Joy of Birth Workshop

The Joy of Birth Workshop
offers skills in a weekend prenatal class that you and your family can use for lifetime.

Did you know that the average length of labour in Canada for a first baby is about 38 hours?

Did you know that the average pain medication rate is reaching over 90 % in most hospital birth units?

Did you know that hypnosis dramatically reduces medication rates, the incidence of caesarian section and halves the length of time in labour?

The program has 2 evenings for the expectant mom’s – 2 Thursday evenings 6 – 8 p.m. & bring along husband or birth partner to a Saturday 10 – 2 at the Seekers Centre of Integrative Medicine located at 942 Merivale Rd.
There are many take-home techniques for you your partner to practice, variety of books, dvd’s & resources for your to borrow. Give yourself everything you need to prepare for your Birth Day for $379-

Including …

1. Experience the Joy of Birth that includes hours of innovative participation, allowing you to experience deep hypnotic relaxation in your body.

2. Informative handouts with Hypnotic Prompts for birth partner to use for the Birth Day

3. Professional Joy of Birth hypnosis recording

4. Training in self hypnosis and how to use it while you prepare for your birth and for the use of common pregnancy discomforts

5. Theory and practice of Hypnotic Comfort Techniques ( pain management tools )

6. Teaches deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tension & pain in the birth experience

7. Techniques to settle your busy mind, reduce fears, worries and anxious feelings and feel calm, confident and balanced

8. Lots of quick and easy tips for your partner – for both hypnosis practice and birth information

9. This unique program supports women in communicating with their baby throughout their pregnancy to solidify the bond between the mother/parents and the child

10. Learn techniques for safe and more comfortable birth through guided imagery, visualization and special breathing

The course consists of evidence-based hypnotherapy exercises for pregnancy and childbirth.

Imagine having the ability:

• reduce the length of time for your birth
• to strengthen connection between body and mind
• to recover from birth easily and quickly
• to prevent postpartum depression and to stimulate lactation

Experience The Joy of Birth

* Research shows hypnosis in birth produces a shorter, more comfortable labor

* Enhance the creation of the body’s own natural anesthesia

* Discover how to maximize the neuro-muscular harmony of the mother’s body designed to work in harmony with nature throughout labor

* Techniques to eliminate fatigue during labor, leaving mother fresh, alert and with energy for the actual birthing stage

* Focus on the importance of prenatal bonding

* Encourage empowerment for birthing women

* Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience that nature intended

* Experience the deep level of relaxation to eliminate fear and tension that can cause long labor and pain ~ replacing it with confidence, calmness and comfort

During the program, the women are encouraged to address emotional issues or concerns, such as, mother / daughter relationship challenges, fears in childbirth or the transition into motherhood, etc.

The women/couples have the option of booking a private session, before or after giving birth (for a reduced fee after taking the workshop) to address personal challenges (i.e., birth trauma, fear release, deepen your practice of hypnosis for birth, lactation, weight loss, fatigue)

My intention is to give women the tools, the inner resources to create the experience of labor to be like one long, active meditation. A continual spiral inward that opens the body as the petals of a flower opens under the warmth of the sun.