LABOUR OF LOVE PREGNANCY YOGA / POSTNATAL YOGA & BABY MASSAGE

This session incorporates elements of Spinning Babies, Biomechanics for Birth, Birthing From Within and Active Birthing to provide you and your partner with many tools and practices so you can work together to create a positive birth experience.

Workshop content -

Pain Coping & Breathing for Labour; Positions for Labour & Birth; Optimal Baby Positioning & Birth Hormones

• Learn a powerful and effective pain coping practice using the breath to help keep you focused and centred in labour and in your power during labour. By practicing this together with your partner you'll work out the kind of support you need and this will help your partner to feel more confident in knowing and understanding your needs during the intensity of labour & birth
• Practice a variety of birth positions, working out which feel most comfortable and how your partner can best support you in them.
• We'll take a closer look at the pelvis and understand how movement and gravity help you work with your body and make more space for baby in labour and birth.
• Learn a variety of biomechanic techniques to balance the pelvis during pregnancy so baby has the best chance of being well positioned for birth, some of these you can do on your own and some with your partner. These techniques can also be used in labour if baby is mal-positioned or if there are restrictions in the pelvis.
• * Massage and comfort techniques for labour.
• * Understand the role of birth hormones and what you need in labour to encourage the birth hormones to flow and what inhibits their release.

Recommended from 30 weeks of pregnancy but can be taken earlier.

These sessions are for expectant women / parents and their birth partner (which might also be your partner or mum, friend, doula, etc) or you can come on your own. Small groups so there's plenty of time to ask questions and have individual attention.

These can also be held as a private 1-2-1 session for you and your partner