The 2011 Holistic Doula Program will take place in Olympia, Washington!
Program dates are as follows:
October 21, 22, and 23
November 11, 12, and 13
Class hours are 9:30 to 5:30, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The cost of the program is $550 and may be paid in two payments of $275, one on each weekend.
The Matrona Doula program is comprehensive in it's scope. We teach a practical and well rounded body of information about childbirth...all the basics...yet the material is presented holistically and with a balance of the intuitive and the clinical. At The Matrona, we believe that childbirth is a transformative event and that pregnant women have access to altered states of consciousness that allow them to have an expanded perspective of life and of themselves. This culminates in the birthing process. We realize that most women desire to be witnessed in this extraordinary experience. We put a different spin on what it really means to support and witness a woman and we explore what it means to nurture a mom during her childbearing cycle, especially through labor and postpartum.
You will learn :
* Feminine A&P, the pelvis, the hormones of the reproductive system and the female cycles. * Pregnancy, birth and the postpartum as sacred cycles of Matresence (mother-making). * How to compute the correct estimated date of birth (EDB). * How to understand birth as an organic process and how to support a mother’s choices. * How to articulate and navigate through the cultural perspectives concerning birth * How to nurture a pregnant woman. * How labor unfolds without interference and how to facilitate women in that process. * How to care for a woman, both physiologically and psychologically, in the postpartum. * How to help a mom initiate breastfeeding and how to recognize the normal newborn. * How to understand some of the controversial topics in childbirth...ultrasound, induction of labor, rupture of membranes, Group Beta strep, neonatal jaundice... * How to employ healing modalities that facilitate self-direction in mothers and families. * How to tend placentas and offer Placenta Readings and encapsulations. * How to present yourself as a doula in the community and how to integrate your practice of woman care with the knowledge of birth. * How to create win/win and collaborative solutions when things do not go as planned.
We offer a very woman-centered perspective on birth and we expand the mainstream information found in many of the available books on childbirth.
Throughout the entire class, we explore the experience of childbirth and it's ramifications on the soul and spirit as well as on the body.
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For more information or to register contact...
Whapio at belovedpilgrim_yahoo.com
Jaydee at jaydeematrona_gmail.com
We hope you join us.
For the complete class schedule and curriculum, please click here.
