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Empowered Birth Partner Workshop with Elizabeth Shelhart

  • Metta Mama San Rafael 835 4th Street, Suite C San Rafael, CA 94901 (map)

Are you looking for an experiential childbirth education class? Come learn and refresh your understanding about what it means to move through the dance of labor and birth with your support person - spouse, partner, friend, or family member.

We’ll go over:

  • How to stay connected to your partner during labor and birth

  • Breathwork

  • Acupressure & massage

  • Yoga and optimal fetal positioning

  • Natural coping techniques for the 3 stages of labor

  • Emotional response to pain

  • Natural comfort measures to help labor progress

  • Positions for labor and birth

Enjoy a peaceful yoga studio setting and the unique perspective of a seasoned doula, prenatal massage therapist, and yoga teacher.

Cost: $159 (10% off for Metta Yoga members applies automatically at checkout)

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About the instructor:

Elizabeth's yoga journey began when she was a teenager and stemmed from years of dancing, surfing, and running. She was fortunate to spend 6 months studying classical yoga in India in her twenties and dove into the practice of Vipassana meditation at this time as well. She completed a 200 hour Dharma Yoga Teacher Training in 2001 and began teaching shortly after. Weaving the contemplative practices of her Buddhist background into her yoga classes is a unique offering that Elizabeth is continually deepening. Since her initial teacher training she has studied yoga therapy, yin, restorative, and prenatal yoga as well as completing her 500 hour certification through Spirit Rock's Meditation and Yoga Mindfulness Training in 2015. Her 18 years as a bodyworker also informs her teaching and personal practice along with her work with women as a birth doula and educator.