A Relaxed Approach to Birthing
Birthing Workshop
Assisting Pregnancy and the Birthing Process through Prenatal Yoga, Breath Work and Relaxation Techniques for a more natural, aware and manageable birthing experience.
You will learn:
1. Keep your body and emotions healthier and more balanced throughout your pregnancy.
2. The art of very deep focused relaxation, enhancing your body's natural ability to let go; staying awake and alert while assisting your birthing body to open and release your baby with more comfort and ease. (Deborah's Relaxation Pregnancy CD will be available at workshop)
3. The Stages of labor.
4. Breathing techniques to assist with your uterine surges, avoiding the need for drugs or unnecessary medical interventions.
5. How to access your body's natural anesthesia, releasing the endorphins which allow you to deepen your relaxation even more.
6. How your partner can assist you in this entire process, through their positive words, touch and supportive presence.
Call 510-541-1395 for Birthing workshop and Hypnobirthing program schedules
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Education Program
5 Three-hour workshops
The HypnoBirthing childbirth method is as much a philosophy
of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free
method of birthing. 
HypnoBirthing teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn how to call upon your bodyÍs own natural epidural and thus lessen or even eliminate discomfort and the need for medication.
When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures. You will be fascinated as you view Hypno-birthing films showing laboring mothers, awake, alert and in good humor as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome.
Hypnobirthing teaches you to release all prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself from harmful emotions that lead to pain causing fear and unyielding muscles. HypnoBirthing will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. With HypnoBirthing, you will not be in a trance or a sleep state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
My dream is that every woman, everywhere, will know the joy of a safe, satisfying birth for both her baby and herself--one she'll not need forget. - Marie F. Mongan (Founder of HypnoBirthing)
This full childbirth education program is centered around hypnotherapy.
It is used to assist the expectant mother in mental, physical, and emotional
relaxation. You will learn many techniques for deepening your relaxation and
enhancing the body's natural anesthesia. This is not an intellectual approach,
but an actual participation between the expectant mother and her birth companion.
Deborah's prenatal and postpartum classes offer an oasis of peace and calm, this, even in a yoga class, cannot be taken for granted. One of my favorite
qualities of her teaching style is a sense of space that she enables. Her instructions are given slowly and precisely with time given between poses to simply
take a breath. This unhurried pace can make one and a half hours feel luxuriously long. There is also a great sense of safety and being taken care of that comes from her years of experience and knowledge of being a yoga teacher and of all the stages of change that we go through, during pregnancy and postpartum. The exercises themselves are simple enough that anyone can do them and are usually tailored specifically to the needs of the women in each class. You can
rest assured that whatever issues your pregnancy raises for you, Deborah will
have a useful technique that will ease you back to comfort.
Also, having experienced Hypnobirthing as taught by Deborah I simply cannot
recommend it highly enough. The two techniques, Deborah’s Collaboration (Yoga
and Hypnobirthing) compliment each other perfectly and as a birthing class
Hypnobirthing is second to none. Its emphasis on relaxation during birthing is
absolutely key and there is a host of information about the body that gives a
real understanding of why deep relaxation and breathing techniques actually
work. This, supported by affirmations, Deborah's amazingly relaxing voice and
manner, and real ways of confronting any fears around birth make it a superbly
effective class. Sign up now!
Sincerely,
Rosy Schlussel
(Prenatal yoga teacher, wife and mother of two)
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