
The Yoga of Birth ONLINE Childbirth Class
April 19 - May 6

with Rachelle Luczynski and Melanie Wachsman


Wednesdays and Saturdays, 4pm-5:30pm pt
Or, take it self-paced at your convenience! You can take it live down the road to get support for wherever you're at on your journey, including post-postpartum.
A comprehensive, all-you-need birth preparation course that is objective, no-slant, and evidence based.
You’ll be nurtured and coached as you learn the pro’s and con’s for each challenge and choice, and get clear on what’s right for YOU and your FAMILY.
In addition, you’ll learn yoga practices and principles to support and inspire you through every choice and challenge, and learn no-slant pro’s and con’s that help moms-to-be make choices that are right forth them.
Beautiful, empowering births can happen anywhere. The Yoga of Birth will help you lay the foundations for yours.

This training will help you:
- Understand the pro's and con's of all the choices you'll have around birth, including support teams, birth locations and medical interventions
- Gain powerful tools to dissolve fear and anxiety, so you can relax and access your inner resources
- Find inner and outer strength
- Feel playful through visualizations, postures, meditations, and breathing practices to help labor more forward smoothly
- Prevent and address childbirth related issues like preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes, and diastisis recti (the splitting of the abdominal wall)
- Prepare for complete postpartum healing, easeful breastfeeding and bliss with baby
- Step into your highest, most powerful, wise, and nurturing "Ma" Self
I would absolutely recommend this class for anyone who has pregnant students or clients.
It’s not just how to apply philosophy and asana, it’s a lot about how to get the conversations going and create community.
I feel more confident, and more informed and like I’ve been teaching prenatal longer than I have because I’ve been in these classes and these conversations.
The Yoga of Birth is so empowering for all women, not just those that are pregnant but also for those who support them.
I highly recommend this course to anyone working in the prenatal realm and/or are pregnant themselves; the content is so abundant and so awesome!
In this course I learned such valuable information by such educated and experienced ladies that I cannot wait to implement not only in my upcoming birth of my first child but also in my teaching. High five to this program 🙂
I loved all of the information offered in this course!
It reminded me what impact we can have and having the necessary tools and resources is so important.
These are topics you don’t really talk about with people who aren’t postpartum or teaching it. It’s a very specific time in your life and it was good able to reconnect and get back those feelings.
It was so nice to be in that space, to feel supported and reMember we’re not alone.
I started out the training not being sure if I really wanted to become a prenatal teacher and if I really wanted to go into this very special connection with moms-to-be/ and new moms.
Now, after the Yoga of Birth I’m even thinking that maybe the work of a doula might speak to me.
The Yoga of Birth gave me language to understand my birth experience.
Prior to that course, if I had been asked if my birth experience was traumatic, I would have said ‘no’ because there wasn’t a code red or emergency c-section, or anything like that.
Feeling like I didn’t belong in that category left me, for years, with only the feelings of guilt – and no thought that I deserved or should be seeking comfort or healing for myself.
Now I feel healed in a way I didn’t even know I needed!
I am so happy I chose your training. The Doulas were amazing!!!
So beautiful you can feel the doula love and support from here.
I loved Rachelle and Melanie! I learned so much and had no idea how many options we had. I was ignorant and now I am educated. This course added more value to my toolbox of wonderful things to share and I am glad to be a resource now.
I really appreciated all the stories shared amongst everyone! I felt so safe in this circle. Rachelle and Melanie were amazing, loving, empathetic people and I hope their communication skills rubs off on me.
This program has been amazing. It felt personal, attended to, cared about. I am very happy.
Thank you Melanie and Rachelle for being such supportive and wise leaders on this Yoga of Birth journey. I really enjoyed the application of yoga as a lens through which to approach birth. Layering yoga philosophy, meditation, pranayama, and asana on top of birth has been lovely to learn, since this wasn’t such a direct focus of my previous trainings.
I will take away the importance of integrating the 5 Sacred Steps into my own experience as a birthing person and for my future students so that I can more present and balanced in each moment as they come.
Thanks again for a wonderful experience!
I’ve loved the Yoga of Birth classes! I listened to most the first time around too, and so listening a 2nd time has really helped everything sink in.
I wish I could have attended live, but I still feel I am getting so much just listening to the classes.
I especially love how vulnerable everyone is with sharing during class and in the circle. Helps me feel less alone with my worries!
I’ve also found the homework to be really helpful too, and know the resources will continue to be so valuable.
It’s wonderful that you also offer retakes up to 3 years, as it’s already been so helpful to revisit Yoga of Birth!
Wow. I learned so much through this course! There were so many things I hadn’t even thought of! I feel empowered to share more info with friends and students.
To be honest, a lot of what I learned also scared me a bit about non-surgical births with all that could go wrong and all that is unexpected, but now I also have more tools for the best outcome with a surgical birth too, with delayed cord cutting, swabbing, etc!
Thank you, Melanie and Rachelle and fellow yogis for such a fabulous, eye-opening course!
I’ve now listened about twice, and will definitely revisit resources for myself and others in the future!
Melanie and Rachelle – Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with all of us in this course.
I am so grateful for the wealth of information and the community that is provided as part of this journey.
I was anxious in this new role as a birth doula, and this course reminded me that there is a community of others who have walked this path before me who want nothing more than for me to succeed.
It was so different from the doula training I had done through DONA International, just to see it all through the yoga lens and the fact that you’re both doulas as well was really nice.
[The Yoga of Birth] provided so much insight into the birthing process, options expectant mothers have, and the importance of standing in your power as a strong woman.
I have begun to incorporate more meditation in my day to day and have gained confidence to ask my OBGYN questions relating to my birth plan.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks following the Yoga of Birth course integrating all of the resources and info as I begin to create my own birth plan.
This course was truly transformational and I am so thankful.
Your investment for this training:
If you are taking The Yoga of Birth for certification credit:
$397 OR $347 by April 5 with the Early Bird discount code:
specialYOB
If you’re pregnant and NOT for taking The Yoga of Birth toward teacher certification, you get 50% off!
$397/$197 with discount code:
PregnantYOB
- If you can't make it live, the video will be available that evening
- OR, you can do both! do it self-paced and then join us post-partum to get support for healing physically and mentally
- You have one year from your first training to complete Certification requirements, but you'll have evergreen access to your course area - as long as we're online, it'll be here for you
- May be taken as birth preparation, or for 12 hours of Continuing Education for yoga teachers, or to fulfill the labor education requirement for Ma Yoga®/Yoga Alliance RPYT Prenatal Certification.
- If you are pregnant and NOT taking this course for teacher certification, scroll down for your $100 off. We love having moms-to-be in the room so we can all shower you with love and support!
- In between sessions, a supportive community forum with responses from your birth and parenting expert teachers.
We're excited to teach you how to give mamas the guidance they need - and the support they deserve.
Details
- Start:
- April 19
- End:
- May 6
- Event Category:
- birth prep
- Event Tags:
- teacher training
- Website:
- https://mayoga.com/online-yoga-of-birth-class-online/
Venue
- the Ma Yoga Zoom Room