The course is a five week series and includes a text book, audio downloads and lots of printed information. The cost is $375.00 and includes a partner. Register online using our MINDBODY app. Class Schedule
HypnoBirthing® – The Mongan Method – is a unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth education, enhanced by self-hypnosis techniques. HypnoBirthing® provides the missing link that allows women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing. Emphasis is placed on pregnancy and childbirth, as well as on pre-birth parenting and the consciousness of the pre-born baby. As a birthing method, HypnoBirthing® is as new as tomorrow and as old as ancient times. It is presented in a series of five, 2 1/2-hour classes.
What you get:
- Your own copy of the 302-page HypnoBirthing Text, HypnoBirthing– The Mongan Method
- 5 information-packed class meetings, helping you to understand why labor is manageable
- 5 professionally written scripts for your home practice
- 2 CDs for your relaxation, stress reduction, and bonding (Including the program cornerstone download, Rainbow Relaxation)
- Handouts for planning your Birth Preferences
- A set of Birth Prompts for your birth Companion
- Demonstration and practice in optimal birth positions
- A hypnotic session in building birth confidence and eliminating fears
- A Guide to good pregnancy nutrition
- Several deep relaxation techniques for use during birthing, plus
- Well-paced instruction designed to build your confidence and help you to have a safer, easier, and more comfortable birthing
- Special calm breathing methods for use throughout labor and during birthing
- Small classes for personal attention
- The advantage and confidence of the Mongan Method reputation for top-quality birthing preparation
Frequently Asked Questions
- When should I start classes?
The ideal time to attend the HypnoBirthing course is between 16 – 35 weeks pregnant.
- Does my partner need to attend?
Partners are more than welcome, but are not required to attend. If they do attend, they will gain lots of valuable knowledge and support techniques to use during labor and birth. It is, however, very common for partners to attend some but not all of the 5 classes.
- How much do classes cost?
Group classes: $375
Contact info@amazingbirthsandbeyond.com
to register for any of the below classes:
Private classes: $750
Refresher for former students: $187
Missed class makeup for group classes: $80
- What if I need to miss a class?
All makeup classes are $80 and you will make arrangements for the makeup with the office staff. We encourage you to find a series where you will not miss a week – each class has so many tools that build on each other.
Class Outline
Unit 1 – Setting the stage
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 -Pre-birth family bonding and preparing your mind and 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 – Self-hypnosis visualization and advanced deepening
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 – Overview and summary of childbirth
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 – Birthing – The final act and bonding
Moving into birthing
Positions for descent and birthing
Breathing baby down to birth
Baby moves to the breast
Family bonding with your baby
The HypnoBirthing® Advantage
- Eliminates the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome before, during, and after birthing.
- Eliminates or greatly reduces the need for chemical painkillers.
- Shortens the first stage of labor by several hours.
- Eliminates fatigue during labor, leaving mother fresh, awake and with the energy for actual birthing.
- Eliminates the risk of hyperventilation from shallow breathing methods.
- Promotes special bonding of mother, baby, and birthing companion.
- More rapid postnatal recovery.
- Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience that nature intended.
- Creates a more integral role for the birthing companion.
Why take HypnoBirthing with us?
Dr. Vivian Keeler is one of the most sought after instructors for HypnoBirthing classes in the country. Vivian is also V.P. of the HypnoBirthing Institute and travels both nationally and internationally training new practitioners to teach this wonderful program as well as providing mentoring for new instructors.
“Don’t miss this!! Hypnobirthing is the BEST way to birth. And Vivian Keeler is the most incredible teacher and doula. I have been blessed to have 6 HypnoBirthing experiences including twins and even an accidental home birth (I was planning to go the hospital but my son had a different plan!) And I can honestly say they were all the most amazing, beautiful experiences of my life thanks to HypnoBirthing!!”~Shayna Zavilowitz
Amazing Birth instructor, Dr. Vivian Keeler has been named Vice President of the HypnoBirthing Institute and Certified Master Trainer. Please take the time to verify the credentials of your instructor, including us, by visiting www.HypnoBirthing.com, where you will find instructors that are certified and in good standing with the institute.
Our educator Dr. Vivian Keeler was awarded the HypnoBirthing Institute’s Diamond Award in 2008 for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of HypnoBirthing.
We offer the finest in HypnoBirthing education! Join Dr. Vivian Keeler in North Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Cooper City and Beyond for this life changing course.
NOTICE: HypnoBirthing Childbirth Education is an important part of our business and our standards reflect that. Our instructors abide by the strict guidelines that the HypnoBirthing Institute mandates
Read some testimonials from clients that have used HypnoBirthing®.
We are affiliated with the HypnoBirthing ® Institute.
**For those interested in becoming HypnoBirthing Practitioners, please contact us at info@amazingbirthsandbeyond.com or visit HypnoBirthing.com for the training schedule.
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educators Training-Miami with Vivian Keeler
Date: 2/13/2020 – 2/16/2020 From: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educators Certification:Available to Doctors, Doulas, Midwives, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians Assistants, Healthcare Providers, Childbirth Educators, Hypnotherapists, Yoga Instructors, Massage Therapists, and all others with an interest in maternal health and birthing. HypnoBirthing is a 4-day, 2-part Childbirth Educator Program consisting of a (16-hour) Introduction to Hypnosis for Childbirth or Introduction to Birthing Basics and a (16-hour) Certification Workshop for HypnoBirthing. Enjoy the rewards of teaching visualization and imagery that assists expectant parents as they release fear and other hindering emotions and prepare for a calm, easier, and more satisfying birth.What this program teaches:
– An awareness of the consciousness of the baby before, during, and after experiencing birth
– An understanding of the working of the body’s own natural relaxants
– Relaxation techniques that eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
– An understanding of why women in other cultures have easier, more comfortable birthings
– How the mother’s body is designed to work in neuromuscular harmony with nature
– Proven hypnotic techniques to bring about easier, more comfortable labor and birthing
What you will learn:
– How to eliminate fear and replace it with confidence and understanding
– The source of the myth that pain is necessary accompaniment in normal birthing
– How to teach the birthing companion hypnotic rapport
– Specific techniques of hypnotic deepening
– The three stages of labor as a continuum and varying relaxation skills
– Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal parenting and bonding
– And much more
Date: Feb 13-16, 2020
Location: Amazing Births and Beyond, 17184 W. Dixie Highway,North Miami beach, FL. 33160
Hours: 9am-5pm (with 1.25hr lunch br Full tuition for 4-days: $1695
Early Bird for 4-days: $1495 if registered before Jan. 5, 2020
Register Here
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educators Training-ElCerrito, CA with Vivian Keeler
Date: 4/2/2020 – 4/5/2020 From: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
What this program teaches:
– An awareness of the consciousness of the baby before, during, and after experiencing birth
– An understanding of the working of the body’s own natural relaxants
– Relaxation techniques that eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
– An understanding of why women in other cultures have easier, more comfortable birthings
– How the mother’s body is designed to work in neuromuscular harmony with nature
– Proven hypnotic techniques to bring about easier, more comfortable labor and birthing
What you will learn:
– How to eliminate fear and replace it with confidence and understanding
– The source of the myth that pain is necessary accompaniment in normal birthing
– How to teach the birthing companion hypnotic rapport
– Specific techniques of hypnotic deepening
– The three stages of labor as a continuum and varying relaxation skills
– Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal parenting and bonding
– And much more
Hours: 9am-5pm (with 1.25hr lunch break TBD)
Location: Brilliant Births-1411 Arlington Blvd., El Cerrito, CA. 94530
Full tuition for 4-days: $1695
Early Bird for 4-days: $1495