Bio
Zoe is a certified practitioner with Hypnobirthing Australia™ and has a 285+hours in yoga training, registered through the Yoga Alliance, is a registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher, a Newborn Mothers Postpartum Professional and a Dolphin Method Birth Doula (in training!).
Zoe’s ultimate mission is to help mothers cope with the challenges of pregnancy, birth and parenthood.
She spent a lot of time in her own pregnancy worrying about the birth of her baby, keeping busy with work and focusing on the aches and pains in her body caused by her growing belly. Her mental and physical energy was so focused on her birth, that she hadn’t stopped to think what it would be like to mother a newborn baby. Her adjustment to motherhood was stressful and overwhelming. She did what trusted friends and doctors said to do, sought advice from many different sources, not realising that this was the very source of her confusion. She was disconnected from her own intuition, lost in the noise of advice and information.
The truth is many years after the birth of her first baby she realised that this state of mind had taken her away from focusing on the empowering aspects of growing, birthing and breastfeeding her child. By the time her third baby came along, Zoe did things very differently.
Inspired by the beauty of her third pregnancy and birth, Zoe now teaches other pregnant mothers knowledge and techniques that help them prepare their minds and bodies for birth without feeling overwhelmed by the pains of pregnancy and labour.
She specialises in helping pregnant mothers reduce pain and discomfort in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum using the art and science of Yoga and Hypnobirthing – ultimately finding their confidence to birth and mother without fear.
Zoe believes that birth is a hugely transformative event – a window in a woman’s life where she can reinvent herself, family and community. The way a woman chooses to birth, how she is cared for during and after birth has the ability to set the foundations for her life for years to come. For this reason, Zoe believes that birth has capacity to bring more love and connection into how we live and interact as people and as a species on this earth.