Healthy Pregnancy Program
Why Taking Time for Relaxation is Important for Your Pregnancy
Our special pregnancy program is an essential addition to your prenatal toolkit for a healthy pregnancy. Based upon scientific research, reducing stress throughout your pregnancy should be as high on your priority list as taking your vitamins and eating well. Our program gives you 15 minutes per day for yourself to use proven mind-body techniques to reduce stress, and best balance and prepare your body timed to the changes occurring during each of the trimesters.
With the same attention to detail, we crafted this auditory program that tracks to the trimester for timely visualizations to tap into our powerful mind-body connection.
- Reduce stress, which has been shown to cause low birth-weight and premature labor, and effect your baby’s temperament and neurobehavioral development.
- Employ advanced mind-body exercises that corresponds to the specific requirements of each trimester.
- Connect emotionally with your baby sooner.
- Use your mind-body intelligence to improve blood and oxygen flow, healthy growth of placenta, balance hormones, etc.
- Improve ability to remain in control through labor and delivery; and
- Finding a few minutes each day for yourself to renew and rejuvenate, something every new mother needs to learn.
Program Features
- Three unique programs designed for each trimester.
- Each program is approximately 20 minutes in length.
- Using a combination of music and words for optimum relaxation and mind-body connectedness.
- Visualizations include developing embryo into fetus, with emphasis on healthy placenta.
- Third trimester program has a special focus on labor and delivery for improved confidence and trust of body through the process, with suggestions on relaxation techniques to use.
- Each program begins with proven body-scan techniques which enables you to enter into state of deep relaxation, followed by guided visualizations of optimum health throughout pregnancy.
It has been documented and researched that levels of stress can be extremely harmful to your baby throughout your pregnancy. Just as important as taking your vitamins, seeing your doctor and getting rest, instituting stress reduction techniques into your routine can help minimize the effects of anxiety, worry or other negative feelings and reactions.
Not only does our program do an excellent job at stress reduction when used on a consistent basis, but it is also leverages our innate mind-body intelligence that can help you obtain optimum health throughout your entire pregnancy. Having one program for each of the trimesters allows us to really tailor the visualizations accordingly.
Here is a more thorough description of the contents of each program:
Program Introduction
- Includes a short overview of the program and how it is designed to work.
- Suggested tips and techniques for optimum effectiveness.
First Trimester Program
- Deep relaxation of external and internal body parts and function.
- Using metaphor of a river, seeing energy in the form of blood-oxygen, nutrients and hormones, as unending and sent in the right amounts in a constant stream of health and abundance.
- Embryo implanted along with its healthy growth and development into fetus (arms and legs, fingers and toes, changing from embryo to fetus at 8 weeks, nerve and muscles begin to work together, 3 inches long at end of trimester).
- Seeing heart beat with a regular rhythm.
- Focus on inhale of oxygen and how that feeds your blood…exhale to let go of any stress or negativity, oxidants or other foreign matter leave cells, tissue, muscles, etc.
- Using a pleasant thought or smell to replace any nausea you may be experiencing.
- Emotional exercise: expression of gratitude, which is the most healing of all of the emotions.
Second Trimester Program
- Deep relaxation with special focus on warmth and balance.
- Using image of water as catalyst, feeling the subtle energy movement internally that allows for everything in perfect harmony.
- Special focus on “balance” – everything in its own time with just the right amounts (hormones, nutrients, relaxation, blood-oxygen, etc.)
- Fetus growth visualization: bone marrow starting to make blood cells, hearing and swallowing functions, and real hair growing on its head, seeing the fetus sleeping and waking at regular intervals, growth of umbilical cord, etc.
- Sending feelings of love to womb to feel a greater level of connectedness…
- Emotional exercise: the connectedness between mother and child and expression thereof…using gratitude again as healing emotion.
Third Trimester Program
- Deep relaxation through body scan techniques.
- Visualization of expansiveness…as body seems tight and full, counterbalancing those sensations with openness, weightlessness, and abundance of space.
- Relaxation for full-term delivery.
- Preparing body for delivery through the use of visualizations of how to use relaxation during labor and delivery.
- Fetus growth and sending energy, blood-oxygen, nutrients, etc. in the right amounts at the right times.
- Emotional exercise: seeing the delivery process in detail so as to be fully prepared.
“I love, love, LOVE it! I had to write and tell you how *amazing* it was! I had tears streaming into my hair and pillow at one point, pretty much from the middle to the end. I felt SO connected to my babies then. What a gift.” Kelly, NY
Warning: Under no circumstances should you drive while listening to the sessions or operate any kind of heavy machinery since the program is designed to elicit deep relaxation. Please see the Terms of Use for further information.