Hypnosis for Pregnancy, Childbirth & Postpartum
We are very pleased to offer our unique Dolphin Method™ Hypnosis for Pregnancy, Childbirth & Postpartum (DMHPCP) training and certification for those who work with pregnant and postpartum populations. This course will teach you the art of connecting to your clients and guiding them through one of the most transformative times of their lives using hypnotherapy techniques and tools.
DMHPCP Training mixes traditional hypnotherapy with the birth world, movement and neuroscience to redefine pregnancy, postpartum and the birth experience. We will explore concepts like polyvagal theory, neuroplasticity, and the nervous system through a trauma informed lens to enhance the hypnosis experience and create lasting change that will not only benefit the pregnant woman but also have an impact on the baby in utero and for the first years of life.
The information, experience and wisdom shared in this certification program has been developed and refined over 25 years with amazing and powerful results. We look forward to guiding you through the process of discovering a new way of establishing yourself as a professional in the birth community.
The Course includes:
- 40 hours of Live Zoom instruction
- Pre-recorded video
- Group meetings
- Hypnosis for childbirth manual
- Downloadable hypnosis recordings
- Course completion certification
- Assistant support
This certification course is offered in 3 parts:
Part 1: Pre-Recorded Course Content
- For students who have taken Dolphin Method Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training or Doula Training, there will be about 10 hours of pre-recorded videos to watch (some of the videos will be review).
- For students who have NOT taken a Dolphin Method Training, there will be about 15 hours of pre-recorded videos to watch.
These videos can be watched at any convenient time. Each video is well organized, covers a specific topic, and is presented at a length that allows students to fit this course into their busy schedules.
Part 2: Live Zoom Sessions
Students will meet with Jennifer and other students for 40 hours over 4 weekends*. These live Zoom meetings will include, lectures, practice in breakout rooms, and live demonstrations.
- April 20-21 Weekend 1
- May 4-5 Weekend 2
- June 1-2 Weekend 3
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June 15-16 Weekend 4
Time: 08:00-13:00
- Times are listed in 24-hour time for clarity.
- Times are listed in the Pacific Time Zone.
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* Make-up sessions with Assistants will be available if you need to miss a class. All live Zoom sessions will be recorded and available to watch within a day or two after the session.
Part 3: Meeting with assistants and groups
Jennifer will be joined by several assistants who will be meeting with groups in the breaks between weekends to help facilitate practice and conversations about the material. Practice sessions will be scheduled during the live sessions to make sure that they work with everyone's schedule and there will be multiple time options.
The Dolphin Method Hypnosis training contents:
- How hypnosis works: Understanding the science of the mind body connection
- Assessing and testing suggestibility in clients
- Creating a hypnotic induction
- Connecting to clients - the art of connection
- Sensation control and hypnosis
- Neuroplasticity and hypnosis
- Polyvagal theory, the nervous system and hypnosis
- Epigenetics and Hypnosis
- Benefits of Hypnosis for the pregnant person
- Benefits of hypnosis for the baby in utero
- Benefits of hypnosis for the baby in the first years of life
- Hypnosis for and childbirth
- preparing for birth
- during birth
- After birth
- Postpartum hypnosis for healing mind and body
- Somatics and hypnosis- communicating with the body
- Movement and the hypnotic induction
- Sample session plans
- Hypnosis scripts
Video content includes:
- Basic childbirth education:
- The anatomy of pregnancy and labor
- cesarean births
- common pregnancy discomforts, health concerns, and precautions
- Optimal fetal positioning
- Turning breech babies
- Hypnosis scripts
Jennifer More
Jennifer More is a Registered Yoga Alliance Vinyasa and Prenatal Yoga instructor (E-RYT500 & RPYT), Certified Master Clinical and Medical Hypnotherapist, Certified in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Doula Trainer, Childbirth Educator, Reiki master, and a Mother.
Jennifer’s passion for the benefits of prenatal yoga extends beyond the United States. She has trained yoga instructors in Peru, China, Colombia, Dubai, Bali, Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Australia, as well as many US locations in her Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga technique. Now with her online trainings she has trained students in about fifty countries. Her style has also given yoga instructors the tools to modify poses appropriately in order to incorporate pregnant women into their existing flow classes in a safe and effective manner. Countless women from all over the world have contacted Jennifer and credited her yoga techniques with improving the quality of their pregnancies and their birth experiences. In 2002, Jennifer opened the Dolphin Yoga and Doula Center, (now Dolphin Doula) to help laboring women and their partners prepare for positive birth experiences by providing knowledge, tools and a comforting environment for prenatal health and childbirth. Dolphin offers Doula and Postpartum Doula Services, Childbirth Education, Doula Training, Advanced Doula Training, and other childbirth preparation classes and events. Jennifer’s love for yoga and passion in the field of pregnancy and childbirth has propelled her to reach out to medical practitioners to help build a bridge between the medical community and doulas. As a hypnotherapist for the past twenty-five years, Jennifer pioneered the Dolphin Method, which uses hypnosis for gentle birthing and anxiety reduction during labor. She has prepared thousands of pregnant women for childbirth and provided doula support in more than 450 births and has spent over 10,000 hours with laboring women. Jennifer was an educator at the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy, where she offered the Dolphin Method and Childbirth Hypnosis certification as well as pain management to doulas and hypnotherapists.
What makes the Dolphin Method™ Hypnosis for Pregnancy, Childbirth & Postpartum Training different from other hypnosis for birthing courses?
The Dolphin Method HPCP training course is much more than just learning hypnotherapy for childbirth. The techniques and content learned and practiced in this course can impact the developing fetus as well as improving the lives of pregnant and birthing people. Training people to understand and work with their own individual nervous system can not only reduce stress and improve their own lives but also help them pass on this knowledge to their babies, improving their child’s ability to work with their own nervous systems. The impact of this work can have positive effects on emotional and physical early childhood development and improving self-efficacy.
Many hypnosis programs teach a static approach to hypnosis, having people achieve a hypnotic state by laying or sitting still for long periods of time. This course includes this but also integrates movement which is pivotal for the pregnant, birthing and postpartum body. We will use hypnosis concepts and techniques to create lasting behavioral changes and create new patterns of thinking that can improve the lives of pregnant women and have positive impacts on the developing baby in utero, for the first few years of life and beyond.
Course goals and anticipated outcomes
Hypnosis for Pregnancy, Childbirth & Postpartum integrates extremely effective techniques for assisting pregnant people at all stages of pregnancy and labor. Hypnosis for Childbirth helps the pregnant person adjust mentally and physically to the dramatic changes happening to her body and life.
By practicing deep relaxation through self-hypnosis, the expectant parent:
- Strengthens the bond with baby which helps facilitate parent-infant attachment after birth
- Manages anxiety around the labor and birth process
- Accesses her individual and unique source of strength and calm
- Reframes the pain associated with pregnancy and childbirth and reinforces positive sensations
- Rewires the brain to focus on sensations and situations differently
- Encourages positive gene expression enhancing resilience for parent and child
