ANTENATAL BIOMECHANICS COURSE
move well - birth well
A practical, movement-based course to help you understand the changes in your pregnant and birthing body. Learn how to move through pregnancy with more ease and confidence, knowing you're doing the right things to care for and prepare yourself.
This course is perfect if you're worried about meeting baby, whether you're a first-time parent or you're already got little ones. We'll be covering birth anatomy and exploring hormones in ways that are simple, practical and fun. There are several opportunities for partners to join sessions, including one session that's just for those supporting you in the birth room (doulas welcome too). This course includes access to online content and ways to connect socially with other parents, so you can find your village.
Stay fit, learn about your birthing body and prepare to meet your baby with confidence.
- in Frome, Somerset -antenatal course
Simple biomechanics informed yoga-based poses, embodied movement, mindfulness and tips for life.
This class is rooted in developing awareness and offering you choices that you can take into any type of birth, so that you stay in charge in classes (and hopefully beyond). Down-to-earth, trauma-aware sessions that give you essential knowledge for birth.
- feel more calm in your pregnancy
- simple explanations of what to expect in labour
- movement and breath connection
- meet other expectant parents
- develop and deepen your body awareness
- find inner-strength for birth and beyond
- ease pregnancy aches
- be in community and share your experience with others
HOW TO JOIN
The next course starts in September and covers 15+ hours of antenatal education, active birth techniques, relaxation for labour, yoga, mindfulness and biomechanics for birth.
Sessions will cover:
- Movements to ease common aches in pregnancy
- Hormones in labour
- Biomechanics Basics - stay aligned and help baby get into a good position for birth
- Tools for relaxation in pregnancy and labour
- How to adapt tools for induction or caesarean birth
- Ideal for home birth and labouring at home
- Tips to help you enjoy your pregnancy
- Time to bond, make friends and share experience
- 3 sessions that birth partners can join
- 1 paerners only session that's just for birth partners
- 1 social meet-up
- WhatsApp group for your course
THIS COURSE RUNS IN FROME, SOMERSET
coming soon to Bristol, UK
About Emilie
Classes are guided by Emilie, a Doula, Embodied Toolkit teacher, biomechanics and pelvic wellbeing geek and childbirth educator. Her approach is science-based, down- to-earth and trauma-informed. She’s 'mum' to 2 kids and has been working with birthing families for more than 15 years.Training and Qualifications
Emilie has been working with pregnant and new families for over 14 years.
She’s a fully qualified 200 hour Yoga Teacher, Doula,
NCT Breastfeeding Peer Supporter, Embodied Yoga Principles teacher and a registered Antenatal Teacher.
Other training:
• Trauma Sensitive Yoga • Movement Ecology During Pregnancy with Katy Bowman
• Advanced Biomechanics for Birth • Dancing for Birth teacher
• Certificate of Embodied Coaching • MotherMassage trained
• Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Trainings with Nadia Narain at Triyoga, London.
• Franklin Method Pelvic Fascia Trainer • Modern Approach to Pain and Biomechanics (CPD)SIGN UP FOR CLASSES
The price for this course is slightly less than it was last year.
Standard rate: £84 for 7 classes
(if you’re comfortable enough to take holidays without worry)
Lower Income: £59 for 7 classes
(if you have to think about spending on extras like eating out)
USE CODE: LOWERINC
If finances are stopping you from joining, please do get in touch directly to talk about options
THURSDAYS 7.30-9pm in FROME, BA11 3BY
advance booking essential
‘When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”
― Sharon Salzberg
Birth Preparation Workshops in Frome
The session is structured as a mini birth rehearsal, so you can get a sense of the potential rhythm of a birth. Using partner yoga, active birth techniques and massage to help you and your partner prepare for birth with confidence. You may well have an decent idea of how birth works, but would like to explore options and remind yourself of process in a practical, relaxed session. Perhaps you’d like to explore some movement and massage principles that can help you understand how your birthing body works, and help yourself and your birth partner prepare to meet baby with with calm and confidence.
* tools for calm
* understanding the body and brain in labour
* practical biomechanics
* remind yourself of the stages of labour
Pregnancy Courses in Frome
Unique movement-based courses to help you move through pregnancy and towards birth with more ease and confidence.
Join them to help you stay fit, learn about your birthing body and feel confident about meeting your baby.Which course is for me?
Alignment for Pregnancy or Moving Towards Birth
Both of these courses bring together simple yoga-based poses, embodied movement and mindfulness with biomechanics and tip for life to ease the transitions as you move through pregnancy and approach birth. You can join either session whenever you're ready, but essentially ALIGNMENT FOR PREGNANCY is aimed earlier on and MOVING TOWARDS BIRTH is more specifically for birth preparation.
Both are rooted in developing awareness and choice.
Although there is information and guidance, you are in control of what you do in classes.Core elements of both courses:
embodied awareness practices
deep relaxation techniques
focus on breathing
information about your changing body
Stay strong for birth and beyond
Make friends & share your experience
ALIGNMENT FOR PREGNANCY
Yay! You're pregnant.You've heard that pregnancy yoga is a good thing to do, but maybe you've never stepped foot into a yoga class before, or you don't know how to change your practice to adapt to growing a little person.
This course will help you become more aware of your movement patterns and get set up for a more comfortable pregnancy. Let's take the best bits of pregnancy yoga, add modern understanding of the body and time to connect with your self, your baby and other pregnant folk.
• understand how everyday movement can help or hinder you
• practical tips for work set-up and addding functional movement to real life
• learn how your pelvic floor actually works
• deepen your awareness of your amazing changing body
• relaxation for pregnancy
• time to meet and connect with other parents-to-be
NEXT DATES:
Mondays 7.30-8.45pm
12th September - 17th October 2022
MOVING TOWARDS BIRTH
You're getting closer to meeting your baby.
The more you learn about your body and the process of birth, the easier it is to follow your intuition, step into your power, tune into your body and take birth in your stride - no matter what goes down.
The course will:develop body-awareness
learn about pelvic and other core muscles
explore active birth positions to work with gravity
get ideas about how to work with your body
take time to relax deeply
meet other expectant parents
There will be movement for your whole body; heat to toe, wrists, ankles, core and pelvic floor. We’ll also explore some of the key mind-body connections that can help you stay calm and focussed for birth.NEXT DATES:
Mondays 7.30pm - 8.45pm
• June 6th - July 18th 2022
at RISE Frome, Whittox Lane, BA11 4AS
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2023
