We've Got What You Need, Mama!
COMPREHENSIVE CLASSES DESIGNED FOR MAMAS LIKE YOU
This isn't your hospital's childbirth class. It's the one you've actually been looking for—the one that sits with you, answers the hard questions and leaves you feeling genuinely ready for birth. Then we built a second one... because postpartum deserves the same treatment.
YOUR EMPOWERED BIRTH
Welcome to the childbirth education course you’ve been looking for; the one that invites you to tune into your inner voice, reconnect with your primal wisdom and feel truly supported as you prepare for birth. Your Empowered Birth is our signature immersive birth preparation course, thoughtfully curated to equip you with the knowledge, tools and confidence to navigate birth feeling informed, grounded and empowered. This course offers what many hospital-based classes promise but often fall short on: comprehensive education, emotional preparedness and real-world support.
Whether you’re planning an unmedicated home birth, birthing at a birth center, or preparing for a hospital birth with or without medication, this class is designed for you. We’ve supported families from first-time parents to those welcoming their fifth baby, creating a warm, welcoming space to explore the raw, real and transformative nature of birth. Families leave this course feeling calm, confident and prepared, supported within a like-minded community that values informed choice and intuitive birth.
This course is offered as a single-day in-person group class, a private in-home personalized session or a private virtual class. You may take this course at any point in pregnancy, though many families find the second trimester ideal, allowing time to integrate what you learn and continue preparing with confidence.
In one day together, here's what we cover (and more):
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Reclaiming your primal wisdom and cultivating trust
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Preparing your body and baby for birth
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Choosing your ideal birth team and environment
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Navigating pregnancy with confidence
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Understanding your options and making empowered decisions in birth
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Recognizing the signs of labor and moving through the stages
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Comfort measures, coping tools and partner support
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Interventions, variations and inductions
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Postpartum preparation, advocacy and informed decision-making for your baby
You and your partner will leave with over a dozen PDF resources built from years of hands-on doula work, plus something no PDF can give you: the confidence that comes from actually understanding what's about to happen and knowing you're not facing it alone. Birth was designed to be powerful, intuitive and deeply personal, and you deserve to experience it that way.
YOUR EMPOWERED FOURTH TRIMESTER
Nobody talks enough about postpartum. And then it arrives, and you realize why everyone seemed a little shell-shocked.
Birth is only 5% of the journey. Postpartum is the other 95%. Yet most families spend months preparing for birth and maybe an afternoon thinking about what comes after. Your Empowered Fourth Trimester course is here to change that.
There is so much our society doesn't talk about when it comes to the postpartum period, and we are deeply dedicated to educating families during this delicate time so that it can feel like a more supported, easy transition into parenthood. It truly takes a village to support a new family in the early postpartum months, and we want to be an intentional part of yours by setting you up for success before your baby arrives. We teach you not only how to care for your new baby, but how you can be cared for as you step into the most transformative version of yourself.
This immersive fourth-trimester course is offered as a personalized in-home or virtual class for you, your partner and your immediate family--scheduled to fit into your life.
Topics we cover include:
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Reclaiming the fourth trimester: honoring postpartum recovery and care
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Postpartum nutrition and our favorite products for your healing
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How your partner and your community can best support you in this season
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Recognizing postpartum mood disorders
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Finding your new rhythm and establishing routines
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Setting up your home for your baby
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Preparing for a successful feeding journey
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Newborn care essentials—holding, swaddling, bathing and diapering
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Understanding baby sleep, car seat safety and vaccine choices
Beyond the personalized class, you'll receive over a dozen local resources and thoughtfully designed PDF takeaways to continue supporting you throughout your fourth trimester. Families leave this course feeling more confident, grounded and at ease as they enter this new life chapter. Our goal is for you to fully soak in the joy, love and magic of this sacred season because you deserve every beautiful, messy moment of it.
WHY TAKE CLASSES WITH US?
Educating expecting families is our passion and our purpose. We've thoughtfully curated classes for each phase of your sacred journey. With over 14 years of experience as birth and postpartum doulas, we bring this robust knowledge into the classroom. We're general childbirth educators, meaning we draw on different birthing techniques, which allows you to find which tools work best for your unique self. Our classes are interactive, fun and engaging for both mom and partner. Teaching isn't a side project between births; we are genuinely obsessed with education and we leave every single class saying, "that was our favorite one yet." We mean it every time.
The single-day group format and private personalized courses work great because it allows you to fit the classes into your busy schedule without feeling like it's another chore to add to your pregnancy to-do list and without missing any of the important aspects of your birth and postpartum prep. Our families always come back and tell us how prepared and confident they felt going into their birth and postpartum (just check out our Google Reviews and read all the wonderful feedback we've received from dozens of students like you). An added benefit of our group classes is it gives you the opportunity to meet other wonderful families on similar journeys.
We're continually updating our curriculum based on your feedback and always improving for you. We get comfy, cozy and personal. We meet you at your level to provide information and support that makes a meaningful impact. The space we create is warm and intimate, which allows for raw and real conversations about birth and postpartum. We take time for personalized education while sitting with your questions and apprehensions. You'll walk away with valuable takeaways and local resources that go beyond our class and continue to support you on your special journey. We come together as a community, and we want you to start as our student and stay as our friend. In fact, what differentiates us from other classes and online curriculum out there is that we don’t go away after our class is finished. We make ourselves available to you; you can text us anytime questions come up. We're forever a part of your village, and we regularly host community gatherings!
We know what actually changes outcomes, because we've watched it happen with over 450 clients. And we're going to share all of it with you. We believe deeply in creating positive birth and postpartum outcomes through education because we’ve first-hand seen the positive impact our classes have had on so many families' journeys.
UPCOMING CLASSES
OUR SINGLE-DAY IMMERSIVE IN-PERSON "YOUR EMPOWERED BIRTH" CLASSES ARE HOSTED AT CALAHAN CHIROPRACTIC IN LAGUNA HILLS
All classes are $500 per couple for group dates (Soul Shine Clients receive a $50 discount) or $175/hour for customized private in-home classes
AVAILABLE CLASS DATES:
Sunday, May 17th (full)
from 8 am - 4 pm
Sunday, August 2nd
from 8 am - 4 pm
Sunday, October 4th
from 8 am - 4 pm
If these dates don't work for your family, private in-home or virtual sessions are available throughout OC, San Diego & the Inland Empire
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Greatly! In fact, some of the biggest transformation we see happens in partners. They walk in not knowing what to expect and leave feeling genuinely prepared, confident and excited to show up for you. This class gives them tools, language and a role—so on your baby's birth day, they're not just present, they're helpful and hands-on.
