HypnoBirthing London
   
 



My interest in and subsequent qualification as a HypnoBirther® was a direct result of my own life affirming and somewhat "miraculous" birth experience.

Despite a medical prognosis of infertility, following the removal of a uterine tumour, my son was successfully conceived at the age of 44. We chose a natural home birth.

My pregnancy ran to its full term of 42 weeks and my labour lasted just five hours. My waters didn't break, there was no need for artificial pain control and my partner Simon, delivered John-Duncan Mander-Prideaux on our bathroom floor, before the midwife arrived!

Our birth is considered one in a million.

In fact, John-Duncan was the result of a gentle process of healing which embraced Simon's professional skills as an Osteopath, Acupuncturist, Herbalist and Spiritual Healer. In addition, I worked with self-hypnosis, meditation and spiritual healing.

 


I subsequently qualified as a HypnoBirthing® and HypnoFertility® practitioner (accredited by the HypnoBirthing® Institute) in order to teach couples how to have an empowered and joyous birth akin to my own.

I believe that parents have a responsibility to seek the best possible care for the birth of their child and to consider their choices in an educated and informed manner. A recent Government directive is encouraging all women to be given the choice of a home birth and/or water birth by 2009 and is putting a far greater emphasis on the many benefits of natural childbirth. Great physical health is no guarantee of a natural, calm and relaxed birth, but with HypnoBirthing we can also learn how to control our and other people’s fears. This truly allows parents and midwives to work together to empower and achieve natural birth.”

Our home at Cricklewood, North West London has adjacent practice rooms where we offer non-invasive treatments designed to assist couples with their fertility and conception, labour, pregnancy, birth and post-natal recovery.The HypnoBirthing® course can be taken in isolation or couples can choose other complementary treatments as and when they wish.      

We both believe that a positive, safe and joyous birth is possible for all women.


“I have seen HypnoBirthing® transform birth from a fearful to a calm, relaxed and joyous experience. All couples should benefit from this wonderful teaching.”

Midwife, Queen Charlotte Birth Centre, London

Karen Mander BA (Hons)

  • Accredited HypnoFertility® practitioner
  • Accredited HypnoBirthing® practitioner
  • Hypnotherapist (anxieties, trauma, regression, spirit release)
  • Spiritual Healer
  • Reiki Master
  • Soul Therapy practitioner

Simon Prideaux MBAcC MROHM DO

  • Osteopath
  • Cranial Osteopath
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner - acupuncture and medical herbalism
  • Healer
  • Specialist support for pregnancy birth and cranial osteopathy for newborns

See www.cranialosteopath.com for more information about Simon's work.

See www.heavens-gate.org.uk for more information about our specific work in the field of fertility, conception and birth.


Professional references

During Karen's time studying with us at The Soul Therapy Centre she demonstrated how her own warmth, intelligence and sensitivity could enhance and underpin her significant ability to bring healing through to address physical conditions - and the birth of her own beautiful son, following on as it did from the personal and healing work Karen was doing, is a testament to how wonderful the spiritual process of conception can be.

Ingrid Collins, chartered psychologist, registered spiritual healer and co-director of the Soul Therapy Centre. BSc (Hons), Psych, PDipEd Psych, AFBPS, FISA, MIAC.