant bodies through yoga with clarity, confidence, and respect.

Module One: Foundations

October 17–18

This module establishes the essential ground from which prenatal yoga teaching emerges.

• Anatomy of the womb and female pelvis

• Foundational physiology and the energetics of pregnancy and birth

• Posture and breath as pillars of support, stability, and form

Participants develop a clear understanding of the pregnant body as adaptive, intelligent, and inherently wise.

Module Two: Transitions

November 21–22

Pregnancy is a continual state of change. This module explores how to meet these transitions with sensitivity and skill.

• Hormonal realities and the trimesters of pregnancy

• Benefits and considerations of prenatal yoga practice

• Supporting the pregnant body from conception through birth

Module Three: Support

December 5–6

This module focuses on safety, confidence, and nervous system awareness.

• Essential considerations and contraindications for prenatal yoga

• Intelligent sequencing for the pregnant body

• Supporting the pregnant psyche through breath, embodiment, and presence

Participants learn how to hold space for both the physical and emotional landscape of pregnancy.

Module Four: Integration

January 15–16

The final module widens the lens beyond birth and into postpartum care and teaching integrity.

• Postpartum physiology and orienting to life after birth

• Functional movement and restorative support for all birth outcomes

• The art of teaching prenatal yoga: theming, voice, and clarity

This is a specialized prenatal yoga teacher training, not a general yoga teacher training. While participants will learn how to sequence, theme, and support prenatal yoga classes, this training does not cover the full spectrum of teaching yoga.

Participants are expected to arrive with:

• A personal yoga or movement practice

• An interest in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care

• A willingness to learn through embodiment, inquiry, and lived experience

Alli Shafer is a mother and longtime practitioner of the healing arts. For over a decade, she has served as a yoga teacher, with a spiritual path that deeply informs how she lives, teaches, and tends community.

Her work in birth and postpartum care emerged through her own journey into motherhood and the ongoing, living prayer of mothering itself. From this place, Alli recognizes the necessity of holistic tending, functional movement, breath biomechanics, and community education throughout the childbearing continuum.

Alli is a certified Innate Postpartum Care provider, holistic birth doula, and prenatal yoga teacher. She engages in women’s health and birth trainings yearly, carrying forward the legacy of the remarkable women who have shaped her path. This training is offered in devotion — to the practices, the lineages, and the lived wisdom that informs them.