Birth Preparation Workshops
In person workshops that prepare you for birth, postpartum and the enormity of becoming a mother, a parent; whether you are creating or expanding your family.
We get that different people need different things.
That’s why we have two group workshop options that enable you to prepare for birth in the way that meets your needs and enables you to explore what you want. We have 2-day and 1-day birth preparation options.
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Our signature weekend immersion combines yoga, birth education, birth preparation, intentions exploration and traditional Chinese medicine. Together with your partner you’ll deep dive into understanding how birth works and how you would like to navigate this context while honouring your whole self.
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Our 1-day workshop Ready to Birth is a focused, practical and supportive 1-day intensive for those preparing for labour and birth. This workshop combines physiology, practical skills and holistic preparation to help you and your partner or main support person feel more connected, confident, informed and steady as birth approaches.
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We love this question! And as doulas, we hear it a lot in a myriad of scenarios. The answer is, you’ll know what is right for you, once you have all of the information that you need.
The main different between the two workshops is that the 2-day immersion includes traditional chinese medicine talk, a yoga session and deep dives into birth physiology and how birth works. It is double the facilitated time to explore what you need and want for birth.
For those who feel like they need a little less on the birth physiology aspect, our 1-day option focuses more on moving through the phases of labour and understanding what to expect while unpacking what support looks like for you along the way.
Both options include hands on practice of key support approaches.
All about our workshops
Ready to Birth is our focused 1-day intensive. It offers clear, practical and holistic birth preparation for those wanting to understand labour, explore decision-making and advocacy, practise comfort tools and feel more confident with their support person.
Our Radiant Birth 2-Day Workshop is a deeper weekend immersion, with more spacious reflection, extended birth mapping, guest sessions, yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, partner preparation, postpartum planning and community connection.
Radiant Birth, a 2-day immersion workshop
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Chapter 1: Arriving, Grounding and Setting Intentions
We begin by arriving in the space together, grounding into the weekend and setting intentions for what you hope to learn, feel and clarify. This opening helps create a sense of safety, connection and shared purpose between you, your support person and the group.
Chapter 2: Understanding Your Body and Birth Physiology
This chapter explores the anatomy, hormones and nervous system processes that shape labour and birth. You will learn how fear, tension, safety, oxytocin and the birth environment can influence the unfolding of labour, and how to support your body’s natural physiology.
Chapter 3: Birth as a Rite of Passage
Birth is more than a medical event; it is a physical, emotional and personal threshold. In this chapter, we explore how beliefs, culture, expectations and the maternity system can shape your experience, and how to approach birth with more awareness, agency and trust.
Chapter 4: Clarifying Your Birth Values and Preferences
Through guided reflection and discussion, you will begin identifying what matters most to you in birth. This includes your values, intentions, preferences and the kind of support that helps you feel safe, respected and connected.
Chapter 5: Advocacy, Consent and Communication
This chapter focuses on decision-making, communication with care providers and understanding your rights. You will explore tools for asking questions, giving or withholding consent, navigating interventions and staying centred if plans change.
Chapter 6: Moving Through the Phases of Labour
We move step by step through the final days of pregnancy, early labour, active labour, transition and birth. You will learn what may happen physically and emotionally in each phase, how to recognise labour cues and how to respond to the changing rhythm and intensity of birth.
Chapter 7: Comfort Measures and Hands-On Support
This is a practical, embodied chapter where you and your support person explore tools for comfort, connection and labour support. We practise techniques such as massage, counterpressure, breathwork, positioning, movement and other ways to support physiology and ease.
Chapter 8: The Role of Partners and Support People
Birth support is active, emotional and deeply relational. This chapter helps partners and support people understand how to offer steady presence, practical care, reassurance, advocacy and communication support throughout labour and birth.
Chapter 9: Traditional Chinese Medicine for Pregnancy and Birth
Facilitated by guest practitioner Michaela Rinkel, this chapter introduces Traditional Chinese Medicine perspectives on pregnancy, birth and postpartum wellbeing. You will explore simple principles around nourishment, energy, rest, acupressure and supporting the body through late pregnancy and labour.
Chapter 10: Yoga, Reflection and Partner Preparation
During this chapter, the birthing person is supported through gentle prenatal yoga, breathwork and meditation with Georgia Cato. At the same time, partners or support people take part in a facilitated discussion to reflect on their role, emotions, strengths and needs as they prepare to support birth.
Chapter 11: The Golden Hour, Afterbirth and Early Postpartum
This chapter explores what happens immediately after birth, including the golden hour, third stage options, delayed cord clamping, early feeding, hormonal shifts and physical recovery. We look at how to protect this tender transition and support bonding, rest and healing.
Chapter 12: Postpartum Anchors, Support and Integration
In the final chapter, you will begin shaping a postpartum plan that reflects your needs, values and support systems. This includes considering nourishment, visitors, boundaries, rest, emotional wellbeing, practical help and the people or practices that will help you feel grounded in the early weeks.
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This 2-day immersion for anyone wanting a deeper, more holistic and practical approach to birth preparation.
It is focussed on you, individualised and while the course is rooted in understanding physiology of birth it is also understanding the physiology of safety and support and what that looks and feels like for you in the context of birth.
It is especially suited to:
First-time parents wanting to understand labour, birth and early postpartum in a grounded and comprehensive way
Parents who want to feel more informed, confident and connected as birth approaches, even if they have birthed before
Couples or partnerships wanting shared language, tools and preparation for labour and birth
Birthing people who want to explore their values, preferences and decision-making before birth
Partners and support people who want to feel clearer, steadier and more confident in the birth space
Those preparing for hospital birth or homebirth
Anyone wanting to feel more confident navigating conversations with care providers, including advocacy, consent and informed decision-making
Parents who want more than standard antenatal education and are looking for a more embodied, reflective and supportive experience
This workshop is for you if you want to understand what may unfold in birth, explore what matters most to you, practice tools for support and comfort, and walk away with a clearer sense of how you want to be cared for through labour, birth and the early postpartum period.
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We run workshops all year round. You can download the workshop schedule here.
Both Saturday and Sunday run from 10am-5pm.
Our workshops take place at Balam Balam Place in Brunswick Victoria.
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A full two-day in-person workshop experience
A spacious, supportive weekend of birth preparation covering physiology, labour, decision-making, advocacy, practical support tools, partner roles and early postpartum planning.A workshop welcome pack
You’ll receive a welcome pack to support your experience across the weekend.Workshop workbooks and handouts
You’ll be guided through practical workbooks and handouts to help you reflect, document your preferences and bring your learning together.A copy of the Radiant Birth Book
Each booking includes a copy of the Radiant Birth Book to continue supporting your preparation beyond the workshop.Access to the Radiant Birth resource library
You’ll receive access to our resource library, filled with birth, postpartum and parenting resources to return to after the workshop.A 30-minute post-course Zoom with Josie
After the workshop, you’ll have the option to book a 30-minute follow-up Zoom with facilitator Josie to ask questions, debrief or receive extra support as you continue preparing for birth.Monthly online Community Calls
You’ll be invited to monthly online calls with members of the Radiant Birth doula team, with access to replays if you can’t attend live.Free Breath and Body sessions with Ali
You’ll receive access to Breath and Body sessions with Ali through the community home page.Monthly yoga with Georgia Cato
You’ll receive access to a monthly pre-recorded yoga session with Georgia Cato to support movement, breath, grounding and connection.Free in-person community catch-ups
You’re invited to our regular in-person gatherings, now called Mothers Meeting Mothers. These catch-ups are free for community members and offer a gentle space to connect, share and be supported.Access to the Radiant Birth WhatsApp Community
Join our WhatsApp space to stay connected, receive updates and be part of the wider Radiant Birth community.Discounts on Radiant Birth offerings
Enjoy 10% off Radiant Birth products and services through the shop, plus 20% off future birth and postpartum workshops.Discounts from aligned businesses
Community members receive 15% off Just Nourish food delivery and 5% off Elle TENS purchases on orders over $95. -
Radiant Birth offers both full and concession pricing.
$600
$480 with a valid concession
TESTIMONIAL
“I gave birth to our divine baby boy last week and the experience was all we could have ever dreamt of. Dave and I felt so informed and empowered thanks to the amazing course we did with you, we both hugely credit the gorgeousness of our birth story to the wisdom we received from you across those two days. We are now in our bubble at home, in awe of the birth that Tom and I achieved together. We are filled with so much joy and love, and credit the smoothness of our transition into parenthood with the positivity of our birth experience. This is a gift that you helped give to us, and we could not be more grateful.”
Melina, Dave and Baby Tom
Join our upcoming workshop
Join our upcoming workshop
Location: Balam Balam Place, 15 Phoenix St, Brunswick VIC 3056
Looking for comprehensive childbirth education in Melbourne that goes beyond standard antenatal classes?
This in person antenatal workshop combines physiology, practical skills and holistic preparation to help you feel calm, confident and informed for labour, birth and postpartum.
Over one powerful weekend, you will receive:
Gentle prenatal yoga and meditation for the birthing person, with a concurrent partner support session
Pregnancy and birth physiology including hormones, anatomy, the nervous system and the science of oxytocin
A clear understanding of labour stages, sensations and emotional shifts
Practical comfort measures such as massage, rebozo, breathwork and movement for pain relief
Partner training so your support person feels confident, calm and capable
Preparation for the final weeks of pregnancy including perineal massage, antenatal expression and optimal positioning
Immediate postpartum planning including the golden hour, delayed cord clamping and third stage options
Birth mapping and decision making frameworks to navigate interventions and alternate pathways
Traditional Chinese Medicine insights for pregnancy and labour support
Postpartum recovery education covering feeding, sleep, emotional wellbeing and support systems
Guided Postpartum Pillar Planning to create clarity for your first weeks at home
A comprehensive Radiant Birth handbook and digital resource library
This workshop is ideal for first time parents and those wanting a deeper, more holistic antenatal education experience.
Your ticket includes the birthing person and one partner or primary support person. You may also bring up to two additional support people, including a doula, family member or friend.
If you are searching for antenatal classes in Melbourne that combine science, partner preparation, nervous system regulation and traditional wisdom, this weekend course offers a complete and grounded approach to birth preparation.
Ready to Birth, a 1-day workshop
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Chapter 1: Birth Values and Intentions
We begin by creating space to unpack what you want for birth and how you hope to feel as you move through it. You will explore your birth values, intentions and preferences, and begin documenting what matters most to you.
Chapter 2: Decision-Making and Advocacy
This chapter supports you to understand your options, ask clear questions and communicate with care providers. We explore decision-making frameworks, consent, advocacy and how to navigate interventions or alternate pathways with more confidence and clarity.
Chapter 3: Understanding Labour and Birth
You will gain a clear understanding of what to expect through the phases of labour and birth, including anatomy, hormones, contractions, support options, sensations and emotional shifts. This chapter helps you feel more informed about the rhythm and unfolding of labour.
Chapter 4: Practical Support and Comfort Tools
This hands-on chapter gives you and your partner or main support person time to practise tools for labour. We explore body alignment, physiology and comfort measures such as massage, rebozo, breathwork, positions and movement.
Chapter 5: Partner and Support Person Roles
Birth support is practical, emotional and relational. This chapter helps your support person understand how they can offer reassurance, comfort, advocacy and grounded presence during labour and birth.
Chapter 6: Immediate Postpartum Planning
We finish by exploring the first hours after birth, including the golden hour, delayed cord clamping and third stage options. You will be supported to think through what you want and what kind of care will help you feel safe, connected and supported after your baby arrives.
Chapter 7: Bringing It All Together
Throughout the workshop, you will bring your reflections, preferences and decisions together into a clear and practical format. You will leave with a stronger sense of what you want for birth, how you want to be supported and how to communicate this with your birth team.
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Ready to Birth is for anyone wanting focused, practical and deeply supportive birth preparation in a 1-day format.
This workshop is designed to help you understand what may unfold during labour and birth, explore what matters most to you, and practise tools that support comfort, connection and confidence. It is rooted in birth physiology, while also making space for the physiology of safety, support and advocacy; what helps you feel informed, steady and cared for in the birth space.
It is especially suited to:
First-time parents wanting clear, practical and holistic birth preparation
Parents who have already done a birth education course in the past but still feel like you want more individualised support
Parents who have navigated birth before and didn’t feel like you had the tools and supports to navigate the unexpected
Parents who want to feel more informed, confident and connected as birth approaches
Couples or partnerships wanting shared language, tools and preparation for labour and birth
Birthing people who want to explore their values, preferences and decision-making before birth
Partners and support people who want to feel clearer, steadier and more confident in their role
Those preparing for hospital birth, homebirth or birth with possible medical support
Anyone wanting to feel more confident navigating conversations with care providers, including advocacy, consent and informed decision-making
Parents who want something deeper than standard antenatal education, but in a shorter, more focused format
This workshop is for you if you want to walk away with a clearer understanding of labour and birth, practical tools for support and comfort, and a stronger sense of how you want to be cared for and supported through your birth experience.
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We run workshops all year round. You can download the workshop schedule here.
The day runs from 10:30am-5:00pm.
Our workshops take place at Balam Balam Place in Brunswick Victoria.
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A full 1-day in-person workshop experience
A day of birth preparation covering physiology, labour, decision-making, advocacy, practical support tools, partner roles and early postpartum planning.A workshop welcome pack
You’ll receive a welcome pack to support your experience across the weekend.Workshop workbooks and handouts
You’ll be guided through practical workbooks and handouts to help you reflect, document your preferences and bring your learning together.A copy of the Radiant Birth Book
Each booking includes a copy of the Radiant Birth Book to continue supporting your preparation beyond the workshop.Access to the Radiant Birth resource library
You’ll receive access to our resource library, filled with birth, postpartum and parenting resources to return to after the workshop.Free in-person community catch-ups
You’re invited to our regular in-person gatherings, now called Mothers Meeting Mothers. These catch-ups are free for community members and offer a gentle space to connect, share and be supported.Access to the Radiant Birth WhatsApp Community
Join our WhatsApp space to stay connected, receive updates and be part of the wider Radiant Birth community.Discounts on Radiant Birth offerings
Enjoy 10% off Radiant Birth products and services through the shop, plus 20% off future birth and postpartum workshops.Discounts from aligned businesses
Community members receive 15% off Just Nourish food delivery and 5% off Elle TENS purchases on orders over $95. -
Radiant Birth offers both full and concession pricing.
$330
$248 with a valid concession
Join our upcoming workshop
Join our upcoming workshop
Location: Balam Balam Place, 15 Phoenix St, Brunswick VIC 3056
Looking for space to unpack what you want for birth and how you can feel supported as you move through it? This in person workshop combines physiology, practical skills and holistic preparation to help you and your partner or main support person to feel connected, confident and informed for labour and birth.
Explore and identify your birth values, intentions and decision making frameworks to navigate interventions and alternate pathways
A clear understanding of what to expect at each of the phases of labour and birth, including anatomy, hormones, contractions, supports, offerings, sensations and emotional shifts
Hands on practice for optimising body alignment, physiology and comfort measures such as massage, rebozo, breathwork, positions and movement
Immediate postpartum planning including the golden hour, delayed cord clamping and third stage options
A comprehensive Radiant Birth handbook and digital resource library
This workshop is ideal for first time parents and those wanting a deeper, more holistic antenatal education experience that enables you to walk away having documented what you want and how to support that.
Your ticket includes the birthing person and one partner or primary support person. You may also bring up to two additional support people, including a doula, family member or friend.
Your Facilitators
Our team of facilitators rotate workshop to workshop.
Watch this space for further details on upcoming sessions.
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"We welcomed our little boy and it was the birth I had hoped for and so much more.
Attending your course played a major part in the outcome"
Natalie — Radiant Birth Student
