Birth + Labor Workshop for Couples

In this workshop you will learn practical tools to support you and your birth partner to navigate physically and emotionally through the process of labor and delivery.

Birth partners will learn to use hands on techniques to offer support and comfort. We will practice positions and see how breath and posture can be used to encourage the progress of labor, ease pain and take pressure off the pelvic floor. We will learn how to use breath as a tool for both body and mind, a support to ease tension and fear. 

This workshop includes practice as well as discussion.

About Lara: 

A licensed massage therapist, perinatal trainer, educator and mentor, Lara has been teaching Yoga and involved with women’s health care since the early 2000.  Building on a successful dance career in her native France, Lara brings her extensive experience with movement and bodywork to both her teaching and her bodywork practice. 

While maintaining a vibrant private practice, Lara also offers weekly Yoga classes, Yoga teacher trainings and continuing education workshops for both movement and health professionals. She is co-founder of the perinatal program at Bend and Bloom Yoga in Brooklyn as well as a trainer and guest teacher for Yoga training programs in the US, France and Switzerland. 

You can find her online with the Commune Empower Birth series and on Yoga International. larakohnthompson.com