Description
DreamBirth® | Pregnancy Intensive 1 | 5 Sessions | Thursdays | 12:00 PM – 2:00PM ET | 2 – 30 October 2025
DreamBirth® is a unique and effective approach to ensuring a good pregnancy and birth experience. In this intensive course, we address the private challenges mothers-to-be often face: the inner fears, worries, beliefs, and ancestral patterns that get in the way of a good pregnancy and birth. We also look at the outer challenges as well – the external demands of partners, parents, other children, and medical and hospital procedures and attitudes of birthing personnel that can also impede the natural flow of events.
What are DreamBirth Intensive courses?
DreamBirth® is a special and powerful tool to explore new ways to approach conception, pregnancy, birth and parenting. DreamBirth® Intensives offer a very effective distillation of the previous full DreamBirth training — you will be introduced to the guiding principles, major concepts and applicable techniques and exercises of DreamBirth, Intensive courses run over 5 sessions, and include the most tested and effective of the exercises. Through the intensives you will receive everything that the older training included, but more succinctly.
In this first intensive you will learn and experience all the crucial exercises needed for a successful pregnancy and birth. This first intensive includes exercises to lower anxiety, manage pain, support complicated pregnancies, enhance emotional connection with the baby, enhance relationships and so much more.
This course is wonderful for pregnant women, but even more valuable for doulas and other birth practitioners! You will be able to put to use everything you learn, and see for yourself the positive effect DreamBirth has. You will add a solid tool for your birth work or your birth.
If you are wanting to get pregnant, DreamBirth techniques help reduce fear around pregnancy — an extremely important benefit, as there is evidence that becoming less fearful of labor, increases the chance of becoming pregnant!
DreamBirth Intensives offer a distillation of full DreamBirth training — you will be introduced to the guiding principles, major concepts and more generally applicable techniques and exercises in DreamBirth training. Intensive courses run over 5 sessions, compared to the 7 sessions in each full DreamBirth training that include deeper, more specialized study.
Through DreamBirth Intensives, Claudia Raiken, Master Practitioner and Director of DreamBirth® will introduce participants to this exceptional tool to create the conditions for a positive birth experience. In these five classes, you will discover the transformative power of DreamBirth®, a unique method that uses simple yet carefully developed guided imagery exercises to support a positive and empowering birth experience for and by your clients.
DreamBirth techniques help reduce fear around pregnancy — an extremely important benefit, as there is evidence that becoming less fearful of labor , increases the chance of becoming pregnant. In this 5-session course, you will also uncover exercises to lower anxiety, manage pain, support complicated pregnancies, enhance emotional connection with the baby and so much more.
DreamBirth®
- Reduces Expectant Parents’ Anxiety and Stress, fostering a sense of calm and confidence throughout the birthing experience.
- Strengthens Emotional Bonds between parents and baby-to-be.
- Manages Pain during labor, providing natural and effective pain relief methods.
- Supports for Complicated and High-Risk Pregnancies to better navigate challenges and improve outcomes.
- Prepares Parents for Labor and Delivery, enhancing their readiness and resilience.
- Aids in Postpartum Support/Recovery and supporting the transition to parenthood.
- Empowers Parents to experience confidence and control of their birthing experience.
- Integrates Holistic Mind-Body Connection, for overall well-being in childbirth.
In this 5-session workshop, you will discover how imagery works and how to work with your own and your clients’ imagery, how imagery promotes and encourages communication at all levels and stages of the birthing process, and how imagery helps to remove or reduce blocks and fears that interfere with an easy pregnancy.
Using imaginal techniques and other inner processes and tools, DreamBirth® offers beautiful, quick, simple and practical exercises and guidance to use the innate (pro)creative power for conception, pregnancy, labor, birthing, post-partum care, and parenting and bonding.
The techniques and exercises presented in this 5-session workshop can help with:
- Flexibility of body and mind to prepare for birth — lengthen and relax the body, help the baby get into optimal position
- Facilitating a birth, including clearing fears and incorrect ideas;
- Engender positive emotions, bringing out the best in all involved with the birth;
- Cesarean, or any other intervention, wanted or not wanted;
- Postpartum support: connecting with baby; clearing the body of any medications taken; healing any tears on incisions; talking to doctors and nurses; encouraging milk supply
Participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the first session
Course Schedule: [2025] October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Please note: We invite you to register even if you do not intend on pursuing certification in DreamBirth — this course offers great value to all.
DreamBirth® | Pregnancy Intensive 1 | 5 Sessions | Thursdays | 12:00 PM – 2:00PM ET | 2 – 30 October 2025
