These gorgeous in-person sessions are designed to nurture and support you throughout pregnancy and to get you feeling calm, confident and totally prepared for your baby’s birth.
Sessions are held:
Wednesday evenings 6.30pm - 7.45pm
At: St Helens Community Centre, Ashby
Book in blocks of 6 consecutive weeks (no class on 29th Nov, finishing 20th Dec for Xmas, returning 10th Jan 2024).
🌟 Upon booking please include your start date preference in booking comments, then await an email to confirm this date (pls don’t just turn up to a class after booking 🙏) 🌟
Please note, unfortunately missed sessions cannot be reimbursed/carried over. See FAQ section. From time to time, sessions will be paused for a week due to other class commitments. You’ll be notified in advance.
Each session is approximately 40 mins yoga, 15 mins relaxation with time for a drink, snack and chat at the end.
Birth & Bloom Pregnancy Yoga classes aren’t just about exercise or yoga, they’re about:
Nurture and support
Connection between you, your body and your baby and to other Mums-to-be
Empowering you with the regular practise, skills and knowledge to feel calm and confident about your upcoming birth experience
What are the benefits of pregnancy yoga?
Feel calm and grounded as you take some blissful time to nourish your body and bond with your baby
Enjoy emotional balance and improved sleep, helping to ease anxieties and stress
Feel more comfortable by easing pregnancy discomforts and ailments
Feel supported and connected to other mums-to-be who are sharing in this journey with you, enjoy weekly chat and catch up at the start of each session
Increase your confidence in your body as you strengthen muscles to support your growing bump and learn how to work with your body during birth
Feel relaxed and empowered as each session finishes with a blissful hypnobirthing relaxation to build your confidence and calmness as you prepare for birth
What’s special about Birth & Bloom Pregnancy Yoga sessions?
Each session is created by myself, Danielle, a qualified pregnancy yoga and hypnobirthing teacher. To date, I have supported around a hundred+ parents on their birth journeys and having had two babies myself, I really understand the importance of feeling totally supported, understood, confident and relaxed about birth, both physically and mentally.
That’s why I include the below in each of my pregnancy yoga sessions:
Breathing techniques for calmness, to ease anxiety during pregnancy and importantly, breathing for labour and birth
Positive affirmations to help your mind and body relax - because science tells us what happens in our bodies is affected by the thoughts in our heads and as a hypnobirthing teacher and someone who has birthed two babies (one with and one without using hypnobirthing), I can tell you they make the world of difference to your birth experience
Time to chat to other mamas-to-be, sharing experiences and start building your support network
Exercises to strengthen muscles which support your growing baby bump and to increase strength and stamina during labour and gentle stretches to ease discomfort and pregnancy ailments
Visualisation of your calm labour, meeting your baby plus other hypnobirthing techniques so that come the day of your baby’s birth, you’ll feel confident that you know how to work with your body to maintain calmness throughout your birth
An empowering hypnobirthing relaxation to help you let go of worries and increase your confidence and ability to relax, so that it becomes second nature to you
15 mins of social time at the end of the class, free hot drinks and biscuits included
Plus each session includes a weekly evidence-based birth topics such as:
How the uterus works during each contraction
How birth positions affect your labour
Working with your pelvic floor during pregnancy and birth
Ways to reduce the chance of tearing
Optimal foetal positioning (encouraging baby into helpful positions for birth)
And more!
AND - Each session is planned with you in mind, so any pregnancy ailments, discomforts or conditions you may be experiencing, plus different energy and flexibility levels are accommodated for so that you can fully enjoy and benefit from each class, even if how you’re feeling varies week to week.
You’ll also:
🤍Be invited to join the group Whatsapp chat
🤍Get first dibs on any free hypnobirthing tasters, workshops & courses
🤍Have my on-going support throughout pregnancy & beyond
I look forward to welcoming you and your bump to these lovely pregnancy yoga sessions!
Love Danielle x
Pregnancy Yoga - Ashby - Wednesdays 6.30pm - 7.45pm - 6 week block
Payment
Your place is secured by full payment of the fees in advance of starting the course.
Missed sessions
In the event of a missed session by a participant, the session is non-refundable.
In the unlikely event of a session cancellation or course cancellation by Danielle Freshwater of Birth & Bloom, attempts will be made to reschedule. If this is not possible, or alternative dates cannot be agreed, a full refund of the total fee will be given.
Breaks in the block of 6
Birth & Bloom reserve the right to pause a block booking and will give as much notice possible for any sessions that are planned to be postponed. Participants will not lose a session, the block will be resumed as soon as possible and any sessions the participant cannot attend due to the pause in classes, will be refunded.
General
Participants take part in Pregnancy Yoga sessions with the understanding that the content of the course is in no way intended to be represented as medical advice. Participants should seek the advice of a health-care provider to answer any health-related or pregnancy-related issues surrounding their pregnancy, their labour or their birth.
Participants take part in the sessions, understanding that reasonable measures to prevent the spread of COVID 19 are taken by Birth & Bloom and attendees do so at their own risk. Birth & Bloom take no responsibility for any illness contracted after a class.
Courses available online and in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.