About this retreat
Whole Mama Yoga is yoga, community, and commiseration for all phases of parenthood and motherhood– from preconception to parenting.
Through our Whole Mama Yoga website (www.wholemamayoga.com), we offer yoga sequences, tips, and philosophy for our readers on the path of parenthood and motherhood looking for fertility support, prenatal help, postnatal support, or community.
Our mission is to provide yoga resources, education, and community during all parts of motherhood. We believe in supporting parenthood and motherhood in an authentic way, and we strive to recognize the beauty, challenge, and absurdity in the experience of being a parent or mom.
Our Whole Mama Yoga Teacher Training goes above and beyond! This unique offering is perfect for yoga teachers, doulas, childbirth educators, and other care providers. Our Whole Mama Yoga training goes beyond the traditional offerings of a prenatal yoga teacher training, and supplies students with much-needed information for their childbearing-age clients. This course is an 85-hour training in accordance with the Prenatal Teacher
Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA). All weekends are required to fulfill the standards of the prenatal 85-hour training as outlined by YA.
The needs, joys, and challenges specific to women and birth parents before, during, and after childbearing offers teachers the opportunity to affect and deeply connect with these folks during these momentous, transformational times in life. This 85 hour intensive will focus on a wide range of yoga for women and birth parents in all phases and stages of parenthood and motherhood—from fertility and preconception to prenatal and postnatal yoga to yoga for parent and baby and beyond. It meets the requirements of the Prenatal Teacher Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA).
This unique offering is perfect for yoga teachers, doulas, childbirth educators, and other care providers. Our Whole Mama Yoga training goes beyond the traditional offerings of a prenatal yoga teacher training, and supplies students with much-needed information for their childbearing-age clients.
The 2026 Yoga Training will meet online for the first two weekends, and in person, at the lovely Sfeer Yoga Studio in Chapel Hill, for the final weekend.
The training will be held on the following dates in 2026:
- February 6 - 8
- March 6 - 8
- April 17 - 19
With a strong emphasis on reproductive justice & empowering, evidence-based research, our yoga teacher training sets our graduates up for success!
What they offer
Full-time (usually intensive/immersion), Part-time (spread out over time), Weekends only, Modules (several, shorter immersions), Non-residential (trainees commute to the program)
Yoga styles taught
Flow Yoga, Alignment-Oriented Yoga, Spiritually-Oriented Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Specialty Yoga