Antenatal & Postnatal Pilates Education & Training
Providing the sort after pathway so you can exude both confidence and knowledge when teaching your antenatal and postnatal clients.
The days of confusion are over. Gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to teach clients pilates through their pregnancy and postnatal journey by enrolling in Women’s Health Collaborative’s Antenatal & Postnatal Teacher Training.
Women’s Health Collaborative education brings you over 10 years of Women’s Health Physiotherapy & Pilates experience and packages it up into 1 comprehensive yet simplified Antenatal & Postnatal Teacher Training Course.
Offering the latest up to date knowledge in Women’s Health combined with practical skills you will improve your teaching abilities enabling you to deliver safe, effective, and beneficial classes to all women through their pregnancy and postnatal journeys.
With both online and face-to-face training options available you will get world class knowledge and skills in the way that suits you.
Why Learn with Women’s Health Collaborative?
Founded by Women’s Health Physiotherapist, Claire Ryan, Women’s Health Collaborative offers evidence based education alongside real pilates experience. It’s unique experience allows you to have direct support from our founder who can provide additional support or mentoring.
Women’s Health Collaborative prides itself on offering the highest quality information and making it accessible to all to ensure as a collective we can best support our clients through their motherhood journey.
Course Overview. A look into the course content
Women’s Health Collaborative’s Antenatal & Postnatal Course has been specifically designed and set out to build your knowledge, skills, and confidence. It guarantees the latest evidence and combines this with real Women’s Health Physiotherapy and Pilates experience.
For our online learning option you can expect to work through comprehensive theory, video demonstrations, exercise footage on pregnant and postnatal women, useful resources, & class plans. Perfect for those with busy lifestyle wanting to work through the course at their own pace and from their own location.
For our face to face option you can expect to work through the same content with the added element of discussions, practice, and on the spot feedback. Perfect if you are a hands on learner.
Module 1
Pelvic Floor
Pelvic Floor Anatomy
Exercising the Pelvic Floor
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Prolapse
Stress Urinary Incontinence
Pilates Programming for pelvic floor issues
Pelvic Floor Screening
Module 2
Teaching Antenatal Pilates
Pregnancy Education and physiology
Exercise in Pregnancy - Guidelines
How these Guidelines relate to Pilates
Abdominal Exercise in Pregnancy
Exercises needing modifications in pregnancy
Exercises to continue in pregnancy
How to effectively modify programming
Antenatal Class Programs
Module 3
Teaching Postnatal Pilates
Understanding birth factors
Postnatal Abdominal Recovery (Rectus Diastasis, RD)
Pilates for clients with RD
Postnatal Abdominal Programming
Considerations for the postnatal client
Designing effective mums and bubs classes
How to set up mums and bubs classes
Postnatal class templates
Module 4
Pilates for Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions
Pelvic pain conditions
Pilates for pelvic conditions
Spinal pain conditions
Pilates for spinal Pain
Sciatic pain and exercises
Abdominal conditions
Wrist conditions
The Vision Behind WHC
Women’s Health Collaborative was founded in 2023 by Women’s Health Physiotherapist and mother of 2, Claire Ryan as a way to provide continued learning opportunities in the Women’s Health Pilates space.
“I started Women’s Health Collaborative as a way to spread my passion and knowledge to other health professionals so we are able to collectively improve the care of pregnant and postnatal women. For years I had been receiving feedback from pilates instructors and clients about the confusion and lack of confidence around pilates in pregnancy so I’m so excited to see this learning pathway come to life.”
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Lauren Pilates Instructor Gold Coast, AUS
I have always felt worried when pregnant clients are in my class. I tend to make the programming easy to take extra caution. This course has cleared up all my concerns. Now I know how to push people and still be safe.
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Steph Pilates Instructor Brisbane, AUS
This course was so informative and practical. I now feel confident with knowing how to modify programming when client have pain issues which is something I ha always struggled with. And the pelvic floor info was so helpful!
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Eliza Pilates Instructor , Brisbane, AUS
Finally I have some clarity on abdominal exercises in pregnancy! It's been so hard to know what is safe or not safe but this course went all through this and made it so practical. I would definitely recommend to any instructor.
