Hi, my name is Ria, I am the proud owner of Mama’s Mindfulness®, a business I started after the birth of my youngest son. On attending a class, I fell in love with the many benefits of baby massage for both parent & child so whilst on maternity leave, I trained to become a baby massage and baby yoga teacher & a perinatal mental health practitioner amongst other things. I’m a mummy to 4 amazing humans and a wife to the best man I know.

After running my postnatal business for nearly 3 years and empowering families once they’d birthed their child AND after hearing many birthing stories during my time teaching (I teach around 60 families per week so have heard many a story!) I decided it was time to help empower woman & birthing people, BEFORE their baby arrived so that they have the knowledge & power to make informed choices, in order to birth in the way that most suits them & their growing family.

I wanted to train with a company that felt totally aligned to my growing business and my core values and so I feel very lucky to have found The Calm Birth School, a training provider that is inclusive, up to date and who truly values what it is that the person birthing wants THEIR birth to look like, not a preconceived version of what we feel birth “should” look like.

I cannot wait to support families and teach them the very logical and science based “magic” of hypnobirthing and watch as they retrain their brains to see birth for exactly what it can be instead of what the media & tv has led them to believe it will be.