One of the simplest yet most effective strategies for birth is learning to intentionally relax during the pauses between contractions. These brief rests are the body’s natural way of helping a birthing person reset and conserve energy.
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Your birth is one special day — but your postpartum lasts for months and beyond.
Join a Yogababy Pregnancy Yoga course to prepare for both — your birth and the beautiful community that can carry you through the weeks after.
When labour intensifies, many women instinctively hold their breath or tense up. But sound can be a powerful tool.
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Whether you birth vaginally, by cesarean, naturally, or with interventions, the practices of yoga are always there to support you. Prenatal yoga isn’t about how you give birth—it’s about how you feel as you move through it.
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That’s the gift of prenatal yoga—it isn’t only about physical postures. It’s about preparing your mind, nervous system, and spirit for birth, however it unfolds.
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When we think about preparing for birth, it’s easy to picture movements, stretches, and postures. But one of the most powerful tools we have isn’t physical at all—it’s our breath.
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While an active birth involves the freedom to move and use upright positions, it is more than just positioning. “An active birth is one in which the birthing mother is in charge of her choices and decisions, thus enabling her to enjoy a productive and mutually respectful partnership with her birth attendants” (Janet Balaskas).
With this in mind any birth, whether natural or assisted, may be called an active birth.
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Ash’s birth story is a powerful reminder that preparation and practice can transform labour. With the help of the Pregnancy Yoga and Active Birth workshop, she had a two-hour active labour, a water birth with no pain relief, and even lifted her daughter out of the water herself.
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An Active Birth is one in which the woman gives birth in the best possible, uniquely individual way, for her at that particular moment in her life. She can focus her mind in a relaxed and confident way to engage in the process of birth, creating for herself an altered state of consciousness that will ensure the safest possible birth for her and her baby.
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Planning your yoga teacher teaching for next year? Maybe you'd like to skill up on teaching pregnant women. Suzanne Swan with be offering a 90-150hr training in Pregnancy, Active Birth and Baby yoga from June, 2022.
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Create a trance-like state where the reality of stress and pain does not reach you. Your aim is to become one with your body, where you are your breath, you are your womb, and no longer head or mind. Ie. visualise waves flowing in and flowing out, breathe in rhythm with the waves.
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From 34 weeks onwards, your own postural awareness and habits can potentially encourage your baby to lie with his or her back to your left front/side so that the baby's head engages in the pelvic brim in this position. This will increase the potential for normal and straightforward birth.
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This is Sammy and he came to Mums and Bubs yoga from 12 weeks. We all know that yoga is amazing for adults, and postpartum for mothers, but did you know there are many benefits for your baby as well? Babies benefit from movements that strengthen and stretch their muscles, relieving them of tension and increasing relaxation. The benefits of relaxation are well known, ranging from improved sleep, to better digestion.
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"Attending pregnancy yoga classes helps women come together to explore and celebrate the joys and challenges of this precious time in their lives, in a safe and comfortable environment," says yogababy teacher, Suzanne Swan. "Women find a lot of comfort in each other’s encouragement and many friendships are formed at class".
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My biggest driver for having a natural birth was to improve my chances of breast feeding and I’m pleased to say our little Oscar is thriving, putting on a kilogram in his first month of life with exclusive breastfeeding. It was such a challenging time but you helped us be as prepared as possible. We can’t thank you enough!
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Like birth, yoga involves an intricate dance between control and surrender. In the Active Birth workshops, you will work in a gentle and specific way, learning to move the body and access deeper levels of relaxation and release.
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Thank you for helping us achieve a positive & empowering birth. Without attending the Calm birth course & going to your Active Birth yoga classes, our experience may not have been the same. My husband & I can honestly say we felt so prepared & ready, which gave us the beautiful & calm birth that we’d hoped for.
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This birth taught me of the power and infinite wisdom within me and my body. Being at home, trusting my body to go into labour when it was ready and birthing my placenta naturally was healing and affirming.
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Watch a 40 min pregnancy yoga video with Suzanne Swan
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