About
It all started when…
It was always clear in my mind that it was my body and my baby and I will birth how I darn well want… as long as you can help… when I ask..!
A desired birth stems from control and that comes from breath and repose. A calm mind captures the element of control and THAT is what you will discover. When you have trust and confidence in yourself, you will encounter a powerful, life changing experience.
Letting go of what you think you are controlling is the ONLY way to flow through birth. Come take a ride with me into a space of calm, knowledge and ease.
Birthing Classes
GROUP BIRTH CLASS DATES FOR 2020
Sessions run from 9am to 1pm
24 October
7 November
21 November
5 December
19 December
For every session, you will receive a workbook, audio and video material (where relevant). Price is indicative of a birthing mum and a birthing partner. Support people including a doula, private midwife, midwifery student, your mum etc are very welcome to be a part of your session. Simply indicate if you have any extras attending with you. All are very welcome.
GROUP CLASSES
The Essentials - $300
PRIVATE CLASSES
The Essentials - $450
The Comprehensive - $720
The Calm Approach - $450
During COVID restrictions, all group sessions will be available via ZOOM. Private sessions can be arranged for either in-person or via ZOOM.
Which Class is for me?
All sessions are refreshing and versatile facilitated as either a group class on scheduled dates or a private class in your own home. Any session you choose will ensure you get the best knowledge about birthing your baby AND amazing hands-on techniques so that your birthing partner will look and feel like a professional. If you have more questions, just email for more answers!
The Essentials
The Comprehensive
The Essentials is relevant for any birthing couple. In this insightful 3 hour session, you will emerge educated with the skills and an understanding of:
How the body functions in labour
How to work with pain & fear
Using the breath to maximise your birth & release fear
Active positions with a focus upon comfort & gravity
Hands-on tools & techniques specifically for your birthing partner
The Comprehensive is a personalised session conducted in your home. You will learn classic hypnobirthing including hands-on skills and informative up-to-date antenatal material. This workshop is made up of 2 x 3 hour sessions and scheduled according to a time and date that works for you. The knowledge and expertise you gain includes:
Understanding anxiety & fear
How to work with pain
Using the breath to maximise your birth & release fear
Skills for relaxation & visualisation
How labour progresses
Hands on tools for partners
Better positions to use in labour & birth
Confident, effective communication
Minimising intervention
Maximising bonding
The Calm Approach
Preparing for a C-section can have a huge impact in helping you through a surgery and during recovery. Using tools that focus upon education and relaxation, you will find anxiety can be reduced and you feel fully supported and confident. This in turn promotes easy healing and a speedy recovery.
The Calm Approach is a 3 hour session zeroing in on minimising anxiety with a focussed approach on relaxation techniques, breathing skills, understanding fear and the support needed for a caesarean. Becoming fully informed is important for both you and your birthing companion medically, emotionally and psychologically. Skills you will gain include:
Understanding anxiety & fear
Breathing & relaxation skills
A C-section tool kit
How to plan for a C-section
This is me
“LOVER of simplicity, early mornings & sunrise, meditation, kindness, compassion & gratitude, chai tea - actually, any tea, salubrious nourishment, reading, learning, educating and red lipstick.”
I have multiple human roles. The very first is being a mum. It’s a tough job that I didn’t have to interview for or even really decide whether I was capable or the right fit. It just happened and the 4 amazing souls that have evolved from me make me feel so incredibly proud to be the person they look to for everything.
Second is a specialist birth educator. My interest in birth comes from personal experience including the allure of the awe-inspiring structure of human anatomy. I recognised that not only did I love talking, I got a kick out of educating others on exceeding their own expectations.
My third niche in my life and other huge love is practising as a Dr of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Wholistic care is innate for me and ingrained within my family. There isn’t a day I don’t have this medicine infused into my/our life.
I bring to you a well rounded, educated and non-fluffy approach to understanding how you and birth can work together. You’ll love the empowering high you get from just knowing you are gong to be alright.
Now, read on, to get to know me a little better.
My Darlings
#1 MACKENZIE
The textbook birth.
My first birth and my only boy. He was born at Cabrini Private to a flow of midwives surveying the composure of a new life through the birthing suite doors. This birth was characteristic of a typical scenario with waters gushing, slow sensations and unanticipated interventions. This is where my own sheer ability blew me away and the moment I could see what control actually looked and felt like. This babe is a serene yet sensitive soul with an supernatural feel to managing 3 sisters.
#2 AISSA
The flowing birth.
Essentially a more confident and relaxed birth swiftly missed by my engaging Obstetrician and amazing just the same. I had upgraded my skill set to become acquainted with how the pregnant body worked in labour. It was another grateful moment of the power of the female form to extend itself beyond my beliefs. My favourite birth of all the baby’s. This little lady is my alter ego.
#3 SOLÉE
The demanding birth.
Having an empowering sense of self in regards to pregnancy & birth, I allowed myself to be more in the moment with this one. My conscious approach to motherhood was already in motion and this particular pregnancy was differing in its needs. Number 3, was as speedy as #2 and personally transformative as I really acknowledged that this birth stuff was not a fluke and giving into the moment was essential. It spurred my passion for encouraging women to understand their birthing bodies better and to unearth ways of working with fear and pain. #3 is the introvert of the bunch, esoteric and magical in her aura. She is a real lover all all things ‘out there’ with a zeal for shells, sticks & bhakti meditation.
#4 IMALA
The spirited birth.
Having positively embedded the confident nature of what my own body could do, birthing #4 was possibly a non-event in comparison. She started quick, arrived smoothly and easily allowing her to come home within hours of leaving the space she inhabited. This child glues us all together with her take on how the world should run. She is sassy & funny and exceptionally loving and my finest model of breath work and how to calm the heck down.
What She Says…
“…I have seen it empower women and make them confident of their ability to face the challenge of childbirth in a positive manner…it equips them to deal with the birth process as well as the events before and after…” Dr Sophie Leong,Obstetrician/Gynaecologist
What the lady’s are saying
“Thank you so very much for your class and the reassurance it brought me. You allowed me to really be in control, which has made all the difference in the world. ”
“Lucas came quietly into the world. His heart rate never changed, we worked so well together. I loved my labour- it was not the ideal start, but it ended so well. I could do it again and again, what a beautiful honour to be a woman – to have this task. I shared my story with a friend who is also a hypnobirthing mother. We giggled together and agreed that it feels like we share a secret- a secret all women should know. We are wonderfully and perfectly made. Birthing is a joy.”
“My husband found the class extremely informative, and was relieved to gain a good understanding of how he could actively take part in the labour and birth of our baby. My relaxation practises became invaluable and I believe they had a large impact on my amazing birthing experience.”
“Everybody – family, doctors and nurses were all in amazement of how it went and had never seen anything like it before …. I myself loved every minute of it, feeling in control and relaxed.”
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