“In mindfulness practice there is nothing to achieve, nothing to get, and nowhere to go. Instead, you are cultivating another way of being, learning how to be fully aware of exactly where and how you are in this very moment, even if the moment is painful or you don’t like it, because in this moment, this is your reality. A non-striving attitude can be especially valuable during childbirth. As you will see, allowing things to be exactly as they are during labor actually creates the optimal mind-body condition for your body to open, change, and give birth.”― Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
Mindful Birthing Childbirth and Parenting is an evidence-based childbirth education program designed to help reduce stress and anxiety during pregnancy, childbirth, and the transition into parenthood.
Join Tonya for this comprehensive nine-week course and learn practical mindfulness skills that support a calmer, more confident birth experience while providing tools you can use throughout everyday life. Through guided mindfulness practices, childbirth education, prenatal yoga, and engaging group discussions, you’ll develop strategies to navigate pregnancy, labor, parenting, and life’s many challenges with greater awareness and resilience. Many of the practice will be repeated weekly.
What to expect:
Week 1: Welcome, Beginners Mind an Introduction to Mindfulness
Week 2: Deepening Our Mindfulness practice: Introduction to Awareness of Breath and Body Scan
Week 3: Perceptions and the Physiology of Child Birth
Week4: Introduction to Pain Practice with ice and Mindful Movement Week
5: Labor support: mechanisms of labor, positions, hands on support for pain practice Week
6: Exploring the Illusion of Control and the Causes and Conditions of Labor Week
7: Day of Mindfulness: The day of mindfulness is an opportunity to deepen all the practices we have learned. We will have time to cover all the formal meditations including awareness on breath, body scan, yoga, and sitting meditation. Additionally we will practice mindful eating, walking meditation, and practice mindful speaking and listening.
Week 8: Postpartum: Your baby as your mindfulness teacher, Joys and stresses of postpartum, and normal physiology of breastfeeding
Week 9: Closing Circle
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