$75 per couple

Every birth is a unique experience for each couple. This workshop will help you find the courage and comfort you'll need during the birthing process. Through coping strategies that include movement, massage, breath, visualization, vocalization the partner can provide emotional support to the laboring woman and together they can manage the intensity of labor. This workshop provides you the opportunity to explore the process of labor and discover the strategies that might work best for you and your partner. While the approach of labor is from a yogic perspective, no previous yoga experience is necessary. We welcome couples at all stages of pregnancy. The information that you take away from this workshop can be used in any birth setting.

Michelle Goitia Bio
While growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I was an avid equestrian. The calmness I found riding horses in the open spaces of New Mexico is what I find on my yoga mat and it is that peace I hope to share with my students. Students of all ability levels often say my soft-spoken manner and gentle guidance allow them to feel welcome in my classes.
I began practicing yoga in 2000, and since my daughter was born in 1998, I had not yet discovered how yoga would enhance my pregnancy. So when my son came in 2003, I knew that I wanted to share this with other women. Watching the grace of the pregnant women in my classes has given me more peace in my practice and teachings as well.
It is heartwarming that many of the mothers from my prenatal classes return for my classes for mothers and babies. I love helping mothers connect with their babies through yoga and I love watching babies and children respond to its soothing calm and peace.
A graduate of the Bright Spirit Teacher Training program, I hold additional certifications in Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Labor & Delivery from Integral Yoga Institute, Itsy Bitsy Yoga® from Spirit Into Life, Inc., Restorative Yoga from Yoga Works, and Next Generation Yoga-Kids ages 2-13 years old.
After working for more than 15 years in the corporate world, I now dedicate myself full-time to teaching yoga and developing my own practice.