www.heavens-gate.org.uk
Heavensgate offers natural, non-intrusive, safe treatments for parents from conception to birth and beyond. We set up this practice to use our experience to help other couples maximize their chances of conceiving and having the natural birth of their choice. HypnoBirthing® is one element of this. We aim to complement your existing consultants and care-givers to bring birth to life.
www.cranialosteopath.com
Simon Prideaux - Karen's partner's professional site
Osteopath, Cranial Osteopath, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner (acupuncturist and herbalist), Healer. 20 years in practice, specialising in mothers and babies.
www.hypnobirthing.co.uk
This is the professional site for the HypnoBirthing® Institute in the UK
www.hypnobirthing.com
HypnoBirthing® founder’s site in the USA
Pregnancy Yoga
HypnoBirthing® is the perfect complement for Pregnancy Yoga which prepares the body for birth through movement and breathing practices and sometimes meditation and sound. Yoga promotes health, self-confidence, greater bonding and a sense of wellbeing during pregnancy.
HypnoBirthing® concentrates even further on the actual process of birthing and teaches you how to train your mind as well as your body to create and expect a gentle and calm birth. Whatever your level of fitness, if you learn how to eliminate the fear-tension-pain cycle that so often governs birth, you will be able to create the calm, natural birth of your choice.
Pregnancy Yoga Teachers
Emma Catto
www.breatheyoga.co.uk
Emma Catto has been teaching yoga since 1997 and ante-natal yoga since 2000. She trained with the pioneering Françoise Barbira Freedman, founder of the Birthlight Trust, and bases much of her teaching on this inspiring method which helps women to "birth lightly". She also draws deeply on her own yoga practice (since 1988) and her two pregnancies and births. Emma teaches small groups of pregnant women at her home in NW2 or privately in homes and offices around London.
Kathryn McCusker
www.kathrynmccusker.com
Kathryn is a certified teacher of Kundalini and Pregnancy Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. She teaches pre-natal yoga classes at the Light Centre, Belgravia and privately. Kathryn believes that during pregnancy it is vital that the mother-to-be has the confidence and knowledge about birthing, so that she is empowered to give birth consciously and naturally. Then, however it happens, it becomes the perfect birth for her.
Smita Thakrar
www.yogabalance.co.uk
Smita has 15 years of yoga experience. Since having her daughter, her teaching now focuses on pregnancy, baby and children’s yoga. She runs a yoga school in North London and teaches in several yoga centres, spas and gyms including Virgin Active, Esporta, Go-Yoga, and the Chaim center in Willesden Green. She is "birthlight" trained and is available for group and private sessions
Teaching venues
www.groveneighbours.org.uk
www.specialyoga.org.uk
www.revivalchiswick.co.uk
Other really useful links
www.justparents.co.uk
A comprehensive website offering support and advice for pregnancy and parenthood.
www.naturalchildbirth.co.uk
The official website for Steve and Sonia Griffiths, HypnoBirthing®
practitioners. Karen teaches with Steve and Sonia monthly in Hammersmith.
See bookings page.
www.hypnobirthing.com
The official website for the Founder of HypnoBirthing® in America
www.natural-childbirth.co.uk
To help parents considering a natural birth for their child
www.homebirth.org.uk
To help parents who are considering home birth
www.independentmidwives.org.uk
For parents seeking an independent midwife
www.doula.org.uk
For parents seeking the assistance of a doula for their birth
www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com
Information about your local NCT classes. Many parents choose HypnoBirthing®
in addition to their NCT class, as the most comprehensive way of preparing
for a gentle, calm birth.
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