An Embodied Group Journey
into Birth for Couples
🌿 ✨ Early Bird Price (limited to the first 3 couples) 🌿 ✨
4 Meetings
November 9, 16, 23 · December 7 ( 10H -13H)
Movement, breathing, live music, and evidence-based insights — preparing body, mind, and heart to support you through the journey of childbirth in Portugal.
Childbirth is one of the most intense and transformative experiences in a woman’s life. While the potential to birth a baby lies within every woman, preparation is essential — physically, emotionally, and practically.
Birth partners are guided to step into their active role as protectors and anchors, creating the safety and trust that allow women to let go and open to the birth process.
Evidence-based information integrated with embodied practices – a space to explore your body physiology, movement, breathing exercices, and emotional connection.
This is a shared journey where mothers and their birth partners, walk side by side, building understanding, strength, and connection.
Together with your Birth Partner you Will:
✔️ Gain clarity on childbirth and the Portuguese birth system.
✔️ Cultivate a strong, relaxed body and a calm mind.
✔️ Deepen connection with your partner and baby.
✔️ Join a supportive community of Portuguese and international families.
Lovely Reviews from other Mums
Either you are choosing a Hospital or a Home Birth....
Pregnancy and Birth are not only physical events but a whole-being experience that engages your Body, your Mind, your Emotions, and yes, your Spirit.
What You Will Receive
Clear Information
We will share evidence-based insights about birth, the factors that influence its outcomes and the Portuguese birth system
Practice effective tools
Prenatal yoga, breathing and relaxation techniques, and supportive movements and positions that nurture pregnancy, ease labor, and support recovery in postpartum
Birth Partner preparation
Practical skills for men to be present, supportive, and truly helpful in labor and postpartum, so you can feel safe to let go and focus on yourself.
Build community
Share your journey with other Portuguese and expat couples, feeling seen, heard, and supported.
Reconnection with your center
Embodiment practices to help you feel safe, empowered in pregnancy and birth, and able to manage unexpected situations
Tools & Practices You’ll Experience
What to expect ?
✔️A safe, supportive environment where you can share your hopes, fears, and dreams.
✔️ Interactive and creative learning — not lectures, but hands-on exploration and playful participation.
✔️ Connection to your vulnerabilities and strengths, and space to question limiting beliefs or social conditioning.
✔️ The opportunity to learn not only from facilitators but also from other couples on the same journey.
Meeting our team
Susana Pereira
(Childbirth Educator, Doula, Pre-Natal & Mindfulness Yoga Teacher, Thai Massage Practitioner, ) Over the last decade, she has been supporting mothers and fathers-to-be in having positive birth experiences, believing that the way mothers are supported throughout motherhood has a lasting impact on both their own health and well-being and that of their babies. Her work is rooted in presence, care, and trust in the body’s wisdom, continuously enriched by the teachings of others, her inner knowing, and her studies in Ayurveda, macrobiotic philosophy, yoga, and human design.
Elmira Ploutarchos
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and mentor supporting women through profound life changes, including pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Her work is rooted in nervous system regulation and emotional capacity — helping women meet birth and early parenthood with more presence, resilience, and trust in their bodies. As a mother of twins, Elmira brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her practice.
Berenice
Bérénice is a French Hatha and Prenatal Yoga teacher, also guiding Mantra Chanting sessions. Yoga has been part of her life for over 12 years. Initially drawn to it as a therapeutic tool for well-being, she soon discovered its richness and the daily benefits it brings — reconciliation, inner balance, and transformation. In her prenatal classes, she creates a gentle, supportive space where yoga is interwoven with playing and singing mantras, helping women cultivate serenity and joy in preparation for childbirth. Her music and voice resonate as a soft yet powerful embrace for the heart and soul.
✨ If you feel called to prepare with us, now is the perfect moment ✨
🌿 The first 3 couples to join
will receive our early bird price
€450
Afterwards, the course will be available
at the regular price
€550
FAQS
Is this journey open to all types of families? What if I am a single mum? Can I join this group journey?
This is all inclusive program and welcomes people of all family configurations. We believe that our journey becomes richer with diversity, so it is open to all types of family systems, including LGBT families, single mothers, and surrogates. If you are single mum you are welcome to join by yourself or if you prefer you can bring someone of your trust either family, a doula or a close friend.
Will this group journey give me the tools to navigate the Portuguese Birth System ?
Our journey together will provide information on various topics, including the physiology of labour and birth, common Hospital Procedures, alternatives, comfort measures, and techniques to manage pain, so you can make informed choices for your birth. That said, it is also expected that you invest some time in your daily life in between our sessions together to practice what we learn in our live sessions.
I would like my partner to join, but what if he/she is not available to attend all the sessions?
This journey was created to support both parents in preparing for childbirth and the transition into parenthood. While the main focus is, of course, on supporting the mother, the course is also designed with birth partners in mind. We believe it is essential that partners are included in birth education so they can move beyond simply being a presence in the room and truly offer meaningful support during the birth. That said, everyone is free to choose their level of participation, and if your partner cannot attend all sessions, you are still very welcome to continue the course.
Will we learn Pelvic floor exercises?
Yes, prenatal yoga has a big focus on pelvic floor awareness, and it goes far beyond kegels
What is Pre-Natal Yoga ?
Pre natal yoga is a practice of yoga adapted to the changes that a pregnant body goes through in a way that nourishes the body-mind-heart system while fostering a sense of deep connection with yourself and your baby, preparing you for birth and postpartum
In what Way Pre-natal yoga can support me for Pregnancy and Birth
Based in a ancient practice well known for its benefits to physical and mental well-being a Pre-Natal Yoga class will work with the interconnectedness of our different bodies – the physical body, the mind body, the emotional body and the energetic body.
Pre Natal yoga, is not rooted in accomplishing fixed postures as it is focused in working with the physical body by strengthening certain muscles and relaxing others so you can be more prepared to handle labour and birth; but also calms the mind-heart system which is the floor for opening a space of deep connection with your self, the whole and the wisdom that you and your baby are part of.
For example, supported twists adapted to your stage of pregnancy help keep the spine mobile while calming the nervous system – Since worry and overthinking often accompany pregnancy, supporting nervous system regulation is essential for balance and calm;
Do I need to have a previous experience of Yoga to do this journey? I am not flexible at all
Not at all. Pre-Natal Yoga as said before is an embodied and mindfulness practice focused in nourishing pregnancy and in preparation for birth. You don’t need to have any experience and all bodies are different. What is relevant is to gain the awareness to respect your body present condition that is ever changing.
With our experienced instructors, Berenice and Susana, you’re in safe hands to give it a try and fall in love with it!
Will we have support in creating a Birth Plan?
Our sessions together will offer you the information so you can make your conscious choices and prioritize what is most relevant for your journey and we will also offer guidelines to help you design your personal birth plan.
In what language will the sessions be? Portuguese or English?
We will mainly speak English, but Susana is Portuguese and able to translate and clarify any difficulty within our sessions
Will we explore unexpected situations?
Yes, the truth is that Birth is unpredictable, and that’s why is so relevant to prepare body and mind to manage unexpected situations
Will we explore Optimal Fetal Position?
More important than Optimal fetal position is give you the tools so you can create space in your pelvis to help baby to engage and descend. Optimal Fetal Position is something we do not control as babies are constantly changing and will change several times their position during pregnancy and labour. Our Approach is more focused in Optimal Maternal Position and alignment – that’s what facilitates baby descend.
What makes this group course different than others? Aren’t they all focused in birth preparation?
Birth isn´t only an intense physical event — Its a whole-being experience that will touch your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Besides the evidence based information our journey is focused in offering you embodied practices so you can connect with the multidimensional realm of being, and birth from a space of trust instead of fear.
Why is that so relevant? Because when a pregnant woman has tools to cope with the intensity of labour and feels safe within, her body will respond accordingly and she will have a positive birth experience.
What is the relevance of singing mantras in our sessions together ? Do I need to know how to sing?
A mantra is a sacred formula made of syllables (bija mantras) that carry vibrational power. By repeating them, our consciousness connects with Infinity or Reality. This connection allows the vibration of Infinity to resonate through every cell of the body, raising our level of awareness and restoring balance to our energy system.
For pregnant women, this practice not only cultivates inner harmony, intelligence, and calm, but also offers a profound way to connect with the baby and prepare for birth with confidence and presence.
It´s not necessary to know how to sing, it is rather a question of letting the mantra vibrate within you, whether internally or by chanting it.
I've already had a child or taken a childbirth preparation course. Will I still find this group journey sessions beneficial?
Absolutely! Half of my clients/ participants are 2nd time moms, so all sessions in our journey are thoughtfully tailored to the different profiles and scenarios. They focus on bringing balance to the body-mind-heart system and personal growth, so you can feel more and more empowered and navigate your unique pregnancy journey, feeling ready to birth your baby. As one mom shared: “As a second time mum I was feeling quite informed about birth and postpartum but I register because I knew that by getting together with other women and childbirth educatores/ facilitators would grow my confidence and my overall feeling of being safe, supported and loved and that all pregnant women need
What type of activities are included in our group journey?
Our journey together includes daily morning Pre-natal Yoga & movement exercises, Live music with mantras, guided relaxation, breathing and visualization exercises, technical information on pregnancy, birth & postpartum, group sharing, exercises and activities creating opportunities for connection and build community.
This is a time in which participants not only gain insights from the facilitators but also learn from one another, broadening their perspectives and validating their emotions.
What should I bring to our group meetings ?
A blanket to cover yourself during savasana ( that cover your whole body), comfortable clothes for our daily practice and warm sockets. More than that, just an open mind and heart. We will have some teas and snacks available but if you are queen with something in particular you can bring it, as we also have a kitchen
What happens if this group journey is cancelled by the organizer ?
If in a very rare case the course is cancelled by me (the organizer), you will receive a full refund of your deposit and any payments made.
As a doula I support women and couples during pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and document their beautiful journey through photography and film.
Services
- Doula
- Photo & Video
- Group Journey for Birth
- Pregnancy / postpartum Massage
