Prenatal Partners Workshop: Cultivating Comfort and Connection

Prenatal Partners Workshop: Cultivating Comfort and Connection

In this hands-on workshop, prenatal yoga teacher Erica Taylor and birth doula Megan Peasley of Illuminated Birth will guide you and your partner through techniques of breath awareness, massage, acupressure, and partner poses to help foster comfort and connection for use during pregnancy, birth, and beyond.   

In this workshop, you will:

• Experience breath awareness and visualization practices that help cultivate ease and fortitude as you prepare to welcome your baby into the world. 
• Learn acupressure points that help alleviate discomfort, facilitate labor, and calm the mind.
• Practice partner poses and massage techniques that can be used during your childbirth journey.  
• Learn how to help create a birth environment that feels safe and connected, no matter where and how you give birth.  
• Connect more deeply with yourself, your partner, and your baby, practicing different ways you can be present for each other.

Some yoga mats are available to borrow at the studio, but please bring one or two yoga mats if you have them. 

Wherever possible, we recommend eating a light meal about one hour before class. Bring a simple snack and water with you, and wear clothes you can move in. Jeans are not recommended.

Workshop Presenters

Megan Peasley, owner of Illuminated Birth, is a certified birth doula, birth photographer, and childbirth educator based in Acton, Massachusetts, serving the Greater Boston area. She also facilitates community building for growing families through groups, classes, and gatherings at Illuminated Birth & Company.

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Erica Taylor is a prenatal and postnatal yoga teacher with over 15 years of experience, and she is also a certified acupressure practitioner.  She helps lead prenatal yoga teacher trainings, training future teachers in this sacred art.  She feels honored to support families during this time of great transformation.