ACTIVE BIRTH WORKSHOP

with Miriam Van Doorn

Holland Park Studio
Saturday's 11:00am - 3:30pm
July 3rd
October 16th
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$190 per couple

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Are you currently pregnant with your first child and looking to enter labour feeling calm, relaxed and fear free?
Are you pregnant with a subsequent child and looking to follow a different birth plan?​

Our Active Birth Workshops are run by Brisbane's leading Prenatal Yoga teacher Miriam Van Doorn. With over 25 years of teaching experience (and a beautiful child of her own) Miriam whom is also a  qualified Doula will guide you and your birth partner through a practical workshop filled with practice, discussions and active participation preparing you for birth - exploring how the labouring woman might want to move, position herself and breathe, and how her birth partner can make that easier and more comfortable for her.  Women and their birth partners are shown practical ‘tools’ for working with pain in labour including touch, movement and massage preparing you for birth

In this small group educational class we'll explore how both the labouring mother and birth partner can work together to use mind-body techniques throughout the labour process. This 4.5 hour interactive workshop will include:

• Understand the physiological processes of birth and how the pelvis, uterus and the body’s wonderful symphony of hormones are perfectly designed to birth your baby.
• Dispelling fears around birth including setting intentions and using positive affirmations
• The role of the support person in an active birth (and how they can help reinforce the techniques learned)
• Meditation for birthing
• Postures and breathing for labour and birth
• Postures and breathing for birth
• Use of the breath to relax and release inner tension
• Use of sound to connect with a woman's strength and power
• Massage techniques to relax and lessen pain
• Yoga postures and philosophies to support positive birthing
• Relaxation skills to enhance the natural hormones of labour
• Stages 1, 2  and 3 and 4 of labour, how to cope and calm yourself through each stage
• Discuss the hour after birth, and the fourth trimester.
• Perineum care
• Half hour mid-session break

Who is welcome to attend?
Essentially anyone who you might want supporting you in labour. This might be:
Birthing mother and father
Same-sex couples
Single mother with support person or doula
Mother and daughter (birthing) | sister and sister (birthing)

What stage of pregnancy should I be in?
Most women attend this workshop in their third trimester so the techniques are fresh in their mind, however please feel free to attend from your second trimester on. We would not recommend booking within 3 weeks of your due date in case your baby decides to come a little early!
A lunch break is provided, please bring a yoga mat for yourself and your partner, 2 cushions, water bottle and snacks

Email info@stretchyoga.com.au with any questions!

​ABOUT MIRIAM VAN DOORN

Miriam is a qualified doula, and prenatal and antenatal yoga teacher with over 20 years experience. She draws experience from the births she has attended, as well as her own birth of her son Keanu and the pregnancy experiences of the thousands of women she has taught during the last 23 years.

Miriam first came to yoga because of sciatica and scoliosis. After attending her first yoga class in 1995 she noticed that her body felt much better and over time her posture started to improve and she had no more pain. With regular practice, she discovered yoga’s benefits in both body and mind, planting a seed that has never stopped growing. “This was my turning point to start studying yoga and become a teacher myself as I wanted to delve deeper and find out how this was at all possible, I have never looked back since.”
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Miriam has studied with some of the world's best teachers both in Australia and internationally. She has now been teaching for 25 years and is a E-RYT 500 and Level 3 Senior teacher (the highest possible designations!). As one of Brisbane's most senior and loved yoga teachers, you can be assured that you are in the safest of hands!

Miriam leads retreats both locally and internationally, as well as sold out workshops, classes and courses.  She has a 15 yr old son Keanu, likes the occasional cheeky glass of bubbles and if you're lucky she'll sing to you in savasana. It's amazing - we promise!