About Your Instructor:

 Hansa Draaka is a proud mother of one daughter who experienced a wonderful water birth using HypnoBirthing® techniques in 2009.  While pregnant and even more so after the birth of her daughter, Hansa became very passionate about learning everything she could about natural pregnancy, birth and parenting, and sharing her knowledge and excitement with other families.  In February 2011, she completed her HypnoBirthingÒ  Practitioner Training and is now happy to offer both group and private classes in the Portland, Oregon area.

For a current schedule of classes and more information send an email to:  info@myhealingsource.com.

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What You Will Learn in HypnoBirthing^® Classes

Unit 1: Building A Positive Expectancy

• Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing^® philosophy
• The History of Women and Birthing
• Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing 
• How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
• How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
• The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing. 
• Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos

Unit 2: Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body

• The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques
• Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques
• Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
• Hypnotic relaxation and visualization
• Selecting the right care provider
• The Birth companion’s role in birthing
• Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning

 Unit 3: Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby

• Preparing Birth Preference Sheets 
• Preparing the Body for Birthing
• Light Touch Labor Massage
• Your body working for and with you
• Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor
• Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.

 Unit 4: An overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love

• Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
• Birth explained simply
• Settling in at the hospital or birthing center
• Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth 
• As labor moves along – passing time through labor
• Hallmarks of labor
• If labor rests or slows – Companion’s  prompts and activities
• As labor advances – birthing with your baby
• Protecting the natural birthing experience
• Birth rehearsal imagery

 Unit 5: Birth – Breathing Love - Bringing Life

• Moving into birthing
• Positions for descent and birthing
• Breathing baby down to birth
• Baby moves to the breast
• Family bonding with your baby

The 5 week course cost is $195 which includes The HypnoBirthing^® book and practice CD.

 

“My dream is that every woman, everywhere, will know the joy of a safe, satisfying birth for both her baby and herself—one she’ll not need to forget.”

Marie F. Mongan, 1999

 

Parent Testimonials:

“HypnoBirthingÒ gave me a most priceless gift—a childbirth experience that was free of fear.”

“Nothing can describe the beauty of our birthing experience with HypnoBirthingÒ.  I never dreamed after having two children with another method that I could have so easy a labor.”

“Our daughter came into this world so much easier than either of us could have hoped for.  With Godspeed, keep up the good work of HypnoBirthingÒ.”

“The nurses said they had never seen a woman so calm, yet so strong.  They couldn’t put the HypnoBirthingÒ book down.”

Medical Testimonials:

“This is the way all babies should come into the world.  It’s beautiful.  Keep up the good work.”

“I’m a labor and delivery nurse.  I work in the field of obstetrics every day.  I can hardly believe my eyes as I watch HypnoBirthingÒ mothers in labor.  It’s amazing!”

“Several of my patients have used HypnoBirthingÒ.  The result: little or no medication and yet, a calm and more comfortable mother.”

“I’ve been delivering babies for twenty years, and I’ve never seen anything like this method.  It’s incredible.