HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Education - The Mongan Method
See Below for Group Class Dates in The Junction, Etobicoke, and Vaughan 
Private Classes also available
What is HypnoBirthing?
HypnoBirthing® is a complete childbirth education course that will fully prepare you for the birth of your baby. You will learn about routine interventions and alternatives so you can make informed choices that are right for you and your baby.  This creates an empowering experience, allowing you to feel positive about your birthing journey.

You will come to understand how fear causes tension and pain, and leads to  prolonged labour.  You will be given relaxation tools and self-hypnosis techniques to remove fear, so that you can birth instinctively, calmly and confidently. 

Despite the name there are no swinging pendulums and quacking like a duck!  That’s entertainment hypnosis and very different then the tools you will be given to achieve deep relaxation through self-hypnosis.     

​All other female mammals birth in relative ease, as do women in many other cultures.  It’s Tahira's intention to help women reconnect with their innate birthing wisdom.
 
                                                                                   HypnoBirthing Benefits
  • Learn to release fear and tension that interfere with the natural physiological birthing process
  • Learn how to create your body’s own natural anesthesia, allowing you to birth more comfortably
  • Reduce or eliminate the need for medications
  • Reduce or eliminate the need for interventions in all stages of labour
  • Shorten the first phase of labour
  • Learn breathing techniques that help you avoid the kind of harsh physical pushing that can lead to an episiotomy
  • Leaves you feeling alert, awake and more energetic
  • Gives your birthing companion a more integral role in your birth
  • Promotes beneficial prenatal and perinatal bonding
  • Creates an easier recovery
"When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change"    - Marie Mongan
Group Classes
Five 2.5 hour classes
August/September 2019  - Vaughan 

August 21, 28, Sept 4, 11 & 18 
Wednesdays  7 00 pm - 9 30 pm 

Investment: $350 including taxes, per couple/2 people

Includes book with Cd, audio relaxation mp3 & handouts 
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Location:  The Nest Integrative Health Centre
3865 Major MacKenzie Drive West, Unit 111,  Vaughan 
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October 2019 - Vaughan 

October 12, 19, 26, Nov 2 & 9
Saturdays  2 30 pm - 5 00 pm 

Investment: $350 including taxes, per couple/2 people

​Includes book with Cd, audio relaxation mp3 & handouts

Location:  The Nest Integrative Health Centre
3865 Major Mackenzie Drive West, Unit 111, Vaughan
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November/December 2019 - Vaughan 

November 16, 23, 30, Dec 7, 14
Saturdays 2 30 pm - 5 00 pm 

​Investment: $350 including taxes, per couple/2 people

Includes book with Cd, audio relaxation mp3 & handouts 
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Location:  The Nest Integrative Health Centre
3865 Major Mackenzie Drive West, Unit 111, Vaughan 
January 2020 - Vaughan

January 4, 11, 18, 25, Feb 1  
Saturdays 2 30 pm - 5 00 pm 

Investment:  $350 including taxes, per couple/2 people 

Includes book with Cd, audio relaxation mp3 & handouts

Location: The Nest Integrative Health Centre
3865 Major Mackenzie Drive West, Unit 111, Vaughan 

​​Please Contact for more group classes in The Junction, Etobicoke and Vaughan
OR
​for Private Classes in the GTA

​​Class Content
Unit 1 – Building a Positive Expectancy
  • Introduction to the HypnoBirthing® philosophy
  • The history of women and birthing
  • Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing
  • How nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
  • How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
  • The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing.
  • Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos   

Unit 2 – Falling in Love with your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body
  • The remarkable mind of your newborn baby— prenatal bonding techniques
  • Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques
  • Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
  • Hypnotic relaxation and visualization
  • Selecting the right care provider
  • The Birth companion’s role in birthing
  • Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning

Unit 3 – Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby
  • Preparing the body for birthing
  • Light Touch Labor Massage
  • Your body working for and with you
  • Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor
  • Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.

Unit 4 – An Overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love
  • Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
  • Birth explained simply
  • Settling in at the hospital or birthing center
  • Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth
  • As labor moves along – passing time through labor
  • Hallmarks of labor
  • If labor rests or slows – Companion’s  prompts and activities
  • As labor advances – birthing with your baby
  • Protecting the natural birthing experience

​Unit 5 – Birth, Breathing Love, Bringing Life
  • Moving into birthing
  • Positions for descent and birthing
  • Breathing baby down to birth
  • Baby moves to the breast
  • Family bonding with your baby
  • Birth rehearsal imagery
​Please contact for more class info, or to inquire about private sessions in the comfort of your home
​ Birth and Postpartum Doula Services - please inquire for package information
Discount available in conjunction with HypnoBirthing classes