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A Transformational 8-Week Program with Yolande Norris-Clark and Lee Horus Clark

 

Approach Birth Without Fear, Enhance Harmony and Connection with Your Spouse During Pregnancy, and Create an Unshakeable Family Foundation



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Birth matters–for fathers too. 

 

Are you pregnant, or embarking on the voyage of building a family with your sweetheart, and considering freebirth or homebirth? 

 

Maybe you've been through multiple pregnancies and births together and looking back, you notice that certain resentments built since the birth of a child.

 

Perhaps parenthood has brought with it a sense of disharmony and you’re wondering if the bitterness can be released and the spark rekindled?

Is it just a fact that having a baby erodes intimacy, creates stress in a relationship, and inevitably leaves both partners feeling exhausted and burnt-out? 

 

You’ve probably realized how imperative it is for you and your husband to truly be together--united-- on the journey to parenthood, not only for your baby, but for the foundation of your family, and the future of your relationship. 

 

What if bringing a child into the world and building a family was an undertaking that could actually catalyze more intimacy, connection, and harmony between men and women? 

 

It can. 

The truth is, creating (and growing) a family always changes the nature and dynamic of a marriage entirely—for both women and men.

 

But while welcoming a baby is an intrinsic rite of passage for mothers– who experience the initiation through the embodied metamorphosis of our cellular interdependence with our infants–it’s a very different story for dads. 

 

Yes, there are an abundance of “childbirth ed” programs out there for couples, but these often reinforce the same tired stereotypes and medical narratives that essentially teach dads how to become male doulas (hip squeezes, anyone?) and to passively comply while their wife is abused–or even to unwittingly facilitate that abuse. 

 

Most birth courses for men teach fathers to be submissive and compliant, while also telling them they must be present as the captain of the birth team and as his wife’s “advocate”–quite the contradiction (and an impossible double-bind).

 

Yet, most men emerge from birth feeling emasculated and even traumatized by the experience–and they may not even be aware of this.

 

We rarely hear about how the fallout from men’s birth-related trauma affects everyone in the family, and can inhibit a man’s ability to flourish as a father and husband, but it’s true.

 

In fact, there is almost no recognition whatsoever that bearing witness to the violation of industrial birth practices inflicted on the mother of one’s children is traumatic for men, and there is little to no preemptive education that can help men understand their essential role in protecting the mother of their child from obstetric violation.  

 

Until now, our culture has been sorely lacking in education on what birth is, how birth works, and the purpose of the birth process from an honest, wise, physiological, and spiritual perspective, focused on the healthy consolidation of a relationship and the arc of a man’s awakening into fatherhood.

Welcome to Freebirth for Awakened Fathers, an 8-week course designed specifically for couples who want to facilitate a natural, powerful birth experience—one where the father plays a vital role in supporting his partner and ensuring the long-term health of the marriage and family.

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I’m Yolande Norris-Clark. I’m a childbirth educator and birth-witness of 20 years, the mother of 10 children (all born at home), and I’m widely known as one of the OG freebirth activists. 

 

I’m also the author of the bestselling book PORTAL: The Art of Choosing Orgasmic, Pain-Free, Blissful Birth (and the course of the same name), the author and co-creator of The Complete Guide to Freebirth, and the co-founder and teacher (with Free Birth Society’s Emilee Saldaya) of The MatriBirth Midwifery Institute and the Radical Birth Keeper School. 

 

In my 20+ years of birth-work, I have supported thousands of couples, remotely and in-person, as a birth witness, birth-trauma consultant, and traditional birth attendant. 

 

I have seen first-hand how important it is to prepare women for their spontaneous, sovereign, physiological births with outstanding mentorship. I’ve also learned that it’s just as essential to provide men with an opportunity to learn (and un-learn) too–and most importantly, to re-member who they really are, and to fulfill their highest purpose. 

 

I’ve seen so many couples falter under the weight of the resentments that build up–usually for women who often have high (and sometimes inappropriate) expectations of their men, and who feel let down and frustrated by how their partners showed up (or didn’t show up) for them during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. 

 

I’ve also seen so many well-meaning men left feeling inadequate, confused, and defeated when they thought they did everything right to support their wives, who nonetheless remain dissatisfied. 

 

It doesn’t have to be this way. The key lies in how women and men approach the evolution of parenthood–individually, and together.  

This is why I’m so delighted to be co-leading Freebirth for Awakened Fathers with my beloved husband, Lee Horus Clark. 

 

Lee is the father of our eight children together, a world-class artist, a half-decent surfer, and the wind beneath my wings. He's also an amazing dad.

Lee and I have been married for over 17 years, and we’ve been together for 19 years.

 

He has been steadfastly at my side during 11 of my pregnancies (including my losses) and has seamlessly anchored the energy during our baby’s births, holding the perimeter with dauntless courage and calm. From the moment our babies emerge, he is a super-dad, and knows exactly what to do (and what not to do) to facilitate our flourishing. 

 

Lee is our protector, our paladin, and the pillar of calm in our family. 

 

We are not the perfect couple (surprise surprise), and we don’t have a perfect marriage by a long shot, but we do have a strong, resilient, faithful, happy marriage, and eight healthy, brilliant, well-adjusted kids. 

 

Despite all the mistakes and ups and downs, we have remained totally committed to each other and to our family. In fact, after all this time, we’re still passionately in love with each other (truly) and our connection has deepened over time, which I know is not necessarily the norm, especially among couples with kids (let alone eight of them!). 

 

What’s our secret? Well, it’s not one thing, of course. 

 

But birth has a lot to do with it. 

Here’s why: 

 

Birth is the foundation.

 

And birth matters in far more ways than we have been led to believe.

 

Birth is not only the very first and most formative occurrence in your child’s life on earth, it’s the bedrock of your experience of parenthood–for fathers as well as mothers.

 

We know that birth creates the alchemical blueprint for the mother-child bond, but birth–and the patterns that couples co-inscribe into their relationship leading up to birth–also represents (and reflects) the scaffolding of your entire familial attachment pattern.  

 

How dads approach and experience birth is often overlooked, but birth has a massive impact on how easily and skillfully men are able to integrate and intuit fatherhood while rising to the monumental task of leading their families. 

 

Most of us recognize that birth is sacred, and every couple wants to ensure that the experience of birth is a positive one. 

 

Few people realize, however, that how you approach childbirth can actively strengthen your marriage, deepen your connection with your spouse, and “baby-proof” your sex life, setting the stage for a lifelong partnership and a bulletproof family culture rooted in love, trust, and mutual respect. 

 

Conversely, the experience of birth–for mothers, fathers, and babies–can often reinforce disconnection, and widen the chasm between couples who lack the tools to navigate the inevitable changes brought about by this transition. 

 

Furthermore, the birth experience is an intrinsic part of how we express our femininity as women in relationship, our masculinity as men in relationship, and our respective functions, responsibilities, and contributions to our family.

 

If you’ve found yourself wondering:

  • How can I help my husband understand why freebirth (or homebirth–or whatever choice you’ve made) is best for us as a couple, as well as our baby? 
  • How can I inspire my husband to really show up for me during my birth? 
  • What is a man’s rightful (and optimal) role during birth? 
  • What is the best postpartum plan for ensuring every member of the family thrives?
  • How can a man truly prepare himself for becoming a father?
  • How can we, as a couple, safeguard passion, intimacy, and trust through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum?
  • How do we keep the spark alive with young children? 
  • What is it to fully embody the role of father and husband to the highest capacity? 

 

Freebirth for Awakened Fathers is for you.

 

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Freebirth for Awakened Fathers goes beyond traditional childbirth education. It’s about giving dads context and understanding for what to know, expect, and do during their baby’s arrival, and preparing them for masterfully accepting the invitation to self-actualize, stepping wholeheartedly into their vocation as powerful, awakened leaders.

 

This program is *NOT* about “lowering the bar” for men–not at all. 

 

It’s about cultivating discernment and wisdom all around, and raising the bar for families, and everyone involved: for women, in how we honour our husbands, our babies, and ourselves, and for men in how they express and embody power, authority, and appropriate nurturing, and in turn how that organically evokes the respect and confidence in their wives, children, and everyone in their orbit. 

 

It’s also about teaching us, as women, to soften, receive, and surrender–to the birth process itself, and also to the leadership our men can provide, when they’re operating from their most activated honourable selves (and how to elicit the desire in our men to express that elevated version of themselves). 

If you want to:

  • Understand the deeper dynamics of power, authority, surrender, and patriarchy in a marriage through the lens of natural birth. 

  • Learn how to approach birth and postpartum parenting as the foundation for establishing healthy sexual dynamics, spiritual stamina, and family resilience.

  • Explore the choices, habits, and customs most conducive to connection between men and women during pregnancy and birth, and how to achieve that in practice. 

  • Decode a man’s ideal role according to biological design, and what women can reasonably expect from him. 

  • Create an ironclad pregnancy, birth, and postpartum plan.

  • Inspire your man to show up as his highest and most competent, capable, majestic self, while also getting your deepest needs met during the most sacred experience of your life. 

  • Establish the vision and mission for your family 

  • Release fear, tension, and conflict in your marriage leading up to birth and beyond

 

Join us, and transform the way you and your partner approach pregnancy and birth—laying the groundwork for a harmonious, passionate, and enduring marriage.

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Freebirth for Awakened Fathers is for COUPLES if any (or all) of the following ring true:

  • You want to ensure that both you and your partner are truly prepared—emotionally, spiritually, and relationally—in alignment with biology and natural law, for the challenges and joys of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
  • You want to strengthen the magnetism in your marriage, heal from inverted psycho-sexual dynamics, and create a balanced, loving, and deeply connected relationship.
  • You’re curious about exploring the connection between birth and maintaining the magnetic pull between you and your partner over the long-term (even while raising young kids!)
  • You both have an existing understanding of birth, but you’re looking for relational guidance as you enter the birth portal that goes beyond conventional childbirth education. 
  • You have a deep interest in the spiritual nature of natural birth, natural health, and freebirth, and how these relate to marital and family dynamics.
  • You have an existing spiritual practice or orientation and you seek to embody these values in your approach to childbirth and parenting.

 

Freebirth for Awakened Fathers is for MEN if any (or all) of the following ring true:

  • You’re a husband who is committed to learning and growing as much as possible so he can fully show up for his wife during birth.
  • You’re a good guy, and you try your best, but your wife just seems perpetually dissatisfied with you, no matter what you do, and it’s getting worse since she’s become pregnant. 
  • Your wife has basically turned into a different person since becoming pregnant (and you don’t necessarily like this new version). She keeps talking about “freebirth” but you really want her to take the easiest and safest route and just go to the hospital, and the whole situation is making you question everything. 
  • You really want to embrace homebirth or freebirth, but you still have residual fear or anxiety about your wife giving birth and your ability to help her.
  • You’re already a pretty awakened husband, and you’ve seen how transformative and healing it can be for your marriage to learn new ways of being. Now you want to take things a step further and feel totally confident in your supporting your wife through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. 

 

Freebirth for Awakened Fathers is for WOMEN if any (or all) of the following ring true:

  • You’re pregnant and you want to “get your husband on board” with your birth choices.
  • You have already experienced pregnancy and birth, and you thought you had prepared yourself and your husband for what to expect, but during postpartum you were left feeling abandoned, deprived, overwhelmed, burnt-out and resentful–especially of your husband–and you want to do things differently next time.
  • You’re a recovering ex-feminist (like me!) and you want to heal the relational dynamics of your marriage in the context of welcoming a new child into the family.
  • You’re not pregnant right now, but you’re fascinated by the psycho-social dynamics of birth and how birth affects the entire family, and you want to prepare yourself for a future pregnancy.
  • You’re a doula, midwife, or birth-worker, and you want to be able to support both mothers and fathers to the optimal extent during the lead-up to birth.
  • You are deeply invested in inspiring your husband to embrace his innate capacity to provide safety, stability, and peace.
  • You desire a peaceful, joyful birth experience that aligns with your values and enhances your marital bond.
  • You’re ready to break free from cultural norms and the medical programming that doesn’t serve you, and instead, embrace a birth experience that is empowering, connected, and in harmony with nature–and you want to help your husband understand exactly why this is important, not just for you and your baby, but for him as well.

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Freebirth for Awakened Fathers isn’t just about understanding what's required of fathers during birth process—it’s about embracing birth as the catalyst for the positive transformation of your relationship and setting the foundation for a lifetime of love, intimacy, and shared purpose.

 

Here’s what this program can facilitate:

  • A Peaceful, Harmonious Birth Experience: Learn how to create an environment that supports a peaceful, joyful birth, where both partners feel connected, powerful, aligned, and in their rightful authority.

  • Increased Connection and Polarity: Discover how pregnancy and birth can strengthen the magnetism and positive tension in your marriage, healing any imbalances and enhancing the dynamic between you and your partner.

  • Understanding and Support: Equip your husband with the knowledge and tools to fully support your birth choices, whether that’s freebirth, attended homebirth, or a natural birth in any context.

  • Clear Communication and Shared Purpose: Learn how to communicate effectively, ensuring that both partners’ needs are met, and you’re both on the same page throughout the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey.

  • Healthy Connected Intimacy and Sexuality: Learn the specific practices, tools, and perspectives that allow us to build intimacy, eros, sensuality, and love, instead of losing it, during those early parenting years.

  • Emotional and Spiritual Preparedness: Understand the physical, emotional, and spiritual changes that occur during pregnancy and birth and how to navigate them together, reducing conflict and increasing closeness.

  • Resilient Family Foundation: Lay the groundwork for a strong, resilient family unit where both partners feel fulfilled in their roles as mother and father, and where your children are welcomed into a joyful and loving environment.

  • Blueprint for Postpartum and Parenting Success: Prepare for a postpartum period that strengthens your marriage rather than strains it, with specific practices, tools, and frameworks to maintain intimacy, connection, and mutual trust as you grow through your parenting journey together.

 

But What If… 


It’s natural to have questions and concerns about natural birth, especially when it challenges mainstream norms–here are some of the most common questions I’ve heard in my 20+ years of birth-work and how Freebirth for Awakened Fathers will answer them:

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We are so excited for you to Transform Your Family and Transform Your Future so that:

  • You and your partner are deeply connected, feeling more in love and aligned than ever before.
  • The birth of your child is a beautiful, powerful experience that brings you closer together.
  • You both feel confident in your roles as parents, with a clear sense of purpose and shared values.
  • Your marriage is strengthened, not strained, by the transition to parenthood.
  • You’ve established a strong foundation for a family culture that is loving, resilient, and spiritually connected.
  • You’re able to maintain intimacy, passion, and a deep sense of mutual respect throughout the sometimes-challenging years of raising children.

 

What’s Included in Freebirth for Awakened Fathers:

  • 8 powerful modules with video trainings (including mp3) 
  • Printable PDF exercises for partners to do individually and together
  • Lifetime access to all program content as long as the internet exists. If the program is ever removed from Kajabi for any reason, you'll be given ample notice to download all of the files.

Any questions before you take the leap??

Email our team at [email protected] and we would love to take care of you there!

- Team YNC

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