Empower your birth journey with a comprehensive Childbirth Education

This childbirth series combines the wisdom and practice of GentleBirth and Birthing from Within. In this course, you will learn all the nuts and bolts about labor, birth, and postpartum, with an emphasis on mindfulness, deep relaxation techniques, and partner support.

Leave feeling calm, confident, and in control for your positive birth experience.

Next course offering: at the BIRTH CLASS RETREAT

Taught alongside Marissa Mignone of Mountain Blessings Birth!

May 17-19, 2024

in-person in Truckee, CA

Exchange: starts at $1500 for 3 day workshop

Cost covers two attendees (you+partner or other support person) for three days of prenatal yoga, comprehensive childbirth education, Infant feeding and care workshop, one family-style nourishing meal with retreat participants. You will also receive a colorful comprehensive and interactive workbook complete with a postpartum guide.

partners are encouaraged to attend

REGISTRATION closes May 15, 2024

Should payment feel like a stretch, please send an email to place a request for payment plans or partial scholarships.

NEW OFFERING!

ONE-DAY POSTPARTUM PREPARATION RETREAT:

SUNDAY May 19th

in-person at Namaste Holistic Healing and Yoga Center

Downtown Truckee, CA

Exchange: Sliding scale: choose what feels abundant for you between $200-$400

Cost covers two attendees (you+partner or other support person.) This is a one-day dedicated workshop to prepare you and your partner for the post-birth experience. We focus on postpartum connection and physical/mental support and include a guest lactation specialist for the infant feeding and care segment. This day retreat includes a nourishing lunch and a 1.5 hour deeply relaxing and rejuvenating sound healing with GyöHarmony.

This day is not to be missed! Treat yourself!

*partners are encouaraged to attend

REGISTRATION closes May 15, 2024

GIFT FOR MOTHERS DAY! SOUND BATH SUNDAY MAY 19

exact time TBD

Celebrate mothers day by gifting yourself this sound bath for the following Sunday :). After you’ve been spoiled by your family, spoil yourself!!

Join other mamas and mamas-to-be for a relaxing and rejuvenating 1.5 hour sound bath in downtown Truckee, CA.

If you are interested in joining us for this, please send an email below.

Exchange for this offering is $35/pp. Please register in advance

in-person THREE NIGHT COURSE:

Thursday-Wednesday-Thursday

June 13, 19, and 20

6pm-8:30pm

at the Peace Offering. Downtown Truckee, CA

Exchange for this offering is on a sliding scale between $250-500. Pay what feels comfortable for you.

Cost includes two participants (partners encouraged to attend) and a colorful workbook.

Please register in advance. Registration closes June 10, 2024

Next offering will be in Fall 2024: a two-day weekend workshop October 5&6

ABOUT GENTLEBIRTH EDUCATION

GentleBirth combines holistic guidance, brain science, birth science and technology to empower your positive birth through preparation.

Mental Preparation

Building confidence in your mental and emotional resilience is learned and improves with instruction and practice.

Navigating Your Options

Understanding your options for navigating your birth preferences allows you to feel calm and in control.

Physical Comfort Measures

Learning advanced comfort measures and having a full toolkit of strategies is important for you and your partner.

YUP, There’s an App for that!

Brain Training Mobile App

The GentleBirth App provides everything you need for a more relaxed positive pregnancy, birth and parenting journey. Each day you’ll be guided through our unique brain training program tailored exactly to your circumstances. You’ll learn simple effective breathing, mindfulness and medical hypnosis techniques that you’ll use long after your baby arrives.

get it HERE for Apple

get it HERE for android

Also Included in Workshops

• Physiology of the normal birth process

• Fear Vs Relaxation in during birth - keeping adrenaline at bay

• Sports psychology techniques for pregnancy and birth

• The neuroscience of a GentleBirth - rewiring your brain from fear to confidence

• Facilitating the perfect balance of hormones in labor - undisturbed birth

• Breathing techniques and Comfort measures

• Advanced comfort measures for labor and birth (what you and your partner can do at each stage)

• Active birth including the use of the birth ball, peanut ball, and water immersion

• What happens when you get to the hospital: Communication with care providers, solutions and interventions, medicated birth information

• Golden Hour and the first newborn moments- care tips and best practices.

• Breastfeeding and Chest-feedingbasics

• Newborn Care, Local Resources for additional support if needed.
  

“This class is for you if You want to learn tools to access during labor and practical tactics for your partner to support you along the way.  

you want to have a positive birth experience. That looks different for everyone, and that’s okay.

Andrea goes into detail and shares ways to best use our minds and bodies so we can optimize the power we have had all along.  She presented the material in a fun and often HUMOROUS way while still holding space for the serious depth of this experience.”

-GentleBirth Mama 2020

“{Hubby} did GREAT! He remembered everything from the class, he helped me breathe through the contractions and helped me with visualizations. He stayed so calm even though everyone around him was seeming anxious as our plans shifted. He was my rock!”

-GentleBirth mama 2020

Upcoming Birth Class Retreats: May 17-19, 2024 in NOrth Lake Tahoe, CA

Connect with yourself, one another, and your community as we explore and learn together…This will be an unforgettable experience.