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Emily trained as a midwife after completing a degree in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies. She has worked as an Independent midwife, an NHS hospital midwife and as a community midwife linked to rural birth centres.
Emily has trained in Active Birth, Yoga in Pregnancy, Aquanatal, Shiatsu for Midwives www.wellmother.org Reiki and Infant Massage www.iaim.org.uk
Emily has been actively involved in environmental, peace and ecofeminist projects for over 20 years and worked in conservation and environmental education with both adults and children before training as a midwife in 1999.
Emily was drawn to midwifery because of the fusion of the miraculous and the everyday. She is passionate about women reclaiming the innate wisdom of their bodies and facilitating birth to be an empowering process for everyone involved. She believes that a peaceful, healing birth has the potential to help heal the Earth and create peace in the world. Emily established Heaven and Birth to provide birth preparation that was creative, holistic and nourishing on every level and to include a spiritual dimension which is so important at this life changing time.
As well as being a midwife, Emily is also an Interfaith Minister and spiritual counsellor www.interfaithfoundation.org She lives in Dorset and has two young sons.
Email emily@heavenandbirth.com