Course Overview: BodyMind Birthing Weekly Lessons and Content

Week 1

Lesson 1: Introduction.

Lesson 2: How to Optimise This Course

Lesson 3: What is the BodyMind?

Lesson 4: The Variables of Labour (things you may be able to influence)

Lesson 5: Physiological Variables

Lesson 6: The Bodymind Variables

Lesson 7: The Environmental Variables

Lesson 8: The Physiology of Breathing

Lesson 9: 3-Part Breathing

Lesson 10: Yoga Class - ‘Grounding’

Lesson 11: Hypnobirth 1

Lesson 12: Introduction to Essential Oils

Lesson 13: Essential Oil: Lavender

WEEK 2

Lesson 1: The Power of Your Mind

Lesson 2: “My Beliefs’ & ‘My Body’ worksheets

Lesson 3: Your Nervous System

Lesson 4: Breathing for Labour

Lesson 5: Horse Lips

Lesson 6: Yoga Class - ‘Pleasure’

Lesson 7: Hypnobirth 2

Lesson 8: Essential Oil: Rose

Week 3

Lesson 1: The Power of Suggestion

Lesson 2: What is Hypnobirth

Lesson 3: Alternate Nostril Breathing

Lesson 4: Yoga Class - ‘Heart’

Lesson 5: Hypnobirth ‘Ease & Release’

Lesson 6: Deep Muscle Relaxation

Lesson 7: Essential Oils: Wild Orange & Lemon

Week 4

Lesson 1: Introduction to Mindfulness

Lesson 2: Easy 7-day Mindfulness Course

Lesson 3: Golden Thread Breath

Lesson 4: Yoga Class - ‘Sound’

Lesson 5: Mindfulness for Birth Meditations

Lesson 6: Essential Oil: Frankincense

Week 5

Lesson 1: Rewired for Parenting

Lesson 2: Your Brain During Birth

Lesson 3: The Sensations of Labour

Lesson 4: Sports Psychology

Lesson 5: Practicing for Birth

Lesson 6: Affirmations

Lesson 7: J-Breath

Lesson 8: Fist breath

Lesson 9: Yoga Class ‘Power & Strength’

Lesson 10: Hypnobirth ‘Powerful & Precious’

Lesson 11: Essential Oil: Clary Sage

Week 6

Lesson 1: The Fourth Trimester

Lesson 2: Matresence

Lesson 3: Managing Postnatal Stress

Lesson 4: Postnatal Nourishment

Lesson 5: Relationship Changes

Lesson 6: Breathing for Breastfeeding

Lesson 7: Yoga Class ‘Intuition & Interoception’

Lesson 8: Hypnobirth ‘The Journey’

Lesson 9: Getting Ready to Meet Your Baby

Lesson 10: Postnatal Yoga

Lesson 11: Baby Massage

Lesson 12: Essential Oil: Tea Tree

Antenatal education

Lesson 1: Where to Have Your Baby.

Lesson 2: Your Pelvis and Pelvic floor.

Lesson 3: The Stages of Labour

Lesson 4: The Hormones of Birth

Lesson 5: Birth Partners Role

Lesson 6: Comfort Measures

Lesson 7: Medical Support

Lesson 8: Induction of Labour

Lesson 9: Non-Medical Induction

Lesson 10: Caesarean Birth

Lesson 11: Birth Preferences Download

Lesson 12: The Mircrobiome

Lesson 13: Birth & Bonding