Have you considered hiring a Birth Doula for your baby's
arrival? Or a Postpartum Doula to help you navigate the 4th
trimester and support you when you bring baby home? Are you curious
what role a doula plays on your birth team? Join us for this free
event to learn more about what a doula does, how they support you
and your partner, and have your questions answered by our amazing
doulas.
You deserve your best possible birth experience, and there’s so much you can do to prepare for that! The Body Ready Birth™ Workshop is designed to prepare you physically for birth. This workshop is not a comprehensive Childbirth Education Course and we recommend signing up for one separately.
While we are built to birth, so much of what we do on a daily basis is not helping your body be ready to give birth. Our ancestors were all about squatting, walking, and moving their bodies in ways we don’t do much of today. In fact, most of us only squat when a workout tells us to (if that!). In this workshop, we'll reintroduce the physical movements necessary to ensure your baby's path through your pelvis is open and unencumbered.
The medical model of birth is not intended to facilitate a smooth, physiological birth. When labor is not progressing according to the medical model schedule, interventions are quickly utilized. Oftentimes something as simple as a change of position can be enough to get labor going again, but many medical providers and birthing people don't know when to change positions, or even what positions are best. In this workshop you and your partner will learn and practice labor and birth positions, empowering both of you to meet each stage of labor with confidence.
With this targeted, game-changing offering you’ll:
- Experience birthing positions before labor
- Build neural pathways from your brain to your body
- Create mobility in your pelvis
- Address common musculoskeletal issues that often slow down labor
- Prepare all 3 levels of your pelvis for birth
- Gain the confidence to know EXACTLY how to move in birth to help your baby progress
- Practice innovative hands-on techniques to increase comfort and connection with your partner during labor
- The know-how to minimize and prevent common birth injuries with proven methods.
All so you can have your easiest possible birth! There is so much you can do to prepare your body when you have the right knowledge and tools. This workshop provides those tools and a guideline for practicing them before birth and utilizing them during your labor.
Take control of your birth today with Body Ready Birth™
Investment: $250 for birthing parent and birth partner. Includes:
- 5 hours of in-person class time to learn and practice functional movement
- Learn hands-on techniques to practice with your partner
- Time with me, a certified Body Ready Method Pro, to ask questions and gain knowledge
- Online access to targeted birth training and movement videos to easily continue to practice at home as well as printable handouts to have with you in labor
- Lifetime access to the online platform
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT! Register by April first and save $25
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.
Topics include:
- What to expect physically from your newborn during the first weeks.
- How to create a safe and secure sleep environment with swaddling.
- Maximizing weight gain techniques.
- Learn the why, how, and strategies for successful burping.
- Trouble shooting the cause and ways to reduce gas.
- How to change a diaper, types of stool, and how to care for umbilical cord, circumcision, and skin.
- Best techniques to create a happy bath time.
- Learn ways to soothe a crying baby and maximize your sleep and theirs.
- How to recognize and treat colic, jaundice, dehydration, and reflux.
$80 for a reservation for each pregnant person and their partner.
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.