Pregnancy workshops and postpartum retreats

Antenatal wisdom workshop with the wonderful Samsara Tanner aka ‘Grandmother Birthkeeper’.

Come along to the Avalon Birth House and reflect, learn and clear your mind in preparation for the greatest adventure. Samsara has been a childbirth educator and doula for over 30 years and is a deep source of both information and inspiration around pregnancy, birth and beyond.

You will learn all about physiological birth, home, birth centre and hospital birth choices, holistic tools and more. There will be discussions around tools for self-reliance, comfort measure and pain relieving medications, should you choose them.
Conscious choices around freebirth to empowered Caesarean section / Belly Birth will be included.

Samsara will enlighten you to all of your various options to empower you to make informed decisions about your birth and early postpartum.

These six week classes run in evenings (7pm to 9.30pm) to enable those of you who are working to get home and have some food before arriving.
The Avalon Birth House is a beautiful venue, with an open fire, birth balls and beanbags, comfy sofas and a downstairs bathroom. Tea and snacks are provided.

There will be opportunities to meet other people and couples on the same journey and create new connections and community.

Come along and be nurtured and nourished during your postpartum period. This is a postpartum retreat from birth to 16 weeks Earthisde.

We invite you into the Avalon Birth House in Glastonbury for a very special wellness and recovery program, where you will have a supportive space to share your experiences of birth, be nourished with wonderful food, recover and receive massages and more.

There is a roaring fire for you to sit by, Postnatal Doulas on hand to help with everything from feeding baby to running you a bath. We are in hand to help you to find your pace as new parents and to escape the pressures of visiting family demands and challenges.

The retreat only holds space for 4, so it is a very quiet and intimate space and you can choose how much you want to interact or not.

Preparing for Birth as a Survivor (PBAS) offers a safe place, a learning space and a sense of community for those who have experienced trauma and are feeling vulnerable during pregnancy. PBAS is for those who have been victims of and survived sexual, domestic or medical abuse or violence.

Each PBAS is a closed, confidential group where we spend time sharing our stories (if you are comfortable to), preparing birth plans, delving into somatic strategies for peaceful, calm birth on your terms and considering pathways for confident early parenthood. There is an emphasis on self-care and empowered decision making, alogisde buliding connections and community for motherhood. We want you to feel nurtured, heard and confident.

PBAS is facilitated by Kate Kate is a Birthkeeper with 30 years experience, a Mental Health First aider and Mentor as well as the founder of Doulas Without Borders, which is a national voluntary organisation for the support of survivors of trauma during the perinatal year. Kate’s also a morher and Women's Aid Ambassadors with lived experience as a survivor.

We will offer both in-person and online support groups, so please read on to discover what we are offering currently, or drop us a line to let us know your specific requirements.