HypnoBirthing
The Mongan Method
The HypnoBirthing® program is a comprehensive educational process that includes special breathing, relaxation, visualization, meditative practice, attention to nutrition and positive body toning.
HypnoBirthing® – The Mongan Method, will teach you how to access your inner birthing instincts and trust in your body’s ability to birth. You will learn HypnoBirthing techniques, including affirmation, massage, visualization, breathing patterns, deep relaxation, and self-hypnosis.
Available Sessions
Please use the buttons below to schedule your choice of group or private HypnoBirthing classes.
“HypnoBirthing® is a tried and proven method that guides and prepares a woman in giving birth in a peaceful and extraordinarily beautiful manner. It is a program that considers the psychological, as well as the physical, well-being of the mother, her birth partner, and the newborn, independent of context, whether that be in the quiet of a home, a hospital, or a birth center.”
Unit 1 - Building Positive Expectancy
Birthing as we know it
Uterine functionality
The power of the mind
How fear affects us
Unit 2 - Falling in Love
Parental bonding
Care provider partnership
Breathing and hypnosis deepening
Nutritional postcards
Unit 3 - Planning & Preparations
Become aware of the difference between solution-focused versus problem-focused.
Medical labor offerings
Provider questions and interactions
Advanced meditation tools
Unit 4 - Childbirth
Stages of labor
Support roles and advocates
Managing discomfort and physical positioning
Planning for the unexpected
Unit 5 - Magical Design
Birthing phase
Infant connection and soothing
Birth visualization and deepening
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Meet the Instructors
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Throughout her entire life, Heidi has been a reassuring voice to others. A leader and supporter, a woman and a friend. Heidi earned an associate degree from Northern Arizona University in Environmental Sciences and a Dual Masters from the University of California Berkeley in Urban Planning/Environmental Sciences. After working for several years and earning a high-level management position in the solar power industry, Heidi had a life-changing realization. She became a mom and immediately realized that support is a fundamental need during pregnancy, labor and birth.
Heidi left her degree and career to pursue becoming a professional, certified doula. Heidi knew that with her passion for providing support, her commitment to education, and her ability to encourage and reassure others, becoming a doula was an obvious choice. It was almost as if the position was created specifically for her!
Heidi is certified to teach HypnoBirthing and Lamaze Childbirth classes. She has trained as a birth doula through DONA, CAPPA, Cornerstone, ProDoula, and Dynamo Doula. Her additional focus of study includes Spinning Babies and Evidence Based Birth. Heidi has also earned her Master rebozo credentials and placenta certification.
With a passion for vaginal birth after cesarean section, Heidi has supported and celebrated more than 50 clients as they reached this powerful goal. Her deepest desire is for her clients to know that they are cared for, that they can feel confident in their choices, and that they have the information they need when they need it.
Heidi married into a 4th generation Bay Area family and has resided there for the past 13 years. Together she and her husband raise their three children. When Heidi is not working, she loves spending time with her extended family, living an eco-friendly lifestyle, reading, watching BBC period dramas and doing seasonal canning.
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Keira comes to the birth world after a career in public health and social services research, evaluation, and consulting. That work also focused on supporting people as they navigate life transitions, social challenges, and the systems and institutions that support us as we all move through these moments. She has a passion for deep learning and listening, connecting to people, building communities, and being an advocate and a resource.
Keira is also a parent to two young people who are heading off to college, which inspired a search for change and a return to pursuing a passion for women’s health and empowered birth. She is grateful for the support, opportunities, and connections made during her own pregnancy, birth, and early child-rearing years. She now enjoys helping others find the connections, information and support they need to build their confidence, make decisions, grow, and thrive as they build their family.
Keira has a Masters in Public Health. She trained as a birth, postpartum, and full spectrum doula with Cornerstone. She is also a certified Cornerstone and Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator. She also just started additional training as a lactation counselor!
When not teaching, learning, supporting births or helping families postpartum, Keira is a mountain bike coach for the Berkeley High School team, grows veggies and keeps chickens in her backyard, sings and dances with MoTor Dance, and gets into the mountainous backcountry (on ski wheels, or on foot) as often as she can with her partner, two kids and friends.
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Gracie Kearney has been a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner since 2006 and a Certified Massage Therapist since 2015, but has been a healer as long as she can remember. She’s always had an innate desire to bring comfort to those in need, and is grateful to be able to share this gift with others, especially mothers and mothers-to-be.
Gracie incorporates shiatsu, acupressure and energy healing in her massage sessions with the aim of providing relaxation and deep healing for all of her clients. She brings a loving touch to all of her sessions, while incorporating trauma-informed care. Through her sessions with clients Gracie hopes to create peace within each individual, so that we may be the healthiest, best version of ourselves. Gracie is honored to be a part of the Brilliant Births team, and hopes to bring love, healing, and inner peace to each birthing body, as well as to the next generation.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
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Your birth partner! All our classes cover two people, so make sure to bring them along.
We also recommend something to take notes with, since we cover a lot of information each class.
We have tea and snacks in our space, but some people also like to bring their own snacks and a waterbottle.
Overall, bring your positive attitudes and curiosity! We're excited to have you with us.
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Our classes can be taken at any time during pregnancy, however, we recommend the late second trimester or early third trimester which allows you plenty of time to immerse yourself in the information prior to birth.
We do not offer refunds if you go into labor before the series ends. We recommend taking a class early enough that that won't be an issue, whatever that looks like for you!
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For the health and safety of our students, Brilliant Births requests COVID-19 vaccination. Masks are not required but welcomed, and are provided in-studio.
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We strongly recommend that you attend each class in the series. If you will miss one of your regularly scheduled classes, please contact Brilliant Births or your instructor as soon as possible. We will do our best to find another Brilliant Births class that you can attend to learn the information you may have missed. This must happen within the window of time of your original class.
While we will do our best to accommodate you, we can not guarantee that a space will be available in another class for a transfer. No shows will not receive any form of reimbursement. If another class is unavailable, we can offer a private makeup virtual session (up to 2hrs) at an additional fee of $150.00 or an in-person session at the Brilliant Births studio (up to 2hrs) at $175.00.
We do not offer refunds for missed classes. The first reschedule of any class or series is complimentary; any future reschedules will incur a $10 fee, charged to your card on file.
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We know plans change! After sign up, you may cancel up to 14 days before your class and receive 75% percent of the cost back, not including any mailed materials. Cancellations within 14 days of a scheduled class cannot be refunded.
If your chosen date no longer works, please contact us to reschedule up to 12 hours before the first class start time. An administrative fee will be charged for rescheduling a class, charged to your card on file. If rescheduling doesn’t work with your needs, you will be issued a credit towards a future class.
We aim to fill our workshops, but if there are less than two sign ups for this workshop, it may be rescheduled or cancelled. If the rescheduled date doesn't work with your needs, you will be issued a code for credit toward a future class. No monetary refunds are given.
In the case of unexpected events (including but not limited to: pandemic, fire, excessively poor air quality, or general safety concerns), the format may change from in-person classes to virtual classes if required by public health guidelines or at Brilliant Birth's discretion. No change in fee will be issued, and no refunds will be given outside of the allotted cancellation policy.
Questions are part of the process!
Are you interested and have questions?
Feel free to send us an email and we will be sure to answer any questions that you may have.
Group Session options: 3-week, 3 hrs/sessions or 5-week, 2.5 hrs/sessions
Private session option: 3 week, 3 hrs/sessions