Prenatal Yoga and Childbirth Education Series with Shannon Murphy-Curtin
A gathering of mothers ready to reclaim their power.
Saturdays September 13th - October 4th, 9-11am
$440 for the series; $150 drop-in
Birth is sacred. In this 4 week container you will be guided into a trusting relationship with your body, your baby, and the physiological process of birth as designed by the Creator. Each 2-hour class includes a mother check-in and support circle, guided yoga tools to prepare you in mind and body, and an in-depth birth education component.
Expect to come away with a clear understanding of birth, an overview of standardized care within the medical system, and confidence in your ability to birth your baby in power.
What to bring:
Loose, comfortable clothing
notebook & pen
props provided
Meet Shannon.
The founder of Beacon Yoga, which utilizes the spiritual and somatic teachings of Yoga to help individuals reclaim their bodies, heal from trauma (we all have it) and trust in our inherent wholeness,
Shannon dedicates herself to the healing of humanity through spontaneous physiological birth and spiritual understanding. She became committed to the Yoga path in 2002 and has since practiced and studied with many of the great modern teachers including Swami Karunananda, Swami Ramananda, Swami Asokananda, and Sri Sonia Sumar Devi of the Integral Yoga Lineage founded by Master Sri Swami Satchidananda; Heart of Yoga's founder Mark Whitwell; Sri Dharma Mittra; Corina Benner; Biff Mithoefer founder of the Jamtse School of Yin Yoga; and Sonia Sumar, pioneer of Yoga for children with special needs.
She has received certification in basic, intermediate, raja, meditation, yin, prenatal and perinatal yoga and children with special needs and teen yoga, and assisted countless yoga trainings including basic, intermediate and advanced trainings for the Integral Yoga Ashram in Virginia, Meditation Teacher Training with Swami Karunananda, and Yoga for Children with Special Needs with Sonia Sumar.
She owned and operated Beacon Yoga Center in Beacon, NY from 2011-2022. However, it was not until the birth of her daughter Adelaide in 2021 that she found her current teacher in the mother, birth educator and spiritual activist Yolande Norris-Clark, with whom Shannon worked to heal birth related trauma in herself and her daughter after experiencing a highly medicalized birth.
A graduate of the pioneering Radical Birthkeeper School, Shannon now teaches the hormonal blueprint of spontaneous physiological birth to women and families in her community, assists others in healing from birth related trauma, and helps women prepare for birth, motherhood and beyond. She lives with her husband Chris, daughter Adelaide, and dog Maple on a farm in Beacon, NY, where she sometimes paints too.