Holistic Birth Journey - a Couples Workshop

Alexa Dean | 2–5 pm | Saturday 1 April 2023 | Price: £125 (per birthing couple)

with Alexa Dean

Physical and Emotional Tools for Labour & Birth

This couples birthing workshop includes: yoga poses, partnering poses, massage techniques, rebozo techniques, how to use breath and alignment to relieve aches and discomfort and a sweet way to connect with your partner whether your partner is a spouse, sister, mother, doula or friend! We finish with time for a Q&A, tea and biscuits.

This workshop will help couples connect deeply with their baby, during such a significant and intense time. The birthing-partner will learn how to best support the birthing woman, using their own body, and other props often helpful in childbirth.

Couples will have the chance to:

Learn gentle yoga postures with an emphasis on working in pairs
Work together as they might in labour
Learn breathing and massage and touch techniques useful for pregnancy, and labour
Learn movements and positions for labour and birth
Learn and understand birth as a sexual event
Enjoy a bonding meditation and visualization with your baby

A few notes about this workshop:

No yoga experience is necessary
The workshop is perfect for all trimesters, experience level, and body size.
It does not matter how or where you are planning and hoping to have your baby.
Couples are encouraged to come to the workshop more than once to consolidate learning and continue to build connection and trust.
Do wear comfortable clothes for movement.

*Please note this is not a full birth preparation course, but a practical workshop to experience physical and emotional tools for labour and birth.

These workshops will run on more dates in 2023 – TBC!

Alexa Dean is a Doula, Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator, Yoga Teacher, Massage Therapist and Co-Founder of ‘London Bliss Doulas’ established in 2012. She teaches Pregnancy Yoga classes weekly and runs our 60 HR Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training.

She passionately believes in active, positive and conscious birthing and in supporting women all the way through their own private and amazing experience of becoming a parent. She encourages women to intelligently align mind and body, enjoy their pregnancy and the empowerment obtained through knowledge and understanding of the process of birth.

"Alexa is a wonderful teacher. I would highly recommend her pregnancy yoga workshop whatever way you plan to have your baby. The relaxation tools are something we will be able to use before, during and after birth. And have given me confidence as we approach the big day.”

E & T

"We learned loads with Alexa and felt so much more confident and informed about the pregancy. We really liked how the rythm of the class gradually helps to build up the connection with your partner. The class has very beautiful flow, you may start by having some ey-to-eye contact with your partner and then move into exercises that requieres more physical contact. This workshop is just a really calm, empowering and beautiful journey to experience!”

Beaulah & LukeCEO

"We enjoyed feeling connected together as the 3 of us, it helped to reinforce the importance of the father role. We felt more in powered and it has helped towards us being more confident to guide the birth in the direction we want. On a practical level some of the exercises and tools were really helpful. We were left in calm and lovely headspace.”

JessCEO

"We both really enjoyed this workshop. My partner was a little skeptical at the beginning but Alexa had beautiful energy and made us feel relaxed, helped us connect, and learn some useful practical skills for labour. Thoroughly recommend.”

SerenaCEO

"Alexa’s workshop was a wonderful way for us to connect with each other and our baby. I think my partner found it helpful to feel more involved in the birthing process and I found the session very positive and it has left us both feeling at peace with and looking forward to experiencing the birth together."

"We really enjoyed doing the couple workshop with Alexa! She's very knowledgeable and approachable. The workshop was divided in three moments: the first one dedicated to interconnection and nurturing intimacy in our couple, the second one focused on relief techniques that could help me during labout, and the third one on couple relaxation. The workshop really helped us connect - as a couple - with our baby. This was an amazing experience and we recommend it warmly ! “

John DoeCEO

The couple's workshop has equipped my birth partner and I with invaluable tools to use during labour. It was also a lovely opportunity for us to connect with each other and our baby and understand the importance of both our roles in the birth of our baby. We left feeling more connected and confident that we can work together to have a positive birth for our baby. We will definitely attend again to consolidate what we learnt.

Tilly

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Holistic Birth Journey - a Couples Workshop

Alexa Dean | 2–5 pm | Saturday 1 April 2023 | Price: £125 (per birthing couple)

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