Couples Active Birth Workshop
Activate Your Natural Ability for Physiological Birth
Learn a toolkit to support a positive birthing experience with our small-group Antenatal Workshop, Newmarket, Brisbane
Watch couples practicing the active birth skills during the Couples Active Birth workshop
Join Suzanne Swan in Newmarket, Brisbane, on Sundays from 9.30 am–4.30 pm for an intimate antenatal workshop designed to help couples prepare for a physiological birth.
This hands-on workshop explores practical birth skills and focuses on the partner's crucial role during labour. You and your partner will take home a tool kit to:
Support the natural rhythm of labour
Build confidence in physiological birth
Experience birth as a shared journey
Use partner-assisted techniques to stay present, calm, and connected
Whether you are looking for antenatal classes in Brisbane, birth preparation workshops in Kenmore, or guidance on how partners can support during labour, this workshop offers practical tools and confidence to fully participate in the birth experience together.
Your Facilitator
The workshop is led by advanced childbirth educator and senior yoga teacher Suzanne Swan. She has extensive experience teaching childbirth education classes and helping birthing couples. Her experience attending births affirms that having the partner involved in the birth process, working hands-on as a team with the mother, promotes a positive birth experience and enhances family bonding.
Evidence based techniques
The workshop complements hospital antenatal classes and is also an excellent refresher for parents. There is evidence that childbirth education that incorporates complementary medicine techniques such as acupressure, visualisation and relaxation, breathing, massage, yoga techniques, and facilitated partner support is an effective and viable way of managing pain and avoiding interventions (Levett et al. 2016 Australia). Recent research has "identified that yoga improved vaginal delivery, decreased premature delivery and birth weight of newborns, shorten the labor duration." (Rong et al 2020).
TOOLKIT: what you’ll learn
Birthing is both an internal and a learned experience. Women benefit greatly in birth with this self-knowledge and with a partner and/or support team who help her work with her body. When a woman experiences the love, attention and touch of her partner during labour she will easily relax and these feelings are passed to the baby.
Relaxation skills to enhance the natural hormones of labour
Effective partner support strategies
Optimally positioning the baby for labour
Massage and acupressure techniques to enhance labour
Use of movement for a proven natural form of pain relief
Use of breathing techniques to relax and release inner tension
Use of sound to connect with a woman's strength and power
Active Birth positioning for 1st & 2nd stage
Transferring to hospital and waterbirth options
Decision-making model for dealing with different birth scenarios
“The hands-on practical approach allowed us to envisage using this in a real-life setting which was important to us. Suzanne’s approach is nurturing and informative, and you know that you’re in capable hands with so much experience. We also appreciated her approach in providing us with confidence to make decisions that best suit us, but also reinforcing that sometimes medical input is needed, and that’s okay too. The post-lunch relaxation was also great in keeping energy levels up, and the take-home workbook has been really good for us to refresh a few things.”
Your investment
› $475 per couple (inc GST)
› Involves 7 hours of Practical Hands-on Birth Techniques
› You will receive a 32-page Instructional Workbook
The workshop is held in a beautiful venue in Newmarket with a small group*. It is recommended for 24- 39 weeks.
*Your couple/partner/support team can include a birth mother and father, Same-sex couples, a Single mother with a support person, and a Mother and daughter (birthing).
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Couples Active Birth workshop FAQs
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A refund (less 20% admin fee) will be given when you withdraw two weeks or more prior to the commencement. If you cancel 13 days or less, a 50% refund on fees paid will be given. No refund if you cancel within 24 hours of the workshop commencing.
Special circumstance for Workshops: If you go into labour on the day of the workshop, we will not issue any refund if you are over 37 weeks, which is considered full term, however we will offer a 50% refund for withdrawal due to premature labour. To request a refund, please apply by email
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Services such as Yoga and Childbirth Education are not covered by government subsidies. Hence, health funds no longer provide rebates for workshops.
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If you are limited with time or the location does not suit you can do a private session with Suzanne, either at home or online to cover the Active Birth Skills. Look at Suzanne’s availability here.
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As well as exploring Active Birth Skills such as Breathing in Labour, you will be learning to move, releasing tension from your pelvis, and strengthening your buttocks & legs. You will be practicing yoga postures that are relevant to birth like standing, squatting, lunging, all fours and resting postures. Mindfulness and relaxation techniques are also included. There is clear evidence that using upright positions in the first stage of labour reduces the duration of labour, the risk of caesarean birth and the need for an epidural. The workshop is primarily for you to learn the skills involved in birthing your baby naturally. Learn active birth skills and keep healthy by learning mind-body techniques to reduce fear and the experience of pain, help your keep calm and respond creatively, all while increasing your focus and confidence in your natural instincts.
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During pregnancy the hormone Relaxin is released to allow the pelvis to open wider for childbirth. Therefore, it is important to focus on strengthening and avoid over stretching. You will be guided safely by your experienced yoga teacher and given options to vary the poses according to your specific pregnancy conditions
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During pregnancy, there is an added incentive to develop calmness and contentment – you are calm for two. The peace of heart experienced by the pregnant woman is also felt by her baby. It is not only essential to develop strength and stamina for labour, but beyond.
It is also important to be happy and healthy while 'with child'. The deeper sense of relaxation and release of stress achieved through specific breathing techniques benefit both mother and unborn child. A regular practice assists women in achieving a more positive experience of pregnancy and birth.
Attend the Pregnancy Active Birth or the Couples Active Birth workshop to learn how to stay calm during labour and practice active birthing skills like breathing, vocalisation, massage and birthing positions.
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It is important that you understand that yogababy cannot be responsible for providing additional make‐ups or issuing any credit for classes missed because of scheduling conflicts, vacations, illness, emergencies, or other circumstances beyond your control.
A refund (less 20% admin fee) will be given when you withdraw two weeks or more prior to the commencement. If you cancel 13 days or less, a 50% refund on fees paid will be given. No refund if you cancel within 24 hours of the workshop commencing.
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You can request the Better Birth Bundle and do both the Pregnancy Active Birth and the Couples Active Birth workshops saving you 10%.
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Your couple/partner/support team can include: Birthing mother and father, Same-sex couples, Single mother with support person/doula, Mother and daughter (birthing), Birthing mother, father and support person/doula. If you would like to bring more than one support person you will need to notify us via email and an additioal fee will apply.
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