Nona® Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training & Certification

Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

Aligning the mind and body for birth

Teach prenatal yoga as birth preparation, nervous system awareness, and group support

The Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training prepares professionals to teach prenatal yoga as more than a movement class.

This training is for leading a support-based prenatal yoga experience that weaves together movement, mindfulness, discussion, childbirth education, and nervous system awareness. It is designed for professionals who want to offer something more integrated than a class focused solely on poses or childbirth education.

Graduates are prepared to teach the Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support 6-Week Curriculum, a mind-body birth education model that can be offered in community, clinical, and educational settings.

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Learn to teach the 6 week Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support curriculum

Nona Prenatal Yoga is a 6-week prenatal yoga and support class that helps parents prepare for birth through embodied learning.

Teachers learn how to guide:

prenatal yoga that supports comfort, stability, and adaptation in pregnancy
resilience building movement and coping
mindfulness and deep relaxation practices that can become coping tools in labor and early parenting
group discussions around themes like fear, identity, relationships, and support
childbirth education through an embodied, nervous system-informed lens

Benefits for the Families you Serve

Teaching this class gives birthing parents a place to build practical skills for working with pain, fear, and anxiety while also helping them feel more comfortable in their bodies, more supported in community, and more prepared for the realities of labor, birth, and early parenting.

Through movement, mindfulness, childbirth education, and connection, this class helps parents build resilience, adaptability, and confidence during a time that often brings both intensity and change.

Learn about the Nona® Prenatal Yoga Course here

This Training is an Integrated, Mind-Body Approach to Birth Preparation

Many professionals want to offer a prenatal class that is more supportive, more embodied, and more useful than a poses-only or education-only model, but can't piece together several different trainings and credentials to make it happen. Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support was developed by a perinatal therapist with over 25 years of experience teaching mind-body birth education and group support.

Graduate with a free year of professional membership, including mentoring, community support, and curriculum licensing.

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How this training is held

What's in the Curriculum

The curriculum prepares you to teach prenatal yoga as an integrated form of birth preparation and group support.

Inside the training, you learn how to teach prenatal yoga that includes physical practice, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, deep relaxation, discussion, and childbirth education without treating those pieces as separate tracks.

You will learn:

how to teach a prenatal yoga sequence that supports comfort, stability, adaptation, and preparation through pregnancy
Birth Coherence™, a Nona Birth concept for aligning the mind, body, and support for birth
how to guide mindfulness, meditation, and relaxation practices that can become useful coping tools in birth and early parenting
how to facilitate group conversations around themes that are relevant in pregnancy, including fear, identity, relationships, and support
how to bring childbirth education and pain coping into class through an embodied, nervous system-informed lens
how to use the Birth Coherence™ framework and original Nona models as practical teaching tools
how to teach the Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support 6-Week Curriculum with clarity, confidence, and depth

These concepts will be taught through five core areas:

Foundations for understanding the Nona® Birth framework
Birth Coherence™, physiologic birth, evidence-based teaching, trauma-informed care, anti-oppression, and reproductive justice.

Nervous system science and regulation
Neuroception, co-regulation, autonomic states, resilience, and practical regulation skills.

Embodied practices for coping and preparation
Prenatal yoga, somatic principles, mindfulness, deep relaxation, Labor Language™, Rhythm, Receive, Rest™, Recognize, Respond, Regulate™, and the Birth Coherence™ yoga sequence.

Childbirth education and perinatal health
Phases and stages of labor, pain and pain coping, anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and birth, common complications, postpartum recovery, and perinatal mental health.

Facilitation and teaching practice
Creating safety and structure, guiding discussion, holding complexity, teaching sensitive themes, and applying the work through practicum.

Who tends to be a good fit for this training

What you leave with

You leave prepared to teach the Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support 6-Week Curriculum and to guide prenatal classes with a clear lens for support, regulation, and learning.

This training includes a certificate of training and
a A one-year professional membership, which includes
- Use of the Nona® Prenatal Yoga Instructor title
- Access to curriculum and updates
- Community learning, mentoring, and live Q&A with Erica
- Continuing education eligibility through Yoga Alliance.

Ready to Learn More?

If this is the kind of prenatal class you have been wanting to teach, join the waitlist to hear when the next training opens.

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Meet your Instructor:

Erica Kroll, LPC, E-RYT 200, RPYT

I 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.