This three hour class delves into birth: the history, our cultural ideas, expectations and dominant social messages, to examine how this paradigm impacts our birth experience. The class presents a cutting edge perspective for creating a new paradigm - one that has the potential for pleasure.

Through group activities, brainstorming, and investigation into their assumptions, participants will unravel their own beliefs about birth and address their fears to access awareness and understanding. Participants will gain eye-opening insights that reframe birth as an empowering and pleasurable experience. This personal exploration opens up the possibility to envision an ecstatic birth!

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Topics covered:

• How our dominant birth culture’s pain avoidance/relief approach (labour by-pass) influences your beliefs and can derail normal, healthy birth

• How pathologizing birth and its medicalization creates the ‘nocebo effect’ and can disrupt healthy childbirth

• Reframing: understand functional pain, shifting from fear, opening to your potential for power, potency and pleasure

• How to access your primal birthing instincts through birthing hormones/sensations – your allies to enhance the pleasure of birthing energy

• Sensual Expansion: use pleasure both as a holistic birthing tool and an outcome to elevate your birth experience

• Preparation for an Ecstatic Birth: creating your birth ambiance/conducive environment that uplifts experience; disarming fears; decision making when the unexpected occurs