Tracy Adams and colleague Kira Dorrian have joined to form Seattle HypnoBirthing (affiliated with the HypnoBirthing® Institute) and we offer classes on Capitol Hill, in Fremont-Wallingford, and Columbia City. Class fee: $250 including all materials. To register, call 206.931.7957 or email.
Upcoming classes:
Sunday evenings 6 – 8:30pm, May 20 – June 24
Taught by Tracy Adams — Class Full
Tuesday evenings 6 – 8:30pm, May 29 – June 26
Taught by Tracy Adams — 1 space remaining
Thursday evenings 6 – 8:30pm, June 14-July 12
Taught by Kira Dorrian
Birth companions are encouraged to attend!
The HypnoBirthing® childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing and stress-free birth. HypnoBirthing® teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn to call upon your body’s own natural resources to lessen or even eliminate discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures.
In HypnoBirthing® classes, you will learn to release all prior programming about birth to break free of the fear-tension-pain syndrome, and you’ll become equipped to trust your body and work with it, freeing yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and unyielding muscles.
With HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a deep trance or sleep state. You will be aware and fully in control, and profoundly relaxed.
HypnoBirthing® is offered in a series of 5 weekly classes. You will learn:
- Everything you need to know to achieve a safer, easier and more comfortable birth.
- To dispel the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labor.
- Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the fear-tension-pain syndrome.
- How your body is naturally designed to nurture and birth your baby.
- Natural ways to bring your body into labor without artificial chemical induction.
- How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene and joyful rather than tense and stressful.
- Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard pushing.
- To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended.
HypnoBirthing® classes meet weekly for 5 weeks, and each class is 2.5 hours. Private instruction and accelerated instruction are available on request. Class fees include the book HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method, 2 CDs, and other handouts. For more information, visit www.seattlehypnobirthing.com.
