HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing® is a childbirth technique and philosophy that focuses on fear release and deep relaxation to help you achieve a gentle and relaxed birth. Beyond being an evidenced-based childbirth education class, HypnoBirthing® focuses on the relationship between mind and body, exploring how our thoughts shape our experiences, and consequently our births. Through breathing, visualization, and self-hypnosis, HypnoBirthing® guides you in how to birth instinctively and without fear.
Classes are held on Zoom weekends at 11:00 AM EST/17:00 CET. The program meets once a week over the course of 5 weeks for 2.5 hours each class.
To enroll in an upcoming
HypnoBirthing® series, see my schedule of upcoming classes and submit an enrollment form.
Click here to learn more about
HypnoBirthing® .
Classes are held on Zoom weekends at 11:00 AM EST/17:00 CET. The program meets once a week over the course of 5 weeks for 2.5 hours each class.
To enroll in an upcoming HypnoBirthing® series, see my schedule of upcoming classes and submit an enrollment form.
Click here to learn more about HypnoBirthing® .
Birthworker
As a certified birth and postpartum doula, as well as student midwife at The Matrona, my vision is to support birth givers in achieving a gentle, mindful, dignified, and emotionally fulfilled birth. By following a birther-led model of care, I meet you where you are while also helping to facilitate your own journey into harnessing power, wholeness and direction within yourself.
I will stand with you at the liminal spaces of birth and support you in connecting with your inner knowing and instinctive body. As an eager learner, I’m passionate about sharing knowledge in a collaborative learning process that emphasizes imagination, intuition, lived experience and critical thinking. I’m educated within a Quantum Paradigm, under the venerable Whapio Bartlett, that recognizes the energetics of care and the shadow impacts of wounds within the birthing space. I offer deep-level connection and excavation (moving beyond comfort measures and birth plans) to tune into your evolving needs.
Scholar / Teacher
I am pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Balkan Studies at the University of Ljubljana. My area of focus is ethnographic analysis of traditional birth practices in Southern Serbia. In addition to doctoral studies, I also teach an upper level research and writing class at the City University of New York where students are asked to explore the history of the expropriation of birth.
I am developing a curriculum for an interdisciplinary workshop titled "Birth In Context: Language, Power, Psyche, Body" that focuses on the intersections between poetry, theory and birth. Using a dialogic, poetic and intuitive-based approach, the workshop will explore birth and reproduction within varied contexts: systems of power and oppression; the field of psychoanalysis; systems of language. From an ancient and mystical understanding of the body, and with direct engagement of poetic imagination, we tap into our innate capacity for associative and meditative registers of understanding.
Poet
