Where:
Coolidge Yoga South End
15 Worcester Street
Boston, MA 02212
Admission:
$75
Categories:
Sports & Active Life
Event website:
https://coolidgeyoga.com/apps/mindbody/classes/218
The Yoga of Childbirth: A Workshop for Expectant Parents and their Partners
with Brigitte Arle
Saturday, November 2 (12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.)
South End
Bring your birth partner and spend the afternoon together learning useful tools to help support you through labor and birth. No matter how you choose to birth your baby these tools can be used both at home and in the hospital to provide emotional & physical support.
Your partner will learn:
comfort & massage techniques
acupressure, rebozo, and other traditional tools used in labor
You will facilitate constructive coaching with your partner
Review the signs & stages of labor
Learn self-advocacy techniques in a way that is both easy to grasp and remember
We will explore positional changes, visualization, movement and breath to help encourage labor to progress and ease discomfort.
Wear comfortable clothing, bring your sense of humor, no yoga experience is required.
About Brigitte
Brigitte Arle is a professional dance-turned-Pilates-and-yoga-instructor. She specializes in prenatal, postnatal, and pelvic pain, and has been teaching for fifteen years. Brigitte currently runs Rooted Boston, a private-instruction Pilates studio. She has worked as a doula, certified lactation counselor, and studied midwifery with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm in Tennessee.
Cost: $75 per pair / $65 by October 26
All workshops are non-refundable.
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