Ancient wisdom for the modern birthing world
AWAKEN THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE BODY
mindfulness-based childbirth education programs designed to help you and your baby have a positive, powerful pregnancy and birth experience
Our approach to birthing preparation blends components of intuitive practices such as yoga and meditation with contemporary childbirth education models to give you the tools you need to prepare your body and mind for the incredible and fulfilling work of birth and parenting.
Being fully educated about the physiologic process and confident in your body’s ability to give birth will allow you to ask the right questions to make informed decisions surrounding your birth — no matter what birth setting you choose.
What People Are Saying
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What People Are Saying *
“My husband and I are so thankful that we took the Intuitive Birth class. I truly believe our birth experience would have been completely different if it weren't for the tools we learned in this class. I think the most important thing that we learned was to be flexible with our birth plan meaning that if things don't go as "planned" our birth experience could still be positive and incredible.
This was something I desperately needed to hear to be able to allow myself to live in the moment and let go of fear and view the birth of our son as something natural and beautiful instead of scary. I knew that I wanted to go unmedicated and do whatever it took to avoid a C-section but after all was said and done we just wanted to bring our baby safely into the world and make informed decisions along the way. And that's exactly what this class did for us. We took away tools such as breathing and meditation exercises that I was able to utilize during my 11 hours of labor that enabled me to stay unmedicated during the entire process. Labor was the hardest thing I have ever done but it was the most beautiful night of our lives and we are so grateful for our birth story which began with Holly’s class!”
— Justyne
"when the intelligence of the body is awakened, it will guide us throughout the pregnancy, making us feel perhaps more in touch with ourselves than ever before. We are then close to our own Intuitive nature and ready to flow with the movement of birth when it begins”
— From Frederic Leboyer’s Book, Inner Beauty, Inner Light
find the right guidance for your birthing experience
$149
This comprehensive course offers a unique perspective on pregnancy, birth, and parenting, including:
Basics of Energetic Anatomy and how it relates to Pregnancy and Birth
Downloadable and printable comprehensive workbook PLUS affirmations
Video presentations on all things Labor and Birth including basics of mindfulness, prenatal psychology, hormonal physiology, common routines and interventions, basics of positioning and breathing techniques and meditations for you to use during your pregnancy and birth.
Embryoga class series and links to podcast episodes that correspond with the various chapters.
$35
This in person only series is taught locally in Boise through St. Luke’s Health system. In this four week series you will learn:
Anatomy and physiology of normal birth
How to reduce the effects of stress to provide an optimal growing environment — wiring the baby's brain for peace & lifelong happiness
Cultivate a deep connection to baby and how to envision your optimal birth environment, supporting the experience that you desire.
Tools and techniques to assist during labor, as well as any possible complications that may arise.
$14.99
Based on the hormonal physiology of birth (the Ancient Wisdom of the body), this book gives a basic framework for expectant families on how to navigate the sometimes overwhelming experience of pregnancy and birth, with an emphasis on setting a solid foundation for your baby though intentional prenatal bonding and mindful awareness. No matter what birth setting you choose this book has something for you!
Filled with practical information AND unique perspective of a pre and perinatal psychology educator, this is an amazing resource for any pregnant person no matter the birth setting. This book, complete with journaling exercises and meditations will give expectant families a wonderful and vibrant way to connect with their unborn babies and prepare for the transformational experience of birth and parenting!
FAQs
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All of Holly’s offerings include everything that is generally covered in most childbirth education courses including; how to choose the right birth team, stages of labor, positioning and and breathing techniques, pain management and comfort techniques, partner’s role, common routines and interventions, breastfeeding initiation and postpartum considerations. All of this will not only help you prepare for birth, but will help prepare you for the amazing experience of PARENTING!
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Holly’s unique perspective as an RN for over 25 yrs combined with her extensive training in yoga, energetics, mindfulness, and the fascinating field of pre and perinatal psychology and health is what makes her courses and her book unique. More than just learning how to cope with labor and birth, her offerings provide a foundational knowledge of how the hormones of birth work, how to connect to your body’s innate wisdom, and how to start the vitally important process of intentionally bonding to your baby. In addition, her online option includes her comprehensive prenatal yoga series, links to her podcast that add additional information about all the topics that are covered (Mindful Birth Peaceful Earth Podcast), a downloadable workbook … designed to help you have a transformational empowering birth experience. All of this at a fraction of the cost for most online birthing courses.
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It is recommended to sign up fairly early in the pregnancy to gain the benefits of the intentional bonding exercises, the workbook exercises, and the meditations designed to help you tap more deeply in to your intuitive birthing nature. This will give your mind and body time to actually practice the techniques so they come more easily once you are in labor. In addition, the information geared towards how you plan to parent will take some time for you to discuss with your partner (or yourself if you are choosing to single-parent).
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Once you sign up you have lifetime access! You can use the information for subsequent pregnancies as well!
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This class is specifically designed to help you figure out what YOU want and to help you with whatever decisions you make for your own empowering birth experience. The emphasis on mindfulness and meditation will help you tap into your Birthing Intuition and also not be too attached to any particular plan or outcome. The vast majority of traumatic stress that might occur during birth is because of our need for control and planning. You will learn how to go with the flow of birth however it occurs whether you are choosing a home birth or have any reason to prefer a hospital environment, including if you have a planned or necessary cesarean or have complications that indicate a hospital environment may be safer for you and your baby.
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Holly Lammer is an RN with over 25 years working with low and high risk birthers in a hospital setting. She has 2 subspecialty certifications in her field: Inpatient Obstetrics and Fetal Monitoring . . . she has been active in her local birth community that whole time, speaking at local and national conferences for doulas, childbirth educators and medical professionals. Her emphasis has always been to prepare birthers for a positive, powerful, transformational experience, supporting the hormonal physiology of birth. In addition, she has been teaching yoga for over 15 years with a specialty certification in Prenatal Yoga. She taught for local yoga teacher training programs and continues to hold special trainings for yoga teachers. She also teaches other birth professionals about the importance of pre and perinatal psychology and how to help birthers tap into their innate wisdom. Her most unique perspective comes from her extensive studies in the field of pre and perinatal psychology through the APPPAH organization where she received a certificate as a Pre and Perinatal Psychology Educator (PPNE).
What Professionals Are Saying
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What Professionals Are Saying *
I have had the pleasure working with Holly over the last 20 years. Holly has been instrumental in not only bettering birth at our hospital, but also in our community. We started talking about mindfulness childbirth education many years ago. We often spoke of the community need for a course that embraces confidence, connection and inner calmness and peace not just during birth, but also in pregnancy. Holly's class design has assisted families to dismantle fear, stress and anxiety that can often be experienced by many birthing people and their partners during pregnancy and birth. My clients that have taken her courses report they are grateful for her class and that they acquired tools and knowledge to embrace their labor no matter how it unfolded. I often suggest to clients to sign up early in pregnancy because Holly's classes emphasize the importance of reducing the effects of stress, cultivating a deep connection to body and baby, meditative techniques to help with birth and parenting and how to trust the body's innate birthing ability.
— Kristi Rhodes, Certified Nurse Midwife
About Holly
Holly Lammer is an RN with over 25 years of experience in low and high risk birth settings, over 15 years of yoga teaching experience, and extensive study in mindfulness and birthpsychology. Holly Lammer brings her experience of supporting thousands of birthers to her offerings.
Holly likes to think of herself as a birth activist. How and where to give birth can be a controversial issue. No matter where you live, the color of your skin, your income level, your gender or your religious affiliation, accurate information about the importance of gestation, birth and the first year of life is hard to come by. Talk to ten different people and you will get ten different and sometimes opposing views on what is best to do for you and your baby during pregnancy and birth. Unfortunately, the consequences of the practices surrounding pregnancy and birth the last 120 years or so are becoming more and more obvious. Stress related conditions such as heart disease, autoimmune disorders, digestive disorders, behavioral disorders, allergies and asthma, obesity, diabetes, mental illness and substance abuse can be linked to a variety of causes, but prenatal and perinatal psychology, neuroscience and epigenetic research experts all agree that the womb environment, birth, and early childhood experience plays a a major role in the overall health and wellbeing of humans everywhere.
After years of observing thousands of birthers during birth itself, and how parents bond with their unborn and newborn babies, Holly is convinced that peace on earth begins before and during birth. More than just a philosophy of empowering birthers to have a powerful and positive birth experience, the approach that she has taken in her work as a ‘birth activist’ is to bring information to as many people as possible about the importance of gestation and birth on the development of the type of brain that supports an environment of peace. When we are focused on peace and love during pregnancy and birth through mindful awareness of the state of our own being, the developing baby's system is also being wired for peace, joy and contentment that can last a lifetime.
“We cannot begin to express our gratitude for providing such unbiased support and compassionate care during this important time in our lives. Your professionalism was upstaged only by your personal touch and we feel so lucky to have had you in the delivery room with us. My birth would not have been so calm without you. You had a belief in me that I didn’t know I had in myself.”