1401 W. 6th St.
Austin, TX 78703

You will learn:

• Everything you need to know to achieve safer, easier, and more comfortable birth.
• To explode the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labor.
• What's wrong with labor as it exists with most other childbirth methods.
• Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome.
• How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture and birth your baby with ease and comfort.
• Natural ways to bring your body into labor without artificial chemical induction .
• How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene, and joyful rather than tense and stressful.
• Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushing.
• To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended.
• Practice in deep relaxation during and between uterine surges.
• The importance of prenatal and perinatal bonding.
• Why women in other cultures have birthings almost entirely free of discomfort.

5 classes, each consisting of about 2.5 hours:

Course Highlights:

• How the mind and emotions affect the body.
• Why labor hurts and why it doesn't have to.
• Releasing fear - the enemy of labor.
• Preparing your mind and body for birthing.
• Avoiding artificial induction and episiotomy.
• Developing ultimate depth relaxation.
• Understanding the stages of labor.
• Preparing your Birth Plan.
• Breathing your baby down for birth.