Development

• Sharing Circle led by Lolly
• Menopause & The Crone with Melanie Santorini
• YOGA with Louise Simmons
• Wise Woman Circle led by Jill & Lola
• Talk by Forager & Chocolatier Charlotte Flower
• Sam Q&A
• Singing led by Julie
• Qigong in the Garden with Judy
• Why Those who are “With Woman” have a duty of care to move well Talk & Powerpoint by Judy

Protecting Our Physiology: Reclaiming Birth as Vital & Normal with Reign Lawrence.

• Yoga with Louise Simmons
• Fiona Gibb, Midwifery update
• Molly O Brien from Optimal Birth Biomechanics of Birth
• Caroline Talk about her elective placement
• Yoga with Donna
• Energetics of Birth – Mitra Sessions
• Hazel Marr – Adore Your Pelvic Floor

• Yoga with John Stirk
• Yoga with Audrey Tom
• Sara Wickham – Midwifery Update on IOL
• Belly Dancing with Lianna
• Yoga with Aki Omori
• Camilla Lawrence Women’s Physio
• Uduak Udondem – Arivigo Womb Massage

• Yoga with Annabel
• Midwifery Update – Claire Vigot – talk about gender
• In House Discussion

• Posture Sharing Day led by Lolly Stirk.

• Maria Velo Higueras (Midwifery Lecturer)
• Sara Denham PhD Community Midwife Grampian⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
• Lydia Bailand Freebirthing in the time of Covid⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
• Yoga with Arlene Dunkley-Wood⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
• HypnoBreathing with Lolly Stirk⠀⠀

• Yoga with Judy Cameron – Touching the magic within.
• Yoga with Kathleen Beean – Exploring your animal self.
• Yoga with Ruth Polden – Moving Around Stillness. Unpacking Stability and Balance.

• Yoga with Anne Marie Zulkahari
• Midwifery Update Kemi Johnson
• Yoga with Gary Carter
• Guest speaker on topic – Rani Kahnna
• Sound therapy session /Yoga Nidra  with Ingrid Fraser, intro and pre-recorded

• AGM chaired by Ruth Polden and Amanda Edwards, with Committee Member Caroline Brindle
• Birthrights, Johanna Rhys-Davies
• Victoria Cochrane, Consultant Midwife, Midwifery Update

• Fiona Greig, Consultant Midwife Tayside – Midwifery Update
• Perinatal Mental Health – Are we getting it right?
• Yoga with Louise Simmons

• AGM chaired by Ruth Polden and Amanda Edwards, with Committee Members Lauren Irving and Caroline Brindle
• Aude Herail Jager, yoga
• Monica Voss, yoga
• Monica Voss, Explore use of touch in yoga teaching
• Victoria Cochrane, Consultant Midwife, Midwifery Update
• Mars Lord, doula, Diversity & MBRRACE-UK study

• Marketing using online platforms – facebook and instagram

• Emergency First Aid at Work training

• Tracy Humphrey, Consultant Midwife, Midwifery Update
• Rachel MacLeod and Mary Innes, Midwives, Perth Homebirth Team
• Pam Martin, Trauma Release

• Christine Borg, yoga
• Tracy Humphrey, Consultant Midwife, Midwifery Update
• Louise James, Physiotherapist, Pelvic Floor and the Buttafly Block
• Nicola Goodall, doula, What Women Want for Birth

•  AGM chaired by Ruth Polden and Amanda Edwards, with Committee Members Lulu Winfield and Tracey Luggeri
• Briget Thornborough, yoga
• Aude Herail Jager, yoga
• Victoria Cochrane, Consultant Midwife, Midwifery Update
• Alexandra Heath, Traumatic Birth Recovery
• Natalie Meddings, Tell me a Good Birth Story

• AGM chaired by Jill Benjoya Miller, with Committee members Lulu Winfield and Tracey Luggeri
• Dominique Moorsom, yoga
• Lisa McRory, yoga
• Sarah Wickham, midwifery in-depth workshop: Post term pregnancy- exploring the evidence

• AGM chaired by Jill Benjoya Miller, with Committee members Lulu Winfield (and Stacia Smales Hill)
• Chloe Freemantle, yoga
• Aki Omori, yoga
• Hilary Lewin, Maya Abdominal Massage
• Sinead McCarthy, Pelvic Floor, PGP, Psoas
• Christine Grabowska, Midwifery Update & Acupressure points for labour

• Sally Kelly, Specialist Bereavement Midwife, West Middlesex University Hospital, Fetal and Neonatal Death and Bereavement.
• Teresa Gernon, Director of Epi-no UK Ltd.
• Cheryl Slater, Soul Seed Media, Social Media Workshop for yoga teachers

• First Aid at Work Certification for our members

• Debora Alcayde: senior midwife leading the perineal trauma clinic and specialising in FGM
• Louise Kidd: senior midwife leading the VBAC clinic and specialising in turning breech babies
• Maggie Vaughan: Doula (A La Carte Doula) offering placenta services
• Janey Ashton: teaches the art of communicating with touch for midwifery students in King’s college
• Sarah Yorke: Project officer for Singing away the blues for new mothers and pregnant women, Royal College of Music

• Senior Midwife Carmel McCullough, Nathalie Allain, Anne Hutchings, Practice Development Midwives, Chelsea and Westminster: Waterbirth Simulation including emergency situations in the pool
• Kemi Johnson, Independent Midwife, London, of InvisibleMidwives.org: A beautiful Caesarean: Optimising Surgical Birth, including the Human Microbiome
• Film Guerilla Midwife
• Film focus on pelvic floor structure

• AGM chaired by Jill Benjoya Miller, with Committee members Kate Longden and Tracey Luggeri
• Chloe Freemantle, Yoga
• Ruth Polden, Yoga
• Alison Shaloe, Independent Midwife, Tongue Tie & Related Breastfeeding Issues
• Heather Berry, Independent Midwife, Turning a Breech Baby
• Dominique Sakoilsky, Relaxed Birth and Parenting, Introduction to The 7 Secrets of a Joyful Birth

• Nutrition for Pregnancy and Ayurveda with Nisha Kuman Joon
• Midwifery Update with Karen Patrick and Sarah Bearman: The Role of Supervisor of Midwives, plus saline injections for pain relief in labour

• AGM Chaired by Jill Benjoya Miller, with Committee Members Helen Langley, Kate Longden, Tracey Luggeri
• Yoga, Ilse Elders
• Pelvic Instability with physiotherapist Garry Nimmo from Active Balance, Aberdeen, Manipulation Therapist/ Active Isolated Stretching
• Perinatal Mental Health with Sharon Clark, Specialist Perinatal Mental Helath Midwife, NHS Grampian
• Midwifery Update with Tracy Humphrey, Professor of Midwifery Aberdeen

• First Aid training, Colin Fordham

• AGM Chaired by Jill Benjoya Miller, with Committee Members Helen Langley, Kate Longden, Sharon Budworth
• Yoga, Ilse Elders
• Communication in Yoga, Rosalind Garton
• Midwifery Update with Tracy Humphrey, Professor of Midwifery Aberdeen: focus on continuation of Induction of Labour, Group B Strep, Delayed Cord Clamping
• Professional development led by Julie Krausz, Jill Miller, Arlene Dunkley-Wood and Ruth Polden

• AGM chaired by Lolly Stirk, with Committee Members Julie Krausz, Kahtleen Beegan, Olivia Lester, Tracey Luggeri, Annabel Hargrave
• Opening Ceremony Amanda Edwards, YogaBirth Teacher, Interfaith Minister
• Ruth Polden, Yoga
• Sarah James, Marketing with Heart- Constellating
• Midwife Debbie Gowers, Midwifery Update
• Peter Blackaby, yoga
• Sarah Davies and Jamie Morgan, 5 Rhythms: Rhythm & Dance

• AGM Chaired by Lolly Stirk, with Committee Members Marjaana Vanska, Jill Miller, Helen Langley, Kathleen Beegan
• Yoga Ilse Elders and Kathy White
• Biomechanics of the Pelvis, midwife Tracey Sanderson
• Midwifery Update with Tracy Humphrey, Professor of Midwifery Aberdeen: focus Induction of Labour, Group B Strep, Obesity, Delayed Cord Clamping
• Professional Development led by Judy Cameron, Kay Millar, Lolly Stirk
• Ceilidh Dancing

• Carrie Tuke, yoga

• Elisabeth Davison, Chiropractor

• AGM YogaBirth Chair: Arlene Dunkley-Wood & Ruth Armes
• Katie Harvey, Executive and Personal Coach: Money Matters: Personal, Professional and Organisational Approaches
• Midwife Debbie Gowers: Midwifery Update
• John Stirk, yoga
• Ruth Polden, yoga
• Anja Kositz: Postnatal Care for Women
• 5 Rhythms Dancing

• First Aid training, Mike Bond

• AGM YogaBirth Co-Chairs: Arlene Dunkley-Wood & Annabel Hargrave
• Midwives Rachel Wheeler and Karen Patrick: Midwifery Update
• Sophy Hoare, yoga
• Professor of Midwifery Christine Grabowska: Theraputic Touch and Uses and Effects of Personal Energy
• Janna Runnals, Sound Healing and Chakras

• Dawn Baillie, yoga
• Birth Through Story-telling, a healing tool
• Film Orgasmic Birth

• AGM YogaBirth co-chairs: Annabel Hargrave and Kathleen Beegan
• Marc Woolford, yoga
• Amali Lokugamage, Consultant OB/GYN Whittington Hospital London: Natural Birth: Risk vs Choice
• Lorna Davis, With Woman Midwifery: Body-Mind Connection in Birth, Tokophobia
• Nicole Tudor-Williams, physiotherapist: Pelvic Floor workshop: structure, function and dysfunction
• Cynthia Lee Richardson, yoga
• Olivia Lester, Fist breath
• Belly Dancing

• Marion Howells, Meditation and Stillness
• Elmer Postle and Patrick Houser, Fathers-To-Be: Experiences of Fathers at Birth and during Antenatal classes

• Stacia Smales Hill, Birthing From Within mentor and doula: Understanding Variations in Pelvic Shapes, Rebozo for Optimal Fetal Positioning and Closing the Bones after Birth

• Focus Breastfeeding: Update on the Unicef Breastfeeding Management

• AGM YogaBirth co-chairs: Annabel Hargrave and Kathleen Beegan
• Focus core postures in yoga by YogaBirth members
• Katherine James, yoga
• Val Taylor, Independent midwife: Is it truly Possible to Prepare Women for Birth based on the Information That is Currently available? ; discussion of NICE guidelines and sociology of birth paradigms
• Chrissie Tiller, Arts, Education, Cultural Management Consultant: Women and their Energy- Experiential Work

• Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Sitaram Yoga
• Midwifery Update: Senior C&W midwife

• Midwife Mary Stewart: How Women Experience Vaginal Examinations
• Peter Blackaby, yoga
• Chrissie Tiller, Arts, Education, Cultural Management Consultant: Experiential work with Body Language

• Michel Odent
• Heather Hill, yoga
• Midwives Sara Wickham and Lorna Davies
• Wendy Teasdill, yoga
• Maggie Howell, Natal Hypnotherapy
• Susan Oakley, Consultant Midwife