What is birth art? Birth art is about healing, connection, and love! This will be a safe place to connect with other expecting people, a place to open up and talk about our joys & fears pertaining to pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period. Your art isn't supposed to look professional, or "good", that's not what this class is about. It's about taking what is deep down (fears, anxieties, worries…) and getting it out and released into the open to dissect and discuss. Whether that be a sculpture a painting, we will heal and find joy in this experience together! These classes have the potential to~ ~Bring internal stories, judgements, and expectations into the light, where they can be examined and integrated. ~Help us access our subconscious minds, where we may find instincts and coping skills that we had not known that we possessed. ~Give us practice in interacting with perinatal topics without using our intellectual, "book-learning" brains -- which will probably not be accessible in labor. ~Give us practice feeling uncomfortable, out of our element, unsure what to do next, out of control, and (literally) messy - and then allow us to watch ourselves make it through anyway. ~Open us to the possibilities that the answers to our birth-related questions may exist within ourselves. *Cited from the “Birthing from within” website on birth art classes. What do I provide? Instruction, an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on. All needed art supplies, herbal tea, snacks and good company. The Prompts~ *Sculpt a pregnant person or a vessel representing the womb. *The journey/landscape of birth *The door to birth *Being in birth How long do the classes last? 3 hours, and we will do 2 projects from the list above. This is good for ONE pregnant person and their partner.