John

"Your class was beyond invaluable. During Cecilia's birth we utilized all of the techniques you taught us including, most importantly, not to have preset expectations. Thank you for helping us to have an amazing birth experience as a couple. We will be forever grateful."

Greta

"Everything that I learned from this class helped me and made Neil an awesome partner. We had a water birth at home and it was by far the most amazing event in my life. I am so thankful for what your class taught us. I just kept thinking surrender and let go the whole time."

Jami

"The Yoga Way to Birth was just what I was looking for in a birthing education class.  Intuitively, I think that birthing is both psychological and physical, with the physical aspects demanding center stage.  Because of that, I believe one must surrender to the physical process in order to have the most rewarding birth experience.  Tina showed me how to surrender using yogic methods and principles, which was exactly what I hoped I would take away from this course. 

Not only is the course material superb, but so is Tina.  She is a gifted and intuitive teacher; welcoming, unassuming and knowledgeable.  Tina teaches both by sharing her personal experiences and by asking participants to think deeply about what we believe to be true.  I highly recommend this course and Tina as a teacher."

Andy

"Thanks, Tina, for showing us a truly spiritual perspective to what promises to be a life changing experience. You've given us a new understanding that will benefit us greatly for the big moment."

Gretchen

"The Yoga Way to Birth provided a much needed space for my partner and I to prepare for our daughter's birth. The conversations sparked by your class were integral to the truly perfect birth experience we had. I can't thank you enough!"

Jamin

"I was taking prenatal yoga with Tina and after being in her yoga class for a month or so, I realized she was the person I wanted to work with. Her birthing class was warm and inviting. Being in the class with my partner was really emotional. The work we did in the class helped us approach the birth and work through the overwhelming intensity of it with more clarity and calm."

Ryan

"When I went to birth class I wanted someone to tell me what was going to happen. I know, you can't predict everything, but make it like a multiple choice question: it's either going to be like A, B, C, or D. So at first it was mildly exasperating when Tina kept responding to our questions by asking the class, "What are your ideas about that?"

"What are my ideas about 'transition?'" I said to myself. "Aren't you supposed to tell me what my ideas are?" Then it started to come clear what she was teaching us. Birth doesn't go down like an SAT test. You can study hard and but still won't know what will be asked of you, and expert notions of how birth should be might just get in the way of seeing what's actually happening or deciding what to do about it. So how does one prepare?

The excellent thing Tina did was to encourage us to bring out and involve our own ideas: about our own bodies and our partners, our capabilities, and things that really scared us. She helped us find coping techniques we already had inside and made us see them in ways so that we could really rely on them during the birth. She was helping to change us not into people who could take a test on birth, but people who could bring a calm, informed awareness to the actions and decisions we'd need to make upon entering the unpredictable land of labor.

Our daughter's birth was difficult. It was also grounded in the sensuality of life that makes it one of the most treasured and life-changing things that I've experienced. In the months before the birth, Tina helped us connect with ourselves in a way that made that experience of birth possible."

 Bonnie

"I am really grateful and happy we did this class. I feel a lot more at peace with the whole experience that is about to come. This class is full of wisdom."

 Liz and Joe

"What a wonderfully well rounded class. I wish we did this class the first time around."

 Sam and Alisa

"The most perfect tool I could have hoped for in helping us prepare."

Sarah and Nathaniel

"So wonderful! We really grew a lot over the past couple of weeks -- got us on a level we hadn't really considered about our preparation for birth. Thank you!"