This course is a culmination of 22 years of learning, from teachers, mothers and my own experience of pregnancy, childbirth and mothering.

I’ve been practicing yoga since 1996, teaching since 2000 and teaching teachers since 2010.

I started out as an avid Ashtanga Vinyasa practitioner and taught this for 10 years before evolving to teach the more creative style known as Vinyasa Flow Yoga.

I started specialising in pregnancy & postnatal yoga during my first pregnancy in 2002. Before leaving London in 2006, I taught regular Vinyasa Flow, pregnancy & postnatal classes at The Life Centre, TriYoga and the Portland Hospital.  

Since 2006 I’ve been running my successful yoga business, Unity Yoga Bumps and Babies, in Kent and am now the founder of the BodyMind Birthing course.

I’ve trained with some of the country's top yoga teachers and birth educators including Francoise Barbira Freedman, (founder of Birthlight Foundation), Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Janet Balaskas (founder of Active Birth Centre), Jill Benjoya-Miller and Michel Odent, (the pioneer of water birth). 

The most consistent feedback that I started to notice from the mums that attended my courses was how powerful the breathing was when it came to birthing their babies. That such a simple tool was making such a huge difference to the way these women experienced their births was so exciting for me as I saw the benefits that bodymind preparation was doing for so many women.

In an effort to support women and their partners further I trained with the incredible Janet Balaskas to teach Active Birth classes in 2015 and then two years later trained as as Hypnobirth teacher.

The benefits of training both body and mind have been advocated for by some amazing teachers before me.

As my research and learning deepened I began to understand the true power of the bodymind connection and for the last 5 years I’ve been studying the hugely empowering practices that help us to harness and create our own experience of ourselves.

This course brings together everything I have learned.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Founder of BodyMind Birthing - Research based holistic antenatal education for modern birthing goddesses.

Yoga Alliance Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Course Tutor - at Unity Yoga Ongoing

Course Tutor for Pregnancy Yoga Module at Flow’s Teacher Training Programme - Ongoing

Burrell Education Advanced Women’s Wellness Practitioner - 2022.

Mindbody Practitioner Certificate (Mind-Body-Food Institute) - 2021.

Action For Happiness Course Facilitator - 2020

Course Tutor Yoga Gro - Pregnancy & Postnatal Teacher Training - 2018.

KG Hypnobirth Diploma 2017.

Developmental Baby Massage  Certification Peter Walker, Active Birth Centre 2017.

Active Birth Course Teacher Janet Balaskas and Jill Miller, Active Birth Centre 2015.

Yoga Alliance Senior Teacher 2014.

500 hour British Wheel of Yoga Teaching Diploma Cathy-Mae Kerelse 2011.

Foundation in Yoga Therapy Yoga Therapy Centre, London 2008.

Paramana Doula Training Course Michel Odent and Lilliana Lammars 2007.

Birthlight Postnatal Yoga Teaching Diploma Francoise Freedman 2007.

Birthlight Perinatal Yoga Teaching Diploma Francoise Freedman, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli 2005.

Anatomy and Physiology Certificate London School of Massage 2003.

5 Month Apprenticeship in Pregnancy Yoga Teaching Lynne Pinette 2002.

40 hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Certificate David Swenson, Florida  2001.

200 hour Ashtanga Teacher Training  Yoga Plus (Crete) 2000.

I've attended three 10-day Vipassana silent meditation retreats, the most recent being in Nov 2022 and have a daily meditation practice.

I've trained with Jennifer Walker from Spinning Babies in 2017 to learn techniques for getting babies into an optimal position before birth.

I have studied and practiced with some of the worlds leading Yoga teachers: Shri K Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Jois, Derek Ireland, Radha, Hamish Hendry, Shiva Rea, David Swenson, Cathy-Louise Broda, Tias Little, Danny Paradise, John Scott, Lino Miele, Richard Freeman, Matthew Sweeny, Nancy Gilgoff, Anthony Carlisli, David Keil, Antonia Boyle, Michael Gannon, Gary Carter and Liz Lark amongst others.  

From January 2021 I ran 3 months of daily Mindfulness classes online.