300 hour Yoga for Women’s Wellbeing Therapy Training
The Shakti Yoga for Women’s Wellbeing Diploma course trains teachers to empower women with therapeutic yoga integrated in their daily lives from menarche to perimenopause and beyond.
Our training will guide you to design classes that offer all women unique ways to traverse the hormonal, physiological and emotional changes they inevitably go through during their life cycles.
A comprehensive 100 hour pre- and post natal training is included in the 300 hour programme.
Overview
Our women’s wellbeing therapy program is designed for yoga teachers, therapist, doulas, midwives and those in the holistic health and wellness field.
Yoga helps women actively enhance their vitality as well as addressing common conditions that the female population experiences including pre-conception and post partum issues. Wellness, living with ease and joy, and healing are magical but not mysterious: a path of practice, in an inclusive circle of women, opens the way. Our course is unique as it includes a 100 hour Pre & Postnatal Yoga component.
Shakti Therapy teachers offer classes in general group or private sessions or with a particular focus on their health conditions or stage of pregnancy. The course runs over a 9 month period with 4 months to complete an in depth case study.
Dates: 4th March – 6 December 2025 (weekly classes will run from March until the end of July)
Classes will take place on Mondays and Thursdays from 5:30-8:30pm, and on Saturdays from 10:30am till 1:30pm over a 6 month period
Fees: R18 500 (can be paid in monthly instalments during the 8 month period R1690 per month). A deposit of R5000.00 secures your placement on the course. There is a 10% discount for full, upfront payments made before the 25th of February 2025 (R1850.00 off the total).
What you will learn
Pre conception Diet, lifestyle and spiritual practices
Pregnancy
- Trimester 1, 2 and 3: Anatomical and physiological changes / Complications and issues / Yoga Asanas, Pranayama and Relaxation techniques
- Labour and Birth
Postnatal 4th Trimester 0-3 months
Infertility Diet, lifestyle and spiritual practices
Health conditions Period pain, endometriosis, PCOS, hormonal imbalances, bladder infections, lower back pain, depression and anxiety.
Trauma informed yoga Miscarriages, abortions, sexual abuse and sexual assault
Ayurveda For pregnancy and women’s health
Additional Modules:
- Sexual health (self womb massage and yoni care)
- Chanting / Mantras for pregnancy and women’s wellbeing
- Mudras for pregnancy and women’s wellbeing
- Pranayama for pregnancy and women’s wellbeing
- Meditation and guided visualisation to prepare for labour and birth and women’s wellbeing
- Relaxation and Yoga Nidra during pregnancy and for pregnancy and women’s wellbeing
- Cleansing techniques from the Hatha yoga texts
Your instructors
Ma Akash (Taryn Elise Herselman)– Yoga Therapist, Director of Shakti Yoga Therapy Centre and Yoga Alliance International Africa, MA in Research Psychology (Wits). Please click here for her full bio.
Rulene Moolman – Rulene is passionate about Pre-Natal Yoga, where she offers Private and Semi-Private classes.
“My mission is to stay true to the essence of yoga while serving with integrity”
Qualifications:
300 Level hatha certification, 500 Level hatha certification, 300 hours Pre and Post natal certification,
150 Aerial yoga certification, 200 Transformational yoga certification, 150 hours Yin certification, 50 Hours Chakra certification, 300 Hours Yoga Therapy Diploma
Please see her website for more details: https://maidentomother.co.za/
Theoni Papoutsis – Theoni qualified as an Aromatherapist in 1995 where she started her love for women’s bodies and essential oils.
She is a woman, mother, teacher, birthkeeper, bodyworker, craniosacral therapy, kahuna bodyworker, NLP master practitioner, ceremonialist and pregnancy and moms and babes yoga teacher.
She has had the honour working with women’s bodies and of attending hundreds of births for the last 27 years.
Through the two decades worth of first-hand experience that she has gained by being involved in the world of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, she has honed a unique and wide range of expertise that help her to be a compassionate and knowledgeable guide for women during various transitions from wanting to start a family, through pregnancy, birth, motherhood and all the way to menopause.
The last few years she has been empowering and educating women and mothers with doTERRA pure essential oils.
She teaches, supports, inspires and hold space for women to find trust in themselves and their bodies.
Please see her website for more details: http://theonipapoutsis.co.za/
Guest lecturers
Ayurveda- Benita Kolloori- Ayurveda Medicine Practitioner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benita-k-1331319/)
Anatomy- Theresa Moodie- Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer (https://theresamoodie.com/)
Kirsty Parrington- 500level Senior Teacher and Yoga Therapist
Course Assessment, Self-study and Coursework:
- Self -study (10 hours a week)
- 2 written assignments (one will be MCQs)
- 2 practical 60-75 minute Pre natal and specialised therapy based classes with a detailed lesson plan (assessed by one of the lecturers)
- Therapy based case study – A 15-20 page written summary of your therapy based classes and the results achieved with your patient
Post course criteria
- You will need to submit an additional 5 lesson plans, which you will be given feedback on and complete 5 teaching pracs (60- 75 minutes). These will be assessed by either one of your pregnant or therapy students. The assessment form must be signed and returned to one of your lecturers for review.
__________________________
Pre-requisites for Women’s Wellbeing Teacher Training Applicants
• Students applying for this TTC must provide a 200 or 300 hour / level certificate OR
• Applicants should have practiced yoga consistently for at least 2 years prior to the course
• Healthcare professionals (midwives, doulas, etc) are also welcome to attend
__________________________
Certification
300 level certified course accredited with Yoga Alliance International
Theoretical and practical examination will take place throughout the course. Class assignments will also be given.
A minimum of 90% class attendance is required, online or in studio. At the end of the course you will receive a certificate from Shakti Yoga Therapy Centre if all the criteria have been met. After this you can apply with YAI for membership at a discounted rate of 200 Euros.
This course meets all the criteria for the international yoga standards and is fully accredited with Yoga Alliance International.
This YAI Accreditation is not a certification program, rather it is a listing of yoga schools and yoga teachers whose training and experience meets certain minimum international standards as described below. The accreditation listing differentiates three levels of training: a 200-hour level, 300 – hour and 500-hour level.
Minimum Yoga Teacher Standards
The Shakti Yoga Centre TTC standards are in accordance with Yoga Alliance International and the International Yoga Federation (IYF), and similar international yoga bodies.
The 300hrs consists of 160 contact hours and 140 hours of self-study.
There will be both written assignments and two 60- 75 minute teaching practicals (second and third trimester and one health condition (infertility, menopause, etc) to complete. Additional assessments and course hours includes submitting 5 class lesson plans and attending a minimum of 10 pre or post natal classes (signed off by external teachers).
__________________________________________________________________
International Accreditation
On completion of the course you will receive a 100 level certificate from Shakti Yoga Therapy Centre (accredited with Yoga Alliance International). Both the course and Shakti Yoga Teaching Academy and Therapy Centre are accredited with Yoga Alliance International (YAI – http://yogaalliance.in/), the ONLY organisation where the yoga teacher certifications are recognised by the government of India. Upon completion of the course, if you wish to do so you will be able to register with YAI for the 300-level teaching certification as an individual teacher, becoming part of their global network of teachers.
