CONFIDENT HYPNOBIRTHING
Hypnobirthing Classes in Auckland
Birth is getting closer. You want to feel ready.
You don’t need to know exactly how birth will unfold to feel confident about meeting it.
Learn practical breathing, relaxation and partner-support tools to help you feel steady and work with your body during birth.
Join Claire at Birthcare Parnell to practise the techniques together, ask questions as you go and leave knowing what you can do and how your partner can help.
Saturdays, 9am–1pm
$197 per couple
Teaching hypnobirthing since 2010 · More than 2,000 couples supported
We both feel more confident that we can DO something proactively. We have tools.
SIMPLE, PRACTICAL PREPARATION
A set of birthing tools you know how to use.
You may have read the books, listened to podcasts or started antenatal classes. You still want someone to guide you through the breathing and show your partner how to help.
The course gives you practical experience, not just more information. You’ll put the techniques into practice, ask questions as you go and understand how to use them during labour.
By the end of the class, these won’t simply be ideas you understand. They’ll be things you and your partner have already practised together.
You’ll also take home clear instructions and guided recordings, so you can keep practising as the techniques become more familiar.
Practical tools for labour and birth
RELEASE
Ease birth worries and build confidence.
Understand how your thoughts and feelings connect with physical tension. Use guided relaxation and simple mindset exercises to settle your mind and develop a more reassuring view of birth.
RELAX
Learn to relax your mind and body.
Practise breathing for each stage of labour. Experience guided relaxation and learn how to release tension in your face, shoulders and body, with clear explanations of when to use each technique.
PREPARE
Get your birth partner and team on board.
Your partner learns how to guide your relaxation, use massage and give reassuring breathing prompts. Practise together in class so you can share what feels helpful. Take away prompts for discussing your support preferences with your care team.
TRUST
Build trust in yourself, your body and your ability to respond.
Bring the techniques together and rehearse using them with your partner. Recognise what helps you soften, what support you prefer and what you can return to when you need it.
Confidence grows from knowing that you have tools, support, a voice and ways to respond, even if birth takes a different direction.
Want to see exactly what's in the course?
Explore the course in more detail, including the practical techniques, birth-partner tools and preparation you’ll work through together.
What could birth feel like with that quiet confidence?
A breath you know how to return to. Shoulders you can let soften. Your partner’s familiar voice, reminding you of what you’ve practised together.
A growing sense of, “I can work with this.” You have ways to help yourself, and you don’t have to hold everything on your own.
You can turn to your partner for reassurance. Ask your care team to explain something. Say what matters to you, or ask for more support when you need it.
There is room to change your mind and find your way as birth unfolds. Your confidence can come with you, even when your plans change.
The class helps you build this confidence through clear explanations, guided practice and time with your partner to discover what helps you feel settled and supported as you prepare to meet your baby.
WHY LEARN IN PERSON?
Why choose an in-person hypnobirthing class?
Set aside dedicated time to prepare for birth together at Birthcare Parnell, with Claire guiding you through the breathing and relaxation exercises.
Claire will demonstrate each technique and guide you as you try it. You can ask, “Am I doing this right?” and get an explanation there and then.
Your partner receives the guidance directly, with time to practise massage, breathing prompts and guided relaxation. You can tell them which words and touch feel helpful, so you don’t have to teach them yourself later.
You’ll also meet other expectant parents. Expect a warm, down-to-earth class with space for conversation and a little laughter along the way.
I had read two hypnobirthing books and listened to multiple podcasts and interviews and had started the breathing exercises at home, so I knew hypnobirthing was for me - and I have never actually been "afraid" of birth - but doing the course was SO helpful in terms of knowing I was "doing it right".
WHEREVER YOU PLAN TO BIRTH
Wherever you plan to give birth
You can join the course whether you’re planning to birth at Birthcare, at home or in hospital.
The techniques can support you alongside your maternity care, whether birth follows your preferences or takes a different direction.
You’ll have practical ways to work with your mind and body, while your partner knows how to support you, ask questions and help communicate what matters to you.
Being yoga teachers, we already have some knowledge of breathing techniques and relaxation practices but it was so good to have it presented in relation to the birthing process… Claire is an excellent facilitator. She makes everyone feel relaxed and safe.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Clear guidance in class and support to continue at home.
$197 per couple includes your four-hour class, course workbook, guided audio and online resources, birth-partner preparation and support from Claire after the class.
Your class with Claire
Your practical hypnobirthing course at Birthcare Parnell. Learn the techniques, experience guided relaxation and get answers to your questions as you go.
Your course workbook
Keep the technique instructions, partner guidance and practice plan together, ready to refer to during pregnancy and birth.
Guided audio and online resources
Follow the breathing and relaxation exercises at home, with recordings you can return to as the techniques become familiar.
Practical preparation for your birth partner
Your partner receives guidance on relaxation, massage and breathing prompts, with time to practise supporting you during the class.
Support after the class
If a question comes up when you’re practising at home, you can contact Claire for help. You’ll have someone to ask when you need an explanation or a reminder.
ALSO INCLUDED
Extra support for pregnancy and life with your baby.
These bonus online courses are included for you to access at your own pace, whenever they’re helpful.
Mothering
Support for your wellbeing, your changing identity and the transition into motherhood.
Baby Sleep
Practical information to help you understand your baby’s sleep and recognise their cues.
Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond
Gentle movement and relaxation practices for pregnancy and beyond.
WHY LEARN WITH CLAIRE?
Hi, I’m Claire. I’ll guide you through it.
I’ve been teaching hypnobirthing since 2010, have a degree in education and have supported more than 2,000 couples as they prepare for birth.
My passion is the mind–body connection and helping parents turn understanding into confidence through practical experience. I care about making the techniques clear, so you leave knowing how to use them and how your partner can help.
You don’t need to arrive knowing how to breathe or relax in a particular way. I’ll explain each exercise, guide you through it and teach your partner how to support you too.
My classes are warm, down-to-earth and light-hearted. Bring your questions, including the ones you think you should already know the answers to.
Birthcare Parnell · Saturdays, 9am–1pm · $197 per couple
BEFORE YOU BOOK
A few things worth knowing
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Feel more prepared for whatever your birth brings.
Join Claire and other expectant parents for practical birth preparation at Birthcare Parnell.
Practise breathing and relaxation, discover how your partner can help and ask the questions that matter to you.
Leave with familiar tools you have already practised together and greater confidence in your ability to meet birth as it unfolds.
Saturday classes · 9am–1pm
$197 per couple