Empowering women and their partners throughout the birth process is my most sacred work. As a volunteer doula for Sutter Davis Hospital, I witnessed the transformative power of pregnancy and birth that gave women the clarity and strength to guide, nurture and care for their families.
After completing my Birth Doula Certification through DONA in 2004, I had an inspired realization that there is wisdom from the pregnancy and delivery process that relate to both genders and all stages of life.As I witnessed the healing power of birth for women, I simultaneously studied and discovered the physical and spiritual healing of yoga.
After completing my Birth Doula Certification through DONA in 2004, I had an inspired realization that there is wisdom from the pregnancy and delivery process that relate to both genders and all stages of life.As I witnessed the healing power of birth for women, I simultaneously studied and discovered the physical and spiritual healing of yoga.
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My heart has led me to develop a uniquely personal yoga flow and visualization series that prepares mothers physically, mentally and spiritually for pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Birth Wisdom Yoga combines "doula wisdom, " nurturing yoga flows, and the coaching strategies learned from two decades of training competitive figure skaters.
Research based yoga poses to support, release, lengthen and heal the pelvic floor muscles. An assessment of your symptoms and specific yoga poses to bring relief from pelvic pain, tightness and prolapse. Simultaneously experience increased empowerment for owning your physical health, better sex, and increased mobility by decreasing incontinence, prolapse and pain.
A copy of Birth Wisdom Yoga Remedies and Journal for you to begin preparing for labor and birth weekly. Photos and the teaching of research-based poses to create space for baby during childbirth. Positions for mom for the pushing phase of labor that optimize room for baby in the lesser pelvis. Informed consent questions with specific ways to advocate with your care provider if interventions are recommended.
The anatomy and physiology of pregnancy you need while working therapeutically with pregnant clients. How to support women through the many changes they undergo physically and mentally while pregnant, and the Birth Wisdom Yoga Remedies that ease common pregnancy ailments. The anatomy of the pelvic floor and how to strengthen the pelvic floor with yoga poses, for pregnancy and the postpartum healing period.
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Renee Airola
Aug 05, 2019
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I own a yoga studio where many pregnant women attend. Recently I attended a pre-natal training with Julia and found it invaluable for the teacher who has many different levels of students in the class and pregnant mommies. The information in this so important and takes all the mystery out of how to teach to and modify poses in a class or private setting. My best advise is take the 4 day intensive training, coupled with her book, BirthWisdom Yoga and you will be fully prepared to support the pregnant moms in yoga poses!
