This workshop will prepare “pregnant couples” for birth by teaching them practical and simple yoga-based techniques to encourage a normal active labour, help to shorten your labour and reduce medical intervention. It will empower you both with a calming confidence in your body’s ability to give birth and teach your partner helpful ways to support you.
- Learn how the body and mind interact during labour
- The fear-tension-pain cycle and how to avoid it
- Explore positions for each stage of labour
- Mindful movement in labour
- Breathing techniques
- Massage & pressure points
- Simple effective meditation & visualisation
- Optimal foetal positioning for before and during labour)
- Prepare your birthing partner with practical ways to help you in your labour
Date: Saturday, Oct 15th from 1.30-4.30pm
Investment: $155 per couple
Prebooking is required. Just go to our timetable page and click ahead through the weeks to Oct 29. Then choose the couples prep pricing option to book your spot.
Facilitated by Specialist Prenatal Teacher Shelley Sheehan: Shelley has studied and practiced yoga for 20 years with many inspiring teachers all over the world in various styles which has formed her well-rounded, open-minded approach to her teaching.
Shelley is registered with the Yoga Alliance both as a Hatha Yoga Teacher and a specialist Prenatal Yoga Teacher. Shelley also has Bachelor’s Degrees in Medical Science and Biomedical Engineering forming a deep understanding of the human body and a technical approach to her teaching. Shelley’s yoga classes are challenging and dynamic, balanced with gentle mindfulness and delivered in a light-hearted atmosphere. In her Prenatal Yoga classes Shelley also inspires connection, motherly intuition and empowerment through sharing her wealth of knowledge.
“I am now a mother of three beautiful little girls. I am privileged and grateful to have lived and breathed yoga through three pregnancies, births and recoveries. I am fascinated by how yoga transformed my own experience of transitioning into motherhood and I am equally passionate about guiding my students through their pregnancies with yoga. My wish for every expectant mother is to be prepared, empowered and at peace during the amazing journey of pregnancy, birth and beyond.”