Full Class Curriculum
All exercises we do in class you will receive in a notebook to do on your own also.
(Of note, for teleconference class, we will be covering the same curriculum, however some of the exercises you will be asked to do at home that we would do in person in class)
Week 1: Personal Story & Birth
Your beliefs about birth are imprinted through your own birth, societal imprints, familial imprints, and personal beliefs.
In this class we will first explore your own birth and your beliefs around birth.
What was your birth like, do you know?
What do you believe about birth and your body?
During class we will explore this collectively and also experience a guided journey into our own birth. We will explore how it has imprinted us and our beliefs about birth.
You will be given exercises to do at home to explore your own personal birth story and beliefs that have been formed based on it. You will be given the flower essence blend “Mama Mending” that contacts our emotions around birth to work with for the following 2 weeks.
Week 2: Body Wisdom & Trust
Your body physiologically & instinctively knows exactly how to release your child naturally and gently. It also knows instinctively how to guide you when it is requiring help to achieve harmony. In this class we will be connecting with your body wisdom and supporting you in trusting your body & self to surrender ot the natural process of birth.
What does it mean to you to trust birth?
Is it about trusting your physiology, higher power, care givers, or all of the above?
Do you trust in your ability to connect with your body wisdom?
In this class you we will be connecting with our inherent body wisdom.
We will talk about what trust means to you and what you require to trust your body, the force guiding birth, and your caregivers.
You will be given exercises to use at home to connect with your body wisdom to help you build that inherent connection and to integrate trust in yourself & birth for your own journey. You will receive the flower essence blend “Trust” that helps strengthen a mama’s innate knowing to work with for the following 2 weeks.
Week 3: Exploring & Dissolving Fear
We sometimes fear what we do not understand or have fears based on past experiences. These unexplored fears can inform the choices you make around birth as well as your birthing experience. In this class we will be exploring your fears around that may come up around birth and will explore ways in which we can gently integrate and dissolve them.
This week we will explore fear, the unknown, and about what many don’t often contact, and that is that this is your journey and no one can birth your baby for you. We will explore instinct and how it naturally guides us in times requiring tremendous courage when we surrender to it. We will explore the unknown and embracing the understanding that no one can predict or control how your birthing journey will happen but they can intervene if you give them power to do so.
You will be given exercises to do at home to explore your trust, faith, and courage around your birth journey. You will receive the flower essence blend “Courage” to contact this deep seated strength.
Week 4: Honoring you & your child’s Voice.
How you prepare the space for your birth is up to you and your family. It is your voice that can guide this process whether it is setting up the room for a homebirth, to writing up your birth plan. My son deeply informed my birth choices through dreams and meditations and even guided my postpartum choices. It was profound to see how his choices and what he shared with me about him are so clear in his character today. In this class we will contact not only your voice of knowing, but also will guide you into ways you can listen and be guided by your child's voice. We will ask your child's soul what they choose for their birth.
Honoring your voice and your innate wisdom
Setting your own intentions.
Asking your body and your baby what do I really choose for our birth?
In this class you will be guided through a journey to connect with your inner knowing and your child, and will explore what your deep seated voice is saying.
You will receive exercises to do at home explore your voice and what your instinct is guiding you to choose for your birth as well as a formula for connecting with your child. You will receive “Soul Connection” flower essence to work with for the following weeks to connect in with you and your child’s knowing.
Week 5: CHOICE.
We have contacted our root system, the beliefs we have about birth and how our birth impacted us. We have connected more deeply with our body wisdom and inner knowing. We have asked our child to guide us in our birth choices. WIth all that information we are now going to look more deeply at what we choose after these weeks of self inquiry.
In this class we will explore what you are choosing for your birth and contacting what you require to support you in anchoring into this choice. We will explore resources in the community as well as home birth resources, or hospital resources should you choose a hospital birth.
You will receive ‘homework’ to complete for the following 2 weeks which will include a sample birth vision, optional birth plan, and you will also be asked to write a letter to your child. You will receive the flower essence blend “Divine Mother” to anchor and support this deep well of knowing that you have moved into.
Questions you may ask at this point:
Where do you choose to birth?
If you go to a hospital, do you have a birth plan?
Who is your advocate or doula?
Who do you want there with you?
What does the room look like?
What do you require to feel safe, comfortable, protected, and clear?
What does your baby ask for?
Do you want water, land, or both?
What about the placenta, what would you like to do with it?
What does your baby want to do with the placenta?
How would you like it to be after your birth, setting up the house etc.?
When do you want relatives to visit or not?
Do you want a meal tree and/or community support?
Class 6: Group Blessing Way & Sacred Circle
At class 6 will have a group blessing way where we will come together in sacred circle and prayer to support and bless each other’s individual choices and visions. There are some sweet surprises we have prepared for you. You will receive as a sendoff gift of the flower essence “Labor Angels” for your day of emergence.
Logistics:
Course will be conducted every other week.
Class time will be from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm.
Cost: $250 ($50 per class, the 6th class is no charge as it is ceremony)
Includes 6 flower essences and 6 classes.
2 Scholarships are available, please contact for application.
2 partial scholarships at $175 are also available.
Payment received via cash or credit card. Payment plans are available.
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Applicants are also eligible for a 1:1 coaching session at 50% of the cost.
Class dates:
Classes held in Sedona, AZ
All classes are held on every other Saturday.
October 12, 2011
October 26, 2011
November 9, 2011
November 23, 2011
December 7, 2011
December 21, 2011
Applicants are encouraged to contact me for a free 30 minute consult to ask any questions about the classes and to determine if it feels like a match. This class is also open to childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, and mothers who choose to learn more about this topic.
