Workshops & EventsBirth Rehearsal
A 2 part workshop
Nirlipta Tuli
of Sitaram
Partnership
In The Loft at The Life Centre,
15 Edge Street,
London W8
15 Edge Street,
London W8
Sat 29 March & 5 April, 2008
10.30am - 1.30pm
Cost: £75 (£140 for couples)
Limited to 12 participants, so book soon.
Unlike any other antenatal yoga classes!!
Sitram birth rehearsals are not like other antenatal classes: they are a unique way of preparing expectant mothers and expectant fathers for labour, whether you are having a hospital birth, a water birth or a home birth. Unlike other forms of childbirth education or parentcraft, Sitaram antenatal education includes physical, emotional and mental preparedness for birth for expectant couples. It emphasises natural birth, normal physiological labour and having an active birth, in the sense of being confident in the abilities of the woman’s body to birth her baby well. Sitaram’s approach is widely recommended by local NHS midwives, independent midwives and doulas.
How it works
For each stage of the birthing process, you will learn simple breathing, movement, postures and visualisations to ease the birth of your baby. You will also cover the positioning and experience of your baby during birth, the role of the supportive birthing partner, and birthing positions.
Although women are welcome to attend on their own, the workshop works best when the pregnant woman is accompanied by her birthing partner, because then the partner can learn practical pain relief techniques as well as the breathing and movements which the woman hopes to use during the birth. The idea is to provide the pregnant woman and her birthing partner with a simple but complete yogic approach to the experience of late pregnancy, labour and birth. Women attend together with whoever they are planning to have with them during labour, including mothers, siblings and partner/s.
What to expect
- Minimum theory and maximum practice.
- Practical skills to help you and your birth partner birth your baby.
- How will I know when I am / she is really in labour?
- How will I cope with pain?
- How can I help my partner cope with pain?
- What birthing positions work best?
- How can we keep calm during the birth?
- What do we need to know about the processes of normal physiological labour?
- What to do if labour is short?
- What to do it labour is long?
What you will learn
- Practical responses to lots of different scenarios
- Coping strategies – for home birth, for hospital birth, for water birth, for first time mothers, for women who have had other labours
- Mock contractions in real time: what they are, why they happen
- Practical experience of how to use breath and movement to get through them
- How partners can read signals of a woman in labour
- Experiential demonstration of the process of labour
- Optimal foetal positioning and the value of maternal posture in late pregnancy
- Mental and emotional preparedness for birth
- Breath and movement in labour for energy and pain management
- Physical and emotional support for the labouring woman
- Birthing positions
- Visualisation and relaxation techniques to promote gentle birth
- What to do with everything you have learnt.
The workshop will include a deep relaxation practice introducing and utilising breathwork for partners that assists in the assimilation of the techniques taught, and you will receive a revision sheet covering the practices covered. Fruits for refreshment are provided throughout, just as if you really were in labour or supporting a labouring woman. Following the formal class there is an opportunity for discussion, with questions and answers and examples of coping strategies from mums who have recently birthed their babies.
Nirlipta Tuli co-founded Sitaram Partnership with his wife, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, in 1998 to specialise in family yoga and hypnotherapy. Nirlipta is both a yoga teacher and a clinical hypnotherapist, with specialist training in perinatal hypnotherapy (clinical hypnotherapy for childbirth, and for the pre and post natal period) and in pregnancy yoga, yoga therapy and yoga for women's health. The heart of his unique hypnotherapy practice is a specialised approach to perinatal hypnotherapy, and he has particular expertise in teaching yoga practices for positive mental health, stress relief and relaxation. Nirlipta and Uma have three young children of their own.