Highlights

2010 Cruise Conclave Highlights!

We are delighted to announce our two opening speakers for the 2010 Cruise Conclave. Just these two featured speakers alone are enough to make this year's Conclave a must - attend event on your professional development calendar.

Janet Balaskas, a world renowned birthing educator, will join us from the UK and will open our conclave on Tuesday morning with an address through which she will share her thoughts on natural birth. Janet is an important voice in childbirth. In her book, Active Childbirth, Janet speaks to women who have an awareness of the importance of creating a sacred space for birthing. She reaches an audience of birthing women who know that their bodies are designed to conceive a baby, to nurture its development, and to birth instinctively.

Her view of birth is a challenge to the entire obstetrics community. She refutes the assumption that birth should be conducted in an intensive care setting.

Lauren Lane Powell of Stanford Indiana, created her company. Sing for your soul. to teach us the art of ReleaSING stress through the power of music and song. She will reteach us how to breathe, speak, and sing the way we were born to. We will rediscover how to use the voice and breath to promote inner peace and healing. You don't have to be an accomplished singer to learn how to release endorphins, raise serotonin levels, slow your heart rate, and energize your whole being-- all by singing naturally. If you can laugh, you can sing! If you can sing, you can heal! You will be amazed at the similarity between healing breaths and the breathing we teach to our moms in our surge and birth breathing patterns.

One- and Two-Day Workshops

HypnoBirthing Fertility Consultant Certification
Instructor: Sherry Gilbert Tuition: $350
You may take this 2-day course as either a B-Back or as a student enrolled for the first-time. The newly expanded HypnoBirthing Fertility Program will guide you in helping families achieve their dream of conceiving and birthing a child. The material you will cover will benefit families, whether they are choosing medically assisted conception or alternative methods. You will learn about the causes of infertility and the medical options that the families you work with may be choosing. You will also have an opportunity to review and practice extensive pre-session techniques, demonstrations, and ever so many scripts that are a part of the expanded program. Hypnosis Certification Required

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Cranio Sacral for The Birth Worker
Instructor: Jenny West, LM, CPM, HBCE, TBMP, CST, CH Tuition $165
This one-day, six- hour workshop will teach you an understanding of Cranio Sacral, how to find an feel the body’s rhythm, and two simple techniques—Diaphram Release and Stillpoint, used prenatally and during birth to facilitate relaxation, change a stalled labor, help change a baby’s position, and to make that period of nearing completion all but disappear—just to name a few of its benefits.

These same techniques can be used on newborns after the birth to clear any stressors or trauma resulting from the birth itself or lingering stress from interventions. You will be able to use these skills immediately upon completing the workshop.

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Seminars

Prenatal Education for World Peace
“The slumbering goddess within mothers is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Mothers have the ability to bring into the world a savior or a criminal” Julie Gerland from The Goddess Shift, 2010

Julie Gerland from Bonnac, France, is a UN Representative to a worldwide prenatal education organization. In her presentation, Julie gives us insight into the ways in which societies are experiencing an arousal of consciousness surrounding the importance of looking at prenatal life as a solution to resolving many of the problem facing humanity. Learn of the goals of the World Organization for Prenatal Education and its work to bring a better understanding of the “Primal Period” to world leaders.

How Do We Look?
Kathie Dolce, HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Advisory Board Vice President, Longmont, Colorado, is the keeper of all that is important in the way of birthing statistics for HypnoBirthing. Kathie will present the newest figures, taken from official online evaluation and birth reports, and will show you how we compare with other surveys and our previous figures. This information is important to all HypnoBirthing practitioners who are seeking up-to-date ammunition to help build and support their HypnoBirthing practices

Sex And Brain Gender Differences- Equal But Different
Renee Buchanan from Stirling, Scotland, will explain how the sex of your brain influences your behavior, how we teach and how we learn; Additionally it determines how we relate to others. . and it all begins in the womb!! This seminar touches on new research findings that reveal the biological difference between female and male brains. You won’t want to miss this one.

The Power of Nothing
Mickey Mongan, HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Institute Director, The Villages, Florida/ Chichester, New Hampshire, will explore with you the magnificent power of nothing and how so much of our lives revolve around our doing nothing ---trusting that there are accommodations already in place for what we wish to have happen if we just do nothing. Included in this presentation will be a hypnotic session using anchors and instant deepening techniques, designed to show you how to teach moms to easily and readily reach the ultimate birthing depth that calls for them to do nothing, getting out of the way and allowing their bodies to birth their babies. A free take-home script for this technique will be provided to each attendee.

Prana Breathing
Sarojini Changkakoti, HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Virginia—Every conference needs to allow time for the people who are attending to devote their thoughts to the understanding of the power of Breathing to Heal—oneself. You will learn easy, powerful yogic breathing exercises for a healthier body, increased mental energy confidence and motivation. You will experience ways to open, activate, and energize. You will participate in a dynamic meditation process to help release emotional blocks, feeling the effects instantly.

Understanding Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes
Pat Sonnenstuhl, Certified Nurse Midwife, HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Olympia, Washington, will present a program that will introduce to you a background in the arena of gestational diabetes. A definition of terms will aid participants in understanding insulin resistance, diabetes, and gestational diabetes, so that practitioners will be better able to assist couples as they make healthy lifestyle choices during their pregnancies and in the post partum period to reduc e the impact of Gestational diabetes.. Pat will provide handouts of the presentation.

Breathing Easy
Michelle Bender of Lady Lake, Florida, or Chel Belle, as she is affectionately known to the people of the Tree of Life Personal Enrichment Center where she is an associate, is a gifted practitioner in several energy modalities, including Yoga, essences, and emotional counseling and iridology. Chel Belle invites HypnoBirthing practitioners to experience a journey into their bodies. Particularly exciting for you professionally is the skill she will bring in guiding you into the ease of teaching surge breathing with the ojai Yogic technique.

The Magic of Somatic Healing
Francois Gerland, Bonnac, France -- Participants will learn how to help mothers as well as any person in discomfort using their body’s own innate intelligence in a state of relaxation.