213: Anatomy - Pregnancy And Injuries

Understanding injuries and prenatal considerations helps us create a supportive environment for all students to feel safe, welcome, and supported. By understanding a few anatomical concepts around injuries, we can support students to modify their practices and support their healing process. By understanding the typical physiological changes of pregnancy, we can empower our expectant students to modify their practices to support their individual needs. Also, understanding our scope of practice as yoga teachers helps us to embrace the limits of our own knowledge and create healthy boundaries with our students.


Course Curriculum

213: Anatomy - Pregnancy And Injuries

    1. START HERE

    2. HOW TO TAKE THIS COURSE

    3. SYLLABUS

    4. ABOUT YOUR FACULTY

    5. COURSE MATERIALS

    6. Q&A

    1. LESSON OVERVIEW AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #1

    2. SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #2

    3. COMMUNICATION FOR INJURY

    4. COMMUNICATION FOR PREGNANCY

    5. ACUTE VS. CHRONIC INJURY AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #3

    6. EXAMPLES OF ACUTE VS. CHRONIC INJURY

    7. ARITA

    8. QUIZ

    9. LESSON SUMMARY

    1. LESSON OVERVIEW

    2. SPINAL ISSUES

    3. SPINE-PELVIS RELATIONSHIP AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #4:

    4. JOURNAL REFLECTION #4 DEBRIEF

    5. SCIATICA

    6. SPRAIN AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #5

    7. JOURNAL REFLECTION #5 DEBRIEF

    8. WHIPLASH

    9. KNEE PAIN

    10. STRAINS

    11. INFLAMMATION AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #6

    12. JOURNAL REFLECTION #6 DEBRIEF

    13. PRESSURE ISSUES: HERNIAS

    14. PRESSURE ISSUES: FLUID

    15. QUIZ: LESSON TWO

    16. LESSON SUMMARY

    1. LESSON OVERVIEW

    2. OVERVIEW OF PREGNANCY

    3. OVERVIEW: TRIMESTER ONE AND JOURNAL REFLECTION #7

    4. TRIMESTER ONE MODIFICATIONS

    5. OVERVIEW: TRIMESTER TWO

    6. TRIMESTER TWO MODIFICATIONS FOR RELAXIN

    7. TRIMESTER TWO MODIFICATIONS FOR FLUID CHANGES

    8. OVERVIEW: TRIMESTER THREE

    9. TRIMESTER 2-3: UTERINE SIZE AND ACTIVITY #1

    10. ACTIVITY #1 DEBRIEF

    11. THE VENA CAVA AND ACTIVITY #2

    12. ACTIVITY #2 DEBRIEF

    13. ACTIVITY #3

    14. QUIZ: LESSON THREE

    15. LESSON SUMMARY

    1. FINAL ASSESSMENT

    2. ACADEMIC HONOR

    3. CONCLUSION & OUTSIDE PRACTICE

About this course

  • $45.00
  • 49 lessons

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

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    Confidently create a safe and nourishing environment for injured and prenatal students.

  • Describe the major physiological changes affecting a prenatal student and create common-sense modifications for students at all stages of pregnancy.

  • Describe the impact of common injuries and create common-sense modifications based on yoru appropriate scope of practice.

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Student Reviews

5 star rating

Great Tutorials and resources

Precious Joseph

great examples

great examples

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5 star rating

Another great class

Joan Turlington

Very informative and practical! Fiji gives us some very useful information in such a clear way.

Very informative and practical! Fiji gives us some very useful information in such a clear way.

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5 star rating

Useful, common sense approach to working with all people ...

Abigail Watkins

This was a useful course in learning the supportive and empowering language and common sense modifications so that people who may be working through healing ...

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This was a useful course in learning the supportive and empowering language and common sense modifications so that people who may be working through healing from injuries, have chronic injuries or are pregnant can feel safe but also feel like their needs have been included.

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Meet Your Instructor

E-RYT 500, M.Ed Fiji McAlpine

After a debilitating back injury at 21, Fiji discovered the transformative power of yoga. Not just a remedy for her physical pain, yoga became her lifeline out of anorexia, a struggle intensified by the societal pressures of California's culture.

In 2002, Fiji stumbled into teaching yoga when an instructor was a no-show. That "accident" ignited a passion for teaching and led to becoming the director of development at DoYogaWithMe, a platform with a noble cause: making yoga accessible to everyone. The platform boasts 1,000+ class videos, 300,000+ registered users, and has become a sanctuary for those recovering from eating disorders.

Fiji is also an international retreat leader and a certified Yoga Teacher Trainer, mentored by the indomitable Mary Prefontaine. For Fiji, yoga isn't just a physical practice—it's a "dress rehearsal for life." She's not just teaching yoga; she's teaching people how to be better versions of themselves.