Yoga birth rehearsal

A Yoga Birth Rehearsal workshop "for women and their birth partners" will be held next Saturday, June 28, at Umina by two women associated with the Peninsula Yoga Centre.

The workshop will be conducted by yoga teacher Helen Macnair and antenatal educator and early childhood nurse Aafke Woldring.

"These workshops give a practical understanding of the physiological process of birth," said Helen, a mother of three.

"We outline a typical birth experience and go through a birth rehearsal using simple breathing, movement, posture and visualizations for each stage of the birthing process to promote calm, gentle birth.

Aafke said: "I encourage women to be open to whatever happens during the birth, to keep the health and safety of themselves and the baby as their priority and to use their intuition, knowledge and yoga to enable them to have a positive birth experience."

At the end of the workshop there is an opportunity for discussion, with questions and answers and examples of coping strategies from mums who have recently birthed their babies.

These workshops are held regularly and are designed to complement the antenatal yoga classes run at the Peninsula Yoga Centre in Woy Woy.

The next workshop is on Saturday, June 28, from 9.30 to 12.30 at Umina Beach.

The cost of the workshop is $80 per couple.

For more information, telephone Helen Macnair on 4344 3936 or 0431 732 143 or email h.macnair@blueyonder.co.uk.

Press release, 9 Jun 2008 Helen Macnair, Peninsula Yoga Centre