ACTIVE BIRTH WORKSHOP
with Miriam Van Doorn

Holland Park Studio
Sunday 11th October
11:45am - 3:45pm
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$190 per couple

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?
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Our Active Birth Workshops are run by Brisbane's leading Prenatal Yoga teacher Miriam Van Doorn. With over 20 years of teaching experience (and a beautiful child of her own) Miriam will guide you and your birth partner through a practical workshop filled with practice, discussions and active participation 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 3.5 hour interactive workshop will include:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Yoga postures and philosophies to support positive birthing
  • Relaxation skills to enhance the natural hormones of labour
  • Stages 1, 2 3 and 4 of labour, how to cope and calm yourself through each stage
  • Perineum care
  • And so much more….

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!

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 20 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!