Benefits for mothers
Are you worried that your partner will be totally useless and start to panic? Then a birth rehearsal can teach you both useful practical skills to cope.
Not just another antenatal class
The yoga birth session presents many of the core practices from the regular weekly yoga classes, in a unique ‘birth story’.
At each stage of labour from pre-labour through to the actual birth of your baby, you learn the practical application of the yoga movements, postures and breathing that are of most help to the labouring woman.
Reassurance
The practical phyiscal skills you learn encourage you in your own ability to birth your baby.
The lucid down-to-earth and light hearted approach gives you a clear and realistic understanding of the process of birth.
Confidence
Understanding how to apply the yoga skills of movement and breath during childbirth promotes a confident approach to labour.
Pain relief
Simple breathing and movement practices teach you how to break the links between fear, tension, and pain. Real-time ‘practice contractions’ give you the opportunity to put powerful breathing and movement
techniques into practice. Working together with your birthing partner, you learn other simple and effective pain relief strategies.
Optimal foetal positioning
Learn to use postural awareness and movement to encourage yor baby into the best position for an easeful birth.
Deep relaxation
A vivid ‘birth story’ in the long relaxation helps you recall all that you learn, gives you energising rest, and time to focus on your unborn child.