Ready to change birth as we know it? Be part of the 'move-ment' for better birth!
What if your pregnant clients didn’t have to suffer hours of labor pain and strain? What if you could spare them from those dreaded words “failure to progress” and “cesarean” after they’ve given it everything they’ve got?
What if, with your help, their birth experiences could be blissful, powerful, and life-changing? What if birth could make them feel more whole, and more ready to care for their baby, instead of depleted or traumatized?
Utilizing the Dancing For Birth™ Childbirth Method, you'll increase your clients' birth ease and satisfaction, and improve their outcomes, while making your work as a doula, midwife, nurse, childbirth educator or doctor easier and more rewarding.
Teaching Dancing For Birth™ class, you’ll have the ability to provide all three essential aspects of healthy pregnancy and postpartum: childbirth education, fitness, and celebration/support circle.
Transform your birth practice with simple moves.
Bring bliss and ease to birth for your clients!
Dancing For Birth™ Birth Method
Scientifically proven:
◉ Shorter Births
◉ Fewer Cesarean Births
◉ Less Labor Pain
◉ Higher Birth Satisfaction
◉ Higher Apgar Scores
Increase your skillset for assisting pregnant, birthing, and postpartum families.
At the conclusion of this training you'll have:
✓ Earned the designation "Dancing For Birth™ Professionally Trained"
✓ Received the corresponding Professionally Trained Seal to display (pictured below)
✓ Learned Dancing For Birth™ philosophy, techniques and birth method
✓ Gained permission to use Dancing For Birth™ philosophy, techniques and birth method to assist families during labor and birth
✓ Earned up to 14 Contact Hours from Dancing For Birth™ and Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), Accepted by many RN, Doula, Midwifery, and CBE organizations
✓ Become eligible* to apply for Dancing For Birth™ Certification (DFB) to teach Dancing For Birth™ parent class for Pre-conception, Prenatal, and Postpartum (*if you attend both level 1 and level 2)
Training Details
Training Location:
Virtual Online — Live and Interactive (Zoom)
Level 1 Date and Time:
January 10, 2026 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time (USA)
Break 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
7 hours of Training Time
Level 2 Date and Time:
(Pre-Requisite Level 1)
January 11, 2026 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time (USA)
Break 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
7 hours of Training Time
Level 1-2 Combined Date and Time:
January 10-11, 2026 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time (USA)
Break 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
14 hours of Training Time
Language:
English
Register with Confidence
Our No Risk Guarantee: You'll have a credit towards another training date, less an admin fee, if you cannot attend. On call for births? Our admin fee is waived if you miss while attending a birth.
Who Should Attend?
Aspiring and experienced pregnancy, birth, and postpartum professionals; Hospital and birth center educators, administrators and policy makers; Wellness and movement practitioners and instructors; Those with a passion to support empowered pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
"Such a wonderful tool to serve clients. I have been certified for 11 years and there is no technique I enjoy using more."
-Dr. Nikki
"The training is easy to follow, offers a lot of value but without the overwhelm, on the contrary, moving and learning goes together so well!"
-Antea, Birth coach
This training is a must for any birth worker - you'll be dancing, growing in your birth knowledge, empowered and learning.
-Angel, Doula
Learning Highlights
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"Birth I.N.S.T.I.N.C.T.S" to support primal birth physiology
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"Powerful Woman" to open the pelvic outlet as much as double
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"MM Maneuver" to avoid/resolve shoulder dystocia
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"The Larson Technique" to re-align malpositioned fetus
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Health benefits and evidence for utilizing dance during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
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Moves to help facilitate birth and which you should avoid
So Many Ways to Apply this New Skillset
Utilize the effective and evidence-based Dancing For Birth™ childbirth method. Support birthing individuals with more ways to cope in labor and get baby into position.
Use our innovative original techniques to serve birthing families and grow your practice. Help your hospital or birth center reduce cesareans and achieve perinatal quality goals.
Optionally, get Certified to teach Dancing For Birth™ Class. Provide fitness, education, and support circle in an all-in-one weekly class. It's also a great way for midwives and OBs to provide group prenatal care.
Dancing For Birth™ Certification
This Level 1-2 training fulfills the training requirement for Dancing For Birth™ Certification. Certified Dancing For Birth™ Instructors teach DFB™ Class to pregnant and new parents on six continents around the world. It's the trifecta of birth preparation—fitness, childbirth education, and celebration in a weekly class. Dancing For Birth™ Class is also a great way for care-providers to provide group prenatal care.
Imagine being able to gather with all of your pregnant and postpartum cleints as a group on a regular basis, during Dancing For Birth™ class. You'll build rapport and get extra teaching time with them, to ensure that they're birth-ready, and confident about parenting. They'll bond as a community, and support each other. With your mentorship as a Dancing For Birth™ Certified Instructor, they'll have the best possible preparation for birth and parenting, and will receive postpartum support in your DFB™ parent class on an ongoing basis after their babies are born.
Approved Training - 14 Total Contact Hours Awarded for Level 1-2
Acclaimed Training - 14 Contact Hours Awarded. Earn up to 14 Contact Hours from Dancing For Birth™. Dancing For Birth™ is approved to provide continuing education for the Dancing For Birth™ Training to professionals who work with pregnant and new families. Most doula, midwife, nurse, and childbirth educator organizations accept our contact hours.
7 Contact Hours from Dancing For Birth™ are awarded after successful completion of a Dancing For Birth™ Professional Level 1 Training, and an additional 7 Contact Hours are awarded after Level 2 Training. 14 Contact Hours are awarded after successful completion of a combined Level 1-2 Training. These contact hours are provided at no additional cost.
Contact hours are awarded after successful completion of the Dancing For Birth™ Professional Level 1, Level 2, or Combined Level 1-2 Training, including full attendance each day, a completed evaluation, and return demonstration. There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for any planner or presenter of this activity.
This nursing continuing professional development activity has been approved by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Approval valid through 05/12/2027
OCEAN ID #2025-24
Registration
Registration ends on January 9, 2026.
Registration can sell out without warning. Register now to ensure your spot!
Interest-Free Payment Plan
$119/MO
Our Combined Level 1 & Level 2 training offers an incredible opportunity to advance your skills with the convenience of an interest-free payment plan. This option allows you to invest in your professional growth with the flexibility of paying over time. Join us and enhance your expertise in a seamless, affordable way.
"I believe this training would be great for all birth workers to attend. It has so much evidence based information, provides a sense of community, and is holistically beneficial for participants."
- Shamekah, RN/Doula
"I truly love Dancing For Birth! ...this new approach is changing the way we think about birth."
-Debra Pascali Bonaro -Doula Trainer, Director of Orgasmic Birth documentary, Author of Sex After Baby
"This training goes further than my training with DONA to talk about ways I can connect with my clients and specific things I can do with them in pregnancy and labor to help them get up and moving."
- Lindsey, Doula
Find the Right Training Level for You
Level 1 and Level 2 trainings may be taken separately or as a combined training.
Professionally Trained
Attend Level 1 Dancing For Birth™ Professional Training.
This level is for individuals who want to learn and utilize the Dancing For Birth™ Childbirth Method.
There are no pre-requisites for Level 1, but if you are not a birth professional, purchase 'Birth Basics' ($19.99) during registration.
After completing Level 1, you will have earned our designation and corresponding seal: 'Dancing For Birth™ Professionally Trained'.
You will also be able to utilize the Dancing For Birth™ childbirth method to assist your clients/patients during labor and birth.
After completing Level 1 you are eligible to register for Level 2 training within 6 months of attending Level 1. Or, attend both levels at once, by selecting our combined Level 1-2 Training, to accomplish both in just two days and save $199 compared to attending each level separately.
Certified Instructor
Attend Level 1 and Level 2. Then apply for Certification.
To become Certified by Dancing For Birth™, attend Level 1 Training and Level 2 Training, then apply for Certification by completing the self-guided certification process.
The prerequisite to attend Level 2 is having attended Level 1 within the past six months. Or you may attend both levels at once, by selecting our combined Level 1-2 Training, which saves $199 compared to attending each level separately.
Certified Instructors are licensed to teach Dancing For Birth™ prenatal/postpartum class to pregnant and new parents. It's a childbirth education class, prenatal/postpartum fitness class, and celebration & support circle, all-in-one.
After successful certification, you will have earned the credential: DFB and the corresponding Certified Instructor seal.
Certified Trainer
Experienced Certified Instructors may be invited to become Trainers.
Certified Instructors with a minimum of one year of experience are eligible for consideration to become Certified Trainers.
Trainers are licensed to teach Dancing For Birth™ Professional Training to professionals (coordinated by DFB™ HQ) and to share in the profit of the trainings they teach.
Trainer training is by-invite-only. You must be recommended by your trainer or nominate yourself for consideration.
If you have a Passion for Birth, the Courage of a Changemaker, and a Heart for Humanity, Dancing For Birth™ Pro Training is for you!
So many births these days involve long labors, failure to progress, and cesarean births. It doesn't have to be this way! Transform your birth practice in as little as 7 hours. Eliminate exhaustion, discouragement and burnout. Delight your clients and make a real difference in birth outcomes, and birth culture.
The Dancing For Birth™ Childbirth Method works in harmony with our human physiological design for birth, to awaken our inherent birth instincts. It reclaims birth as a powerful, transformative experience. Using this birth method and our principles of movement, gravity and instinct, birthing individuals around the world are no longer needing epidurals or experiencing 'failure to progress' and unnecessary cesareans. Instead they are literally dancing their babies out in short, euphoric births.
In this Dancing For Birth™ Professional Training you'll learn the Dancing For Birth™ Childbirth Method and our proven original techniques including 'The Larson Technique' to correct fetal malpositions and flip breech babies, 'The MM Maneuver' to resolve shoulder dystocia', and 'Powerful Woman' to double the pelvic outlet from 10cm to 20cm or more. You can use these techniques in any birth setting—hospital, birth center, and home birth.
What's Dancing For Birth™?
Dancing For Birth™ is an evidence-based childbirth method with a 20+ year history of efficacy. Our techniques help shorten labor, resolve failure to progress, reduce cesarean births, reduce labor pain, avoid shoulder dystocia, support natural physiological birth and increase birth satisfaction for birthing families and birth professionals.
Certified Dancing For Birth™ Instructors teach weekly Dancing For Birth™ class—the “trifecta” of birth preparation: prenatal/postnatal fitness, childbirth education, and celebration, in one. It's currently offered on six continents worldwide.
Dancing For Birth™ was founded by Stephanie Larson, USA’s National Birth Hero (One World Birth Award), mom of four, experienced birth doula and childbirth educator.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I'm on call for births?
What if I have two left feet?
How do I become a Certified Dancing For Birth™ Instructor?
How do I qualify to Teach Dancing For Birth™ Classes?
What happens if I sign up for Professional Training but can’t attend?
Is this a doula training?
I don’t have experience dancing – can I attend a DFB™ Training?
I’m not yet a birth professional. Can I attend a Dancing For Birth™ Professional Training?
Can I earn Contact Hours or CEUs (continuing education units) by attending DFB™ Professional Training?
Is there a payment plan available?
Is this training only for birth professionals?
Who should attend the Dancing For Birth™ Professional Training?
About Your Trainer
Stephanie Larson is a leading world expert on vertical birth and supporting birth through movement and instinct. She is the Founder and Master Trainer of Dancing For Birth™. She calls for an end to forced lithotomy position, and for a worldwide shift to primal, powerful, euphoric birth. Her speaking engagements and TV appearances include Evidence Based Birth, DONA International, Lamaze International, Gold Perinatal, CAPPA, ICAN, CIMS, ICEA, CAPPA Canada, AWHONN, CBS, NBC and ABC. She 'danced out' her four babies in birth center, hospital and home births.
