Our Story

When I was pregnant, I realised that modern maternity care wasn’t actually preparing women for birth.

As an already qualified yoga instructor, I completed my pregnancy and postnatal specialist training. I learned so much, and I couldn’t quite believe that women were going into labour and birth without access to this knowledge.

That experience stayed with me as it marked the beginning of how I understood birth and eventually, how I would go on to support women through it.

I have now spent almost a decade working with women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, supporting them through one of the biggest transitions of their lives.

Over time, I noticed a consistent gap. Women were often given information, but not always supported in a way that helped them feel grounded, confident, and connected to their bodies and babies.

My own labour and birth did not unfold as I had planned. But because I had prepared my mind and body in such depth, I still went on to have an incredibly positive and empowering experience… I would have done it again the next day if I could!

That experience brought everything I had learned and witnessed into sharper focus, particularly the importance of nervous system regulation, adaptability, and self-trust when birth takes a different path. I say when, not if, because the truth is that we are never fully in control of how birth unfolds. We can have preferences, plans and intentions, but ultimately your baby will play a big role in setting the timing and rhythm of this dance.

Although you can’t control how your experience plays out, what you can do is far more beneficial… You can prepare your internal tools.

You can learn the biomechanics of birth so you can work with your body and help your baby navigate their way through the birth canal.

You can prepare your nervous system so that your body feels safer, calmer and more capable of responding to the intensity of labour.

You can understand what is happening during each stage of birth so that, rather than fighting against your contractions, you can soften into them and work with the process.

And you can learn your options in the medical maternity care world so that you feel empowered to make decisions surrounding interventions and pain relief, if wanted, or needed.

This combination of professional expertise and personal experience led to the creation of The Birth Prep Studio.

My aim is to help women feel genuinely prepared for labour and birth physically, mentally and emotionally because your birth experience will stay with you for the rest of your life. It matters how you feel during it, how you remember it, and how you carry it forward.

TBPS exists to bridge the gap between information and embodied preparation so that you can feel more informed, more grounded, and more able to stay connected to yourself throughout your birth experience.