**Mindful Birth & Parenting Philadelphia is saddened by the closing of our class location, Lifecycle Wellness & Birth Center. We are immensely grateful for the unwavering support of Lifecycle over the last 10 years. From the bottom of our hearts, we send care and compassion to the Lifecycle staff, administration, and clients (past and present) as you navigate this loss. Our winter 2026 MBCP Class is ON, and we are deciding between venues at this time. Please contact us if you’d like to register.**
“After MBCP, at my birth I was able to be in the moment, bear down and go through the motions. One moment at a time, doing my best! To communicate clearly, take my time, not judge and go with the flow. Everyone was surprised at how well I was coping.”
What happens in our birth classes?
Schedule for 2026
Winter 2026: MBCP Full Series. Jan 18 / 25 Feb 1 / 8 / 15 / 22 March 1 / 8 / 15. Registering now! For April 2026 - June 2026 and beyond.
Spring/Summer 2026: MBCP Full Series. Late April — Mid June. Dates, time, and location coming soon!
Scroll down for more information about these classes!
MBCP: Mindfulness-Based Childbirth Education
Winter 2026: MBCP Full Series, Sundays 4:30PM-7:30PM. Jan 18 / 25 Feb 1 / 8 / 15 / 22 March 1 / 8 / 15
**The series includes a day-long class, which will be held on Sunday, February 22nd, 10AM - 4PM
This will be a HYBRID class. The location is to be determined, as the closure of Lifecycle Wellness & Birth Center means the loss of our in-class space. As of Dec 8th, we have several places we are considering. Please contact us for more information!
The details: Location of this class is both in person and online. We will have half the classes in person, and half online. We think this will be the best of both worlds; contact us to find out why!
In-person classes will be on Jan 18th & 25th, Feb 15th & 22nd and March 15th.
Cost: $450 for pregnant person & a partner. Philly Midwife Collective clients receive a $50 discount!
Our intention is to make this class available for all who are committed to our curriculum. Please scroll down below for info about scholarships.
If you are a birth worker and want to take the class to add to your skills set: Birth workers tuition is $295 per person. Visit our birth workers page for inspiration.
Scroll down to read more about the classes, or visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.
MBCPI: MBCP Intensive — A Condensed Course
Want a shorter commitment, can’t make the longer course, or limited by your due date? The MBCPI curriculum is taught over a weekend (Friday evening / all day Saturday & Sunday — think mini-retreat) OR over a five-week period. Lately we’ve been offering the weekend version.
Our May 2026 MBCP Intensive has been cancelled due to loss of our venue with the closing of Lifecycle Wellness & Birth Center. We will be offering a late spring full series. Once we secure an adequate location for a weekend intensive, we will offer it again!
Cost: $300 for pregnant person and a partner. Philly Midwife Collective clients get a $25 discount.
For more on the differences between MBCP & MBCPI, please visit our FAQ page.
Our intention is to make this class available for all who are committed to our curriculum. Scroll down for info about scholarships.
If you are a birth worker and want to take the class to add to your skills set: Birth workers: $200 per person. Visit our birth workers page for inspiration.
About Scholarships:
Mindful Birth & Parenting Philadelphia is committed to equity and inclusion. We truly believe in the MBCP curriculum and its capacity to alleviate suffering and its potential for promoting health and equanimity. We subscribe to the practice of giving, or generosity, also called Dana. For more information about this practice, you can read here.
If the price of our curriculum is prohibitive, please do not hesitate to work with us on making it affordable for you. If you are a Lifecycle client and are receiving a discount on their classes, we will match their offer.
Uncertain about which course to take? Read below & visit our FAQ page.
MBCP
Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting - MBCP - is a course that meets weekly for 9 weeks. We begin by introducing mindfulness practice, and a foundational understanding of labor and birth through this lens. We spend weeks cultivating this practice, and using it to explore tools to support both pregnant and non-pregnant partners during labor and birth. Once, we spend the day together in the deepened practice of a mini-retreat. And finally, we wrap up with several sessions on postpartum life, living with a newborn, and breastfeeding.
The two months that we spend together give us a chance not only to talk and learn about pregnancy, birth, and parenting, but to build and support a mindfulness practice, both formal (through meditation) and informal (through living life), in community. With nine classes (+1 reunion class), we have time to inquire into experiences of pain/discomfort and fear, and to practice different ways of engaging the mind/body around them.
MBCPI
The MBCP Intensive is a 16-hour class experience drawing from the full MBCP curriculum, condensed for those who cannot commit to the long course. We will go over foundational pieces of the MBCP curriculum, but this class does not have time to include breastfeeding and postpartum. This class is taught over in a 2.5-day weekend intensive and occasionally in a five-week format. Didactic content missed from the longer series can be arranged, as requested and needed by class students.