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YogaBirth Clothing, Prenatal Yoga & Labor Prep

A YogaBirth is a balance of exercise, breathing, guided imagery, and understanding your body's natural rhythms to moderate the pain and discomfort of childbirth. For both newly expectant and veteran parents, a YogaBirth is customized to meet your and your birth partner's (husband, friend, loved one) specific needs, whether you deliver in a hospital, birthing center, or at home, and whether you plan to deliver naturally, with an epidural, or with prescribed drugs from your OB/GYN.

Endorsed by newly expectant and repeat parents, YogaBirth Labor Prep workshops, designed and taught by Lisa Pedersen, are one-time sessions that focus on your needs during labor and the role your birth partner plays in creating an optimal birth. The workshops can help you bond as a couple and feel gratitude for the life growing inside you.

Lisa does practical work with birthing positions and breathing awareness for you. Your partner learns concrete ways to help and support you in breathing, and ways to hold you during a contraction. You can then feel that sense of teamwork toward the greater goal of delivering your baby, and will encounter childbirth with a greater sense of confidence, peace and strength. For those repeat pregnancies, the YogaBirth Labor Prep workshop is a way to help you focus on your new pregnancy, especially when you just don't seem to have the time to prepare for a birth as you may have had with your previous pregnancies.

Creating a comprehensive YogaBirth program was a natural progression for Lisa Pedersen, owner and founder. She became certified to teach prenatal yoga through YogaFit's board certified OB/GYN, Holly Jackson, M.D. Added trainings with Sue Elkind of City Yoga and Erika Faith Hattingh of Cloud Nine Yoga, coupled with her 1998 pilates certification at Long Beach Dance Conditioning allow her a profound sense of the body.

As a licensed clinical social worker, Lisa has been seeing private psychotherapy/counseling clients since 1996. She is completing a three year advanced certification in Integrative Body Psychotherapy and has an intimate respect for the mind/body connection; that which is necessary for childbirth. For more information about YogaBirth, visit http://www.yogabirth.com.

Lisa Pedersen has also created clothing especially for the practice of yoga and other exercise programs for pregnant women. Her clothes are available on Babynut here.

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