Meet The Instructor: Claire Sandberg, MD

 

Claire is a fertility and perinatal yoga teacher

and the author of the Nurture & Nourish Prenatal Yoga

Teacher Training Program. A lifelong lover of learning

about the human body, mind and spirit she was trained

in Western Medicine in the UK and specialized in

anesthesiology. Claire is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth

Educator and has an integrated approach that weaves

her medical and childbirth knowledge with the

teachings of yoga. Claire believes perinatal yoga

can have a deeply positive impact on the experiences of

pregnant and birthing people and can help parents to

be with themselves, and with their children, in

a more connected, compassionate and mindful way.

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Through this program you will deepen your understanding of the wide variation in lived experiences of pregnancy and birth and the prevailing pregnancy, birth and postnatal care ‘culture’ in the US. This knowledge will be your foundation in creating perinatal classes that seek to serve the true needs of pregnant and birthing people and parents. The Nurture and Nourish program is grounded in a philosophy of offering yoga practices that are crafted specifically for pregnant and postnatal students and not a simple modification of a standard practice. 

 

Expect to take a deep dive into prenatal and postnatal anatomy, physiology and psychology and to use this depth to think critically about how to offer asana, movement, mindfulness practices and meditation for your students. The anatomy and physiology component is supported by modern movement science research with an emphasis on an ‘experiential anatomy’ learning model. This training will equip you to teach groups with a wide variation in gestation and yoga experience using specific tools and strategies to serve everyone in your class.

 

Trauma awareness is foundational to the Nurture and Nourish program. This training addresses racial disparities in maternal and infant health and reproductive trauma in its many forms. Any teacher of perinatal yoga should expect to have trauma show up in their classes. Graduates of this program will recognize this and have the tools to offer trauma-conscious perinatal yoga, be clear about their scope of practice and will ultimately develop a network of referral resources.

 

The Nurture and Nourish program is hosted at The Womb Room - a specialist pregnancy and parenting wellness studio in Baltimore. When you take this training you are connected into The Womb Room’s warm, thriving and ever expanding perinatal community. The studio offers multiple prenatal, postnatal and ‘baby and me ’classes per week and specialist programming for all things pregnancy, birth and parenting. This breadth of programming affords you the opportunity to be deeply immersed in a living, breathing perinatal yoga and mindfulness space as part of your training. 

 

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Schedule

 

The program is delivered over 3 full weekends, all online (due to the health crisis).

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Saturday July 11 - Sunday July 12

Saturday July 25 - Sunday July 26

Saturday August 8 - Sunday August 9

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Fees and Payment

 

Early Bird Rate through June 22:  $995

 

Regular Rate: $1,195

 

A non-refundable deposit of $400 is required to secure your space in the training. The balance is due 7 days before the program begins.

 

If you have questions about the program please feel free to reach out to Claire at claire@nurtureandnourishyoga.com. For payment questions: support@wombroom.mom.

 

FAQs:

 

Can I take this training if I am pregnant?

 

Yes – this is a great training to take during pregnancy.

 

What happens if I unexpectedly miss some of the training?

 

Please plan to be present for all the training hours - we cannot guarantee graduation from the program if hours are missed. Missed hours may be able to be made up in one-to-one sessions charged at a private class rate.

 

Does this training qualify me to be a Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT)?

 

In order to fulfill the requirements for the RPYT designation you will be required to teach 30 hours of prenatal yoga after completion of this training, and have completed a 200hr yoga teacher training. The pathway to becoming registered with Yoga Alliance as an RPYT is detailed here (https://www.yogaalliance.org/Credentialing/For_Teachers/RPYT).

 

Do you offer tuition scholarships?

 

There are two 50% scholarships available for this training.

 

Special consideration is given for scholarship applications from people of color and those expecting to serve vulnerable or marginalized populations. In the US there is significant racial disparity in birth outcomes for both mothers and babies – with higher maternal and infant mortality rates in families of color than in white families. This is particularly pronounced for black women who are 4 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Research has shown that the underlying causes of this disparity are chronic oppression and systemic racism. Everyone has their part to play in dismantling both direct and institutionalized racism and this is addressed as part of this training with regard to the yoga space and birth-work.

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Please email Claire claire@nurtureandnourishyoga.com to request the scholarship application form.

 

You can find references and learn more about the racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality and health here.