Although a professionally college trained dancer, Debi began her yoga practice in 1990 to handle the stress of working a demanding corporate management career in NYC. Her first teacher was Henry, an older gentleman of small stature that taught wonderful two hour classes a few blocks from her East Village apartment on St. Ten years later when Debi became pregnant transitioning to prenatal yoga was natural step to continue her practice during such an important part of her life. She home birthed a son on Long Island in 2005. Debi has been teaching childbirth education for over 10 years and as a clinically trained hypnotist specializing in women’s health including fertility, pregnancy and postpartum, she is a Representative for OMAEP {World Organisation for Prenatal Education Associations} in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. As a member of Holistic Moms Network, New Yorkers for Vaccination Information and Choice, La Leche League and The HypnoBirthing® Nest along with Long Island Doula Association, The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services and Society of Enlightened Entrepreneurs among other groups, Debi provides a variety of resources to her students. She has been a guest speaker at The Ross School’s Center for Well Being in East Hampton and a guest on News12 Long Island Naturally with Mary Mucci. Debi has also worked with Suzanne Arms {natural birth advocate, author of Immaculate Deception and founder of Birthing the Future} Karen Brody {playwright and birth visionista of Rock Your Birth}, Dr. John Travis {founder of Wellspring and Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children} along with the infamous Ina May Gaskin. Shortly after she completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training, Debi trained with Dorothy Guerra learning the Yoga Birthing Method and began her studies for her certification in Pre-Natal Yoga with Heather Simonson of The Yoga Womb. In the fall of 2012, she participated in an intensive workshop with NY Times Best Selling Author and Transformational Coach, Debbie Ford, during a 11 day holy land cruise to Egypt, Isreal, Greece and Italy. Her most important credential is, however, her personal experience as having learned prenatal yoga first as an expectant mother with all the fears, feelings, doubts and concerns that one faces when traveling the journey of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood.
