Maria Silver Pyanov is a certified BirthWorks Certified Childbirth Educator~CCE(BWI) and a seasoned mom to six earthside children, including two preemies. What she loves most about BirthWorks International programs is the focus on evidenced-based information while still highlighting the emotional and spiritual aspect of pregnancy, parenting, and childbirth. Maria is also a parent educator, sharing much …
Karen Lai is certified with BirthWorks International® as well as NACE Australia. Karen facilitates workshops within Cert IV Workplace Training standards. Karen is an AHPRA Registered Nurse-Midwife in clinical practice as well as in Midwifery Education and is currently based in Hobart. Karen has post graduate qualifications through UTAS, is an accredited Neuro-Linguistic Programming trainer …
Tia is BirthWorks International Coordinator for Asia, and she is from Indonesia. She holds a Masters degree from Northumbria University, UK. She is a certified yoga instructor through Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (India), a prenatal yoga and postnatal yoga from Birthlight (UK), and a Birthworks International Certified Childbirth Educator~CCE(BWI) and Certified Birth Doula~CBD(BWI). She …
Emily lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and two daughters. Her Postpartum Doula journey with BirthWorks began after the birth of her first daughter in 2016. Inspired to be a doula, after discovering her desire to support new mothers, she encourages the women she serves to tap into their own intuition as well. She …
Kathy brings a wonderful perspective to BirthWorks, as she has a long interest in women’s issues and education. As a child, she was intrigued with human rights and went on to study Anthropology and Women’s Studies at San Diego State University, as well as working on her Masters in Education. She gave birth to her …
Jill is passionate about helping parents and their babies get the best start in life. She is an advocate, a voice for the newborn. She received her Teachers Diploma from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1983. She taught in Zimbabwe and South Africa and lectured at the teachers training college. She has …
Liz O’Shea, Midwife and CCE(BWI), began her midwifery journey out of a deep desire to share the joy of birthing at home. She wanted all women to experience what it is like to feel the innate power within them to give birth. Following her first home birth in 1982, she began studying to be a …
Cristin certified as a BirthWorks Childbirth Educator~CCE(BWI) in 2010 and later (in 2020) cross-certified as both a BirthWorks International Birth Doula~CBD(BWI) and Postpartum Doula~CPD(BWI). (She also previously dual-certified and remains actively certified with DONA, and she worked as a Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula, as well as a Conscious Pregnancy Yoga Teacher and Health Moms …
Dr. Nils Bergman, MD, MPH, PhD, embodied passion starts with “skin-to-skin” contact of mother and baby. He is from South Africa, where he qualified in Cape Town, then worked as a Manama Mission doctor in Zimbabwe. With midwife Agneta Jurisoo, he developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature babies. Since then, the ongoing …
Cathy is a pediatric physical therapist who is founder, designer, and president of BirthWorks International. She is author of Birthing in the Spirit- a human values approach to childbirth, and Doulas of Love and is co-author of the BirthWorks Childbirth Educator Manual, and the Doula Journal Workbook. Cathy has taught childbirth education and doula workshops …
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