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The Body & Mind Birth Course is a comprehensive and holistic birth preparation course designed to help you approach birth with confidence and trust. Influenced by Hypnobirthing and Fluentbody™, we combine essential birth knowledge with mindfulness and body movement.
Your body was designed to birth, but you are not a machine. Environment and mindset greatly influences this physiological and hormonal process. We know birth works best when you feel safe, supported, able to let go and follow your body's lead. This, however, is sometimes easier said than done. Having the right information and knowledge is essential, and a good start when preparing for birth, but it's not always enough. In order to approach birth with confidence and complete trust in yourself, you also need to connect to your body and mind, and learn to follow your instincts - an important link often not emphasized.
The Body & Mind Birth Course is here to help you connect to yourself, your baby and your body, but also to guide you to prepare together as a team with your partner. The course is designed for pregnant women and their partners and is spread over two days.
Day 1:
The first day is designed for pregnant women only, to connect to our inner power and strengths and to the endless resources of women as a group.
Topics for day 1:
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Connecting to the female strengths
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Exploring how we feel about birth
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Breathing and relaxation exercises
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Building trust, confidence and a positive mindset
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Movement exercises - connecting to our bodies
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Affirmations
Day 2:
During the second day we invite partners to join and focus on connecting as a couple, preparing as a team and gaining practical knowledge and tools.
Topics for day 2:
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The Dutch maternity system and your options
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The physiology of birth - what to expect
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Breathing and moving through birth
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Partner support exersices and tools
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Managing discomfort
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The birth plan
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Informed decision making
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Early postpartum
Location: Damoves, Amsterdam
Both days will start at 10:00 and finish at 15:00. At 12:00 there will be a one hour lunch break (you can bring lunch or buy something in the area).
Price: € 355
Included:
Two days of discovering your inner strength and deepdiving into birth
In-class practice, demonstrations and guidance by experienced teachers
A small intimate group of max 6 couples
Additional materials and resources for home
The course and all materials are in English
Questions? bodyandmindbirth@gmail.com
Meet the course facilitators
Veronika Dellus - Certified Birth Doula, Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator and Mother of three.
Learn more about Veronika here.
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Merav Zvulun - Certified Fluentbody™ Facilitator, Social worker, Mother of one out, plus one in the making.
Learn more about Merav here.
We are two women, friends and mothers, from different parts of the world, who's paths have crossed time and time again over the years, as if destiny already had plans for us. We both eventually found ourselves in the Netherlands with a shared passion for birth and women's wellbeing and reproductive health.
With our different areas of expertise and experience, we simultaneously arrived at a moment in time when we were both looking for something more in our offerings. A vision was born as we realized that what we were missing could be accomplished by working together - the Body & Mind Birth Course was born.
We are excited to share our baby with you!
