There are 6 courses scheduled for Sydney, Australia in September/October 2013. All will run at Melissa Knapp's 'Yoganic' studio.

Early bird booking rates are currently available for these courses, you can save over $100 on some courses by booking early!

Well Woman Yoga Part 1, 30 September - 3 October

Well Woman Yoga Part 2, 4 - 5 October

Perinatal Yoga Part 1, 7 - 10 October

Perinatal Yoga Part 2, 11 - 12 October

Baby Yoga Level 1, 14 - 16 October

Baby Yoga Level 2, 17 - 18 October

Birthlight Australia has been in the media recently:

Family Fun (pdf) from the Studio Bambini magazine

A new course of direction -  take the next step in your yoga career with a specialist teacher training. 

Title: 'Gentle birth and gentle mothering'
Main speaker: Dr Sarah Buckley
Venue: William Harvey Theatre, Addenbrookes, Cambridge, UK
When: 14 September 2013

We are running an 'Early Bird' promotion to allow you to get your tickets at an even better price, this offer ends on 1 August 2013. Early bird conference price for a Birthlight member is just £30!

It's a pleasure to welcome Dr Sarah Buckley and her family to Cambridge this summer and we have organised this day around her in our Womb to World Cambridge conference series just before she returns to Australia in mid September. This time our venue is on the Addenbrookes site, where the Rosie maternity hospital is located and in it the (still new and wonderful) midwives-run birth unit. Each Womb to World event brings together researchers and practitioners committed to promote a greater quality of care around maternity in both hospital and community environments.  

As a GP and mother who became a champion of 'gentle birth' in Australia,  Sarah Buckley has put all her passion and extensive skills to the cause of helping women have optimal experiences of pregnancy, birth and early mothering.  She is a wonderfully clear presenter, drawing together all the strands of relevant research and practice that offer supporting evidence for avoiding or reducing interventions. Anyone who wishes to gain a thorough yet manageable understanding of the interplay of hormones during pregnancy and birth can be certain to receive this from Sarah, with a light touch and a few good laughs included.  The term 'inspiring' is overused but truly applies to Sarah. She embodies a model of care that is evidence-based and viable, congenial with grassroots initiatives like Birthlight in making research findings accessible in  practical and enjoyable ways. 

Other presentations include:

'On delayed cord clamping: the research evidence' by Dr David Hutchon, Retired Obstetrician, Darlington Memorial Hospital

Francoise Freedman, Wendy Gadsden and Sally Lomas will present 'Birthlight's practical innovative cultural fusion programme to promote continuity of care and support for women and families locally and globally'

Other presentations planned are the Brazelton baby assessment, Kangaroo care in practice and light on epigenetics.

This day packed full with relevant and applicable knowledge will be invaluable to Birthlight teachers as well as to doulas and midwives.

Book now and more information

When I interviewed Françoise Freedman for my book on later pregnancy and motherhood (Right Time Baby - The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood, Hay House 2011) I was 41 and the proud mum of a beautiful two year-old son. Françoise was one of the experts I sought out in order to gain more insight into women having babies after 35.     More
     

Once a pregnancy has been confirmed a woman wants to feel that she is looking after herself and her child safely, and Birthlight pregnancy yoga provides safe teaching. To gain accreditation from the RCM in the UK, 15 Elective Educational points from New Zealand Midwifery Council, and 18 MidPLUS points from the Australian college of Midwives Professional Development Committee reflects this safe commitment to Women and Midwifery.  More     

Françoise Freedman and Sally Lomas will again be tutors for Perinatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, WellWoman Yoga and Fertility Yoga on the next Rainbow Family & Community Yoga 280hr Specilization Teacher Training Course in Italy. The course runs from 1 - 24 August 2013.

This 280 Hr residential Teacher Training will be held at Ebbio a beautiful 14th century Tuscan farmhouse and yoga retreat center located in the breathtaking countryside of Tuscany, Italy.       More 

In this month's competition you can win a ticket to Birthlight's 'Womb to World' Conference on Saturday 14 September.  For your chance to win one simply email your entry to valerie@birthlight.com with the subject line "Conference competition" by 31 July (don't forget to include your name and address).

Good Luck!