Birthing From Within:
Extraordinary Childbirth Classes
to Prepare for Labor & Beyond
with Fiore Grey, Chris & Carrie Malanga
Upcoming Classes:
Sundays, January 8th – February 19th
6:00pm – 8:30pm
with Chris & Carrie Malanga
What is your deepest question?
What is it that you need to know to give birth?
This approach to childbirth is unlike any other. Based on Birthing From Within: An Extra-ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation—the landmark book that rocked the birth world, Birthing From Within® classes offer something that most classes don’t. We go beyond simply teaching obstetrical information and into the realm of self-discovery.
Served up as delicious gourmet sessions to nourish your heart as much as your mind, these classes provide you with both knowledge and inspiration. Letting go of the need to make a “birth plan” and the idea of “getting it right,” you’ll find out with it means to prepare for the unfathomable mystery of birth. You’ll learn how to navigate your way through its labyrinth, find your own inner strength and power, and re-emerge as a newly initiated parent.
Some unique things you’ll discover in this class include:
- Answers to your questions—classes are kept small to allow for individual attention
- A warm, nurturing space to explore and transform your fears, worries, and concerns
- Proven pain-coping techniques to help you cope with the intensity and hard work of labor as well as the space to practice and master them
- A special class just for fathers and birth partners
- A personal prenatal nutrition assessment to ensure your baby’s optimal health
- Beliefs you have about birth and about yourself and the space to let go of the ones that don’t serve you
- How to understand birth as a profound rite of passage
- Creative, holistic ways to understand and map dilation and the “stages of labor” and what they actually mean for you
- How to ask questions to get the information you need
- How to tame and even embrace your “birth tigers”—unwanted surprises that may arise during or after labor
- How to cultivate a positive, solution-focused mindset
- Special rituals to welcome your baby and celebrate your journey from pregnancy to parenthood
- An ongoing, intimate community of support
- How to create a safe, sacred birth space no matter where you give birth
- How to figure out when it’s wisest to use pain medication and when it’s unnecessary
- How to push your baby out through listening to your body
- How to have a Cesarean birth in awareness if one is needed
We’ll also cover:
- What to do in early labor
- The feedback loop of labor hormones
- Natural methods to “turn” your baby to an optimal position
- Different positions for labor
- Natural pain relief and comfort measures
- Natural ways to speed labor up
- What sights and sounds to expect during birth
- Newborn care
- How to prepare for and support postpartum recovery
- Breastfeeding basics and what to eat while nursing
- How to baby-proof your relationship
Information is presented through fun, playful, hands-on exercises such as dialogue and discussion, visualization, storytelling, role play, films, rituals, and artmaking. Classes are comprehensive, compassionate, creative, honest, and inspiring!
You’ll discover things about yourself that no medical book could ever teach you.
No matter which series you take, all of our Birthing From Within classes include a special father’s class led by Chris Malanga!
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Fiore Grey is a Birthing From Within childbirth mentor and educator, a professional birth doula, a birth advocate, a wife, and a mother of two. She also facilitates birth story work with women and men to help heal and integrate difficult birth experiences. Fiore is a member of Birthing From Within, the Organization of Labor Assistants for Birth Options and Resources (toLabor/ALACE), the Colorado Doulas Association, La Leche League International, and the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, and holds a degree in Gender Studies from Naropa University. She offers empathic, nurturing, playful, down-to-earth support for parents during their childbearing years.
Carrie Malanga is a Birthing From Within childbirth educator, mentor, professional birth doula, and mother. She has extensive experience in facilitating rites of passage work in wilderness settings and brings this passion to her birth work with parents. She is a member of Birthing From Within and DONA and holds a Master’s degree in Education, specializing in Waldorf and integrated curriculum.
Chris Malanga is a Master’s level psychotherapist with a passion for supporting fathers and couples in their transition into parenthood. Chris practices a strength-based, mindfulness-centered approach to his work as a practitioner and as a Birthing From Within mentor and educator. Together Chris and Carrie bring their experience in education, group and individual facilitation, psychotherapy, meditation and contemplative practices, and most importantly their love of being parents to their classes. They approach the childbearing years with sensitivity and playful curiosity and invite parents to bring their joys, challenges, fears, and unique experiences to their classes.
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To Register: Contact us at info@sixseedsbirth.com or by calling (720) 243-0644.
Class Size: Limited space available. Classes are intentionally kept small to ensure time and space for individual attention and to create an intimate class community. Register early!
Cost: $300. Price includes Pam England’s Pain-Coping Practices for Parents CD, art supplies, and all supplementary materials.
Financial assistance is available for those in need. Parents of all backgrounds and family structures are welcome.
Schedule: Classes meet once per week for seven weeks. There will also be a class reunion after everyone has their babies!
More Information: To find out more about Six Seeds Birth Support, who we are, and what we offer, visit www.sixseedsbirth.com. You can also find out more about Birthing From Within by visiting www.birthingfromwithin.com.