Couples massage for labour
The next workshop is on 23rd March 2024 at 1.30pm. This 2 ½ hour workshop is being held at Windmill Hill City Farm, Philip St, BS3 4EA.
The cost is £88 per couple.
Birth is a sacred rite of passage. When we revere it as such we feel empowered, safe enough to open. The power of massage and touch in birth is key to helping you experience an embodied birth.
During birth, we want to feel safe, safe enough for our bodies to open, safe for our bodies to soften, safe enough to become instinctual. Safe enough to be able to drop down into our feminine intuitive body, to move inwards, away from our thinking reactive brain. If we have never operated in this state before how can we do this in birth?
This practical hands on couples massage for labour workshop will help you and your partner feel prepared for birth, it will give you and your partner the practical hands on techniques to create a safe holding container for birth and experience an embodied birth. You and your partner will learn the practical tools to help orientate your body into feeling safe and relaxed, including effective acupressure points to help open and relax your body, to let go of your mind, using touch, breath and connection. We will also experience drumming to soothe and relax your body, to encourage your body to open and help the flow of oxytocin.
In this 2.5hr hands on workshop you will learn:
- Embodied practices to regulate your nervous system
- Acupressure points and massage techniques
- Positions for birth
- Womb/Hara connection and breath work
- Rebozo techniques for optimal positioning and working with your partner
- Using a birth ball
- Experience a relaxing drum journey for pregnancy and Labour
Who is this for? This workshop is suitable for women who are 36 weeks plus pregnant and their partners. If you are interested and will be almost 36 weeks, please get in touch.
Testimonial from Poppy, Bristol – August 2023
”Kiki, I just wanted to let you know that I gave birth to my daughter Skye yesterday at 6.20am. The birth was an overwhelmingly positive experience, and was hugely helped by the practices you taught us during the Couples for Labour Massage workshop. My husband was hugely empowered to be an active partner and use the techniques during contractions and between to help me through. Thank you so much for your help”