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 an 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 to be the ideal time, allowing space to integrate what you learn and continue preparing with confidence.
Topics we cover include choosing your ideal birth team and environment, the hormones of labor, understanding your birth options and hospital inductions, preparing for labor, natural induction techniques, the stages of labor, common challenges, comfort measures and labor tools, partner involvement, what to pack for the hospital, what to expect during delivery and postpartum, advocacy in the hospital and informed decision-making for your baby.
You and your partner will receive over a dozen thoughtfully designed PDFs rooted in our years of hands-on doula experience, offering continued support beyond class. Birth does not need to feel fearful—it was designed to be powerful, intuitive and deeply transformative. We are here to place you back at the center of your birth experience with the education, advocacy and support you deserve.
YOUR EMPOWERED FOURTH TRIMESTER
Birth is only 5% of the journey—postpartum is the other 95%. 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 it can feel like a more supported, easeful 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 this new version of yourself as a mother.
This immersive fourth-trimester course is offered as a personalized in-home or virtual class for you, your partner and your immediate family. When you reach out, we’ll coordinate a time that fits seamlessly into your schedule. Topics we cover include, but are not limited to, postpartum recovery and care, postpartum nutrition, how partners can best support mom, recognizing postpartum mood disorders, setting up for successful feeding, newborn care essentials such as holding, swaddling, bathing and diapering, understanding baby sleep, car seat safety, vaccine choices and our favorite postpartum products.
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 to remove the fear and uncertainty from postpartum so you can fully soak in the joy, love and magic of this sacred season.
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 ten years of experience as birth and postpartum doulas, we bring this robust knowledge into the classroom space. We're general childbirth educators meaning we bring in influences from 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. We genuinely love what we do, and we leave every class saying "that was our favorite class yet"!
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 any time questions come up. We're forever apart of your village!
We know the true value of sharing quality resources, hands-on tools and evidence-based information in a safe and supportive environment. 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, March 29th (3 spots left)
from 8 am - 4 pm
Sunday, May 17th
from 8 am - 4 pm
Sunday, August 2nd
from 8 am - 4 pm
If these dates don't work for your family, please inquire about our private in-home or virtual availability.
