Workshops & courses

Preparing for VBAC

Next Course

• Date: Saturday 18th October 2008
• Time: 9:30 – 17:30
• Venue: Shala Yoga Centre, 80 Caistor Mews, London SW12 8QW. www.theshala.co.uk
  Nearest Tube station: Clapham South or Balham on the Northern Line
• Cost: £130
• Booking: Call Ingrid Lewis 020 7274 3968 or email ingrid@aroundbirth.org

Vaginal Birth after C-section (VBAC) Course

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 60% in rural China. More revealing still is the fact that most C-sections take place between Monday and Friday and most Emergency sections follow the same pattern. WHO recommends that no more than 10% of birthing women should have a C-section.

How can it be that C-sections are so much rarer on week-ends than on weekdays? The simple answer is that many C-sections are unnecessary and potentially 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 overcome.

This 1-day course aims to equip you with approaches and techniques to help a pregnant woman prevent the need for a C-section.

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.