Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training & Certification
A mind-body birth education and group support training grounded in the Birth Coherence™ framework
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The Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher training prepares professionals to teach prenatal yoga as a form of mind-body birth education with nervous system–informed group support. While movement and yoga are central tools in this training, the scope extends well beyond physical practice. Prenatal yoga is taught as an experiential language to learn coping, regulation, resilience, and support in pregnancy and birth.
This certification is designed for those who want to facilitate prenatal classes that reflect the emotional and physical depths of pregnancy and childbirth. Yoga, breath, and embodied practice are used to explore how people work with intensity, uncertainty, rest, connection, and support, both on the mat and in labor. Classes are held as spaces for birth education, reflection, and nervous system awareness, integrating movement with discussion, mindfulness, and birth physiology.
Graduates are certified to teach through Nona Birth Education and are prepared to teach the Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support 6-Week Curriculum in community, clinical, or educational settings.
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What is Birth Coherence™ in Prenatal Yoga
All Nona trainings are grounded in the Birth Coherence™ framework, which integrates nervous system science, birth physiology, relational safety, and embodied learning. Birth Coherence™ provides a unifying lens for understanding how physiological processes, emotional experience, and social context interact during pregnancy and birth.
Within this training, Birth Coherence™ informs how classes are sequenced, how discussions are facilitated, and how teachers learn to recognize and respond to nervous system cues in themselves and others. The curriculum includes original Nona models such as BirthSpeak™, Rhythm-Receive-Rest™, and Recognize, Respond, Regulate™, offering practical language and structure for teaching and support.
Why Choose this Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Expectant parents benefit from teachers who can hold space for the intensity of birth preparation; physically, emotionally, and socially.
This training equips you to:
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Teach yoga sequences that support comfort, stability, and nervous system balance throughout pregnancy.
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Facilitate intimate group discussions where parents can feel open to explore identity, fears, coping, and relationships.
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Integrate childbirth education and applied polyvagal theory into movement and conversation.
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Guide mindfulness and deep relaxation practices that become coping tools in labor and early parenting.
You’ll leave with the ability to offer parents a unique mind-body prenatal education experience.
What You’ll Learn
Support & Facilitate Group Dialogue
Facilitate themed discussions about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Hold space with compassion, inclusivity, and awareness of systemic bias.
Teach Mind-Body Birth Preparation
Guide safe, adaptable yoga flows. Modify poses with confidence. Teach prenatal yoga as an embodied approach to coping in labor and postpartum recovery.
Understand Perinatal Physiology & Pain
Address common discomforts of pregnancy. Teach an integrative model of pain during birth that includes physical, emotional, and cognitive strategies.
Guide Mindfulness & Nervous System Regulation
Lead mindfulness, meditation, and deep relaxation practices. Teach the neuroscience of yoga and nervous system regulation. Apply both top-down and bottom-up strategies for resilience and co-regulation.
Educate with Depth & Inclusivity
Present the emotional, cognitive, and physical dimensions of perinatal experience. Use inclusive language and trauma-informed cueing. Teach the neurohormonal physiology of birth in a way that reduces fear and builds confidence.
Professional Skills + Personal Growth
The Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training prepares you to teach safe, evidence-based prenatal yoga classes. At the same time, it also invites you into meaningful personal growth.
Each discussion topic is emotionally rich and often challenges the cultural assumptions we carry about pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. Through these conversations, you’ll not only deepen your teaching practice but also reframe how you see birth, the body, and support. This reflective work helps you hold space with greater compassion and presence; for your students, your clients, and yourself.
By the end of the training, you will leave with practical teaching tools, a stronger nervous system lens, and the kind of embodied confidence that only comes from pairing knowledge with personal integration.
What This Training Provides
- A ready-to-teach neuroscience informed prenatal yoga curriculum (Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support 6-Week Curriculum)
- AÂ framework for integrating prenatal yoga, mindfulness, discussion, childbirth education, and nervous system support
- The Nona All Bodies Prenatal Yoga Sequence, discussion anchors, and relaxation and integration practices
- A manualized curriculum to support immediate teaching and implementation after graduation
- Full certification with Nona Birth Education and a 1 year professional membership that gives you the ability to use the Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher title and 1 year of access to the curriculum, community, mentoring, and continuing ed.Â
- Option to renew membership and license the curriculum with ongoing professional development and mentoring.
- Eligible for continuing education through Yoga Alliance
- Confidence leading prenatal yoga, mindfulness meditation, and deep relaxation
- Skills for inclusive, trauma-informed teaching grounded in nervous system science
Why Nona Prenatal Yoga Is Different
- Grounded in the Nona Birth Coherence™ framework integrating birth physiology, nervous system science, and relational safety
- Includes birth education and labor physiology within prenatal yoga teacher preparation
- Trauma-informed, inclusive teaching methodology and communication practices
- Original Nona models: BirthSpeak™, Rhythm-Receive-Rest™, and Recognize, Respond, Regulate™
- Facilitate intimate group discussion with compassion and non-judgement
- Live cohort learning, mentorship, and an ongoing professional community for integration
- 4 Day intensive in person learning
Who This Training Is For
- Yoga instructors with or without prior prenatal certification
- Doulas and birth professionals
- Therapists, counselors, and clinicians
- Childbirth educators seeking an embodied, neuroscience-based approach
- Designed for those teaching prenatal yoga and for professionals integrating prenatal yoga and nervous system–informed support into existing work
Certification and Professional Identification
Certification confirms that participants have completed the training and demonstrated competency of the material and in teaching the curriculum as designed.
What Certification Means
Upon successful assessment, certified teachers may:
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Describe their training as certification of completion in the Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support Teacher Training
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Reference their education as grounded in the Birth Coherence™ framework
Certification reflects educational completion and competency at the time of training.
Certification alone does not require ongoing affiliation and does not grant permission to publicly identify as a Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher or to advertise classes under the Nona name.
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Professional Membership and Use of the Nona Name
Use of the Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher title and branded offerings is reserved for teachers who have passed certification assessments and hold active professional membership in good standing with Nona Birth Education.
Professional members in good standing may:
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Identify publicly as Nona Prenatal Yoga Teachers
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Advertise and teach classes under the Nona name
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Offer Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support as a branded program
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Be listed on the Nona Birth Education website
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Participate in ongoing mentoring, peer support, and professional community
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Receive curriculum updates and continuing education
Professional membership reflects ongoing engagement, ethical alignment, and continued competency, rather than training completion alone.
*This training includes one year of professional membership and curriculum licensing with option to renew.
Meet your Instructor:
Erica Kroll, LPC, E-RYT 200, RPYT
IÂ have been supporting families and training professionals for more than two decades. Since 2000, I have worked as a doula, childbirth educator, and prenatal yoga instructor, walking alongside families through the joys and difficulties of the childbearing year. In 2012 I became a licensed professional counselor specializing in perinatal mental health and retired from attending births as a doula.
Even as my counseling practice grew, I continued to teach prenatal yoga, offer childbirth education, and train doulas. This ongoing work keeps me closely connected to both the families in my community and the professionals who serve them.
Because I’ve stood in all of these roles; doula, educator, yoga teacher, and counselor; I bring a truly integrative perspective to this training. My teaching is informed by lived experience with families, deep study of physiology and neuroscience, and years of mentoring professionals in developing their own confident, grounded presence. I hope you'll join me so that I can share the culmination of my years of experience with you through this training.Â
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Yoga Alliance and Continuing Education
This program is offered as a professional certification through Nona Birth Education rather than as a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School. In response to evolving Yoga Alliance requirements and the expanding scope of this specialized, interdisciplinary training, Nona independently credentials this certification in alignment with its distinct curriculum, methodology, and professional standards. While this training is not a Yoga Alliance registered program, eligible contact hours may be applied toward Yoga Alliance continuing education requirements for currently registered yoga teachers. Certification is issued directly by Nona Birth Education and reflects preparation to teach prenatal yoga as a mind-body birth education course with integrated group support.
