Pregnancy Coaching
and Preparation for Childbirth

The story of a heart-to-heart with oneself…

Pregnancy coaching and preparation for birth,
what for and for whom?

Coaching of the mother and of the unborn child, but also of the father and siblings.

During pregnancy:

• exploration and integration of the feeling of “becoming a mother”
• personal development
• creation or reinforcement a parent-child bond
• communication with the fetus (through touch, massages, dialogue, sounds…)
• practice of energy techniques (breathing, voice, yoga, visualization, meditation, music, inner listening, rooting…)
• body oxygenation and active recovery
• management of emotions, relaxation
• optimization of sleep
• increased awareness of the invisible bond with the unborn child
• exploration of the family system and place of the newborn child within it

Preparation to childbirth:

• approaches to childbirth and basic knowledge of the major physiological aspects of giving birth
• birth plan
• therapeutic preparation to delivery in a holistic approach
• management of stress, pain and emotions
• breath, relaxation, centering, integration and rooting
• visualization of the birth and mobilization inner resources
• strengthening of self-image and self-confidence
• music, sounds, voice and childbirth

How does it work?

Group Sessions (1:30 hours)

• Sessions are centered around major themes (i.e.: therapeutic coaching, preparation to childbirth, pain management, body and movements, awakening resources, thoughts and emotions, fear, stress and pain, relaxation, visualization and meditation, music, voice work, song and sounds, communication with the unborn child, anchoring of the parent-child bond and the sense of becoming a mother, family system, individual energy practices…)

• Introduction and exploration of the selected theme through discussions, exercises, games…

• Guided sessions; therapeutic exercises specific to the theme at-hand and integrated into body consciousness.

• Exchange around personal experiences

• Group sessions will be held in the Ma Center. Chosen themes will be programmed in sequence, and will be posted with dates under the heading “Sessions, training courses and workshops”.

Individual Sessions (between 1:00 to 1:30 according to the type of session)

• The first session starts with general discussion and the joint selection of a coaching plan according to participants' needs and desires, and suggested therapeutic techniques.

• The selected themes will be addressed in turn throughout the sessions, according to plan. Individual sessions will be held at the Ma Center or possibly at home (Montreal Island only).

• Therapeutic techniques used are described below. 
  

Coaching, continued

The arrival of a child is the climax of a golden journey through many stages and metamorphoses for both the mother the unborn child. This journey of initiation, fundamentally unique for each one and every one of us, comes with physical, physiological and psychic transformations, as well as important changes in our energy, emotions and spirituality. Life takes on new a meaning and direction with inherent responsibilities.

During the “9-month” process of pregnancy and childbirth, sophrology, relaxation, hypnosis, music, yoga of sound, Family Constellations and therapeutic channelling are fantastic coaching tools for the unborn child and the mother, as well as for the father and siblings.

Throughout pregnancy, the mother-to-be is particularly sensitive to the energy of her inner and outer worlds. In a subtle “dance of the elements”, she receives in her innermost centre cosmic life forces.

Because of this state of heightened sensitivity to what happens in and around her, it is an ideal time to physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually coach the future mother, so she can benefit from a greater overall wellbeing, mobilize her deepest resources and consolidate family harmony.
These holistic dynamics aim to support the unborn child with positive vibrations at every stages of evolution and to increase the receptivity and the conscious love of the parents.

During “these special 9 months”, the expectant mother lives through inner transformations to the rhythm of the life growing within her, being herself reborn in the process: nature’s wonderful gift to women….
Yet, these dynamics can throw her, alternatively, into states of great happiness or emotional upsurges of difficult, even traumatic, memories, fears and conflicts that need to be understood, accepted, transcended… at the rhythm of the maturation of the life within her!

I offer to coach you through this intimate odyssey, using the tools of your choice, and in harmony with your sensitivity, towards the fulfillment of your most essential needs and deepest desires, the  realization of your aspirations, fulfiling your wish to make this rite of passage a transcending experience. This odyssey is the tale of a sacred heart-to-heart with your unborn child, with and through your Self...

I also offer to coach you through difficult life situations. Indeed, this “9-month” odyssey is not always an easy journey, but is often marred by such “undesirable” realities as abortion, miscarriage, the 'child who refuses to be born', malformations, difficult decisions or complex personal situation. Together, through a serious therapeutic effort, it is possible to transform the difficulties, pain, guilt, heaviness of these complex experiences and to understand their meaning so that through our Selves the healing of the hearts can take place …

Hélène

Recommended Therapeutic Techniques:

Sophrology: (relaxation - breathing - visualization)
Coaching through the various physical, psychic, emotional and spiritual stages of the experience of “becoming a mother” and welcoming the unborn child.

Preparing for a painless and... joyful childbirth!
Physical and psychic management , mobilizing inner resources, and acquiring general knowledge about the physiology of childbirth mechanisms at various stages.

Music therapy:
Selecting and programming music whose vibrations resonate with your sensitivity, energy and intuition, and creating a therapeutic CD to accompany you, at a subtle level, during your 9-month journey. The objective is to encourage relaxation, total body breathing, centering, anchoring, emotional harmony, while connecting you to the earth and to the forces of life, enhancing self-confidence and awakening all your resources.

Yoga of sound:
Communicating with the fetus by the emission of sounds during the pregnancy.
An intense form of communication, which by its vibratory nature can physically and emotionally “touch” the baby, sound follows the spinal column of the mother to find its vibrational area in the skull, rib cage and especially in the pelvic area that holds the unborn child.

Preparing for childbirth and using therapeutic sounds to support contractions and pushes.
The conscious emission of vocal sounds plays a fundamental role in uterine contractions, helping them be efficient, centered and controlled. Sound has the power to release physical tensions as well as open and lubricate the birth passage, helping to direct properly the energy of the pushes. It focuses strenght, breath and intention, optimizing the use of the energy necessary for contractions, and pushes, as well as increasing the awareness of each moment. Sound calms the mind and creates a soothing rhythm that relaxes and centers the attention on the action, while generally fear creates the opposite effect of acting “against” labor and increasing general tension.

Hypnosis:
Preparatory work of self-hypnosis (relaxation and deep concentration) for a happy, natural and relaxed childbirth.
As in the case of extremely intense events or shocks, the special force of childbirth naturally throws a woman into a modified state of consciousness, thus enabling her to increase her energy tenfold and to mobilize deep unsuspected resources. However nowadays, most deliveries happen in contexts that do not allow access to the state of increased resources provided by nature; fears and transmitted beliefs from generations to generations contribute as well to the creation a difficult process however natural it should be.

Self-hypnosis is an ideal therapeutic tool to support and increase access to this state of global resources specific to each individual.

By doing preparatory work before childbirth, the future mother learns how to develop and master access to a transcendental state, centered, controlled, powerful, lived in full consciousness and perfectly adapted to the intensity of childbirth,

Family Constellations:
Children-to-be are born in the middle of the conscious and unconscious programming of their parents, as well as the invisible respective heritages of their ancestors. What could be a better gift for these children than to welcome them in a family system where trans-generational heaviness has been lightened….thus easing their life journey…

Therapeutic channelling:
Pregnancy is a privileged time for communicating with “the unborn child ” through channelling. During their incarnation, souls regularly return to “visit” their future parents and new bodies. Through these visits, they hope to testify to the extraordinary process of incarnation, the splendor of creation, which they are living, sometimes in fears and doubts. They hope to transmit information about themselves so that all welcome, guide and accompany them in harmony on their life journey.

In spite of each and everyone’s beliefs, these moments of pure magic contribute to the creation or the recognition of bonds beyond simply physical bodies, wonderful heart-to-heart bonds, allowing the creation of subtle spiritual dynamics in the coaching of the unborn child.

 

 “Only the heart sees clearly. The essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry