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:
38253 Hiagua Ln N Nehalem, OR 97131
Level 1 Date and Time:
August 13, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
7.5 Hours Total
Level 2 Date and Time:
(Pre-Requisite Level 1)
August 14, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
7.5 Hours Total
Level 1-2 Combined Date and Time:
August 13-14, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
15 Hours Total
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
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About Your Trainer
Elizabeth Golden discovered her love of natural therapies early in her life. The pathways and techniques that brought her relief from various forms of illness and injury showed her that health is indeed the first wealth and has become her trusted tools for balance and wellness. Elizabeth found my passion in maternity care after seeing and experiencing a great need coupled with the ability to have a profound affect on the human condition from the start! She loves the accessibility of DFB’s signature movements for all dance levels and seeing the freedom and pleasure it brings to those who use it in their lives and work. Elizabeth looks forward to the love and connections that form through Dancing For Birth™ professional trainings and awaits your treasured presence.
Elizabeth Golden, DFB, DFBT
Dancing For Birth™ Trainer
“Get ready to open yourself and your clients' world to new possibilities in birth.” - Nikki Smith, RNC, MSN, LCCE (Labor and Delivery Nurse with Master's Degree, Lamaze Childbirth Educator)
“The accumulation of ancient wisdom and modern science taught in Dancing For Birth™ workshops are the essence of what women need to bear children with confidence and pleasure."
- Lisa Marie Morgan, RN, Birth Doula
“I would recommend it without reservation. The course content is so important and enriching for all women.”
- Anna Pauly-Kluth, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
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
Registration Ends August 12, 2022
or 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.
