Join us for this hands-on workshop, where you and your partner will learn massage techniques to help relieve the common aches and pains of pregnancy. During this course we’ll cover the basics of anatomy, you will learn simple and easy to use massage techniques, and we’ll teach you proper body mechanics that will allow you to help your partner. Knowing the land markings of bones and where muscles are is important not only to ensure safety, but to increase body awareness and allow for a more effective massage. Proper mechanics and technique will keep the massaging partner's body comfortable even with daily massage.
Massage has many benefits which include:
- Increase of blood flow
- Decrease stress
- Natural pain management
- Improves sleep
- Promotes relaxation
- Decreases muscle tension
- Helps bond you and partner with physical touch
- Promotes relaxation
Our goals during this course are to feel comfortable and confident with massage for home use, learn nurturing touch techniques, and gain the tools and knowledge to offer relief to your partner. This unique class also offers an opportunity to improve communication with your partner, a valuable skill in labor.
Investment: $100 per birthing person and massage partner. Pre-registration required, minimum registration required for workshop to run.
Prenatal Partner Yoga is the fun practice of exploring many different yoga postures done in physical contact with another person. Students experience a deeper sense of release and stretching through sharing weight and touch with their partners. This style of yoga practice helps you develop a strong feeling of connection with your baby and partner both on and off your mat. No prior yoga experience necessary.
Some of the benefits include:
* An increase in body awareness and ability to breathe through the
moment.
* Helps increase confidence in birth partners and their ability to
support the birthing mom.
* Partner assists allow for deeper release and organization in yoga
poses, allowing for more effective relief from common issues that
arise in the pregnant body such as back pain, sciatica, leg cramps,
leg swelling, acid reflux, exhaustion, stiff muscles, and/or
insomnia.
* Explores touch as a gateway of the focus to move away from the mind (where fear resides) and into embodied presence.
* Releases oxytocin, which assists in shifting out of fight/flight mode and into the parasympathetic mode, thus increasing feelings of safety, relaxation, pleasure, and connection.
* Brings awareness to multiple areas of the body at once, helping
to diffuse mental tension and refresh the nervous system.
* Allows for increased attention, insight, compassion, and gentle
encouragement from the helping partner, which often allows the
person performing the asana to feel safe to go deeper, gain new
understanding on their alignment, or be able to experience subtle
but key actions in the pose.
* Creates a fun, expressive experience of unity and trust between
partners, and creates a nurturing time and space to connect with
your new baby.
Come learn techniques for breath awareness, massage, and partner
poses, which can help strengthen and relax your body and soothe
your mind during the process. This prenatal partner yoga class is
for those pregnant and their partner/husband/friend during
pregnancy. *All participants must be registered
separately.
Practicing yoga poses and breathing can greatly improve your
physical, emotional and spiritual- being. When practiced with a
loving partner you can both grow together creating deeper mutual
care, trust and family bonding. This will help both of you with
your pregnancy, the labor process and parenthood. We will do poses
individually and as couples. This class will be taught at a level
that will be comfortable for all participants.
Join Gold Certified HypnoBirthing Educator, Allison Pancost, for the 5-week HypnoBirthing Education Program. This amazing program teaches you, along with your birth partner, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.
You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant,
and therefore lessen, or eliminate, discomfort and the need for
medical intervention.
When you are properly prepared for childbirth and the mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other mothers in nature.
Through self-hypnosis and special breathing and visualization techniques, HypnoBirthing teaches you to release fear and to trust your body’s ability to birth instinctively.
HypnoBirthing Advantages
-Teaches you deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear
that causes tension and pain
-Gives your partner or birthing companion an integral role in the
birthing
-Teaches you and your birthing partner how to work alongside your
birthing team to achieve the birth you desire
-Shortens the first phase of labor by several hours
-Leaves you feeling alert, fresh, and awake with energy during your
labor
-Reduces the need for an episiotomy
-Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth
for themselves and their baby, whatever turn their birthing
takes
-Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting
-Teaches you breathing techniques that allow you to breathe your
baby into the world without hard, physical pushing
-Allows you and your partner to approach birth and parenting
informed and empowered
Data shows that HypnoBirthing parents have:
-Less Fear approaching birth
-Fewer interventions and surgical births
-Decreased use of oxytocics or AROM
-Shorter 1st and 2nd phase labor
-Fewer pre-term and low-weight babies
-Lessened or eliminated need for analgesia
-Happier and more content mothers & babies
-Babies alert; able to nurse almost immediately
-Few cases of post-partum depression reported
-Infants with higher than average APGAR scores
Investment- $450/couple - includes the in-person course,
HypnoBirthing book, additional course material, and affirmation and
relaxation tracks.
During this class we will take a deep dive into all things lactation in order to learn the benefits to both the lactating parent and baby, common challenges and myths, and how to meet the family’s feeding goals. We look at the whole body of both the lactating parent and baby and the impacts on breastfeeding including gut health, oral anatomy, breast anatomy and hormones. We also dive deep into both holistic and conventional breastfeeding tips and tricks, as well as evidence based information to get everybody off to a well informed breastfeeding journey. This class is designed to equip parents with the knowledge and tools to have a happy and successful breastfeeding relationship with their baby.
Investment: $80 reservation fee includes pregnant parent and their partner. Pre-registration required. Minimum registration required for workshop to run.
Please have a baby doll or stuffed animal available for the class.
Why Take A Childbirth Class?
A Childbirth Education Class can help prepare expecting parents and their support person for the changes that occur during pregnancy and what to expect during birth. Being prepared and having a plan for how you will approach this very important time can help you create a labor and birthing experience in tune with your desires.
Some of the benefits this Childbirth Class are:
- Understand the normal changes that occur in the body
throughout childbirth.
- Become educated on the procedures and interventions that are
common during labor and birth.
- Learn basic support and comfort techniques for the laboring
person.
- Learn different pain management and comfort techniques including
breathing and positioning.
- Address fears and get answers to your questions.
The time spent in class will not only educate expecting parents and their support person, but it will also bring them closer, help them create a plan, and become more confident in their decisions while understanding each other’s roles.
This valuable class covers a great deal of information is a short amount of time.
$125 for the expecting parent and their support person
Pre-registration required. Minimum registration required for workshop to run.