About Mindful Birthing

Next Mindful Birthing Series Offerings 

October/November:  Oct 22 — Oct 29 — Nov 5 — Nov 12  {Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm} WAITLIST

January/February:  Jan 22 — Jan 29 — Feb 5 — Feb 12  {Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm}

April/May:  Apr 22 — Apr 29 — May 6 — May 13  {Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm}


Transitions: Doula & Life Services is proud to partner with Bright Start, a program of the Children’s Home Society.  They empower first-time moms to maintain healthy pregnancies and raise healthy, happy babies. If you are a participant or nurse in the Bright Start program, please use these links to register for our educational opportunities.

Mindful Birthing

What is Mindful Birthing?

Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) is an expansive, holistic approach to childbirth and parenting.

More than just a childbirth class, this 4-week-series helps you learn how to train the mind and use the mind/body/heart connection to enhance your innate wisdom for birth and prepare you for the postpartum period. These are tools to carry with you through your parenting journey.

Mindfulness is paying attention in each moment with curiosity, patience, non-judgment, trust and acceptance. Expectant mothers and their support person will learn skills for working with changes, fear, anxiety and pain during this transformative time of pregnancy, birth, parenting and life.

Mindful Birthing is a benefit for any birth in any setting!

What’s included in the $250 class fee?

  • Learn life changing skills to manage daily stress and anxiety.

  • Review the physiology of birth and how the mind, body, baby, and hormones all interact in labor.

  • Discover how to use the mind to work with pain.

  • Develop confidence in your innate ability to birth.

  • Develop mindful parenting skills.

  • Practice over 40 concentration, touch, positioning and movement skills to discover what might work for YOUR labor and birth.

  • Handbook of resources, specifically curated by the instructor

No one will be excluded for ability to pay. Please contact us for scholarship opportunities.

Classes held at Flourish Wellness & Birth Co, 2908 E 26th St, Sioux Falls.

About the Educator

Teresa Buell is a retired Nurse Midwife with over 40 years of working with women and families.

Teresa is a passionate educator who shares her deep knowledge of birth with her incredible understanding of mindfulness practice with every student she serves.

Teresa lives in Sioux Falls, SD, and enjoys spending time with her family (especially her grandchildren!). She loves to travel, socialize with friends, and volunteer her time on boards, and serve as a member of a women’s Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) chapter.

Learn about Mindful Birthing childbirth education from founder, Nancy Bardacke