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Prenatal Yoga Classes
Mondays
5:30-6:30pm
Thursdays
5:30-6:30pm
Info: Trish
231-9227
or
$8-$12 per class
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Pediatric Community Acupuncture Clinic
Mondays
9am-4pm
With
Natalie Allard L.Ac
for kids from birth to 12yrs.
Shoni-Shin (no needles) Acute and Chronic Conditions
Pediatric Chinese Formulas
Child Friendly Atmosphere
$20 Treatments
(828) 275-6816
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Birth Network
Monthly Meeting
and
Infant CPR Training
Sept 22nd 7-8p
free training at
blueridge mall
pardee educ. room
Hendersonville
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Peaceful Beginning Labor Support Forum
Thursday September 24th 7pm. Facilitated forum to discuss all aspects of supporting women in labor. Open to doulas, midwives, partners and friends who wish to discuss a recent or upcoming birthing experience. Hosted by Cheryl Orengo.
Info: Cheryl at 828 776.3327
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Beyond Belief a film by Beth Murphy
Free film and discussion meet at 6:30 film at 7pm.
Friday Sept 25th
Two 9/11 widows meet after losing their husbands while being pregnant. Watch their beautiful journey to reach out through their loss to touch other women's lives and explore the concept of post-traumatic growth.
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Empowered Birthing Childbirth Education Classes.
Four week series. Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm
Focus on natural childbirth, positions for comfort, understanding the process of labor, comfort measures. Birth partners very involved in class. Next Class starts Oct 14th
Cost:$175 for four week series
Contact: Trish 231-9227
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Mamatime Mother-baby group
now forming.
12 weeks of supportive meetings with other new moms and babies. Discuss pertinent topics and leave each week with new friends, more wisdom and more confidence.
Tues. 12-2pm
Call: Shelley for more info: 828.582.4653
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Community Room Rental  The WWEC's beautiful community room is available to rent for your group, event, or ritual. The room is used regularly for yoga and childbirth class but is also available by appointment for very affordable rates to people in the community. Please call if you are interested: 828 505 7505
or email:
communityroomrental@
gmail.com
$25 for the first hour and
$10 each additional hour.
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Greetings!
We are so excited to share our fall newsletter with you, our community!
In this newsletter enjoy a wonderful article about prenatal yoga by our own creative writer Laura Hope-Gill. Also find out about an upcoming meditation retreat, a free movie to both commemorate Sept 11th and celebrate women's solidarity, and many more activities.
In the left hand column find out about our upcoming prenatal yoga classes, Mamatime mother-baby groups, Empowered Birthing Childbirth classes, the new Community Pediatric Acupuncture Clinic, and a Labor Support Forum in late September to allow you a place to discuss an upcoming or recently passed labor support experience and a place to meet doulas, childbirth educators, and other birth professionals.
As always to find our more about the activities and happenings at the Women's Wellness and Education Center please visit us on the web at www.AshevilleWomensWellness.com
Thanks and enjoy the beautiful fall weather!
From the practitioners at the WWEC:
Beagle, Elli, Holly, Laura, Melissa, Natalie, Neely, Ruth, Sarah, Shelley, Trish |
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FIND A COMFORTABLE POSITION WITH
Who was to know that yoga mats would one day be for sale at K-Mart and your local grocery store, as common place as placemats. Now, yoga is everywhere, just a kneeling pose away from the hectic hubbub of everyday life.
One of the most striking appearances of yoga is in the prenatal field. A time in a woman's life that just over a decade ago was defined by "rest" and large dresses is now a time for active engagement of the beautiful changes going on, both internal and external. Pregnant women by the hundreds each week pull the spandex over their baby bumps and make their way to prenatal yoga classes all over town.
The benefits of prenatal yoga are many. Some are directly tied to the birth process itself. Others address the hormonal shifts ongoing throughout pregnancy. On the whole, though, prenatal yoga allows a woman to continue her spiritual and personal awareness of who she is as a person, pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, post-partum and on.
In the entirety of the Baghavad-Gita, the source of Vedic wisdom to which yoga is the physical component, there is but one mention of yoga practice in the physical sense. It is the order "to find a comfortable position." This is the extent of wisdom offered on a practice that has engaged millions of minds, bodies and spirits over the course of generations. A comfortable asana, for many who wiggle and wobble and wait for the next release into child's pose at weekly classes, is not as easy as it sounds. The ultimate goal is to find this comfortable asana in the whole of life, to acquire a mental posture with which to face life's challenges and changes in such as way as they do not bowl us over.
For the pregnant woman, the comfortable asana of the mind is one such posture which allows her to face the hard work of giving birth and being a loving, patient parent. When the water breaks and the contractions begin pounding from within, perhaps "comfortable" is the last word to come to mind. However, with the help of prenatal yoga, the mind stays focused on breathing and transcends, or at least works with as opposed to resists, the physical experience. Libby Hinsley a prenatal yoga instructor advises that "the stability and the inward focus are far more important than the stretching, for everybody, but even more so for the pregnant woman."
This "inward focus and stability" occurs as the result of months, or years, of practicing the asanas in a class or as part of a private practice in one's own home, and finding a level of comfort in them. People who take yoga, both men and women, observe benefits ranging from basic stress-reduction to curing hypertension all the way to mystical illumination by the Divine.
The mind-body connection, we are learning in the age of Deepak Chopra, is deeper than we often honor. By relaxing one, we heal the other. But the benefit of prenatal yoga takes this connection one step further. "If a woman can stay calm an d focused during her labor she will actually hold less tension in her muscles which will reduce her experience of pain, says certified nurse midwife Trish Beckman.
Certainly, the days of the fragile pregnant woman are behind us, but pregnant women need to be more gentle with their bodies in a yoga class. The physical benefits of a prenatal yoga class, adds Hinsley, include the attention given to gentleness. "The body is often stretchier due to the relaxin so it's even more important for people to take the stretches gently so they don't over stretch ligaments."
There are few enterprises which present such divergent and dramatic variables as birth-giving. It can go well. It can end in tragedy. Parents walk toward the due-date with a profound heroism comparable to that of warriors stepping onto the battlefield, not knowing the outcome of the awaited day. It is no accident, therefore, that one of the best asanas for preparing a woman for labor is Proud Warrior, for its strengthening of thighs, midsection as well as her sense of balance and focus.
Beckman says, "The best way to reduce your chances for intervention in a spontaneous labor is to manage your pain and stress naturally. Yoga teaches the body to deeply relax and to return to the breath for centering. These two skills can contribute to the chances of you delivering your baby naturally without pain medication and epidurals that can lead to more interventions."
Neely Neu, a prenatal yoga instructor, observes that the benefits extend beyond the mother. "Your baby will learn the physical feeling of conscious breathing in utero, connecting the sound of slow easy breathing with the pleasant feeling that follows as we stimulate the "relaxation response system" the parasympathetic nervous system. This lesson will be forever imprinted on your baby's consciousness. What a gift!"
Laura Hope-Gill is a practitioner at the Women's Wellness and Education Center specializing in creative writing and support for clients wishing to start or complete written works like books, short stories, birth stories etc.
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" Beyond Belief" a film by Beth Murphy.
This touching documentary film will be showing at the Welllness center on friday Sept 25th hosted by 4th Trimester non-profit postpartum support team.
Meet and Greet at 6:30 p.m.
Film at 7:00 p.m. followed by conversation.
Join Susan and Patti, two soccer moms widowed on Sept 11th, as they travel from the ruins of the world trade center to those of Kabul and back. Theirs is a journey of personal strength and international reconciliation,and a testament to the vision that peace can be forged....one woman at a time.
Come explore the phenomenon of post-traumatic-growth!
Free and Open to the public. Bring your family and friends and kids. Commemorate Sept 11th and celebrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth.
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Breema: Nurturing the Heart
with Katherine Correa, and Laura Ike, Certified Breema Instructors
Breema is a clear complete system for Being present and deepening our self understanding through body centered meditation, mindful movement, touch and The Nine Principles of Harmony. Breema® is very nurturing for the body, balancing for the feelings and helps to quiet the busy mind. It can be a tool to lead you out of separation and into connection with life. If you wish to feel more connected to yourself and all life, to nurture your essential nature, Breema is for you.
Saturday October 24th at the Women's Wellness and Education Center 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
No prior experience necessary. Classes include body centered meditation, Self- Breema exercises, hands on Breema bodywork and working with the principles and philosophy of Breema.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Katherine 615-269-9718
local contact: Cynthia Greenfield 828-633-1049
Tuition: $100 when preregistering with a check by Oct 10th $115 thereafter
continuing education hours for LMTs 6
Tuition- address to: Katherine Correa, 802 Dewees Ave, Nashville,TN 37204
Directions and details will be sent with registration verification.
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Services at the WWEC:
Counseling, Massage, Yoga, Creative Writing, Acupuncture for women and kids, Somatic Experiencing, Birth doulas, Postpartum doulas, Childbirth classes, Breastfeeding classes and breastfeeding homevisits, Mamatime groups, Labor support forums, Breema Meditation retreats, Women's Wisdom Circles, Infertility support, free films and public education sessions and more.
Call us for more info or for an appointment: 828 505 7505
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