Pelvic Health in Yoga: Awareness, Options & Teaching Boundaries | In-person $40 & Zoom $40
What’s actually happening in a student’s body when you cue to “engage your core” or move into a deep backbend? And where does a yoga teacher’s role end and a pelvic health specialist’s begin?
This three-hour teaching lab explores how pelvic health shows up in everyday teaching, breath work, core cueing, inversions, and backbends, even how you talk about “engaging” anything down there, and how to teach it with more awareness. We’ll examine how common cues can unintentionally work against pelvic health, and how to offer language and options that support it instead.
Through guided movement, a practical planning checklist, realistic classroom scenarios, and short teaching exercises, you’ll explore not only what to offer, but how to offer it. You’ll practice giving pelvic-health-aware cues while staying clearly within your scope as a yoga teacher.
We’ll explore:
Foundational pelvic health concepts and how they show up in common yoga cues and postures.
How to offer breath and core cueing options that support pelvic health rather than work against it.
Language and prop options for inversions, backbends, and core work that avoid one-size-fits-all instruction.
How to recognize when a student may need more support, without diagnosing or requesting personal disclosure.
Where a yoga teacher’s scope ends and a pelvic health specialist’s begins, and how to make that referral clearly.
How to examine a teaching scenario, explain your reasoning, and revise both your words and your actions.
How pacing and class structure can support students managing pelvic health concerns without singling anyone out.
You’ll move beyond identifying a helpful cue to practicing a coherent teaching approach. Leave with a planning checklist, a workshop reference sheet, and concrete revisions you can bring into your next class.
Earn 3 Continuing Education hours toward your Yoga Alliance requirements through full live attendance.
This is a practical teaching lab, not clinical pelvic health training. Personal disclosure is not required.