Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

MAMA TREE Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training • Level 1

Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training: Level 1
w/ Jane Austin (Assisted by Erica Taylor)
A 45-Hour Training hosted at Revolution Community Yoga in Acton, MA
2026 DATES:
July 17-19 & July 24-26, 2026
Schedule for both weekends:
Friday: 5pm – 8:30pm
Saturday: 9:30am – 6:30pm
Sunday: 9am – 6:30pm
Mama Tree is a certified Yoga Alliance Prenatal Yoga School.

RCY is thrilled and honored to offer Mama Tree Level 1 Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training w/ Jane Austin Assisted by RCY’s Erica Taylor!

The Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training educates yoga teachers, doulas and midwives on how to use the tools of yoga to support pregnant people and new parents in all stages of the childbearing year and beyond. Jane also weaves her experience as a midwife, doula, childbirth educator and mother into all of her work. Students will learn how to teach yoga to expecting parents in all stages of pregnancy and throughout the early stages of postpartum. We will explore yoga as a tool in preparation for not only childbirth, but for being a parent! Students will learn not just the do’s and dont’s of teaching prenatal yoga, but the why’s behind smart and thoughtful sequencing for pregnancy and beyond. We will also do a deep dive into the anatomy and physiology of the perinatal period.

Mama Tree Level 1 is a 45-hour complete prenatal yoga certification for yoga teachers, midwives, doulas and other health professionals who are interested in teaching yoga to expecting parents. All participants must have completed a 200-hour basic teacher training or at least three years of yoga practice. All participants must have a working knowledge of basic alignment principles. Mama Tree is a certified Yoga Alliance Prenatal Yoga School. The 45 hours of this training can be used for the Yoga Alliance Prenatal designation, or continuing education credits (but not both).

What We Will Learn

• Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy
• The benefits of yoga for pregnancy and childbirth
• Sequencing a prenatal class
• Postures to aid common discomforts of pregnancy
• Contraindication for practice
• Appropriate pranayama (breath) practices
• Psychology of pregnancy and birth
• Prenatal bonding
• Physiology of childbirth
• Yoga for labor
• Cultural attitudes about birth
• Medical and holistic models of care
• Birth choices/empowered birth
• Resource building
• Nutrition/natural remedies for pregnancy and beyond

+++ Bonus Material: The benefits of yoga for postpartum + postpartum sequencing, baby yoga, postpartum issues and the 4th trimester.

Tuition & Payment Options

Early Bird Registration $875 (register by June 8th, 2026)
Regular Registration $995 (after June 1st, 2026)

Payment Options:
1) Payment by check: Checks can be made out to Revolution Community Yoga and mailed to Revolution Community Yoga, ATTN: Kyra Marino, 537 Massachusetts Avenue, Acton, MA 01720,
2) Payment through Zelle: If you’d like to pay via Zelle (https://www.zellepay.com/), the Revolution Zelle account can be found under email: kyra@revolution.yoga (the company is listed as Happy Bodhi Yoga LLC)
3) Credit Card: If payment by credit card is necessary, a 4% service charge for the total tuition will be charged that will need to be paid separately via cash or check.

TESTIMONIALS

“This training is so much more than the practice of yoga.” “It touches on the complexities of being a parent and a mother during an incredibly tender and transformative time, and the ways in which we get to bear witness and hold space for it all. If you want to learn prenatal yoga poses and not be changed as a human, this training isn’t for you.” – Tess, Mama Tree Grad

“Jane Austin taught us how to create an environment where pregnant women feel safe, heard, and supported. I’d recommend this training to every yoga teacher” – Ryann Summers, Mama Tree Graduate

“This is a training like no other; what a special experience I am so grateful to have had.” – Mama Tree Graduate

“I learned so much” “I would highly recommend it to any yoga teacher who wants to teach yoga to pregnant or post partum mamas. The BEST! – Mama Tree Graduate

“The 5-day training was an absolutely incredible exchange of energy and being connected. The level of expertise was vast. Jane’s skillful knack of teaching and leading by example helped me to learn more than I would think possible in this time frame.” – Mama Tree Graduate

HAPPY GRADUATES!

GLOBAL IMPACT

Jane’s teacher training program attracts students from all over the world interested in learning how to utilize the practice of yoga to support pregnant and new parents physically, mentally and emotionally. By training teachers, it is her hope to make yoga accessible to anyone who wants to experience the benefits of this ancient and powerful tradition. Mama Tree graduates are teaching around the globe with this designation. If teachers would like to get the Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher designation from Yoga Alliance, and refine their teaching skills, Mama Tree Level 2 is offered (45 Hours). 

MAMA TREE MISSION

The mission of Mama Tree and Jane Austin is to make prenatal yoga accessible worldwide. Through training teachers, it is our vision to offer pregnant folks and new parents a mindful, supportive and nourishing environment (using both humor and compassion) and create a sacred but authentic place to connect to themselves and their babes inside and out.

JANE AUSTIN

JANE AUSTIN has worked with pregnant people and their families since 1990. She is a certified yoga teacher and trainer. Jane is the founder and director of Mama Tree, a prenatal yoga school that began over 20 years ago. Through Mama Tree, Jane leads Prenatal Yoga Teacher Trainings in the San Francisco Bay Area and worldwide. Recent locations for Mama Tree have also included The Dominican Republic, China and Indiana, and we have plans to expand more deeply into the Midwest, East Coast and South (as well as in more locations abroad!). 

Jane has trained nearly 1,000 teachers in the art and science of teaching prenatal yoga, and the depth of curriculum shared and unique perspective her school offers is unparalleled. Jane Austin also has taught the perinatal component of many 200-hour yoga teacher trainings for decades, and is very well known and respected among teachers across the U.S. 

She co-led The Black Orchid, a free Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Alex Rossi and Melylah Smith, for 200 BIPOC folks in the U.S. in March of 2020 as a way to give back to the community. Jane provides financial support through partial scholarships to BIPOC folks, and those in need, in all of the Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga Teacher Trainings.

JANE’S TRAINING ASSISTANT

Erica Taylor

Yoga has guided me through so many life stages: athletics, two pregnancies, work stresses, injuries, emotional rollercoasters, etc. That’s part of what I love about this practice, that it can shapeshift and become exactly what you need in a particular moment. Whatever is happening in your life, it is all welcome. You are welcome.

My wish for your yoga practice is that it enables you to come home to yourself, to find alignment in all ways. And may that alignment be a springboard for you to take strength and lightness in body and being off the mat into your life. Together, we can discover how yoga can meet you at this moment in your personal journey, and help you walk forward with more clarity and ease.

Erica completed her 500 hour teacher training in 2009 at the Nosara Yoga Institute with Don and Amba Stapleton. Their emphasis on yoga being an inquiry into the self, that the guru lies within, greatly influences her teaching today. Her studies have woven in and out of modalities, curious about how other practitioners view the body. She became the program manager of an Experiential Yoga Anatomy course to train other yoga teachers on the multi-dimensional being. She completed Yoga Therapeutics Teacher Training with Harvey Deutch, refining techniques that combine physical therapy and yoga, incorporating therapy balls, wall ropes, and creativity to inspire alignment of the self.

Passionate about supporting the mama community, she began studying perinatal yoga in 2011 and earned her RPYT (Prenatal Yoga Teacher) in 2015 with Mama Tree, led by Jane Austin. She also completed Pelvic Floor Teacher Training and Well Woman Yoga Therapy training.

In addition to yoga, she is a certified acupressure practitioner through the McKinnon Institute, and loves helping clients find ease through a blend of yoga and acupressure. She is also a personal trainer through the NSCA, a Fitness for Golf Professional by Titleist, and trained in pranassage, a yoga and bodywork combination.

A yoga student for 20 years and a teacher for over 17 years, Erica’s classes are uplifting and playful, yet rooted in functional movement and the great inquiry of the self. She continues to draw inspiration from her loved ones, students, and life experiences. When not on the mat, she can often be found with her kids, her camera, and nature!