TEACHER TRAINING courses

VBAC PractitionerTM Training Course

Next Course

• Date: Saturday 10th July & Sunday 11th July 2010
• Time: 10:30 – 18:30
• Venue: The Shala (www.theshala.co.uk)
  
• Address: Clapham North Arts Centre, Unit 1R, 26-32 Voltaire Rd, Clapham, London SW4 6DH
  
• Cost: £250
  
• Deposit: £125 (non-refundable)
  
• Booking: Call 020 8670 0925 or email the Shala

Vaginal Birth after C-section (VBAC) PractitionerTM Course Content

This course aims to equip you with approaches and techniques to help a pregnant woman prevent the need for a c-section and to help a pregnant woman who has experienced a c-section in her previous birth to deliver vaginally in a subsequent one.

Statistically less than 10% of women genuinely need medical assistance during the birth of their baby.  Curiously the actual proportion of women receiving medical attention is 25% in UK, 29.1% in US and as much as 90% in the private sector in Brazil.

WHO recommends that no more than 10% of birthing women should have a C-section. How can it be that C-section rates are so much higher? The simple answer is that many C-sections are potentially unnecessary and thus avoidable if the woman is given adequate preparation, care and support.

C-sections are life-saving events and are a blessing where necessary. This course aims to help prevent the unnecessary portion of C-sections. Women who have suffered an avoidable C-section know and feel this. They feel taken advantage of, let down, abused, and worse. Strong words are used to describe their birth experience. Many women may feel so traumatised by the event that they don’t ‘attempt’ another pregnancy and birth for fear of suffering the same again.

We can do much to heal this experience, to reconnect what has been cut in two to help her regain the confidence in her ability to birth. By identifying the potential physical, mental and emotional obstacles they can be addressed.

During the course we move together through all levels of experience, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual

Physical level: Getting to know the birthing body & being in charge.
Mental /Emotional level: Getting to know the birthing self & being in touch.
Spiritual Level: Being the birthing Self & birthing from within.

What is covered during the course

• How to perform a scar-massage
• How to do a pelvic map
• How to help a pregnant woman through fear
• How to maximize space in a narrow pelvis using positive intervention methods
• How to birth from within – working with interceptors

Course requirements

This course is suitable for yoga teachers and all other allied health-professionals working with pregnant women preparing for VBAC.