Testimonials

I love the Poppy approach because it teaches that if you learn to move with ease through the challenges and intensity of your yoga practice (like chair on the wall!) it will help you move through childbirth and parenthood with more ease. Poppy teaches so many great tools to help prepare and support pre and post natal women. I will be taking these tools with me to prepare for and support my own labour and parenting, and I am equally excited to offer these teachings to my yoga students.

Alissa Sylvester

Poppy perinatal yoga has helped me realign my spirit within my ever changing pregnant form. I feel powerful, grounded and compassionate in and towards my body. Before I took the training I was overwhelmed and a bit spun out. I feel more connected to myself, my breath and my growing baby. I’m now confident in my abilities to guide a yoga practice for the pregnant and/or postpartum person because Poppy Yoga is so smartly designed!

Shannon

I summed up the gratitude I had for the last 10 days I spent in this perinatal yoga teacher training in one word: transformative. In my practice, in my teaching, in my personal self, and in my network of support. I’m not the same person I was 10 days ago and for that I am so so grateful. We are so much more capable of extraordinary things than we ourselves, and the world, gives us. We are the epitome of strength and softness.

Nakia

This training has left me feeling energized, excited, and empowered to help women understand their childbearing bodies and gave me the tools to guide them through that journey. Cat also cultivated the space and trust necessary for me to continue my own personal healing and feel educated about how to move forward and embrace my new post partum body.

L.H.

This training reinforced my approach to prenatal yoga, in that it clearly examines the way we can learn to meet challenges with more grace and efficiency if we practice meaningful, full breath through intensity on the mat. I have learned SO much regarding safe, healing practice in the postpartum realm. The sequential layering of lessons, from physical awareness in our daily practice, with the brilliance of Ellen’s lectures on anatomy to the energetic components offered by Bridget, was phenomenal.

Melanie Schatz

I loved how Cat was solid, patient, and supportive. She answered all of our questions even if we doubted whether or not the question should be asked. I started teaching from a place of breath, presence and purpose. I walk away from this training knowing that I am enough, that I have what it takes to be masterful with perinatal students; in fact with all students.

Lyn Redhead

It was tonnes of helpful, specific and detailed information we got. The content and the way it was provided make me feel seen, understood, respected, guided, and supported as a woman. It is very much empowering to understand your anatomy, biomechanics, biochemistry, emotions, how to nourish myself. I figured out what to ask for to get the support I need and I can’t wait to share that wisdom with other women.

Maria Abel

I took the 3-day training. It gave me tools to feel confident teaching prenatal and postnatal students. It also gave me tools that helped me understand my own, never-been-pregnant pelvic floor and the surrounding energy centers. The training was profoundly healing for me in that way. I cannot recommend highly enough. And I’m sure the 10-day is exponentially more amazing. Thanks, Cat, for creating this system. It is wonderful.

Debbie Nall

This training is a game changer. My current postpartum practice and my teaching style is shaped entirely around this training. The core work — so simple and effective (even a new yoga practitioner can do it). I feel competent and unafraid when a pregnant women walks into class. That alone is powerful.

Melissa Bonnette

This course is really well structured. The knowledge you gain gives you the confidence and certainty that you will be able to hold space in a very safe, sacred, and special way for any pregnant woman. The manual is one of the best manuals I have ever seen, with pictures of all asanas in full colour with detailed instructions and when it is best to practice each asana. Even though I did my pregnancy teaching training almost 3 years ago, this is a MUST do.

Carla · Poppy Training with Charlie Speller