‘FROM WOMB TO WORLD’-workshop med Anna Verwaal

Anna’s workshop consists of bringing an understanding to how we might still be affected by the way our own conception, pregnancy and birth shaped our lives, learning how to heal from these imprints and becoming an empowered and knowledgeable ‘go-to’ person in the community able to educate pregnant women about all the different aspects of conscious conception, pregnancy and childbirth.

Who are the workshops for?

This profoundly transformational and highly informative series of workshops is designed for birth professionals, midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, prenatal yoga instructors, couples planning to conceive or currently pregnant and anyone seeking to understand, prevent and heal from birth imprints and trauma.

What is each individual workshop about?

Friday March 23

Conception, Pregnancy and Birth, The Journey that Shapes our Life (lecture & slides).

How the cellular imprint of our own conception, womb and birth experience effects our life

The effects of routine medical and obstetrical procedures on a fetus and newborn baby

How prenatal and birth experiences affect pregnancy, labor and giving birth and the long-term patterns, belief and fears they can create

Saturday March 24

The Hormonal Physiology of Childbirth (lecture, slides & movie)

Replacing fear of childbirth with a deep understanding of how Mother Nature intended labor and birth to be for women and babies.

The effects birthing hormones have on a laboring mom, baby, bonding and breastfeeding.

The short and long-term effects obstetrical drugs and medical procedures have on hormonal physiology.

Sunday March 25

From midwifery to medicalization of childbirth (lecture, slides & movie)

Childbirth throughout ancient times, birth around the world, and the history of modern-day obstetrics.

The similarities and differences between the obstetrical and midwifery procedures & models of care. 

How to prepare for a conscious birth, and considering birth from the baby’s perspective.

Do I have to take all workshops or can I just take one?

Each workshop is about a different aspect of birth and can therefore be taken on its own. However taking all the workshops in its entirety is highly recommended.

Students taking the PREGNANCY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING are required to take all three workshops and all three days are included in the training.

How are the workshop presented?

Audio-visual Power-Point presentations containing text and photographic documentation of Anna’s clients and their babies experiencing all kind of birth scenarios, (all stories told and photos used with permission) and various DVD’s on birth, breastfeeding and bonding.

Who presents the workshops?

Anna Verwaal, RN, CLE, born and educated in the Netherlands is a Maternal-Child Health Nurse, Conscious Conception & Birth Consultant, Labor & Post Partum Doula Instructor, UCLA Certified Lactation Educator and Birth Photographer. Currently Anna is based in the United States and lectures and teaches workshops internationally to birth professionals and doulas about the cellular memory of the birth experience, the physiological and hormonal blueprint for birth and bonding and the deeply psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of conscious conception and giving birth. She uses a combination of clinical knowledge, the latest research in pre and perinatal psychology and health, her own birth photography and experience based on working for more than 25 years in various countries as a nurse and doula alongside perinatologists, obstetricians as well as (indigenous) midwives attending hospital, birth center and home-births.

What previous students have said about these workshops?

“Wow, taking this workshop totally changed the way I want to educate and support my prenatal students and help them prepare for birth” -Ruth, prenatal yoga instructor

“The workshop was I'm sure one of the most important in my life. Because of your workshop today, I know my journey as a doula, and a woman has only begun to enrich my soul and the lives of those I help. I think Anna’s work is so very important for all birth providers and doulas to know. It was a life-altering experience for me” -Amy P, doula

“In working with Anna I found out not only how deeply my own birth affected my own life, but it allowed my unborn baby to have a more peaceful birth. It also thought me to be a better mother in that I now have more compassion and understanding for myself allowing me to be that much more with my son” -Danielle, doula and mom

“What a blessing to learn about all of this before we will become parents” -John and Rose S.

“An incredible combination of profound understanding of all aspects of birth & stunning photography” -Catherine S, certified nurse midwife

“This is the kind of workshop you will want to bring everyone you know to. It brings you to a new consciousness of birth and the babies experience and has left such a huge impact in our birthing community. It changed the way we support our clients and one and other. -Care, hypnobirth intructor, doula