The Ma Yoga Online Prenatal Certification Program
A uniquely nurturing deep dive into feminine wisdom and power
“I love the profound wisdom of the methodology and Jessica, its founder. The Ma Yoga approach is not only beneficial in the time around giving birth, it can change your whole perspective on life.”
– Ann-Christin G.
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Summer schedules can be really unpredictable (which is good! Hopefully you’ve got some fun in store), so our training is self-paced only until September 13. If you’d like to be Certified by the end of 2023, you still can – do a training over the summer on your own time, and this fall join us live on Zoom for the rest of the 85-hour RPYT Program.
Prenatal yoga training should be more than lists and do's and don'ts.
The Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification Program (RPYT) was created in 2012 to provide not just lists of poses and sequences, but also alignment principles that help teachers feel confident guiding and inspiring pregnant students.
The syllable “Ma” in almost every language means “mother”. In Sanskrit it also means “the highest, most powerful and wise.”
Ma Yoga isn’t just about learning to be a mother to a baby. It’s about learning to mother ourselves.
The Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification program will give you so much more than do’s and don’ts.
You’ll learn principles and practices that help moms-to-be relieve aches and pains, support optimal positioning for baby, prepare for labor and motherhood – and become the “Ma” they want to be.
What opportunity does pregnancy bring?
Turn nurturing energy inward
You’ll receive personal support and guidance from Ma Yoga Founder Jessica Jennings, MS, ERYT, RYPT, plus other Ma Yoga teachers and experts throughout your 85-hour journey as you incorporate simple but powerful principles into your practice and your life.
Follow your own path
You can join us live on Zoom calls, watch the videos and stay with your group, or do it on your own time. You’ll have lifetime access to all course materials and the supportive Ma Yoga community all the same.
Align with your power and wisdom
You’ll not only feel confident teaching yoga to pregnant mamas and new moms, you’ll learn alignment principles and practices that help you be a powerful co-creator in your own life, no matter what you’re pregnant with: a baby, a project, or a new way of offering your gifts to the world.
- Masters in Kinesiology with focus on rehab exercise and pregnancy
- Certified Anusara yoga teacher with 10,000+ hours of alignment-based yoga training
- Certified Personal Trainer
- Certified Feminine Power Transformational Group Facilitator
- Yoga Alliance ERYT, RPYT, YACEP Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider
- Mom
Hi I’m Jessica Jennings. I’m so glad you found me!
I created Ma Yoga® as a new mom in 2009 to help women feel nurtured and connected, get stronger inside and out, relieve their own aches and pains, and become the “Ma” they want to be.
More than 25,000 pregnant mamas and new moms have come through our classes, and learned simple but powerful practices that help them feel supported, grounded, and spacious.
Ma Yoga is based in the five elements of nature, and teaches simple alignment actions to bring space, steadiness, watery playful energy, firey power and freedom into every pose.
When you learn these principles – what I call the “Five Sacred Steps” – you will have a guide for every co-creative act, from teaching a pose to writing a poem to being a mom to fulfilling your own deepest desires for your life.
20+
years teaching prenatal yoga
17+
years training teachers
25,000+
Ma Yoga students
The Five Sacred Steps of Alignment will help you...
…adjust yoga poses for different trimesters, skill-levels and physical limitations
…teach inspiring prenatal yoga classes
… relieve common pregnancy aches, including wrist, back, shoulder and neck pain
… prevent and heal postpartum issues
… reconnect to your own highest, most powerful, wise and nurturing “Ma” Self
Even if you’ve never had kids, taught yoga OR taken a yoga teacher training, you will become an expert in yoga for women in their childbearing years.
The Ma Yoga Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training Journey
- Pregnancy
Teach mamas to make space for baby plus create a strong container for baby. Address common pregnancy conditions including depression, anxiety and aches and pains. Help moms-to-be enjoy this exciting time.
- Labor
One in three women report that their birth was traumatic, and Black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Help women learn to breathe through intense sensation, gather a nurturing team, and connect to their “ROAR” – so they are ready for an empowering birth.
- Postpartum
One in seven mothers experience postpartum depression – and anxiety is becoming even more common. Help women incorporate nurturing practices and routines in advance so they can heal completely postpartum, and help new moms build their bodies back better than ever.
What People Say
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This is the best prenatal teacher training program around. Extensive and gives you the added business support to create your own pre and postnatal yoga business in your community. Outstanding.
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I could never have imagined learning the way I did and becoming so invested in the work through a computer! I feel blessed to have found you and that our paths have crossed.
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The training has not only given me the preparation to step confidently into guiding expectant and new moms in their practice, but it has given me the gifts of personal growth and healing on my own journey.
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We all are so blessed to have you in our lives; especially the MAyurveda principles and practices with all of the shifts that are occurring. Thank you for going beyond your head and letting your heart and intuition guide you into sharing these principles with us.
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The support you receive from the Ma Yoga community after you complete training is unparalleled. Every instructor is incredibly skilled and passionate. They are truly committed to building a suppose system for moms and teachers.
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As a working mom of a baby and 3 year old, I felt overwhelmed before this course. Before you know it you’ve incorporated all the anchor practices into your life and it’s such a small investment to do so! My kids and I are eating so healthy now. Thank you Jess!
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This training is so well put together, the information is infinite, and I have a whole new love for pregnancy and motherhood. I can't wait to one day teach with and be part of Ma Yoga!
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Thanks again for such a great teacher training. It was so wonderful to see both of my passions, yoga and Obstetrics, come to life together. I learned a great deal from you!
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Jessica, the alignment principles I learned in The Yoga of Healing were completely evolutionary for my practice in mind, body, and spirit. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for this priceless gift. I hope some day to embody a fraction of the goddess energy that radiates from you.
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The 5 Sacred Steps
The Healing Alignment
The Self-Care Practices
The Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification (RPYT) Program Training Modules:
Each of the four trainings is 3-weeks, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Join live on Zoom or watch the videos.
Learn to teach safe, strengthening, inspiring prenatal yoga.
- Emphasize a different alignment action for each trimester
- Create inspiring prenatal themes to deepen your students’ experience
- Prepare mamas for labor and postpartum physically and mentally
Support the body’s ability to heal, expecially for women’s changing bodies and lives.
- Explore powerful alignment principles to relieve common aches & pains
- Prevent and heal postpartum conditions
- Address anxiety, inertility, diastisis recti (abdominal wall splitting) and more
Incorporate Ayurvedic self-care to find more energy + vibrant wellness.
- Uncover food-as-medicine routines
- Discover powerful but easy Ayurvedic self-care practices
- Align with natural daily rhythms so you can experience more power behind your intentions and actions
Take an empowering journey through birth, guided by two birth doulas.
- Learn non-judgmental, evidence-based pro’s and con’s of every choice
- Explore mantras, meditations and movements to help birthing people cope
- Process your own emotions around birth
- Ma Mentorship: 1-on-1 mentor with Certified Ma Yoga Teacher (read more)
- Optional weekly office hours with Jessica
- Private online community: lifetime membership
- Six months Ma Collective Membership: monthly Masterclasses and nurturing business coaching, weekly live yoga and teaching resources
- Over 50 pages of handouts and guides
- Opportunity for paid teaching online with free tech training – plus expanding your reach and impact
If this is your first yoga teacher training...
Completing the four trainings above plus your mentorship and class visits fulfills the requirements for Ma Yoga® Certified Instructor/Yoga Alliance RPYT. Yoga Alliance does require a regular 200-hour training to get the RPYT designation, which you can take anytime. Ma Yoga provides a solid foundation for any future yoga teaching or training you might do, and gives you all the tools you need to teach your own “Mama Circle” right away – you can even apply to teach with us on our online platform after your mentorship.
Are you:
- A yoga teacher who wants to be less nervous with pregnant women in your classes?
- A birth worker - doulas, midwife, RN, or any other practitioner - who wants to have more tools in your toolbag?
- Pregnant or a mom, wanting a deeper understanding of how yoga supports us on the journey to motherhood and beyond?
- Anyone drawn to guiding, supporting and inspiring moms and moms-to-be?
The Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification Pathway...
- START YOUR FREE 5-DAY TRAINING
Jump right in with our FREE 5-day Prenatal Yoga Training and earn 3 hours toward RPYT or CE. - REGISTER FOR CERTIFICATION
Learn in live-stream trainings or self-paced recordings – or both. Lifetime access means you can re-visit material again and again. Start with any training. - TEACH ONLINE WITH US
After your Ma Mentorship you’ll probably feel ready to teach, and you can apply to teach on our online platform or get help starting your own in-person Mama Circle.
Let's make space for what's wanting to be born through you.
FAQs
Yes, the four 3-week trainings are all online, and you can take them either live on Zoom, watch them on your own time – or both.
If you prefer to be live on Zoom but you get busy during the training, just reach out and we’ll put you on the roster for the next one.
Yes, the Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga Certification (RPYT) Program was created in collaboration with Yoga Alliance in 2012. This means if you have your RYT, this program fulfills the requirements for your RPYT Certification.
You don’t need any previous training or experience to take this course, and get all the tools you need to start teaching mamas.
While you can’t get the RPYT letters after your name unless you have your RYT, you can say you are Ma Yoga Certified, and to anyone who is familiar with prenatal yoga trainings this means the highest quality.
If you do decide to do a regular training in the future, you’ll have a leg up as you will learn foundational alignment principles that will help you in any trainings or teaching you do.
If you do choose to do a 200-hour yoga teacher training (RYT) down the road, you can submit your Ma Yoga Certificate to Yoga Alliance and get your RPYT at that time.
If you feel drawn to teaching prenatal yoga, we highly recommend that you start with this training as the principles you learn are easier to learn first, as a basis for all yoga practices.
When you register for the Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga Certification Program, you get INSTANT access to:
- The Yoga of Pregnancy & Postpartum Training
- The Yoga of Healing for Women Training
- Mayurveda: an Ayurveda Training for Busy Women Training
- The Yoga of Birth
You can take any of the above self-paced, live with us, or both throughout your Certification year.
After YOP and YOH, you can schedule your Ma Mentorship.
Finally, when you register for the whole program, you’ll have six months to enjoy Ma Collective Membership with monthly Masterclasses, business coaching, yoga and tons of resources for studying and teaching.
Yes. With modules in Mom + Baby Yoga as well as preschool yoga and postpartum healing, you will know exactly what and how to teach yoga to new moms.
Here’s what’s NOT included when you register for the Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga Certification Program:
Requirements not included:
- six prenatal yoga classes ($50-ish with your Ma Member discount)
- $50 Certification Fee at the end (this is waived if you choose to write a blog).
Each of the four trainings is three weeks, twice-a-week – Wednesdays and Saturdays.
If you can’t make it to any of the sessions, you can watch the videos and stay in the nurturing current of the group.
OR, you can watch them whenever it’s convenient for you.
You have a year to complete your Certification program.
Go up to Upcoming Events for dates, discounts and times – and to register!
Yes, as soon as you register for the Ma Yoga Online Prenatal Yoga Certification (RPYT) Program, you’ll receive instant access to our prenatal teacher training, therapy for women and Ayurveda self-care for moms courses.
You can choose to do them at your own pace, join us on Zoom or stay with us by watching the videos at home.
There’s a short quiz at the end of each session that you take to get credit, whether you were there live or you watched the video.
Either way, you can be part of the ongoing conversation in our training Circles.
You have one year from the first day of your first LIVE training to complete your Certification.
However, you have evergreen access to all your trainings and materials, so you can come in and watch sessions for a refresher anytime.
You can even hop in live again – we love to see you!
Once you join the Ma Yoga community, you’re part of it as long as you want to be.
All the materials are available and since they’re changing all the time, you can keep learning by watching new sessions you’re interested in.
You can choose to teach online prenatal yoga classes with us and have quarterly gatherings where we share ways to expand your impact. Plus, you get free Ma Collective Membership, which includes monthly Masterclasses, business coaching, all of our live yoga classes and Ma Yoga Anytime.
Even if you don’t end up teaching with us, you will have the opportunity to stay on as a Ma Collective Member at the same low cost that regular members pay, as long as you join as a trainee.
We love continuing to support you on your “Ma” path, whatever that may be!
After your Ma Mentorship, you can reach out to start getting your required Yoga Alliance prenatal teaching hours.
There is no cost for the in-depth training you’ll get in online teaching – both in content and technical elements.
You’ll get paid 80% of all the revenue that comes in for your online class.
We believe we can all make a bigger impact when we offer our gifts together.
Teaching with Ma Yoga means you have a nurturing community supporting you as you expand your reach.
Just go up to Event Registration.
Click in to any training and you’ll see dates, times, prices and registration for that individual training OR the whole Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga Certification Program.
After you’ve completed the Ma Yoga Prenatal Certification Program, you’ll have all the tools you need to teach prenatal yoga.
If you don’t have your Yoga Alliance RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher), you won’t be able to get the RPYT (Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher) until you do.
Many yoga studios will require that you have your RPYT, but if you want your own Mama Circle or you just want to share these practices and principles with clients, you’ll be more than ready.
Click here to schedule a call with founder Jessica Jennings. She’ll answer all of your questions and help you determine if the Ma Yoga Prenatal Yoga Certification Program is right for you.
For testimonials, click here.
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