Nona Birth Education & Counseling

Nona Birth Education & Counseling Online classes are available for you to take at your own pace! Check out our online classes here:
https://nonabirtheducation.thinkific.com/

With over 25 years of experience, I help doulas, birth professionals, and parents approach birth with confidence and calm using neuroscience, mind-body approaches, and practical birth education.

New Nona Prenatal Yoga Session starts April 2nd!Join me in my home studio for this 6 week series, offered just 3 times p...
03/07/2026

New Nona Prenatal Yoga Session starts April 2nd!

Join me in my home studio for this 6 week series, offered just 3 times per year. Each class is 2+ hours of themed discussion, childbirth education, mindful meditation, gentle prenatal yoga, and deep relaxation. This course is designed to help you build community, develop resilience, and practice mindful coping skills for birth and early parenting.

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Learn more and register here: www.nonabirtheducation.com/nonaprenatalyoga

Join me for the next Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support series April 2nd - May 7th.This is a 6 week series of 2+ hour classes ...
03/05/2026

Join me for the next Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support series April 2nd - May 7th.

This is a 6 week series of 2+ hour classes incorporating discussion, education, yoga, and deep relaxation.

Offered 2-3 times per year. Learn more below:

www.nonabirtheducation.com/nonaprenatalyoga

Join me for the next Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support Series April 2nd - May 7th.Offered just 3 times a year, this 6 week co...
03/04/2026

Join me for the next Nona Prenatal Yoga & Support Series April 2nd - May 7th.

Offered just 3 times a year, this 6 week course integrates birth education, community support, gentle yoga, and mind-body approaches to working with the intensity of birth. Classes are kept small for ease of discussion and reflection.

Learn more and register at the link below:

www.nonabirtheducation.com/nonaprenatalyoga

New Prenatal Yoga & Support Session is scheduled for April 2nd - May 7th.  In-person sessions include access to the asyn...
03/03/2026

New Prenatal Yoga & Support Session is scheduled for April 2nd - May 7th.

In-person sessions include access to the asynchronous online course and online community. Both are accessible through the website or on the new Nona Birth App!

Register at this link: www.nonabirtheducation.com/nonaprenatalyoga

New look. Same deep roots.After 25 years as a childbirth educator, and prenatal yoga teacher, Nona got a rebrand. ✨The c...
02/28/2026

New look. Same deep roots.
After 25 years as a childbirth educator, and prenatal yoga teacher, Nona got a rebrand. ✨

The catalyst? Developing Birth Coherence™, a framework that finally gave language to what I’ve been practicing and teaching all along: that a birthing person’s sense of safety is physiological, relational, and central to how labor unfolds.

That clarity shaped everything: the name, the visuals, the direction.

Nona Birth Education & Counseling is a home for parents preparing for birth AND professionals who support them. Trainings, classes, counseling, yoga, all grounded in nervous system science and 25 years of clinical experience.

Welcome. So glad you’re here.

The use of theoretical frameworks in childbirth education and labor support is common. They help us organize complex con...
02/20/2026

The use of theoretical frameworks in childbirth education and labor support is common. They help us organize complex concepts into observable teachable patterns.

In my work, I integrate Polyvagal theory as an organizing lens along with evidence based approaches in both education and counseling.

Read more at the link in bio.

Learn more about Birth Coherence™ and what it makes possible for parents, partners, and professionals.
10/25/2025

Learn more about Birth Coherence™ and what it makes possible for parents, partners, and professionals.

Birth Coherence™ is a Nona Birth concept that explores how the mind, body, and support work in sync for emotionally safer, more connected, and adaptable birth experiences. Learn how this neuroscience-informed framework shapes labor support and birth preparation.

I’ve been teaching and supporting families through birth for more than two decades, and over that time, my approach has ...
10/24/2025

I’ve been teaching and supporting families through birth for more than two decades, and over that time, my approach has evolved.

What I’ve seen again and again is that birth is a conversation between the mind, the body, the environment, and the people offering support. When those systems are in sync, birth tends unfold more efficiently, outcomes are better, and parents feel more confident and capable, even when it’s intense.

This observation has become the foundation of my work, and now it has a name: Birth Coherence™.

Birth Coherence™ is a practical framework for understanding how awareness, physiology, and relationships work together during birth. It helps parents and professionals recognize what supports safety, adaptability, and connection in real time for each birth.

You’ll start seeing this framework woven through all Nona classes, professional trainings, and future resources, including a certification, licensing, and train the trainer program. It’s the thread that connects everything I've been teaching for the last 25 years and now it's time to expand.

Birth Coherence™ : when the mind, body, and support are in sync.

Comfort measures and mantras can be beautiful tools, but they don’t always work the way we intend.When we start to see l...
10/07/2025

Comfort measures and mantras can be beautiful tools, but they don’t always work the way we intend.

When we start to see labor as a physiological dance of safety, threat, and protection, we realize that timing, tone, and attunement matter more than any single technique.

This isn’t about throwing away what works. It’s about understanding why it works, and what’s happening when it doesn’t.

Birth work is evolving.
Are we evolving with it?

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Nona Birth Education & Counseling provides mindfulness-based childbirth education and prenatal yoga and support classes. We offer counseling for prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety as well as for general adjustment to parenting.