Posts tagged “workshop”
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Ina May Gaskin One-Day Workshop and Booksigning at New York Open Center
May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011, 10:00AM-5:30PM, Ina May Gaskin will be at the New York Open Center sharing stories of her birthing experiences, drawn from her past three and a half decades at the Farm Midwifery Center, and talk about techniques she and her colleagues learned from traditional, indigenous midwives from all over the world. The workshop is recommended for women, couples and all people interested in natural childbirth. Following the workshop, Gaskin will be signing copies of her book Birth Matters: How What We Don’t Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us. Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth. Registration for members is $130, nonmembers $140 Location: New York Open Center, 22 E. 30th St., NY, NY 10016.
Tags: birth matters, farm midwifery center, ina may gaskin, new york open center, nonfiction, signing, workshop
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Birth Day Presence Workshop with Ina May Gaskin
March 7, 2011
March 7, 2011, 7:00-9:00pm, Ina May Gaskin will be holding at workshop with Brith Day Presence. The special workshop for midwives, doulas, and birth assistants will teach techniques Gaskin learned to keep labor moving along, specifically techniques to correct or deal with OP positions, ascynclitism, and should dystocia. She will also present the goals of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project. Ina May is also promoting her new book Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta. Cost of the workshop is $65 payable by check, $67 by credit card. Email doulas@birthdaypresence.net to register. Location: 580 Broadway, Suite 304, between Prince and Houston New York, NY 10012.
Tags: birth day presence, birth matters, birth professionals, ina may gaskin, new york city, nonfiction, women's health, workshop