Training and Continuting Professional Development

I have attended numerous trainings with leading health and birth professionals over the years, here are a sample of some of them.
Birth
  • Birthing From Within workshop with Pam England: 2008
  • Active Birth teacher training with Janet Balaskas: Yoga for Pregnancy - 2007, Active Birth - 2009
  • Beyond OFP  (short & long-term implications of foetal position and birth on health, development & function) with Katherine Davies - 2009
  • Waterbirth study day with Dianne Garland - 2010
  • Advanced Birth Professional workshop with Fathers To Be (Patrick M. Houser) - 2010
  • Breech birth workshop with Mary Cronk - 1 day workshop - 2011
  • Shiatsu for pregnancy and birth with Suzanne Yates - postgraduate 9 month course
  • NHS Breastfeeding peer support - 2011
  • Sheila Kitzinger (ARM conference)- 2011
  • Sacred Placenta - 1 day workshop with Elizabeth Worley - 2012
  • Traditional Midwifery Hawaiian Style with Clare Loprinzi - 2012
  • Optimal Foetal Positioning (Spinning Babies) with Gail Tully - 2012 and 2014
  • Supporting sexual abuse survivors with Penny Simkin - 2013
  • Birthing From Within mentor training with Pam England and Virginia Bobro -  2007 and 2013
  • Unlocking Birth: techniques to resolve and prevent malposition with Selina Wallis - 2013
  • Supporting Every Birth: Pregnancy after Loss with Michelle Every - 2015


Midwifery Today conference: 2014
  • Michel Odent - The Scientification of Love
  • Gail Hart - Essential Prenatal Care; Newborn Complications; New and Old
  • Gail Hart - Techniques for Controlling and Preventing Hemorrhage
  • Gail Hart and Jane Evans -  Shoulder Dystocia and “Malpresentations”
  • Gail Tully - Beyond Optimal Foetal Positioning (Spinning Babies)

Birth Gathering: 2011, 2012, 2014 
  • The Story of the Albany with Becky Reed - 2012
  • Neighbourhood Midwives project with Annie Francis and Jill Crawford - 2012
  • Baby Loss with Mel Scott -2012
  • Lotus Birthing - 2012
  • Human Rights in Childbirth with Hermine Hayes-Klein - 2012
  • The Anthropology of Reproduction with  Robbie Davis-Floyd - 2012




Health
  • Shiatsu diploma with the European School of Shiatsu - 2 year course - 1996
  • Chi Nei Tsang: Chinese abdominal massage - 1996
  • Acupuncture diploma with the International College of Complementary Medicine - 2000
  • Introduction to Basic Counselling Skills - 12 week course - 2002
  • Homeopathy (the Maternal remedies) with Linda Gwillim - 2008
  • Menstruality with Alexandra Pope - 2009, 2012 and year long Women's Quest apprenticeship - 2013 
  • Womb Yoga teacher training with Uma Dinsmore Tuli -2014
  • Women's Wisdom with Amanda Rayment and Dominique Sakoilsky: a year long course - 2017
  • Fertility Massage - certified 2021
  • Pelvic Floor and Diastasis course for doulas - 2021
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) - current
  • Ongoing self directed learning in herbalism



Spirit
  • Celtic Shamanism  with Caitlin Matthews - 1994 and 1996
  • Reiki 1 Attunement - 1999
  • Closing the Bones with Rocio Alarcon - 1 day workshop - 2013
  • Healing Birth & Awakening The Divine Feminine: 2 day residential workshop with Benig Mauger - 2013
  • Healing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster - 1 day workshop - 2014
  • Women's Quest apprenticeship with Elizabeth Pope - 1 year course - 2014
  • Shamanic Womancaft with Jane Hardwicke-Collings - 4 day residential -2013; 13 month course - 2016
  • Red Tent Activation with DeAnna L'am - 3 day workshop - 2016
  • INTO THE VOID: A Journey to the Dark Goddess with Bairavee Balasubramaniam (The Sky Priestess) - 1 day workshop - 2016
  • Women's Wisdom with Dominique Sakoilsky and Amanda Rayment - 9 month course - 2017



Belly Dance

My love of belly dance began when I started learning Raqs Sharqi (traditional Egyptian dance) in 1992. I have learned from various teachers over the years, including: