Postnatal Baby & Me Yoga
with Alexa DeanA two–day in–studio training for teachers, trainees and yoga–loving parents who want to hold space for the postnatal months with skill and tenderness. Led by Alexa Dean, Senior Pregnancy Yoga Teacher and Trainer, Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Educator, you'll learn how to support birthing parents through postpartum recovery and create the warm, well–held classes where parents and babies can bond and belong. Small group, hands–on practice.
Overview
Holding space for new beginnings
The postnatal months are a crucial threshold with a body recovering, a relationship beginning, a parent finding new ground. Teaching yoga into this season asks for more than an adapted yoga sequence; it asks for sensitivity, knowledge and the kind of presence that allows a tired parent to fully exhale. This training gives you the tools to offer exactly that.
Over two days in studio, with a 2–hour online introduction beforehand, Alexa shares the practical, theoretical and intuitive skills she has gathered across two decades of work with birthing parents. She draws on her extensive training with Nadia Narain, YogaBirth, Birthlight, Khalsa Way and the wider lineages of natural childbirth and women's wellness. You'll learn how to guide poses that genuinely support postpartum recovery (mindful of both natural birth and Caesarean), how to weave parent–and–baby practices that turn unsettled moments into peaceful ones, and how to structure and grow a class community that parents return to week after week.
The course stands alone as a Yoga Alliance–accredited training and can also be taken as an optional module on the Shala's 300–hour programme.
My teaching is rooted in a profound respect for the body's intelligence, the sacred nature of birth, and the unique path of every family.
This training equips you to support any birthing parent – across gender identities and family shapes – with sensitivity and respect.
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- £150 deposit reserves your place. Save your bank details at checkout and the balance is taken automatically 21 days before the course starts.
- Prefer a different payment plan? Pay your deposit and email us to arrange. Full payment must be received before the course starts.
- Select bank transfer (BACS) at checkout – it helps us keep course fees down by lowering card processing charges.
- Hours count towards 300–hour certification or CPD hours
- 300–hour students: 10% discount if you've booked 3 trainings (£395+) including one core module. Email us and the discount is applied when the balance is taken.
- Bursary available: one 50% bursary place is offered each year.
- Prefer a different payment plan? Pay your deposit and email us to arrange. Full payment must be received before the course starts.
- Select bank transfer (BACS) at checkout — it helps us keep course fees down by lowering card processing charges.
- Bursary available: one 50% bursary place is offered each year. Learn more →
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After this training, you will have...
A grounded understanding of postpartum recovery, both physical and emotional, across both natural birth and Caesarean, with the confidence to teach safely into that landscape.
A working toolkit for structuring and running successful Mum & Baby Yoga classes – sequencing, parent–baby practices, calming techniques and the details that make a class feel like a sanctuary.
The skills to hold a community, to create the warm, inclusive, week–after–week space where new parents return to soften, connect and be seen.
Yoga Alliance accreditation hours, plus ongoing support from Alexa as you begin to teach this work.
What Our Students Say
What our students say
"Alexa taught us how to build nourishing, safe, woman and baby focused classes. She is a kind, fun and light–hearted trainer who generously shared her platform with others that inhabit the birth world… Alexa's warmth, passion, creativity and zest for (new!) life was transmitted."
Pippa, Post Natal Student"Thank you so much Alexa and The Shala – the Postnatal Yoga training weekend was incredibly supportive, warm and nurturing. I feel equipped to take Alexa's teachings into my own classes."
Post Natal Student"This course was absolutely fantastic. I learnt so much – it is invaluable to me, to my own growth and healing, and within my community. Alexa is so knowledgeable, and easy to be in her energy and teaching space. The guest speakers were also amazing, and being part of a like–minded student body was an amazing plus to it all."
Post Natal Student"Alexa is so passionate and knowledgeable around the subject. She has such a kindness in the way she delivers her trainings and classes, and I am very grateful to have had the chance to learn from her. I'm so happy to have completed this course and excited to start teaching very soon."
LH, Post Natal Student"The Post–Natal course with Alexa was fun, informative and easy to digest. Alexa becomes a mentor and coach – she is so good at keeping in touch and giving advice and guidance following the course"
Post Natal Student"Alexa's teachings come straight from her heart. Her years of experience and practice shine through. For a subject that can feel intimidating, she creates a space for calm consideration, somewhere to let go and share."
Post Natal StudentYour Teacher
Your teacher Alexa Dean
Alongside her work as a pregnancy yoga teacher/trainer and birth doula, Alexa Dean is also a Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator and Massage Therapist. With years of extensive training and over two decades of experience working in women's wellness and birth, she brings a deeply intuitive, evidence–informed and heart–centered approach to pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Alexa consistently empowers women to approach birth as an active, positive and conscious experience.
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