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Since I was a little girl, I have been fascinated with the whole pregnancy process. It's so incredible that a tiny egg and a wee sperm meet and 9 months later... a BABY! To this day, I'm completely blown away by this miraculous science. Touching a pregnant belly and feeling the baby move never gets old for me. It is so amazing. I began this journey right around my 30th birthday (I think my biological clock was ticking but I wasn't ready to have my own yet). I decided to go to massage school so that I could help pregnant women with their aches and pains. I went to the Institute of Psycho-Structureal Balancing in Culver City. I immediately loved being a bodyworker and within a year, I was licensed, insured and had an exciting, growing practice working with pregnant women. In 2006, I began to take my yoga practice to the next level. I did my first yoga teacher training at Yogaworks. I apprenticed with Juliette Kurth at Silver Lake Yoga and soon thereafter began to teach prenatal yoga. I did a second teacher training with Erich Schiffman, a prenatal teacher training with Shiva Rea, and a therapeutic yoga teacher training with Cheri Clampett in Santa Barbara. Currently, Juliette Kurth and I are co-teaching an 85 hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training at Silver Lake Yoga. This training is the first training to comply with Yoga Alliance’s Prenatal Yoga Standards and leading to a Yoga Alliance Prenatal Yoga Specialty Certification. In 2008, my interests turned towards childbirth and I began to attend births as a doula. After just a couple of births, I was completely hooked. I love this work and seeing the birth process up close and personal greatly informed both my massage practice and my prenatal yoga teaching. My work had a much more distinct purpose- to help prepare a woman's body and mind for this incredible, transformative experience. I did my DONA training with Penny Simkin (author of The Birth Partner) and Patricia Predmore. My work as a doula has been greatly affected by the work of two amazing midwives, both of whom I’ve been so lucky to do workshops with: Gail Tully (author of www.spinningbabies.com) and Naoli Vinaver. 2009 was a big year for me. I got to experience pregnancy first hand. My daughter, Hazel, was born on October 30, 2009 at UCLA under the care of their spectacular team of midwives. My husband Ted and I truly loved the experience of Hazel's birth. I will never forget this incredibly beautiful day. That same year, I became a Childbirth Educator with CAPPA, a fabulous organization dedicated to empowering women and families through education. Currently I’m not teaching group classes, although I use so much of my childbirth education skills with my doula clients. I do teach private childbirth classes. I love my work so much and feel blessed to be in the lives of all these blooming women and their growing families. I love to nurture moms and moms-to-be. After all, no one deserves a delicious massage or a nice long savasana more then a pregnant woman. Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions about your pregnancy or birth. I would be more than happy to help you in any way I can. |