Soul Work.
// VIDEOS
1 hour, 30 minutes 〰 Led by Hayley Oakes, Beth Scheppke, Molly Landolt and Misty Gant
In this roundtable session, team Bija discusses how to navigate when things change and give you some tools to support the important healing and processing experience. We’ll discuss the power of storytelling and you’ll hear plenty of personal anecdotes from our work in birth. We’ll discuss how to leave space for birth to unfold and ideas on how to prepare for the emotional impact of birth prenatally. We’ll talk about birth trauma, how it unfolds, and why you may feel it even if your birth was perfect on paper. We’ll also walk you through ways to navigate grief and loss of the birth experience you envisioned.
Finding Clarity in Your Birth Story
59 minutes 〰 Led by Chrissy Powers
In this session you’ll hear to how to support yourself during perinatal and postpartum anxiety. Anxiety in pregnancy and postpartum is common and treatable. It can creep in without you even realized, or it can hit you over the head like a bag of bricks. It can be scary. It can be all consuming. In this hour long session, Chrissy will guide you in l earning about the risk factors and signs of Perinatal and Postpartum Anxiety. She’ll give you tips on developing coping skills and a plan to support yourself if you are struggling with anxiety in motherhood. You’l learn how to cultivate a different relationship with anxiety throughout your pregnancy and postpartum that will help you through all stages of life.
Anxiety & Letting Go of Expectations
Reclaiming Our Right to Be Held
48 minutes 〰 Led by Misty Gant and Marisa Belger
Bija’s founder Misty and Marisa Belger, co-author of the best selling book The First Forty Days and Awakening Fertility, come together for a roundtable session in celebration of her new book Nine Golden Months. The phrase “Reclaiming Our Right to Be Held” is the title of the first chapter in the new book. Misty and Marisa will discuss the book’s five treasures - simple and practical ways to a more enlivened and fulfilling motherhood experience.
Breathing Through Life & Motherhood
55 minutes 〰 Led by Vanessa Werner
This session is a deep dive into your personal relationship with breathing and how it contributes to your pregnancy, birthing and postpartum wellness. This session will help you to develop an understanding of how your individual breath pattern (and your baby's) impacts every function in your body and at any given moment, determines your present state of being. Through these teachings, you will be able to connect to the innate awareness of your nervous system responses and ensure balance and regulation of you and your baby's nervous system function.
Cultivating Intuition
38 minutes 〰 Led by Molly Landolt
In this workshop led by birth doula and reiki healer, Molly Landolt, we begin to understand what intuition is versus what is an intrusive thought. You’l hear how to differentiate between anxiety and intuition along with exercises for tuning in and grounding. You’ll leave this session having simple ways to honor and reconnect with your intuition.
// MEDITATIONS
Cultivating Self Love
11 minutes 〰 Led by Sophie Correia
Sacredness
8 minutes 〰 Led by Misty Gant
Grounding with Your Baby
12 minutes 〰 Led by Diane Rizzardo
Postpartum Healing
11 minutes 〰 Led by Diane Rizzardo
Trust Your Intuition
11 minutes 〰 Led by Sophie Correia
Nadi Sodhana
7 minutes 〰 Led by Sophie Correia
Accepting Change
13 minutes 〰 Led by Diane Rizzardo