Have You Learned This Groundbreaking Birth Method?
Learn the effective and evidence-based Dancing For Birth™ childbirth method. Utilize our innovative original techniques to serve birthing families and grow your practice.
Support your patients or clients with more ways to cope in labor and get baby into position. Help your hospital or birth center reduce cesareans and achieve perinatal quality goals.
Optionally, get Certified to teach Dancing For Birth™ Prenatal/Postpartum Class and provide your community with fitness, education and support in an all-in-one weekly class. This class is also a great way to provide group prenatal care.
The majority of births these days are fraught with 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. Bring bliss and ease to birth. Eliminate exhaustion, discouragement and burnout. Delight your clients and nurture the spark that compelled you to serve childbearing families.
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 (*once you have attended BOTH level 1 and level 2)
Dancing For Birth™ Level 1 and Level 2
Professional Training and Certification Path
Location:
Hampton Inn and Suites
7010 S. Harlem Ave.
Bridgeview, IL, 60455
The Harlem Room
Level 1 Date and Time:
September 24, 2022 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
12:30-1:30 Break
7 Hour Training
Level 2 Date and Time:
(Pre-Requisite Level 1)
September 25, 2022 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
12:30-1:30 Break
7 Hour Training
Level 1-2 Combined Date and Time:
September 24-25, 2022 9:30AM-5:30PM
12:30-1:30 Break
14 Hour Training
Language:
English
Register with Confidence:
On call for births? You won't lose your fee if you miss while at a birth or if you are diagnosed with Covid. Date or time not working for you? Check our Training Schedule.
Who Should Attend?
Aspiring and experienced birth professionals; Hospital and birth center administrators and policy makers; Wellness/Movement practitioners and instructors; Those with a passion to support empowered pregnancy, birth and parenting.
Suggested Hotel
Use code DFB to get our special rate of $149 by 8/24/22
Airport
Chicago Midway International Airport
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 FOX. She 'danced out' her four babies in birth center, hospital and home births.
Stephanie Larson, DFB, DFBT
Founder and Master Trainer, Dancing For Birth™
“I recommend this training to all midwives and doulas!"
- Valerie Pedraza, Birth Professional
“One of the most important things I learned is how movement during labor can significantly facilitate the baby's passage through the birth canal."
- Elizabeth Beckman, Certified Obstetrical Nurse, Certified Lactation Counselor, Certified Childbirth Educator
“Dancing For Birth™ is a great method for anyone to learn and promote a healthy mom and baby, both physically and emotionally.”
- Chaya Bruck, 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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"Mighty Mama 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
Early Registration Price Expires July 24, 2022
Registration autocloses when sold out
Acclaimed Training - 14 Total CEUs Awarded for Level 1-2
Dancing For Birth™ is an approved provider of continuing education for professionals who work with pregnant and new families. Most doula, midwife, nurse and childbirth educator organizations accept our contact hours. Contact hours are awarded after successful completion of the Dancing For Birth™ Professional Level 1, Level 2, or Combined Level 1-2 Training.
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.
DFB and ONA Contact Hours are Accepted by Organizations such as
Find the Right Training Level for You
Level 1: There are no pre-requisites for Level 1, but if you are not a birth professional, purchase our Birth Basics ebook 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 attend Level 2 training (within 6 months of Level 1).
Level 2: This level is for individuals who desire to become Certified by Dancing For Birth™. The prerequisite is having attended Level 1 within the past six months. After completing Level 2 training you will be eligible to apply for Certification. 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 mom/parent circle, all-in-one. After successful certification, you will have earned the credential: DFB and the corresponding Certified Instructor seal.
Level 1 and Level 2 trainings may be taken separately or as a combined training.
Level 3: Certified Instructors with a minimum of one year of experience are eligible for consideration to become Certified Trainers. Trainer training is by-invite-only. You must be recommended by your trainer or nominate yourself for consideration.
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 five 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.
