Welcome World and Relaxed Birth and Parenting are collaborating in offering what we believe will be one of the most comprehensive and unique trainings available for those women who are feeling the call to work in the arena of birth. Between the three trainers we have over sixty years of experience of running antenatal classes and attending births. We have also come to realise that we offer something a little different to other antenatal trainings out there. It is my belief that women and families making the transition to birth need support that is so much more than just information and exercise.Information helps us realise choice and a healthy body supports birth, but there is also a place where we can offer support in a way that facilitates the woman deepening into her own knowing, of who she is in this transition, what she needs and how best to express her own authentic journey. So we are celebrating the path of finding deeper authenticity through the form of birth. We want women and their partners to be able to grow in confidence in terms of accepting and celebrating who they are and the experience that unfolds before them. This offers a strong platform to be able to parent from, as in that knowing we are able to connect to what is truthful for us. This is supported by trust not fear and can make for a more joyful experience to all concerned.
If you join us on this training you will be supported to know something deeper about yourself, who you are and how to best express your own authentic way. When you are invited to go inside and reflect on what you find there you will begin to see and know your own individual joy. This is one of the key areas that we feel we offer very differently from other trainings and we see from experience that it brings an enormous depth to our doulas and antenatal teachers. We want you to know something of yourself on this journey so you can best support others on their journey. We want you to find your own way of doing this so you may help others find their own way of doing this. We will offer skills and tools (Active Birth, Relaxed Birth, emotional preparation, relationship understanding, active listening skills, yoga, visualisation, herbal wisdom, anatomy and physiology, perinatal knowledge and so on) but our intention as always is encouraging you to find a way home to yourself with gentle but deep self-enquiry. Once you have committed to knowing yourself in this way you will have an ability to come back to yourself in any given moment in your life, and connect with that knowing. Learning how to do this will help you to hold a place where pregnant women can also be invited home to themselves. And when a baby inhabits our body having mum at home within herself can be a deeply nurturing experience for all concerned, certainly baby.
We are also offering a way to work deeply with the spirituality of birth and being which can again offer the pregnant woman a place to lean into when challenged by parenting life. All the information in the world does not always help us to make good choices that reflect who we are, but knowing who we are does support good choice. The spirituality of birth can touch both the pragmatic and the profound and the form of the journey matters less when we are able to sit underneath the surface and hold lightly what unfolds. We will be looking at a hugely wide array of birth issues from nitty gritty birth procedures and interventions to finding ecstatic joy in our birthing. We will be teaching you a way of looking at the world which offers the fresh eyes, taking you out of your comfort zone to expand what is possible, releasing fear and finding deep authentic expression of ourselves.
You will be trained to run groups, work one to one, or with couples, attend births should you wish, and run workshops. I have run antenatal groups for over twenty years and I can genuinely say that I love going to my antenatal groups and feel a deep gratitude for the women who come and teach me about their experience and their hopes, joys and struggles. I skip to my Monday night class and leave the class feeling nurtured by the space we co-create there. I know that the oxytocin is flowing, and I am one lucky woman to have a job where the hormones of love are a delicious by-product of the work we do together. Every woman has her own individual expression of her pregnant journey and in that way I can never get bored, am always learning about life and living, and my own response to that. If you would like a career change which offers a flow of oxytocin to your everyday life look at our website www.relaxedbirthandparenting.com and join the circle of women working to transform birth and parenting. You can also come and sit in on a class or workshop by calling me on 07969204763. Once trained you will be invited to join two established brands, Relaxed Birth and Parenting and Welcome World, with all the benefits that come from that.
Perhaps 2013 is calling you to work more authentically, follow your heart and let the oxytocin flow?
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