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Workshops and Classes
Pregnancy Specific Aquatic Exercise Classes
(no need to register, you can just turn up)

Fremantle Leisure Centre, Shuffrey St, Fremantle
Tuesday 11:00am-12:00pm Deep/Shallow Water Running
Wednesday 5:30pm-6:45pm Toning/Relaxation in Hydropool
Thursday 6:00pm-7:00pm Chest-deep Running/Toning class

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Pregnancy Specific Aquatic Exercise Classes

Hypnobirthing®

Hypnobirthing® "One on One" session

As a certified Hypnobirthing® practitioner, Gabrielle describes the unique techniques she uses as a philosophy of birth that assists in achieving an empowered, relaxing and calm birth where fear is eliminated. Hypnobirthing® teaches a woman how to release all prior programming about birth, establishing a how to trust her body and it’s ability to do the thing it is designed to do methodology.

"Women are incredibly strong during childbirth they have just forgotten that they are"

This highly effective labour and birthing hypnosis preparation programme has been created for women to: inform, prepare and impart a positive educational philosophy in an empowered way. The emphasis of this programme has been placed on assisting the release of all prior programming about labour and birth, which can then enable a woman to establish an inner confidence and trust in the labouring and birthing process. This ‘trust’ and ‘belief’ in her body to do this job of labouring, opening up and birthing, in a comfortable, normal and natural way that is paramount to birthing in a calm and relaxed way.
Gabrielle Goodwin nee Targett BA Phys Ed, Independent Childbirth Educator (NACE), Certified Hypnobirthing® Practitioner / Advanced Certification of Hypnosis (Australian Academy of Hypnosis), Expert writer for both the Australian Pregnancy and Birth and Mother and Baby Magazines, Author of A Labour of Love - A Guide to Natural Childbirth Without Fear.

INVESTMENT: One on One session is $110 per hour. Minimum time is 3 hours for the first session only. Follow up session will be one hour.

To book a session with Gaby, please call 0418 336 362 or email info@alabouroflove.com.au

Scheduled Workshops

Couples Childbirth Education Workshop
Active Birth Workshop for Couples - Empowering Yourself for the Birth Ahead

ONE DAY INTENSIVE COURSE
Topics that will be covered:

Couples Childbirth Education Workshops

I will teach you how to BREATHE and surrender to labour...using techniques from my book A Labour of Love which can assist you in learning which breathing techniques are appropriate to use in which stages of labour

I will teach your partner...how to massage you using simple yet effective techniques

I will assist you to explore...and try all the various labour positions you can use when in labour at home and at your place of birth

I will address a labouring woman’s needs...mentally, physically and emotionally

We will discuss...the hormones of labour and how they can assist you to remain in a wonderful labour state

I can assist you to feel strong and confident...in your body and its ability to birth…without a doubt. Through gaining an understanding of what is happening to your uterine muscles, the hormones, and the pelvis during the stages of labour you will be better equipped to just allow your labour to flow. Birth is actually about surrendering to a natural process that we need not interrupt, or tamper with unless needed or necessary

We will talk...about the type of food and drinks suitable to have when in labour and why it is important to have a little of something

I will go through the stages of labour...looking at the signs, behaviours and things a woman can do when going through that stage and how your partner can support you

A the end of this workshop you will be asked to work on your ten top wants and needs list: the things that you would really love to have happen when in your labour state.

ONE DAY INTENSIVE COURSE - CHOICE OF AVAILABLE DATES

Saturday 25th February 2012 - Yoga Now Centre
Saturday 17th March 2012 - Yoga Now Centre

Venues: Yoga Now Centre, No 5/18 Hines Rd, O’Connor 9:00am til 3:30pm See Map

INVESTMENT: $155 per couple. Additional person is $25
You will need to bring on the day a fitball, two pillows and a plate of food to share. Coffee and tea will be supplied.
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Pregnancy Specific Aquatic Exercise Classes

Natural Childbirth — Four Week Journey
A birth-day Educational Experience

Birth is a very emotional, physical and mentally challenging experience in which a woman and her partner must prepare for so they feel totally ready, educated and empowered, where fear has no part to play.

Course Overview
Week One

Preparing your desired birth outcome (Birth Plan)
What type of birth do you want? (Imagineering)
Your thoughts/fears surrounding birth fear – What is it anyway?
Grantly Dick-Read's Fear-Tension-Pain Theory
The pelvis and baby: How does it fit through?
Preparing your partner with massage skills and knowledge about what works

Week Two
Labour hormones: What the uterine muscles are doing during labour
Practical: Breath awareness during a contraction
“Our thoughts create our reality”
Using your fitball
Labour positions, natural pain relief alternatives
Changing the birthing room to suit your needs
External applications to assist in natural birth

Week Three
Positives and negatives to all man-made opiates
The Cascade of Intervention — How to avoid it!
Medical Terminology
Do you have any fears?
Educating your support people to assist you effectively
Watching positive beautiful birth films

Week Four
The stages of labour
When to go to hospital
EDD: What does it really mean?
The Perineum: How to look after it!
Breast is best: The advantages of breastfeeding

Over four consecutive days
DATES:
More dates tbc soon!
TIME: 12:00 midday till 4pm
VENUE: tbc
INVESTMENT: $150 per person for 4 Week Journey

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'Hypnosis for Birth'
Training for women — private sessions only

Hypnosis For BirthGabrielle Targett BA Phys Ed, CBEd (NACE), Reg HB Practitioner, Adv Hypnosis Certificate (WAHA)

As a trained Hypnosis practitioner, Gabrielle combines her ‘Labour of Love’ childbirth educational philosophy and techniques with hypnosis resulting in implementation of positive birthing education that assists in achieving an empowered, relaxing and calm birth. Hypnosis for birth teaches women and their partner how to release all prior programming about birth, establishing how to trust her body and its ability to do the job it is designed to do methodologically.

Some of the topics to be covered during this course

  • Hypnosis for Birth Philosophy and beginnings
  • How the Uterus works in Birthing * Looking at the "Estimated Due Date"
  • What's wrong with Labour * Avoiding artificial induction
  • How fear affects Labour * Preparing the birth plan
  • Fear, Tension & Pain in Labour * How the body prepares for birth
  • The onset of Labour * Rhythmic breathing through Labour
  • Releasing Fear * Bonding with the Baby
  • Hypnosis Deepening & Visualization
  • Imagineering – projecting forward the birth you desire
  • Building a partnership with care provider
  • Preparing Mentally, Physically and Emotionally for birth

You will learn:

  • You will learn how to create an empowered, positive, easier and more comfortable labour and birthing experience.
  • Techniques of deep relaxation to eliminate the Fear - Tension - Pain syndrome.
  • How a woman's body is naturally designed to labour, open within, nurture & birth.
  • How to create a birthing environment that is calm, relaxed, positive and nurturing where you are totally honoured in the choices you make.
  • How to remember that labour and birth is a joyful event with a wonderfully positive outcome - rather than tense and stressful experience.

Hypnosis For Birth WorkshopsWHEN : Private Sessions Available anytime, please contact Gabrielle
(0418 336 362) for more information, venues and dates.

INVESTMENT: $110 per hour, minimum of three hours for initial appointment. Any additional sessions are one hour only in duration.

 

 

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