The Yoga of Birth

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

Are you a yoga teacher & want to learn the art of teaching prenatal yoga & empowering women for birth?

The Yoga of Birth Training is comprehensive 50 hour training designed to give yoga teachers the practical skills, resources and confidence to teach safe, nourishing, meaningful and empowering prenatal yoga classes.

Registered with Yoga Australia, this training has received rave reviews since it was first offered in 2012. Anahata has taught yoga for 20 years, prenatal yoga for 15 years and she welcomes yoga teachers from all yoga backgrounds to this unique training.

The Yoga of Birth training gives you:

  • A holistic teaching repertoire tailored to the needs of pregnant women including: postures, movement, breathing, pelvic floor practices, meditation, relaxation, sound practices, all infused with empowering birthing messages

  • Safe, empowering and deeply relevant asana and vinyasa sequences that encourage optimal foetal positioning and adapted to all stages of pregnancy and all levels of yoga experience

  • Comprehensive 50 hour training over 3 days and including self study at home done at your pace

  • Certificate of Completion that qualifies yoga teachers to teach prenatal yoga

  • A supportive circle for deep exploration and consciousness raising around the social context of birth and how to empower women in the birth choices

  • Skills to address the therapeutic needs of pregnant women including contraindications, common ailments and pelvic stability

  • Ways to support, educate and empower women for birthing

  • Practices to explore the breath and meditation as ways to embrace the intensity of birth and for natural pain management

  • A foundation for an effective postnatal practice including practices for regeneration and pelvic and abdominal health

  • Access to ongoing support and mentoring online

  • A 90+ page training manual

  • 50 CPD points for Yoga Australia members

  • What a powerful training, what a wonderful teacher! The Yoga for Birth Training was inspiring. It was rich with pregnancy/birth-specific practices and many excellent suggestions on how to support women's all-round wellbeing during this time in their lives. It was comprehensive and detailed while leaving plenty of room for different teachers and teaching styles to express themselves fully. Thank you for your warmth and your wisdom! I feel genuinely inspired and equipped to provide a safe, nourishing and empowering practice to women on their journey through pregnancy and birth.

    Melanie Robinson, Yoga of Birth Training, 2014

  • I feel very fortunate to have taken your prenatal yoga teacher training course. As a midwife, I was amazed at your thorough knowledge and I found it both inspiring and very educational. I would like to thank you again for your kindness and encouragement and look forward to using my new found knowledge to safely guide women through their prenatal yoga journey.

    - Helen Fletcher, Midwife, Yoga of Birth Training 2013

  • The prenatal training with Anahata was outstanding. As a woman who has never had children, this training gave me the opportunity to dive deep into exploring the experience of pregnancy, giving birth and yoga as a wonderful tool to support woman through this sacred process. The training was very thorough and flowed beautifully. Anahata guided us through prenatal yoga classes, provided a very comprehensive manual, and facilitated sharing and growth as a group and as individual teachers. This training has enriched my teaching, my personal yoga practice and opened me up to new and wonderful ways of viewing pregnancy and birth.

    Ingrid Jolley, Yoga of Birth Training, 2012

  • Thank you Anahata for a wonderful teacher training course. Your very practical approach, which included pretty much everything (asanas, meditation, relaxation, philosophy, personal experience, written and video material) suited me very well and I am now, not just confident but very keen, to start teaching my own prenatal classes. Also your availability after the course as a mentor is a big advantage. I learned about your course word-by-mouth, and will definitely tell my yoga friends who would like to specialise in prenatal yoga.

    - Nina Hakamines, Yoga of Birth Training, 2016

  • Thank you so much Anahata for a wonderful and comprehensive prenatal yoga teacher training. I believe your Yoga of Birth training is invaluable preparation and a "must" for yoga teachers planning to teach prenatal classes. I now feel confident that I will be offering my students well thought out classes based on a sound understanding of safe poses and alignment for the many special circumstances that might accompany pregnancy.

    Caroline Calnan, Yoga of Birth Training 2013

  • The Yoga of Birth Training was incredible. Thorough and inspiring, informative and moving; the elements focus provides a perfect structure from which to both view the journey of pregnancy and birth, and guides the teacher in planning classes effectively. Really balanced and beautiful approach, especially the emphasis on birth and empowerment. I left the training with greater confidence, inner strength, self trust, awareness, ability to surrender, and felt myself becoming gentler, more grounded and able to nurture the nurturer. I am so honoured to teach prenatal yoga. Together we celebrate the miraculous gift of life that flows through us: embodied, luminous, Divine.”

    Lesley Fox, Yoga of Birth Training 2012

  • The Yoga of Birth training was wonderful, informative and inspiring. Anahata provided a perfect blend of practice and theory with enthusiasm and encouragement to bring my own style to my teaching.”

    Belinda Blackburn, Yoga of Birth Training 2012

  • The Yoga of Birth Training far exceeded my expectations.  The relevance of movement, breath, meditation and sound work during pregnancy and its relevance to the birth experience was thorough, insightful and practical.  This is not just training on how to modify yoga for pregnant women, but rather training that teaches and empower women to be physically, emotionally and spiritually strong in the lead up to birth.  Anahata is a supportive, caring and passionate teacher.  I certainly came away from the workshop inspired by her passion and knowledge.

    Lee Copeland, Yoga of Birth Training, 2017

  • Thank you Anahata for this great workshop! Your teaching style is down to earth, clear and practical. You offered safe & interesting sequencing, useful sound practices, along with simple yet potent meditations, all of which are invaluable tools for pregnancy and birth. I’m very excited to commence teaching prenatal yoga with complete confidence thanks to this integrated workshop.

    Jodie Murray, Yoga of Birth Training, 2012

  • Anahata Giri's Yoga of Birth training was a truly enrichening experience. I came away with practical tools & knowledge to apply directly to my teaching. But more profoundly was given the opportunity to re-explore my own experience of becoming a mother which reaffirmed how vital yoga is on this sacred journey.

    Renee Willner, Yoga of Birth Training 2012

  • Thank you, Anahata for such a wonderfully insightful and empowering training. I feel confident to safely guide women through a prenatal class and be a resource for them during their pregnancy. The content of the training is rich, covering so many aspects of yoga and pregnancy. You are a divine teacher and I am grateful you are sharing your years of wisdom by training teachers.”

    Tara Stubbs

  • Heartfelt thanks to you for the most amazing prenatal yoga teacher training!  I did not expect the depth of information I have taken away with me.  Even though I have completed over 1000 hours of training I know I was not prepared to teach a pregnancy yoga class prior to attending your workshop.   I feel confident that I can hold space for any pregnant woman who wishes to practise yoga during this special time in her life.

    Your course was SO much better than I expected.  I will be forever grateful to have met you and studied with you.

    Anna Speranza

Birth is meditation in action

This photo is of me giving birth to my son in 2007. Since then I have combined my passion for prenatal yoga and active birthing, to help yoga teachers empower women through the rite of passage of pregnancy and birth.

When the intensity of childbirth is beyond what we ever imagined, yoga and meditation help us connect with a precious inner resource: our fearless awareness. This embrace of life, moment by moment, breath by breath, is meditation in action.

Meditation is not just about being calm: it is a deep willingness to meet the strong sensations, the pain and the intensity, to claim the power of the birthing dance.

♡ Anahata

The Yoga of Birth Training Manual

Over 90 pages filled with beautiful practices and tips from 15+ years prenatal teaching experience, more than 100 photos of yoga postures and sequences, yogic ways to embrace the intensity of birth, detailed breathing, sound and meditation practices, a centrefold photo story of an empowered birth and so much more…

Yoga of Birth Training 2025

Dates: This is 3 day training from 9.30am-5.00pm each day. Dates for 2025 are to be confirmed. For a group of 6+ yoga teachers I am happy to do a date that suits your group.

Location: Croydon Hills, address given on booking, OR if you are a yoga studio owner and would like to host in exchange for discounted places please contact me.

Price: $885 includes: comprehensive 3 day in person training and professional development registered with Yoga Australia that qualifies yoga teachers to teach prenatal yoga, relevant home study and assessments, certification, extensive 90+ page manual, morning/afternoon teas.

♡ Special Offer ♡ Word of mouth has kept this training going since 2012 so: if you bring one or more yoga colleagues to the training you and each of your friends will receive a $50 discount. If you have a whole group of 6+ teachers in Melbourne I am happy to run it at a date/location that suits your group. Interstate interest is also welcomed.

Anahata Giri - Yoga Bio

Anahata began yoga when she was 19 years old and for 30+ years has immersed in a holistic practice of asana, meditation, pranayama, spiritual teachings and sound practice.

She has led yoga classes, retreats, kirtan for more than 20 years, prenatal yoga for 15 years and the Yoga of Birth training for 10+ years. Her yoga practice and teaching is a profound synthesis of embodied, heart-based and spiritual wisdom, infused with presence and love. She is passionate about sharing yoga as a powerful practice for birth and for the rite of passage of becoming a mother. She is a member of Yoga Australia as both a yoga teacher and yoga therapist.

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