Bliss Baby Yoga

Anna Watts, a beloved guest teacher for Bliss Baby Yoga since it’s beginning in Byron Bay, is a professional Childbirth Educator and Doula Trainer (Celebration of Birth Doula Academy) who has been working with pregnant women/couples for over 28 years. Her wide experience includes Diploma in Childbirth Education, Diploma in Counselling, Cert IV Training & Assessment, training prenatal yoga teachers, facilitating women’s circles, birth classes, prenatal yoga and supporting many births as a doula. Anna is a mother to two beautiful, adult daughters. Anna is the founding presenter on our Doula Training and is a specialty guest presenter on our Bliss Baby Yoga Online Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training course.

Joanna has been working with birthing women for over 40 years, beginning her journey as a midwife in London & quickly finding her way to Janet Balaskas’ pioneering Active Birth & Pregnancy Yoga bringing the work to Australia in 1992. Her work has evolved over the years through Active Birth & Pregnancy Yoga, a Diploma of Conflict Resolution Skills, a Diploma of Counselling, a Diploma of Yoga Studies, a Cert IV Training & Assessment, being a certified teacher of the Four Seasons Journey & Earth Woman with the School of Shamanic Womancraft; to support, teach, facilitate & mentor women of all ages through their rites of passage. She is the mother of 2 wonderful adults & lives on Gumbaynggirr Country in a rural haven outside of Bellingen, NSW, Australia.

Rosie Matheson (E-RYT 200, RPYT, YACEP) is a passionate women’s health and wellbeing educator. She has trained extensively in Hatha Yoga, and is a also a qualified Doula. Rosie’s many offerings for women include classes, workshops, and teacher training courses in yoga for fertility, healthy menstruation, women’s life cycles, and both the prenatal and postnatal phases of life. Rosie’s foundational work in women’s yoga was conducted during a three year residency on Koh Phangan, Thailand. There she participated in over 700 hours of Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher Training courses in addition to attending Yoga Therapy workshops, meditation courses, and a variety of women’s retreats and classes. Teaching women close to home and across the globe, Rosie regularly leads trainings for students in the USA, Japan, Italy, and Australia. Rosie’s passion is in educating women on the power of their bodies, and the undeniable correlation between celebrating your feminine form and living an empowered and vital life. Her genius is in presenting these ideas in a way that is accessible, nurturing, and inspiring to women everywhere. Rosie is a Senior Course Facilitator for our Bliss Baby Yoga Prenatal & Postnatal and Fertility Yoga Teacher Training courses, online, throughout Australia and internationally, and also offers Online 1:1 Mentoring for doulas, yoga teachers and personalised yoga classes.