Body Awareness Birth™ Institute Educator Certification

Membership to the Body Awareness Birth™ Institute awarded to those who within 18 months from attending workshop successfully complete all the certification requirements as follows:

• Attend 3-day Body Awareness Birth™ Yoga Educator and Mother Support™ Specialist Workshop

• Pass written exam given during workshop

• Participate in 8 hours of prenatal yoga/exercise sessions in your community

• Document 24 hours teaching prenatal/postpartum

• Observe 2 hours of a childbirth class

• Support 4 women during birth

• Turn in 12 student e-forms

• Sign Body Awareness Birth™ Yoga Educator & Mother Support™ Specialist Commitment Agreement

Complete Required Reading

Books and supplies available for purchase at our bookstore

• Women Know How to Give Birth by Body Awareness Birth™Institute (Available 2010)

• Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn by Penny Simkin, 2001

• Step-By-Step Yoga For Pregnancy by Wendy Teasdill, 2000

• Breathe Your Way Through Birth with Yoga by Julie Llewellyn-Thomas, 2007

• Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby, Jyothi Larson, 2002

Complete Required DVD

• Anna Getty’s Pre & Postnatal Workout, 2007

Recommended Reading

• Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, 2004

Recommended DVD’s

• Yoga for Pregnancy Labor and Birth by Colette Crawford, 2005

• The New Method Pre & Post Natal Yoga by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, 2002

Continue Learning

A minimum of 8 related continuing education units every 2 years such as: prenatal yoga, doula, childbirth, meditation, birth hypnosis, etc.