Pathways To Help You Connect With Your Baby

“There is no place for ideology in birthing. Each birth has its own story and we must respond to what the baby tells us.”

~ Gail Tully, SpinningBabies.com

Wyld Acres offers prenatal communication and holistic pregnancy workshops. Prenatal communication is the ability to speak to, and listen to, your unborn child during pregnancy. Mothers have done this throughout time, but women who pursue prenatal communication work are especially drawn to the listening piece, desiring support around hearing what the baby is saying to them. Whether on-site or in a distance healing, the healer is able to communicate between the mother and baby, relating questions, concerns, information, emotions, ideas, and images. Sometimes a special, loving phrase or mantra is offered from the baby to the mother, intended to be used during labor, birth, and subsequent parenting of this baby. Clients say that this work helps them to deeply connect with their baby, and many say it helped prepare them in a profound way for the birth. Women tell me that this work has also helped them to heal previous trauma of a difficult or challenging birth. Revisiting their previous birth story/stories and clearing out old energy helped them to welcome the upcoming labor and birth with renewed peace.

Pregnancy is a natural opportunity for women to encounter their own personal healing. During these months, mothers can experience deep personal change across the board, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. I recommend prenatal communication and energy work throughout the pregnancy, and especially during the last trimester. It seems that is the period of time when the mother is most open and ready to hear what the baby is sharing, as well as resolved to integrate it. Because of the vibrant dynamic and shifts between mother and child going on during these months, doing multiple sessions of energy work during pregnancy is encouraged, to help the mother connect with this child, and to support her in her response to the work.

HOLISTIC PREGNANCY WORKSHOPS To register, visit the Centered Birth network.

Illuminated Birth I - Welcome your personal connection to your pregnancy, baby, and upcoming birth through self-exploration and inquisitive conversation, yoga, and prenatal communication. Explore questions such as:

What is the spirit of your birth?
What is this child teaching you from conception and pregnancy?
What are the places that scare you?

Utilize yoga asana and breath to relax, open, and strengthen the body. Guided relaxation/meditation will help you to open channels of trust and awareness. Prenatal communication is offered to invite a deeper connection between mother and baby, allowing baby’s unique voice to be heard and providing further intuitive guidance. Journaling exercises will be offered to participants as well.

This class is offered to expectant mothers at any trimester, pre-conception, first or subsequent pregnancies. No prerequisite to attend. Certificate provided at completion of class. This class is taught by Erica Chase-Salerno (Wyld Acres) and Marnie McKnight-Favell (Dragonfly Holistic).

Empowered Birth II - A gathering designed to assist you in harnessing your pregnancy to ignite your birthing instinct and empower your path. We will explore questions such as:

Who is your community?
Who or what influences your views about your body?
Who or what influences your views about birth?
What feelings are creating conflict for you at this time?
How does this pregnancy change the direction of who you presently are? Or, another way to ask this question, How does this pregnancy challenge the notion of who you are?

This is an invitation to connect more deeply with your baby in-womb, to understand his/her unique energy and personality, and feel what this child is directing in terms of your self-growth. Additionally, we will explore yoga asana, breath, meditation and sound to help relax and open the body as well as affirm your resolve. Facilitated energy work and prenatal communication will be offered to participants.

No prerequisite to attend. Certificate provided at completion of class. This class is taught by Erica Chase-Salerno and Marnie McKnight-Favell.

Transcendent Birth III – A prenatal workshop designed for those who feel guided to explore the transcendent nature of the spiritual journey through the landscape of the birthing experience.

This gathering will be intimate and evokes a safe and sacred space to delve deeply into paradigms about roles and events. We will find the essence of personal transformation through asking:

What themes come forth during this pregnancy for you, and in preparing for birthing this baby?
Where else in your life and your history/herstory do these themes show up?
Whose voice do you hear in your fears and stuck points? How do we imprint the words or beliefs of our families of origin, society, or culture?
In ideal circumstances for you, outside of time and space, how do you envision your birth?
How can you harness these awareness to transcend self limitation?
How do you align with open and expansive natures of your pregnancy?
How is your baby-to-be’s unique energy imprint/soulular connection guiding you in this process?

This class has a substantial focus on hands-on energy work and prenatal communication. Although this class series is not sequential, there is a prerequisite of either Illuminated Birth or Empowered Birth to attend this session. Certificate provided at completion of class. This class is taught by Erica Chase-Salerno and Marnie McKnight-Favell.

Sacred Birth Realms Wyld Acres is proud to partner with Marnie McKnight-Favell of Dragonfly Holistic and Mavis Gewant of Gentle Care Doula Service and Sacred Mother Arts in our collaborative body of work, Sacred Birth Realms.

Pregnant? Exploring Birthing Options? Read our Daughter Quinn’s Unassisted Breech Lotus Homebirth Story in the Wyld Acres blog.