Instructor：Lauraina Levwood
Time：3:30-5:00pm
Dates：Sunday, February 7th
Drop In Rate: $10 or $15/couple
Birth Art Process is a form of process art for childbirth preparation and self-exploration. No art-making experience is needed, just the desire to deepen with your body, your baby, and your birth and parenting journey. All supplies will be provided - all you have to do is show up for the experience!
"Process Art" is a way of exploring the psyche through the art-making process - rather than focusing on the outcome of what the art "looks like,", we explore what the art "feels like" while we are in the process of drawing/painting/molding clay/etc. In this way, we learn about ourselves and discover new thoughts and feelings that arise in the process, much like learning from our dreams or from the process of journal writing.
During the Birth Art Process new ideas, self-beliefs, and personal insights about birth and parenting have the opportunity to arise while our brains take a rest and enjoy a trance-like state. Birth Art Process can be an integral part of childbirth preparation for all parents - new parents will learn new insights in relation to approaching birth and parenthood for the first time, and second or third-time parents will have the opportunity to sort out old birth experiences and renew their parenting beliefs and values.
Here is an excerpt about Birth Art by Pam England's book, Birthing From Within:
One kind of learning comes from books. But the learning necessary for you to participate completely in your birth must come from you. In making birth art or journaling, just bringing an image to light can be surprisingly revealing (and sometimes healing). Listening to it speak to you can tell you even more. Dreams, reverie and art all carry messages from the unconscious…
An active, gentle exploration process not only brings overlooked resources and strengths to conscious awareness, but identifies obstacles and inhibitions that might prevent you from using them.
Birth art doesn't have to be pretty, colorful or carefully planned. It is as raw, honest and spontaneous as birth itself.
It is important to notice how you approach making art, because it is a metaphor for how you approach doing things in your life, especially things you are unfamiliar with, such as birthing. Do you say, “I don't know how to do this!” and hesitate, or give up altogether (leaving it up to “the professionals”)? Do you find yourself comparing yourself and competing with others? Or can you be curious and say, “Let's see what I can do!”?
Your art, like your labor, doesn't have to be perfect. Just give it your best effort.
Lauraina is a Birthing From Within childbirth mentor, birth and postpartum doula, and Certified Massage Therapist specializing in women's health and wellness. As a Birthing From Within mentor, Lauraina offers holistic childbirth classes which include a focus on personal exploration and empowerment - no matter what birth choices a couple decides to make.
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Tai Chi Acupuncture & Wellness Center, LLC
www.taichi-wellness.com
7 Bow St., Suite 1
North Reading, MA 01864
Phone: 978-276-3008