Relax & Breathe Birthing: a comprehensive hypnobirthing and antenatal preparation course

Our Relax & Breathe Birthing is an informal, inspiring and empowering approach that enables pregnant women and their birth partners to feel excited about the birth of their baby. We guide you through using gentle breathing, massage and hypnobirthing visualisations as a way of staying relaxed and calm during your birth experience. By taking a detailed look at your birth rights, choices and advocacy we can help you have the confidence to liaise with your care providers to make informed choices that feel right for you and your baby.

Relax & Breathe Birthing.jpg — **Who can benefit?**

This course is a wonderful way to prepare for all birth experiences, including C-birth, induction, and natural physiological birth. We recommend attending from 24-35 weeks in pregnancy. Partners/birth partners are encouraged to attend. The course is for all of you.
**This midwife-developed course is fully comprehensive and includes:**
*taking a look at the mind-body physiology of birth and the power of deep relaxation and the hypnobirthing techniques
*breathing and visualisation exercises (hypnobirthing) to help relieve negative emotions and anxiety and calmly prepare for birth
*birth advocacy - taking a look at your birth rights and choices, and how to prepare your birth preferences
*supportive movements and positions for pregnancy and birth
*massage and acupressure points for birth
*positive birth stories and dvds
*annually updated handouts fully supported by the latest scientific and midwifery research
Courses are run by Daniela. At KnotStressed Therapies, we have over 15 years experience supporting women and their partners through pregnancy and birth. Midwife Jenny Patterson, who co-developed the course with our Co-Director Onie, ensures all content is up-to-date and relevant.

Course delivery options:

We run small courses for up to 5 pregnant women and partners/birth partners. It’s a lovely way to meet other expectant couples. The session is really interactive with lots of chat, film watching and practical relaxation elements. The time flies by!

Or, you are welcome to book a private online 3-hour introductory session anytime for you and your partner/birth partner.

Or, a private online condensed course for you and your partner/birth partner (offered as 2 x 3-hour sessions or 1 x 7-hour workshop with a 1-hour lunch break).

The full 4-week course includes:

A comprehensive up-to-date folder of handouts, a Positive Birth Stories badge, and a set of Calm Birth Affirmation Cards, a full set of hypnobirthing scripts emailed as MP3 downloads (worth £30), and a £10 discounted pregnancy massage at Knotstressed in Edinburgh.

The private 3-hour introductory workshop includes:

Prices:

Comprehensive IN PERSON 4-week group course £210 (includes 4 x 2.5-3 hour weekly sessions).

Private online 3-hour introductory workshop £110. Follow up sessions can be booked £30 per hour.

Private online condensed course £210 (includes 1 x 7-hour workshop with an hour’s lunch break, or 2 x 3-hour sessions)

Venue:

In person courses are held at KnotStressed Therapies on Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5DL.

Online courses are run via Zoom.

Upcoming group courses on Monday evenings 6.30-9.30pm, four weekly classes:

18th, 25th November, 2nd and 9th December 2024
20th, 27th January, 3rd and 10th February 2025
10th, 17th, 24th and 31st March 2025
28th April, 5th, 12th and 19th May 2025
9th, 16th 23rd and 30th June 2025

Contact us:

Please contact us to join our in person group course, or to schedule a private online course, for you and your birth partner/partner.

Benefit from the hypnobirthing approach even if you don’t attend the courses:

You are welcome to buy our MP3 downloads via our Relax & Breathe Birthing website. Please note that these guided visualisations are included in the course fees, if you book a session with Daniela.

“This course completely transformed how I felt about the birth (from terrified beforehand to incredibly excited afterwards), and really brought my husband and I closer together over the pregnancy. Our teacher was incredibly encouraging and the techniques were invaluable. During birth, there were a lot of decisions that we were asked to make which without the course we wouldn’t have either known about or placed any importance on - decisions which we were given loads of impartial information on during the course. We also made good friends with the other couples in the class, whose support I’m not sure I could have coped without in the early days of our little boy’s life.”

— Nicola B

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