Dover Doula Events, Classes and Workshops

Happy Holidays!  Greetings, I wish you the very happiest holiday season this year!  Whether it is your first holiday season with your new baby, or you are celebrating with a belly bump please know that I am so thankful to have met you this year.  As 2011 comes to a close, I'm looking back at all the moms and babies that I have had the honor to work with and I am just feeling very blessed.  Thank you all for keeping in touch via email and Facebook and in person.  I truly enjoy watching you and your babies grow! In 2012, there are a lot of great opportunities coming up, see below for details! Take care, Darcy Sauers Dover Doula   Coming in 2012! Yoga Workshops & Events Yoga   Prenatal Yoga Prenatal Yoga classes at ChildLight Yoga Studio in downtown Dover, NH.  Open to all stages of pregnancy and all levels of yoga practice - even if you've never done yoga before! Session Price: $55 for 4 week session Drop-in Price: $15/class   Dates: Sundays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm January 8-January 29, 4 weeks - $55 February 12-March 4, 4 weeks - $55 March 11-April 1, 4 weeks - $55   Register here!  Mom & Baby Yoga           Looking for a safe way to get back to your pre-pregnant body?  Bring your baby and we'll do some gentle yoga while focusing on healing and strengthening your postpartum body. Session Price: $88 for 8 week session Sorry, no drop-ins  Dates: Thursdays, 10:00-11:00am January 5 - February 23, 8 weeks - $88 Sundays, 4:15 - 5:15pm  January 8 - February 26, 8 weeks - $88   Register here!  Private Yoga Sessions Can't make it to a regular prenatal class?  Too tired to leave the house with your new baby?  Darcy will come to you! Offering private in-home prenatal or postnatal yoga sessions tailored to your schedule and physical needs.   Darcy is a certified 200hr Rasamaya Yoga teacher, Prenatal Yoga teacher, Yoga Birth Method  Instructor and Yoga Mom,Buddha Baby teacher.  She specializes in yoga for the pregnant and postpartum body - focusing on safe abdominal and pelvic floor strengthening and rehabilitation.   Price: $50/hour contact darcy@doverdoula.com to schedule a session  Workshops and Events Yoga Birth Method One Day Workshops Dover, NH Newburyport, MA   This 3 hour workshop is for pregnant women and their labor support partners. Come learn yoga poses and breathing techniques that you can use during labor.  The Yoga Birth Method can help you manage pain, help you make your labor progress faster and maintain a calm perspective. $75/couple Now offered monthly in Dover, NH and bi-monthly in Newburyport, MA Learn more! Mocktail Party January 19th 6-8pm Baby Go Round Hampton Falls, NH   The First Mocktail Party of 2012!  Come sip a mocktail and mingle with other local moms-to-be.  The Great Bay Doulas will discuss "The Magic Window - The First Hour of your Baby's Life" .  In the first hour of life, your baby's natural instinctive behaviors are the most active they will ever be. Learn what those natural instincts are and how to use them to the best advantage.  Maximize bonding with skin to skin, learn the 9 instinctive stages of that first hour, initiate breastfeeding with the Breast Crawl, understand the typical after birth hospital procedures and what the benefits and risks are of each one.  Our Price: $10 Register now!  "Planning for Birth and Baby" Healing Hands Chiropractic Londonderry, NH     Learn to become an empowered "birth consumer".  There are a lot of very important choices available to you for birth whether you choose to birth at home, at a free standing birth center or in the hospital.  Come learn about your options for birth, how and why to create a birth plan, the importance of support during and after birth, and how to be prepared for the huge changes of life with a newborn. Price: FREE! Call 603-434-3456 to register!       HAPPY HOLIDAYS!    Love, Darcy