Pregnancy Yoga & Active Birth Courses

Q: WHAT is the 6 week pregnancy yoga course like ?

Pregnancy yoga classes are gentle, safe and beneficial for you and your growing baby. Along with practising pre natal yoga and breathing exercises that prepare you for birth, these classes explore topics that will increase your potential of achieving a natural and empowering birth.

WHEN DO I START ?

You can start at any stage in your pregnancy.   As the classes cycle round every six weeks you can start anytime.

Q: What is the pregnancy yoga and active birth workshop about?

You can explore Active Birth Skills such as Breathing in Labour, you will be moving in the class, releasing tension from your pelvis and strengthening your buttocks & legs. In the 1/2 day Pregnancy Yoga and Active Birth Workshop, you will practice yoga postures that are relevant to birth, like standing, squatting, lunging, all fours and resting postures.  Mindfulness and relaxation techniques are included in every class. There is clear evidence that using upright positions in the first stage of labour reduces the duration of labour, the risk of caesarean birth and the need for an epidural.

WHAT ACTIVE BIRTH SKILLS ARE COVERED in the workshop? 

• Relaxation skills

• Affirmations

• Optimal baby positioning

• Visualisation in pregnancy & labour

• Breathing for pregnancy, labour & birth

• Vocalisation in labour & birth

• Labour : first stage using active birth positions

• Birth: second stage using upright birth positions