Hi! I'm Anna, also known as Anne or Annie so don't get confused, I am the same person! 
I live in the small coastal town of Mollymook NSW. I live and breathe through the ocean; I need to submerge daily and surf as much as I can on my purple lotus longboard. I also find solace amongst ferns and in my garden surrounded by flowers, birds, and bees. I gave birth here in our home in my massage room to our beautiful baby boy who is now a toddler! 

My intention for my offerings is to support women to feel peaceful, seen, celebrated, and nurtured during their rite of passage of pregnancy and birth, but also in different seasons of a Women's life. My offerings range from Ka Huna bodywork for all Women to holistic birth classes with Hypnobirthing Australia. 

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​My passion for all things pregnancy and birth grew in 2016 when I started my journey as a post graduate Midwife (previously I was a registered Nurse since 2010).
I soon discovered that what we were learning in Uni about how to support physiological birth wasn't matching what happened in the birth unit within the Hospital. From unnecessary intervention and disturbance happening within the hospital Maternity system (of course I did also see very necessary intervention!).  A couple of years in I attended my first home birth as the second midwife and this just blew my heart and soul wide open to the possibilities of how beautiful and magic birth can be at home.
I supported women in a handful more home births but the majority of the births I attended were in hospital settings.
There were many beautiful births at the hospital too, but there also many Women feeling unhappy or traumatised by their birth experience, either by how they felt coerced into interventions or from a lack of birth preparation beforehand.

​After supporting a first time Mother who prepared her learnt Hypnobirthing as her preparation, and seeing how confident, calm, and supported she felt, I felt a strong knowing to teach this course ASAP and have been since 2018. I now have the pleasure of knowing many Mothers and their partners who have Hypnobirthed their babies into the world in a calm, positive and empowering way! Check out my testimonials as living proof:)

 

I love teaching this course to Mothers and their birth partners to share my passion for pregnancy and birth and provide a realistic view of what birthing in a hospital or at home is like and how to best support you in your chosen place to birth. I love explaining how to use the system to their advantage with strategies in place to understanding when an unnecessary intervention is suggested. I also love teaching all the amazing, mindfulness, feel good and deeply relaxing tools to stay calm and focused for the remainder of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. With plenty of easy to apply tips and advice for the birth partners to best support the Mother during their pregnancy, birth and postpartum. 

​During the time when the world went mad in 2020, I had to decide whether to stay or go in my role as hospital-based midwife due to a new mandate that I wasn't supportive of.  I decided to walk away from my Midwifery role as I felt I could have the greatest impact on women by supporting and preparing them with all the experience I had gained. This felt in true alignment for how I felt women in our community deserved to be supported as a Doula, Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner and bodyworker. As a bonus, some beautiful friendships were also created through our time together. This was when I re-established myself and my blossoming business as Inner Surge Birth Wisdom. My very artistic Mother hand drew my logo for me.  

 

During this time, I also became an advanced Ka Huna & Lomi Lomi bodyworker (an ancient Polynesian style of bodywork) to nurture and help align women in all seasons of their lives infused with the Aloha spirit of unconditional love.  It has been such an amazing gift to give this style of bodywork for both myself and my beautiful clients! I love seeing the before and after transformation of that post massage glow!

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Thanks for visiting my Mother centred business - Inner Surge.  

Please get in touch if any of my offerings resonate with you. I would absolutely love to support and nurture you!