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The Portal
WEEKEND COURSE
IN PERSON
MAY 16-17, 2026
📍 FENLANDS RECREATION CENTRE, BANFF
An in-person, two day childbirth education course for couples.
The Portal is my most comprehensive childbirth education offering designed for those who what to get intentional in their birth prep.
I’ve witnessed and supported many, many, families through the beautiful and often intense journey of labour and birth.
Labour and childbirth will ask you to go somewhere you may have never accessed before, to journey inward, trust your body fully, and to move through intensity with intention.
The Portal is a compilation of everything I’ve learned and found most supportive while working with couples in real-life birth spaces — at home, in birth centres, and within the hospital system.
It is comprehensive, evidence-based, and designed to bring you together as a birthing team so you have the tools to enter your birth feeling informed, empowered, and fully autonomous in your choices and decision-making.
This is a deep dive into the physical, mental, and emotional preparation for birth. A space to learn, ask questions, move, breathe, and connect with your partner and meet other expecting couples.
What do we cover?
Day 1:
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The roles we play
The role of the support team
Your team options
Physiology of Labour & Birth
Hormones in Labour & Birth
Physiological Birth vs Medically Managed
What influences vs disrupts you have an undisturbed birth?
The Phases & Stages of Labour
Golden Hour
Cutting your Umbilical cord
Active Management of Placenta delivery vs Physiological delivery
What is a Nuchal Chord? & should you be worried?
Working with the planes and stages of your pelvis
Understanding whats happening with your cervix throughout labour
The role of the pelvic floor & how do we best support it and work with it?
Labour positions
Prenatal Yoga
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Making informed decisions
Examine how you’ve made decisions in the past
The BRAIN method
Creating your custom birth preferences
Understand newborn tests & procedures (APGAR, eye ointment, vitamin K, Hepatitis B)
Navigating the hospital system (what to pack, what is the 511 rule? when to head to the hospital)
Your options
Know your rights
Developing Autonomy
What is informed consent?
Variations of normal
How to navigate failure to progress
VBAC
Elective Cesarean
Inductions & Augmentation
The Cascade of Intervention
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Where does pain come from?
The physiology of fear and fetal positioning
Pain gate control theory
Stacking the tools
How to avoid medical pain management
Medical approaches to pain managment
Practice implementing 37+ different coping strategies with intentional pain coping sessions.
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Together we create your customized birth preferences that are ready to be printed and thrown in your birth bag.
We cover every possible aspect of birth and what you may encounter or be offered along the day. We discuss pros and cons, look at the research and everyone makes the decisions that feels most aligned with their birth vision. -
An opportunity to discuss what may have popped up during the day, answer any questions you may have and prepare for Day 2!
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A quiet moment of intention with your partner as we close out the first day inside the portal and prepare for day two, a day of visualizing and practicing how we show up in the birth space.
Day 2:
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Whole body approach to mindset
The Mother-Baby Dyad
Preparing Your Body
Perennial Massage
5 Holistic Practices to Kickstart Labour
The Miles Circut
Breathwork
Preparing your mind - examining and understanding your birth biases
Integrating your fears - breaking them down and releasing them
Preventing unwanted outcomes
Meditations & Affirmations
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Navigating the final trimester (conversations with your provider, methods of induction, implementing what you know, embracing the unknown)
Preparing for Postpartum (questions for your care provider after birth, things you should know about newborns, what to expect from postpartum physically/emotionally/logistically)
The first forty days aka the “lying in” period
Mental Health Foundations for a Calm Postpartum
Dustan Baby Language
Mother-Baby bond
It takes a village
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Supporting a healthy pregnancy
Choosing a prenatal
Fuelling your body for labour
Fuelling your body after birth
Healing in the fourth trimester
Breastfeeding 101
Hunger Cues & Milk Supply
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Here we weave together everything we’ve learnt about labour and birth.
We start off grounding into our partners energy, we set an intention and then we spend a couple of hours simulating moving through each stage of labour - applying counter pressure, anticipating her needs, coaching breathing, helping her body to soften, maintaining a calm environment. -
We share feedback about how it felt to implement the tools and practices we have learnt over the last two days.
A final chance to ask any questions or discuss any points in more depth before closing out our time together. -
A final moment of quiet intention with your partner to close out our weekend in the birth portal together.
Invest in yourself
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Invest in your birth
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Invest in yourself ~ Invest in your birth ~
Investment
$400
Inside this weekend, you’ll receive:
• 10+ hours of immersive, in-person childbirth education (for you + your support person)
• A deep understanding of physiological birth + the hormones that power labour
• Practical tools to work with your body - movement, breath, positioning, and environment
• Hands-on guidance + real-time practice with support from a doula
• Clear, grounded support for your partner
so they know exactly how to show up
This is where information becomes embodiment, you don’t just learn it,
we practice it.
You’ll leave with:
• Techniques to create a birth environment that supports the natural unfolding of labour
• 37+ Pain coping techniques
• Breathing techniques for you
and your birth partner
• Hands on support techniques
for your birth partner to utilise
• Advocacy tools for hospital, home,
or birth centre settings
• A comprehensive take-home workbook
to deepen your learning
• A partner pocket guide for in-the-moment support during labour
• Your own hospital-ready, customized
birth preferences
• Exclusive 50% off my birth pool rentals
You’ll leave feeling prepared, connected, and confident!
This course is open to everyone, if you’re a birth client of mine, this weekend experience is included in your birth support package and you will receive a link from me to book in.
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