PRENATAL PREPARATION FOR AN ACTIVE BIRTH
This preparation in English helps you build strength and confidence in your ability to give birth to your baby.
An ACTIVE BIRTH describes a woman’s natural response to labour and birth when she allows instinct and intuition to guide her, thus enabling her to become more aware of the physiological needs of her own body.
Through regular practice a woman prepares herself, learning to surrender to the experience, and ultimately allowing the process of birth to unfold naturally, with confidence and trust.
I offer workshops for mothers alone and with their partners, and also private sessions for mothers and their partners
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How
This approach places emphasis on practicing yoga throughout pregnancy. Yoga brings mind and body into union through the awareness of breath and the practice of gentle movements. It encourages emotional and physical release, which serves as a great aid in calming restlessness and anxiety. Physically, the benefits are numerous. Relief from the normal aches and tensions of pregnancy is gained through learning massage, gentle stretching, breathing, and support from partners and props.
The preparation encourages fathers to participate in the experience of pregnancy, birth, and parenting thereby enhancing the commitment of both parents to the responsibilities of mutual support and parenting.
Whether at home or in the hospital, yoga for pregnancy enables a woman to tap into the wisdom of her own body in order to give birth safely and confidently.
Benefits
It will help a woman adapt to the changes of her body in pregnancy and allow the process of birth, whether at home or in the hospital, to unfold naturally, with confidence and trust.
The regular practice of breathing exercises, gentle movements and yoga postures (practiced to your own level of capacity), will encourage emotional and physical release. You will learn to help yourself with common aches and tensions in pregnancy and calm restlessness and anxiety.
The partner workshop will help your birth partner learn practical tools and comfort measures to support the mother during the birth. It will help the mother take responsibility for her needs during the process.
Topics of interest in birth preparation
- Proper posture to avoid back pain
- Exercises to help circulation, stiffness and tiredness
- Breathing, toning, visualizations and relaxation techniques
- Perineum and pelvic release excercises
- Making contact with the baby
- Coping with intense sensations
- Talking the woman through the stages of labour
- Movements and upright positions to facilitate dilation
- Rehearsing breathing and contractions
- Positions for the expulsive stage
- Bearing vs. pushing
- Partner workshop for support during labour and birth.
- Parents and baby reunion to integrate the birth process
- Extra resources included
Prenatal preparation workshops
They will empower themselves in developing more trust and confidence in their ability to work together.
Breathing exercises, visualizations to make contact with the baby, sensitivity awareness exercise, massage and relaxation techniques will be all part of the experience, to support the mother in the 3 stages of labor and birth.
It is also an opportunity to meet other parents.
This workshop is for partners who wish to do something together to prepare for the birth of the baby.
Suitable from 28 weeks onward.
WHEN: contact me when interested
WHERE: in Amsterdam or in the privacy of your home
PRICE: € 75 per pair for a three hour workshop
Private sessions
During private sessions you will learn how to:
- Optimize your home environment for the stages of labour and possible home birth
- Learn massage and breath awareness to support the mother and baby in the process of labour and birth
- Practice various labour movements and positions for birth
- Learn to communicate with your baby
This session provides a wonderful opportunity to share fears, questions, and concerns in an open, yet private environment.
Birth Circle for an Active Birth
at Delight Yoga Studio (www.delightyoga.com)
September 5th, 2020 from 13h until 17h.
Price 55 euro
This circle will be an opportunity for pregnant women to experience the intimacy and empowerment of sharing their process with other women, in a safe and gentle environment. There will be space for questions and sharing.
Pascale will take you into the journey of giving birth according to how nature intended it.
Topics of the workshop:
Opening circle
Making contact with the baby
Physiological birth rehearsal through visualization
Exploring breathing techniques & vocalization
Movements and positions to facilitate the first stage
Perineum and pelvic release exercise
Supported positions for the second stage
Breathing and relaxation techniques for coping with strong sensations
Passive & active bearing
Closing circle
Preparation for Birth Partner Circle
WITH Pascale Bonnet
06 September 2020, 14h-16h30 for 70 euro per pair.
https://delightyoga.com/studio/workshops/birth-partner-circle-pascale-bonnet
This circle is an opportunity for expecting couples or pregnant ladies and their birthing partners(whom can be a trusted other friend or family member to the mother),to learn about natural comfort measures and practice tools to support themselves and the mother in labor and birth. Through this circle, you will empower yourselves in developing more trust and confidence in your ability to work together in preparing for the birth of the baby. The following will be part of the experience, to support yourself and the mother in the 3 stages of labor and birth:
- Visualizations to make contact with the baby
- Sensitivity awareness exercise
- Communication exercise
- Breathing, massage and relaxation techniques
There will be an open and safe space for sharing wishes, fears, and expectations, processing your mental state, and preparing emotionally. It is also a great opportunity to meet other parents. Suitable from ladies in the 32nd week of their pregnancy and onwards Pascale is a doula, massage therapist and yoga instructor, specialized in the prenatal and postpartum periods of a woman’s life. She has extensive training in meditation, psychology, and breathwork. She is the mother of two grown-up children, born at home, who are her life inspiration.