Momma Zen

I have been teaching HypnoBirthing since 2009 and was trained in massage in 2008, thereafter specialising in prenatal massage. 

I love massage and kove being able to make people feel better in their bodies just with the healing power of touch, massage and essential oils. I started massaging women in 2008 and started attracting pregnant women to my practice. I love being able to support mums to feel better in their pregnant bodies with all the changes happening as well as being able to nurture them in their postnatal period and then teaching them to be able to nurture their babies with baby massage. 

My interest in HypnoBirthing started with my own pregnancy in 2008. Although that pregnancy unfortunately ended in a miscarriage, my interest in HypnoBirthing continued to grow. I got pregnant again soon after and took HypnoBirthing classes. That same year when I was heavily pregnant, I had the opportunity to attend a HypnoBirthing Mongan method instructor training and utilised this training along with the classes taken earlier to birth my daughter. The obstetrician, the midwife and nurse were amazed at how calm the birth was. At that that stage, living in Turkey (which has extremely high intervention and caesarean rates), I really found my calling to help women become empowered to birth in the way that they want and not in way that is convenient for their caregivers or the hospital, so I enlisted the support of a now well-known naturally oriented obstetrician (who was present at my birth) in Istanbul and proceeded to train many parents to make better choices, be better prepared for a natural birth and to be more empowered during their births. It all started with my first student in 2010, a mum who was birthing her second child, determined to have a natural vaginal birth after her first birth had ended in a ceasarean section (VBAC). Her second birth was a very successful natural birth and she and her partner felt very empowered & satisfied.

Since then I have continued my training in childbirth education (CAPPA) and teaching active birth (Janet Balaskas) but I have stuck to teaching HypnoBirthing, just because it is so life changing.

I have trained many parents in HypnoBirthing both in Istanbul and in Melbourne in both group classes and private sessions. I am also a certified EFT practitioner and I integrate this into my HypnoBirthing classes as well, using EFT as a way to empower mums and dads in the birth process as well as previous birth experiences.

As well as teaching HypnoBirthing, I am also an aromatherapist and I formulate natural aromatherapy and skincare products as well as mum & baby & birthing oils at soularoma.com.au. I am also a qualified remedial massage therapist specialising in pregnancy massage and I teach baby massage, because I love supporting mums with natural nurturing practices.