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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- Hours count towards 300–hour certification or CPD hours.
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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"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"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"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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Course details
- Postpartum recovery poses to support birthing parents in rebuilding strength safely, mindful of both natural births and Caesareans
- Calming techniques to ease common postpartum discomforts and support nervous–system regulation
- Parent–and–baby practices, using yoga to turn unsettled moments into peaceful bonding experiences
- Sequencing for Mum & Baby classes –structuring a class arc that supports both parent and baby
- Breath, sound and touch as tools for early connection
- Setting up your teaching environment and the practical details that make a postnatal space feel safe
- Healthy movement patterns for the postnatal months
- The postpartum body including what's recovering, what's vulnerable, what to honour
- Pelvic floor, abdominal separation (diastasis recti) and Caesarean–aware practice
- Hormones in the postnatal period
- Physical changes in the postnatal period
- Postural shifts and common areas of tension in new parents
- Healthy movement patterns for the postnatal months
- Contraindications and recommendations
- Practising yoga with your baby
- Physiology & Anatomy (0-3 years)
- Neural, Motor, Sensory, Social & Emotional Development in babies
- Language & Communication
- Holding space with sensitivity and respect and supporting all birthing parents across gender identities and family shapes
- Trauma–aware language and presence – meeting people where they are after a wide range of birth experiences
- Ethical considerations in working with vulnerable populations including confidentiality, scope of practice, when to refer on
- Class planning and structure for Postnatal Yoga and Mum & Baby Yoga
- Communication with new parents and language that reassures, normalises and empowers
- Pacing for the room and adjusting to tiredness, feeding, soothing
- Building a class community that parents want to return to
- Practical resources for marketing, scheduling and establishing your offering
- Guided teaching practice with constructive feedback in a small, supportive group
- Peer learning and discussion drawing on the experience of the room
- Justine Sipprell will be introducing women to the Hypopressive post-natal method.
- Michaela Kalusová Will lecture on pre and perinatal psychology and the support of women who have experienced sexual or birth trauma.
- Led by Alexa Dean, supported by two specialist guest teachers
- 2–hour online introductory session via livestream
- 2 days of in–studio teaching at the Shala
- Lectures, demonstrations and practical exercises
- Group discussion in a small, intimate cohort
- Comprehensive training manual and class–planning resources
- Ongoing support from Alexa following the course
- Yoga Alliance–accredited training
- Hours count towards 300–hour certification or CPD YACEP
- Certificate of completion issued on fulfilment of attendance
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