Class Guide
Pre and Post Natal Yoga
Specialist yoga devised by trained teachers to deal with the specific tools helpful to those expecting, and recovering from childbirth, cultivating strength, flexibility and breath awareness.
Prenatal suitable after First Trimester
These Classes are for Ranelagh:
Post natal, suitable 10 weeks after birth, babies welcome! 4 weeks, €70, 6 weeks, eu100 or €18 drop in, €160 for this course and Baby Massage together. Ongoing, come along any Wednesday, 11.40-12.40 .
Prenatal yoga:5 options at Ranelagh; Monday evenings, 20.00-21.15, Tuesday mornings, 10.30-11.30, nights 19.30-20.45,Tuesday , Wednesday evenings, 18.50-20.05, Saturday mornings, 09.45-10.55. Certain BUPA schemes offer refund for these courses! Next Baby Massage course Wednesday, 16 May , four weeks, €100.
Prenatal yoga classes Downtown: Thursdays, 17.30-18.30 with Lou Horgan.
Active Birthing Workshops - Ranelagh only
Saturday, 31 March, 2007. 15.00-18.00, eu80 per couple.
Active birth is nothing new. It is simply a convienient way of describing normal labour and birth and the way that a woman behaves when she is following her own instincts and the physiological logic if her body" Janet Balaskas.
Lou Horgan, a student of the Life Centre, London, is qualified Hatha Yoga and Pregnancy Yoga teacher. This forthcoming workshop will be exploring the the postures, breath and physiology of labour and birth. Lou will be drawing on knowlegde from her wonderful teachers, Uma Dismore Tuli (Life Centre,Birthlight) Judith Crowe (Active Birth), all the wise mothers, grandmothers, midwives she has met along the way, and finally from her own experience through her own home birth.
Areas covered will include. Labour and Birth postures and breathing, active birth in hospital, the role of your partner, Interventions, the post natal period and more...