Jency Elliott
Woodstock, NY
 HypnoBirthing® Practitioner

I am married and have two young adults, a girl 21 and a boy 23. My son was born via c-section and I had a VBAC with my daughter. When I took the training to become a HypnoBirthing® practitioner I realized why my first birth was so medical and why I was able to achieve a natural birth the second time.

Five years ago I decided that I wanted to become a Hypnotist. I trained and received my certification with the National Guild of Hypnotists in New Hampshire. Yearly they have conventions where one can get additional training and participate in a wide variety of seminars. The first year that I attended I went to a seminar about HypnoBirthing® taught by Marie Mongan, the program's founder.  
 I was hooked. I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.   I became a certified practitioner, affiliated with the HypnoBirthing® Institute, four years ago. The idea that birth is a natural process and that I could help women have trust in the belief that they can experience birth through the normal flow and rhythm of their laboring body and release birthing over to their mind and body, to trust their body to function as it was intended, was thrilling to me.

HypnoBirthing®, besides being a comprehensive childbirth education course, teaches the mother and birth companion various techniques of working together to bring the mind and body into perfect harmony, allowing moms to experience birth much more comfortably with more ease and serenity because of this philosophy and the practice of releasing stress, relaxing the muscles, letting go of negative emotions and fears, bonding with the baby before birth, and learning to trust in the body, HypnoBirthing® helps moms accomplish their birth goals. This will assure them a better birth experience.

My hope is to continue to educate and empower women, and birth companions, so that they can feel confidence, trust and an excitement in anticipation of a calm, fulfilling and life-affirming birth.   This is a woman's right.

HypnoBirthing® The Mongan method

Jency with Kai

For more information about Jency and HypnoBirthing
visit her website http://www.acalmerway.com
or email her at jency@hvc.rr.com

"Just as woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth."
- Virginia Di Orio

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."  - not sure who said this quote

"Imagine...women...with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth."
- Christiane Northrup, OBGYN