WITH LOLLY STIRK
This unique workshop for women and their birthing partners is informative, practical and confidence building. A key element in the work we do is an open-minded approach. Knowledge is power, and you will gain a good understanding of how your body works during labour and birth, and how to allow and encourage this innate and evolved process to flow.

During the workshop Lolly will draw on her many years as a specialist yoga teacher, hypnobirther and childbirth educator. She is also a birth doula who has attended hundreds of births, both at home and in hospital. Her wealth of experience will provide you with the tools for working together before and during birth, and you will learn how to release tension and fear through education, breathwork, visualisation, movement and massage.

Lolly pays particular attention to the partner’s role, specifically in terms of reading body language and protecting space, to enable their partners to birth the baby undisturbed and supported.

To include:
–  Hypnobreathing, sounding and visualisation for labour and birth.
–  Environmental factors that complement the release of birth hormones.
–  Gravity assisted positions and movements for labour and birth.
–  Water birth – using water as pain relief and giving birth in water.
–  Getting the best out of hospital and a home birth.

An introductory email with references, a hypnobreathing script and recommended books will be sent in advance of your weekend workshop. Lolly will share her working notes with you after the workshop.

Attending Lolly’s yoga in pregnancy classes at HOME go hand in hand with this workshop.

Photography: Sarah Stirk