Yoga for Labor Preparation - Mind, Body, & Spirit
Explore yogic methods of mental, physical, and spiritual preparation for labor.
You’ll have access to:
📝 information on how to build your birth plan
🧘🏽♀️understanding the relationship of fear and tension and pain and your pelvic floor
✍️ explore your relationship to fear through writing
💪🏼 yoga movement for fetal positioning, relaxation, and preparation for Labor
🤰🏼practices to help you push baby out, breathe baby out gently, and practicing labor positions
In this course, you’ll learn how to use the tools of yoga to guide you through labor and birth with both flexibility and strength.
You'll explore the many yogic tools tools to mitigate suffering through pain and discomfort and learn how to tap into your resilience.
You'll learn how to explore ways to dive deeper into knowing yourself so that you you face the challenge of labor and birth, you are familiar with these depths of yourself..
And finally, you'll uncover deeper connection to and communication with your body so that you can tap into your innate, primal, bodily wisdom of birth.
You’ll have access to over 8 hours of practices and lectures. I encourage you to practice these as you find them helpful. So if you're in the mood for reflection, go to the "Know Yourself" section and choose a practice you feel called to. If you want to move or connect with your body, choose a practice in "Body Literacy". If you want to practice pain-coping mechanisms then go to that section!
These practices are meant to support you and prepare you. If anything doesn't feel useful, leave it and continue with another practice that feels better suited for you.
What is non-attachment?
FREE PREVIEWAffirmations
Floppy Face Floppy Fanny
The 3 Versions of Your Birth Plan
A meditation for non-attachment
Bumble Bee Breath
The story of Inanna
A meditation for full body release
Jaw Massage and Release
Breath Retentions - Letting Go
Channeling Water Meditation
The Fear-Tension-Pain Cycle
Beej Mantra and Chakras
Count to 10
Awareness of Your Breath
Breathing Wider
Lion's Breath
Tense and Release Practice
Counter Pressure
Introduction to this section
Anchor Within to Transform
Story Telling + Movement Practice to Release Neck + Throat
Exploring the Layers of Your Being - 90 min practice
Letters Part 1: A Letter From Fear
Letters Part 2: A Letter From Love
What is Body Literacy?
Containment Holds
Marma Points for Labor
Yoga for Optimal Fetal Positioning
Breathing Baby Out
Pushing and Breathing Baby Down
Somatic Movement Practice
Body Scan Meditation
Yoga Nidra
Preparation for Pushing
Yoga for Fetal Positioning
Pelvic Mobility