AFTERGLOW: The Perinatal Yoga Training
Afterglow [n]: a pleasant effect or feeling that lingers after something is experienced
It's time that the perinatal period and early motherhood become synonymous with healing, inner wisdom, embarking on a new life, embracing a new identity, and trusting the integration.
This is contrary to fertility, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum societally becoming synonymous with hardship, struggle, anxiety, depression, isolation, and overwhelm.
Afterglow is breaking harmful generational patterns that have left women and mothers feeling alone, neglected, not heard, and not seen. We’re returning to ancient ways and traditions that support the well-being of women, mothers and children. When mothers thrive, children thrive. When children thrive, humanity thrives.
If you are here, you are a part of this disruption. We need you as a mother, as a yoga teacher, as a therapist, as a birth-worker, as an example, sharing that there is a lifegiving way to navigate this potent portal.
You are ensuring that healing begins in your family system or in your professional practice. You are changing the trajectory for you, your children, your grandchildren, your clients and patients by taking your own embodied action. Thank you.
With roots in the ancient wisdoms of yoga therapy and Ayurveda, the Afterglow Perinatal Yoga Training has three main pillars:
Embodiment: Movement, yoga, breathwork, and meditation practices appropriate for fertility, preconception, pregnancy and postpartum that supports all layers of self for you and for those you serve
Awareness: Inspired Perinatal Education that goes beyond basic childbirth ed and incorporates the Vedic teachings
Belonging: Live lessons, practices, and mentorship weekly; While this is a training, it’s also a place for individual and collective healing
Afterglow Perinatal Yoga is a 6 month // 85 hour training program with an add-on option to receive a certification as an Afterglow perinatal yoga provider.
Who is Afterglow for?
The Afterglow Perinatal Yoga Training is for anyone who feels called to support the well-being of mothers and the children. It’s for the mothers and mothers-to-be. It’s for the yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and physical therapists. It’s for the mental health therapists. It’s for the birthworkers, doulas, midwives, nurses, and doctors. It’s for the aunties. It’s for the grandmothers.
It’s for you if:
You want to specialize in perinatal yoga and yoga therapy teaching - preconception, pregnancy, AND postpartum
You have a therapy, yoga therapy, doula, and/or clinical practice and want to better support your clients experiencing infertility, perinatal mood disorders, pain, grief, and nurture overall vitality from a holistic lens
You are pregnant or postpartum yourself, and want to feel better in your physical body and facilitate healing
You recognize that the health of the next generation is directly related to the health of the mothers
You seek to expand your own consciousness and awareness in order to support your family and/or clients
You see that the systems designed to “support” women and children are broken, and recognize that we have to reimagine new ones together
At the end of this training:
You will have experimented and witnessed the healing practices of yogic philosophy and introductory Ayurveda for your Self
Have established a daily sadhana, practice, so that you can better support your family and clients
You will have learned, integrated and practiced elements of perinatal yoga to take into your own personal and professional life
As a mother or mother-to-be, you’ll feel confident in the choices you make during your perinatal journey, confident in your body, and confident in your ability to mother
As a yoga teacher and/or yoga therapist, you will be able to specialize in perinatal yoga therapy for your private practice*
As a yoga teacher and/or yoga therapist, you will be able to safely support perinatal clients
As a professional, you will expand your toolkit to include the tools of yoga therapy and Ayurveda
*In order to TEACH perinatal yoga physical practices and intermediate to advanced breathwork/meditation, you must complete the CERTIFICATION add-on for the safety of all
The Afterglow Curriculum
Investment
Regular Rate: $1800 for 85 hour training
EARLY BIRD RATE: $1500 until July 1, 2024
Payment Plans are available. Initial Payment of $300 required. Inquire to set up a plan for you.
Our Virtual Class Sessions will begin on Thursday, September 12, 2024.
We will meet on Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. - noon EST.
We’ll have live classes three weeks on, then one week off.
You are required to attend at least 20 hours live.
Calendar:
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
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Hi there. I’m Leanne and I’ll be your guide.
I’m a perinatal yoga practitioner, devoted to women’s health and maternal well-being. As a teacher, birth doula, Ayurvedic practitioner, infant + child sleep specialist, and creative consultant, I’ve worked with hundreds of women over the years in varying capacities. My work has been featured in Mother.ly, Yoga Girl, the Seattle NICU, Expectful, and more. I’m a mama to Bodhi and Uma who inspired me to create Afterglow.
None of this would be possible without the teachers who have nurtured my learning and growth in yoga/yoga therapy, Ayurveda, Tantra, meditation, and birthwork. Thank you to Chinnamasta Stiles, Michele Lawrence and the faculty of Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, Rachel Wilson, Lorenza Holt, Chandresh Bhardwaj, and Rachelle Garcia Seliga. Thank you to my family who are perhaps the greatest teachers of all - my partner, my children, my mother and father.
Testimonials
“When I was debating the commitment to Afterglow I would describe myself as exhausted (in all senses of the word), wounded, and hopeful that this didn't have to be the way.
I knew that I was supported and loved by many around me, and also knew that the healing that truly needed to happen had to come from within. Now that I've gone through the experience of Afterglow and continuing to practice what I've learned, I feel far more grounded, balanced, and empowered in the sense that I know the chaos and stress will continue, however, I now am able to recognize and translate my body and minds' signals and am gaining a better sense of how to effectively address these signals to work towards balance.
I'm in a position where I not only have a much deeper sense of myself, but also a better sense of how to most effectively and lovingly be there for those around me, including my clients.
When Leanne shares that there are many subtle layers of what we experience she is so right! Throughout Afterglow I went through emotional, energetic, physical, and intuitive challenges and awakenings that ultimately lead me to having a better sense of how to find ease and joy in my life.”
-Chrissy, LMFT
“Overall, I feel less burdened and am looking at mothering and life with a lighter and more joyful perspective. In some ways, I also feel ANGRIER than ever about the injustices (of mothering, especially) that we have faced and that others could face, too.
I think Leanne would say, ‘sit with that anger’ ;) I have so many takeaways from our time together. Afterglow has given me a much needed and refreshing reminder that my happiness, joy, and satisfaction start with ME--things that are easy to lose when we are pouring ourselves into everything else except ourselves!
Leanne, I am inspired by your knowledge, wisdom, and compassion and the way you keep expanding your personal education and programming as you see the need in yourself and in others. I immediately felt the love and support of other brilliant & radiant women, and I feel grateful to know you. Afterglow, for me, has been a shining example of the way we root for each other. GLOW ON!”
-Kay, Musician, Veteran
“I came into Afterglow 21 weeks pregnant, and unsure about a lot - I was just living on the surface and enjoying my pregnancy, but had deeper thoughts and concerns and uncertainties about the world of motherhood. I'm so glad I was open-minded and fully committed to Afterglow.
Now, 11 weeks later, I feel so much more supported, knowledgeable (of both practical things and of myself), grounded, and READY. I can't say how I would feel right now having NOT done Afterglow, but I can say that it was a pivotal aspect of my pregnancy journey and I am so grateful for all the work I personally put into myself, for Leanne's support, knowledge, and guidance, and the sharing of experiences and advice from the other women. I am so glad I made the investment in myself and in my first pregnancy to do this program!”
-Cornelia, Artist
FAQs
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The Afterglow Yoga virtual training begins in September 2024 and lasts for six months. We meet on Thursdays at 10 a.m. - noon EST. You can expect a mix of lecture, conversation, practice, and experiential work (it won’t all be in front of a screen!).
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You will have access to the online manual for as long as it exists! You are welcome to download those pages, as well. You will have access to videos for two weeks following each release.
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One year of yoga practice (on your own is fine) is required to join this training. An innate curiosity and desire to serve women and mothers is also important.
All who complete the 85 training will receive an Afterglow Perinatal Yoga Training Certificate of Completion.
All those who want to certify as Afterglow Teachers and Professionals are required another 15 hours of study and mentorship to receive an Afterglow Perinatal Yoga Certification and Badge.
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This is a packed, potent, intimate journey in which you will not only be receiving access to a large amount of material but also – a large amount of energy.
For those who need it, we have early bird options and Payment Plans available. You may also consider crowdfunding or fundraising for your tuition.
If you truly aren’t resourced, please email Leanne to discuss a scholarship option.
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You may receive a full refund prior to the training’s start. After the start of the program, we do not allow refunds, but you may gift or sell the program to another.
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Yoga Alliance has Registered Yoga Schools for general yoga teaching (200 hour + 500 hour). A school can also register as a Prenatal Yoga School or a Kids Yoga School.
Afterglow Perinatal Yoga Training is none of the above; however, we are considering the accreditation process for Yoga Alliance’s Prenatal Yoga School. There are many reasons why we may not go this route: namely the high cost to accreditation for new schools, the lack of YA attention to preconception and postpartum health, the way YA allocates its finances and so on.
Instead, we aim to provide a program steeped in yogic and Vedic traditions, physiology, anatomy, childbirth education and awareness, and more that shifts the way women are cared for in all settings (studios, therapy offices, homes, doctor’s offices, prenatal appointments, by their peers, and so on).
Afterglow is a Perinatal program, something that has not existed until now (at least not that I’ve seen), but is incredibly needed with the rate of infertility, postpartum health crisis, and the overall state of perinatal health.
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You will receive an Afterglow Perinatal Yoga Training Certificate of Completion at the close of the 85 hour training.
If you choose to become Afterglow Certified, then you’ll receive a Certificate, badge for your website and will be listed as a Perinatal Yoga trained teacher and/or provider on this website. This certification requires the completion of case studies with mentorship, and a brief presentation. We want to refer others to your services in your local communities.