Childbirth Education and Partner Yoga
for Expectant Parents
How are you preparing so both of you feel confident for when the baby is coming and finally arrives?
If you’re like most expectant parents, you may be feeling a certain amount of stress and uncertainty about labour, birth, and the post-partum period. That’s perfectly normal!
The good news is, there is a lot you can do to prepare yourself through education and body work that deepens your intuitional awareness of what’s happening within your pregnant body.
That’s why a childbirth education expert (Jaklyn Andrews) has teamed up with a certified yoga therapist (Ashlie Burns) and a physiotherapist specializing in pelvic floor health (Karen San Andres) to give you the mental and physical preparation you need to thrive during your pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum experience.
Together we offer you the best of our worlds: a modern, evidence-based and judgement-free prenatal class, along with the incredible and lasting benefits of yoga and physiotherapy.
In this 5-week series, you’ll learn the following:
Pregnancy, labour and birth: stages, positions, coping strategies
Tips and tricks for confident birth partners
What happens in the first minutes, hours and days after baby is born
Postpartum care for mom and baby: recovery, infant care, feeding
Preventing/healing from pelvic floor weakness, “mummy tummy”
Prenatal yoga is beneficial for optimal physical and mental wellness, relief from aches and pains and strength for labour and delivery. Yoga experience is not required – just bring your awesome selves. Both mothers and their partners will benefit from the yoga components of this class.
To prepare you for your separate roles in childbirth, we will lead you through the following:
Individual and partner poses to strengthen and stretch the body
Breath awareness and control
Exercises to deepen your personal connection with yourself, each other, and the growing baby within you
If you are looking for a way to feel healthy, strong, and confident throughout your pregnancy and birth experience, we encourage you to join us!
WHEN: Sundays 3:00 – 5:30 pm Sept 11th - Oct 23rd (no class Sept 9th) click ‘register’ to add yourself to the waitlist for when enrolment opens up or fill out the form below)
WHERE: in person @ Be Yoga & Wellness 4031 Fairview St #103 Burlington, ON L7L2A4.
INVESTMENT: $395+HST (this includes your partner, if you have one).
Here’s what previous students have said about Prenatal Prep:
“What an amazing prenatal class! Signed up for this at our local yoga studio, not knowing what to expect, but it completely exceeded all expectations. Jaklyn and Ashlie share a wealth of knowledge, are open to discussing experiences and do so with no biased opinions or judgement.
The yoga portion of this class was amazing and taught calmness, breathing techniques and restoration poses, which have already come in handy throughout my pregnancy.
My husband didn’t want to miss a class either, he took so much out of it and all the tips and tricks have been so helpful to him. Would highly recommend this class to all mamas and their partners!”
“We attended the prenatal prep class and it was a fantastic experience that actually ended up being fun! Both Jaklyn and Ashlie provided such a welcoming and laid-back atmosphere that everyone was comfortable asking what could have been some awkward questions and the topics really gave us some new things to consider and helped us communicate more as a couple about them.
The yoga was a great experience too and a nice time to bond with partners and babies and figure out what works for our bodies. Thank you Jaklyn and Ashlie! Will be recommending this class to all my friends that are parents to be!”
“Amazing! These ladies are beyond a wealth of knowledge and so very very passionate about what they do – you will not be disappointed! Every class was a perfect blend of content and prenatal yoga.
The resources they share were just an added bonus as other classes we’ve taken did not send us away with so much easy to reference at home materials (hard copies, online videos and links). Both Jaklyn and Ashlie are available through email during and after you’ve taken the course. I can not say enough good things about these facilitators. Highly recommend adding this Prenatal Prep Course to your journey through pregnancy, birthing and post care.”
“We attended the prenatal prep class and it was definitely the best thing we did to help us get ready. The class covered all of the important topics, and Jaklyn had a great way of delivering the content. We really appreciated the no judgment approach that Jaklyn takes. The pacing of the class was really helpful for us as well; having the classes spread over multiple days really let us digest each week’s topics. It gave us time to discuss things between classes and show up to the next week ready to learn more.
Pairing the class with yoga was a great experience too. We really enjoyed doing yoga together each week, and learning some good ways to use some yoga poses to help during labour. If you’re looking around for a prenatal class you cannot do better than Jaklyn and Ashlie!”
When we host in person we’ve welcomed students from Milton, Oakville, Burlington, Halton Hills, Hamilton, Mississauga, and Brampton.
Please check in with your health care provider first before starting a yoga routine.
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