Approaching Birth with Love and Education

Lolly is a pioneer in her field. Her career spanning 4 decades, has been dedicated to creating and developing the ideal practise for pregnancy, labour, birth and beyond. Lolly’s work uniquely blends the powerful combination of the physical and intellectual aspects of childbirth education, hypnobirthing, specialised yoga and the understanding of physiological birth.

She began studying yoga in 1969 and with the birth of her daughter in the 70’s, she was drawn into the world of birth.

As a doula at hundreds of births, and a certified hypnobirther, she formulated the term ‘hypnobreathing’, an essential practice which she passes on in her teaching.

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Current Online Sessions

Private Sessions Online

Lolly continues her work privately online and you can get in touch with her to arrange private pregnancy yoga classes, postnatal classes and hypnobirthing sessions at lollysastirk@gmail.com.

Mother Time - an online community for pregnancy and beyond, postnatal yoga

Mother-Time

Recently Lolly has joined her friend and colleague Claire Whitman at the online pregnancy and postnatal platform Mother-time.

Online pregnancy yoga classes: – More than just a yoga in pregnancy class, these sessions start with a group discussion on all things pregnancy, birth and baby. Then we move onto the specialised yoga where along with all the benefits received for a healthy pregnancy, we blend in childbirth education and hypnobreathing in preparation for birth. Go to the Mother-Time website for more information.

  • Thursday evenings 7pm to 8.30pm.

Online Active/Hypnobirthing for women and their birth partners.

During these 4-hour workshops, Lolly brings in all her many years of experience as Doula, Hypnobirther and Yoga teacher to prepare you both for the birth of your baby. For more information, dates and times, head to Mother-time.

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Mission - Lolly Stirk is teaching one day birth preparations sessions live in Shoreditch.

Current Live Sessions at Mission

Lolly has recently joined Mission to teach her unique one day birth preparation session, live in Shoreditch. Read about these Active/Hypobirthing workshops on the Mission website.

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Lolly Stirk - Pregnancy Yoga classes

Pregnancy Yoga Classes

Specialised pregnancy classes with hypnobreathing.

Pregnancy Yoga
Lolly Stirk Active/Hypnobirthing workshops

Active / Hypnobirthing Workshops

A unique birth preparation for women and their birth partners.

Active / Hypnobirthing
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Teacher Training

Lolly Stirk Teacher Training Immersions & Workshops.

Teacher Training

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Etta

Hi Lolly, My beautiful little girl was born on Friday 25th Oct at 1:48am at 6lbs 7 oz & lots of black hair :). Olly & I are head over heels- she’s an angel!! She was also an angel in labour- perfect fetal position so that I laboured at home for  nearly 7 hours (with no pain relief) until I was 9cm. Got to C&W just in time to deliver upright, on my knees in just an hour. She latched on straight away & I delivered the placenta physiologically at the same time as her suckling. The knowledge of what was going on physiologically in my body from your classes/workshop helped me invaluable as it took away any fear. I felt I knew exactly what was going on & just let it happen. Spent most of my labour on all 4’s or leaning over my ball. All 4’s is a life saver! :). Thank you so much for your amazing yoga classes – I couldn’t have done it without them. I will miss them! Lots of love xx

Sheila Kitzinger
All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence, and attendants with infinite patience.
Michel Odent
To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born
Michel Odent
We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right positionfor her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.
Mary

Hello Lolly,
I hope you remember my husband and I the Irish couple that flew especially from Dublin to do your Active Birth/hynpobreathing workshop in November in Chelsea London. Well just to let you know we delivered a beautiful healthy alert boy this morning at 9.22 am. Lolly all the knowledge and breathing techiques you taught us which we practice saw me throughout the night as no pain relief was used and a very content baby arrived into this world. Honestly through it all I remembered your words. Just sending you on a email to thank you dearly from Dan and I.

Vanda Scaravelli
Tell them (pregnant women) that birth is the most natural thing on earth.
Michel Odent
People never sing…except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.
Michel Odent
One cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.