Françoise Freedman
Birthlight Founder and Tutor
Dr Françoise Freedman is the Founder and Director of Birthlight and author of numerous books on pregnancy and birth. She is a pioneer, Senior Yoga Teacher, acclaimed writer and lecturer of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Françoise’s vision to inspire a holistic approach to pregnancy, birth, parenting and women’s wellness that connects the best clinical practice with indigenous wisdom remains her priority. She is a mother of four and a grandmother and considers caring for her family her finest achievement of all.
Liese Van Dam
Birthlight Tutor
With a passion for yoga, nutrition and women’s health; Liese teaches these subjects from an Ayurvedic viewpoint at Birthlight, Delight Academy, The Yoga Therapy Institute and various yoga teacher training courses. At Birthlight Liese co-teaches on several courses by adding the ayurvedic point of view on the course subject with the aim to further deepen the understanding of the Birthlight approach and practices.
Apart from teaching Liese works as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and has a clinic in Ede where she gives consultations and 1-to-1 yoga-sessions.
A warm welcome to your Well Woman Yoga diploma training! This course will be tutored by Francoise Freedman and assisted by Belinda Staplehurst. Ayurvedic specialist Liese van Dam has also created the Ayurvedic modules and will be tutoring on the menstruation module. The course will take place fully online to include the three compulsory modules of the Well Woman diploma over three weekends as follows:
1.Yoga for Healthy Diaphragms
2. Yoga for Pelvic Health
3. Yoga for Healthy Menstruation
with the following timings UK time repeated over each weekend: Friday evenings 6.30-8pm, Saturdays 9.30am-5pm. Sundays 9.30am-1pm. There will be short breaks throughout the day and a one hour lunch break on the Saturdays 1-2pm.
The course will be taught online via Zoom with a varied combination of theory and practice, as well as a chance to interact with your tutors through regular Q& A sessions as well as with other students via breakout rooms. Each module will include an online assessment practice. A detailed programme as well as your Zoom link will be sent to you before the training starts with the expectation that you will be available to attend all sessions. These will also be recorded and available after the end of the course.
We are very much looking forward to meeting you online soon!