🗓️ Sunday 11th October
🕰️ 2pm – 5pm
📍 Ami Yoga and Wellness Studio, Cotta Court, Finkle Street, Cottingham HU16 4BB
Birth is physical. Your body may instinctively want to move, sway, rock, lean, kneel, squat or change position as your birth unfolds.
In this workshop, we’ll explore ways you can work with those instincts rather than feeling like there is a right position to be in.
You’ll discover how movement can help you work with gravity, create space within the pelvis, respond to the sensations of labour and find positions that feel supportive for your individual body.
And your birth partner will be involved too! Yey!
Rather than wondering what to do, they’ll practise ways to support your movement, offer physical support and comfort, and help you experiment with different positions during birth.
Sunday 11th October
2pm – 5pm
Ami Yoga and Wellness Studio, Cotta Court, Finkle Street, Cottingham HU16 4BB
Early Bird: £55 per couple
Book by 1st October to save £5!
£60 per couple from 2nd October
One ticket covers mum-to-be and one birth partner. All mats and props are included, along with tea and cake.
Spaces are limited to just six couples. There is one spot left!
Booking closes Thursday 8th October, 9pm.
⭐ Movement and positions for different stages of labour and birth
⭐ Breathing alongside movement
⭐ Using gravity to support labour and birth
⭐ Understanding how different positions can create space and mobility within the hips and pelvis
⭐ Using walls, chairs, birth balls and your birth partner for support
⭐ Hands-on partner support and counter-pressure
⭐ Positions for resting between surges
⭐ There will also be time for everyone to rest and relax with a guided meditation at the end.
Birth partners can play an incredibly valuable role during labour, but it can be difficult to know how to help in the moment.
Throughout the workshop, you’ll practise together!
Your birth partner will learn how to help you move between positions, offer counter-pressure and gently suggest different options when the time is right.
Rather than trying to remember what they read in a book or watched online, they’ll have already practised these techniques with you.
The aim is for you both to leave feeling more prepared, with a shared toolkit you can draw upon from the early stages of labour.
❇️ Greater confidence using movement during labour and birth
❇️ A toolkit of movements, positions and techniques you have already explored together
❇️ Practical ways to work with gravity and create space within the pelvis
❇️ Hands-on comfort techniques for your birth partner
❇️ Ideas for resting and conserving energy between surges
❇️ More confidence in responding to what your body needs in the moment
This workshop isn’t about learning the perfect birth position, having one fixed idea of how birth should look or memorising a sequence.
It’s about discovering possibilities together.
You and your birth partner will have the opportunity to move, practise, experiment and discover what feels supportive for you before the big day arrives.
Movement for Birth is curated for pregnant people in their second and third trimesters and their chosen birth partner.
You don’t need any previous yoga experience, and you certainly don’t need to be flexible. The focus is practical birth preparation rather than a traditional yoga class.
Whether you’re hoping for a home birth, birth centre or hospital birth, the techniques can form part of your wider birth preparation and be adapted to different birth environments.
Come prepared to move, practise and play.
“Hiyer! I’m Kim, a birth worker and yoga teacher with a passion for helping people feel more informed, prepared and connected to their bodies as they approach one of the biggest events of their lives: birth.
“My work in the birth world began with teaching Pregnancy Yoga and has since expanded into volunteer doula work, hypnobirthing and Postpartum Yoga.
“The more I learn about birth, the more fascinated I become by the incredible power of the female body. I bring that fascination, curiosity and respect into every space I facilitate.”
Sunday 11th October
2pm – 5pm
Ami Yoga and Wellness Studio, Cotta Court, Finkle Street, Cottingham HU16 4BB
Early Bird: £55 per couple
Book by 1st October to save £5!
£60 per couple from 2nd October
One ticket covers mum-to-be and one birth partner. All mats and props are included, along with tea and cake.
Spaces are limited to just six couples. There is one spot left!
Booking closes Thursday 8th October, 9pm.
