The Poppy Perinatal Yoga Teacher Training is open to yoga teachers and professionals, aspiring teachers, birth workers, or anyone who is pregnant or post-birth. Leave with the knowledge, the skills, and the confidence to support people through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery — and a path to Yoga Alliance RPYT registration.
Two levels
Start with any Level 1 training, add Level 2 when you are ready, or take both together in the 85-hour immersion.
Level 1 · Essential
3-, 4-, or 5-day training
Any Level 1 training stands alone. Complete one and you can begin weaving the Poppy approach into your own classes.
Outcome: Graduate — Poppy Perinatal Yoga Trained
Level 2 · Comprehensive
6- or 7-day training
Level 2 plus additional written coursework earns certification in the approach, at a deeper level of knowledge and skill.
Outcome: Certified Poppy Perinatal Yoga Integration Teacher
Levels 1 + 2 together
9-day training · 10-day in a retreat setting
Both levels in one arc, with teaching practicum, live feedback, sequencing clinics, and the full guest-workshop series.
Outcome: Eligible to register as RPYT with Yoga Alliance
The 9-day/10-day training is accredited by Yoga Alliance as an 85-hour Registered Prenatal Yoga School (RPYS), and every Poppy training counts as Yoga Alliance continuing education.
Each training provides its own comprehensive manual, daily meditation and breathwork exercises, prenatal and postnatal yoga classes, hands-on assists workshops, and the information and tools for skillfully supporting people through pregnancy and postpartum.
The 9-day training adds teaching practicum with live feedback, sequencing exercises, a childbirth class, and four special workshops: Functional Pelvic Anatomy & Physiology, Energetics of Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum, Reproductive Justice, and Herbs for Birthing and Postpartum People. The 9-day is followed by 10 non-contact hours of written coursework.
Each participant receives the Poppy Perinatal Yoga Training Manual as a full-color e-book:
To provide excellent professional training and development for yoga teachers and aspiring yoga teachers who teach prenatal and postnatal yoga students.
Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery are rich and intense experiences. The yoga practices taught in the Poppy Perinatal Yoga School are designed to help people balance and align the body and emotions, skillfully soften and relax within intensity, and increase stamina and endurance for the realities of labor, childbirth, and postpartum recovery. The pranayama and asana practices meet you where you’re at, whether you need a slow and gentle practice or a moderate to more athletic one. This approach is Forrest-inspired and incorporates specialized core exercises designed for supporting prenatal and postnatal people.
Venues and dates are announced with each training — in Houston, on retreat, and in Europe with authorized trainer Charlotte Speller. Watch the schedule or join the newsletter to hear first.
Tuition and registration details are listed with each training announcement.
100% attendance is required — no tardiness — for all components of the training.
Applications are reviewed when the next training is announced — dates land on the newsletter first, and scholarship spots open alongside them.
