Ayla Harrison
I have happily been helping women and families have a healthy, stress-free, informed and enjoyable pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience for the past 30 years.
My journey began at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where I received my undergraduate degree in clinical nutrition. After moving to the USA I worked as a nutritionist at Atlanta Medical Center until the birth of my twins in 1990. My desire to be a stay at home mom, combined with my enthusiasm for studying and continuing to work in a healing field, led to my next adventure in life – an extensive study of yoga. Following the tradition of T.K.V Desikachar, I have been a certified yoga, prenatal and post partum yoga teacher at Emory University, the Goizueta Business School, The Pierce Program in Atlanta for the past 30 years. I'm currently teaching all the yoga classes via Zoom.
During this period, I developed a great passion toward pregnancy, birth and parenthood. My prenatal classes have evolved into a combination of pregnancy yoga, breath work and childbirth education.
I proceeded to get my DONA Doula Certification - CD(DONA), to better serve my yoga students as well as other moms, to complete this amazing 9 months journey with me supporting them at their birth.
I am honored to be a part of this sacred time in a mother/couple’s life and I strive to help each one to have the birth experience that they desire - offering encouragement, advice and assistance while honoring their wishes.
As I have witnessed time and time again the miraculous journey of pregnancy that, with its culmination, brings the birth or growth of a family, I am reminded of the great value of labor support. Supporting a mother and her partner and allowing them to connect on such an intimate level reaffirms my role; working together as a team, trying new things and always following mom’s lead in this birth dance.
I am continually awed by a mother’s maternal wisdom when given the opportunity, the support and the tools to make the right decisions for her birth and her baby, and always honored and humbled to be a part of the experience.
My journey began at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where I received my undergraduate degree in clinical nutrition. After moving to the USA I worked as a nutritionist at Atlanta Medical Center until the birth of my twins in 1990. My desire to be a stay at home mom, combined with my enthusiasm for studying and continuing to work in a healing field, led to my next adventure in life – an extensive study of yoga. Following the tradition of T.K.V Desikachar, I have been a certified yoga, prenatal and post partum yoga teacher at Emory University, the Goizueta Business School, The Pierce Program in Atlanta for the past 30 years. I'm currently teaching all the yoga classes via Zoom.
During this period, I developed a great passion toward pregnancy, birth and parenthood. My prenatal classes have evolved into a combination of pregnancy yoga, breath work and childbirth education.
I proceeded to get my DONA Doula Certification - CD(DONA), to better serve my yoga students as well as other moms, to complete this amazing 9 months journey with me supporting them at their birth.
I am honored to be a part of this sacred time in a mother/couple’s life and I strive to help each one to have the birth experience that they desire - offering encouragement, advice and assistance while honoring their wishes.
As I have witnessed time and time again the miraculous journey of pregnancy that, with its culmination, brings the birth or growth of a family, I am reminded of the great value of labor support. Supporting a mother and her partner and allowing them to connect on such an intimate level reaffirms my role; working together as a team, trying new things and always following mom’s lead in this birth dance.
I am continually awed by a mother’s maternal wisdom when given the opportunity, the support and the tools to make the right decisions for her birth and her baby, and always honored and humbled to be a part of the experience.