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The Birth Wellness Festival is dedicated to providing a comprehensive program of presentations, workshops and talking circles held by leading birth and health practitioners from Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland.
With decades of combined experience and deep passion for informed birth choices our presenters will share a wide range of knowledge and experience that will empower women and their families.
Saturday 13 September - Preparing for Birth
Sunday 14 September - Postpartum Offerings
The full program will be released and updated here in mid 2025.
Sali McIntyre
Sali is a passionate advocate for the transformative power of birth, believing that how we birth matters profoundly. She views birth as a sacred rite of passage, guiding women from maiden to mother and inviting partners into a shared journey of emotional and relational growth. Through her classes and workshops at Heart and Soul of Wellness in Murwillumbah, she creates spaces for storytelling, wellness, and connection, empowering families to embrace birth as a cornerstone of human experience.
Dr Oscar Serrallach
Dr Oscar Serrallach specialises in maternal health, with a focus on integrative and functional medicine, and postnatal wellbeing. His work is dedicated to supporting mothers in the months and years after childbirth by combining cutting-edge neurobiological research on the maternal brain with diverse cultural perspectives on postpartum care.
His medical training spans various specialties, including family medicine, indigenous health, addiction medicine, psychiatry, and general practice, alongside extensive postgraduate studies in nutritional and environmental medicine. These experiences, combined with his journey through parenthood and insights gained from indigenous models of Mother Care, have shaped his unique approach to supporting Mothers in the 21st century.
Naomi Jansson
Naomi is a Traditional Medicine Doctor providing treatment and education utilising Chinese Medicine Philosophy, Traditional Herbal Foods, Acupuncture, Moxibustion and her experience as a Registered Nurse. Naomi combines her lived experiences and knowledge of Eastern and Western Medicine through her services and education offering programs of care in her area of expertise; Women's Medicine, Conception, Pregnancy and Postpartum Care.
Jenny Blyth
Jenny Blyth has supported parents in natural birth for over 40 years. She is an independent birth educator, bodyworker, Associate Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy, Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer, Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner & Trainer, & Internal Pelvic Release Work Practitioner & Trainer.
Her particular focus is on body preparation for birth & recovery, & encouraging greater self-responsibility in parents - to realise potential in birth & reduce birth trauma. She specialises in pelvic bodywork for wellbeing, balance, comfort & healing. Jenny regularly facilitates workshops in Australia & overseas.
She is project co-ordinator for Lao Birthwork, teaching hands-on & emergency skills to health staff in remote areas of Northern Laos. She is also an author – The Down to Earth Birth Book, Birthwork, The little book of Pelvic Jiggling - & filmmaker -The Big Stretch films & A World of Birthworkers.
Andrea Lopez
Andrea is well known for her beliefs in Traditional Health and Healing when it comes to supporting Women’s Health issues and prevention. With a passion for educating and supporting women through the various stages and initiations of life, she brings a wealth of experience and a collection of learnings from her travels, family heritage, motherhood and clinic practice.
Andrea has been a bodyworker from 1997, with a strong focus on Women’s Health since 2007. She has enjoyed the learnings and studies from trainings in Belize with Rosita Arvigo, along with Jen and Fiona here on Australian soil, and various other professionals and experts in the field of Women’s Health.
She has whispered to many a womb over the years and finds each woman who presents in clinic, another learning and deepening of wisdom worth sharing.