6.30 pm – 9.30 pm


A special event for couples planning to conceive and healthcare practitioners
working with infertility.

Come and spend an evening with expert practitioners to hear about pre-conception
health and well-being, methods for improving male and female fertility, techniques
for maintaining a healthy pregnancy and much more.

The evening will be an excellent source of information and advice for natural
or assisted conception.

£30 per couple or £20 individual



TO BOOK YOUR PLACE

- telephone 0131 226 2601 or email info@aditiholistichealth.com
- send a cheque payable to "Aditi Ltd." to: Aditi Holistic Health, 5 Alva Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4PH.
- please also include your name, address, contact phone number with your cheque and write "Fertility & Beyond" on the back of the cheque.


PROGRAMME

18:30 Chairperson – Caroline Dykes
18.35 Sam MacCuish ‘Dr Alice Domar’s Mind Body Medicine – coping with infertility stress
18.35 – A cognitive behavioural model’
18.55 Fiona Wolfenden ‘Chinese herbal medicine and how it helps infertility’
19.15 Philippa Levinson ‘Fit for fertility – how nutrition therapy enhances fertility’
19.35 Anna Salman ‘Can acupuncture help optimise the outcome of fertility treatment?’

19:50 Break for refreshments

20.10 Georgie McCulloch ‘Is your lifestyle affecting your fertility?’- why relaxation time is necessary
20.10 for healthy conception’
20.30 Elizabeth Biagi ‘Homeopathy – a holistic approach to fertility’
20.50 Helen Briggs ‘Hypnotherapy for Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth’
21.10 Juliet Le Page ‘Assisted conception – taking the egg donation route to become a parent’
21.30 Closing remarks



SPEAKERS PROFILES

Sam MacCuish – Sam founded CRADLE, the assisted conception charity, in 2004 following her own experiences of having difficulties getting pregnant and requiring IVF treatment.  She has two children aged five and a half and three.  In 2006 CRADLE became the first organisation in the UK to provide Dr Alice Domar’s Mind Body programme for dealing with stress and infertility.  Sam is a qualified geneticist having finished her Masters degree at Glasgow University in 2001.

Philippa Levinson – started practicing as a Nutrition Therapist in 2001 and developed a particular interest in fertility in the following years.  She has worked with many women and couples supporting pre-conception health, including detoxification programmes where appropriate.  Her work incorporates analysis of mineral and hormone levels and she works with both natural and assisted conception.

Elizabeth Biagi – is a qualified homeopath, graduating in 1996 from the London College of Classical Homeopathy and is a registered member of The Society of Homeopaths.  She has clinics in Edinburgh and Glasgow and amongst her clients she treats those wishing to improve their fertility, pre-conception health, support during IVF and ailments in pregnancy.   Her favourite clients are babies.  Elizabeth offers the support and homeopathic treatment to make them happen!

Fiona Wolfenden – has a professional nursing background.  She has since qualified as an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist and has undertaken further studies in China.  She has been in private clinic practice since 1991 and is a member of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine and the British Acupuncture Council.  She specialises in fertility and obstetrics within her clinical practice.

Anna Salman – Anna has been practising acupuncture since 2001 and graduated from the Northern College of Acupuncture in York.  She enjoys treating all kinds of health issues and is especially interested in women’s health, fertility and emotions (both women's and men's!).  Before studying acupuncture Anna obtained a degree in Social Anthropology.  She taught English for several years both abroad and in the UK, and then worked in London for the British Acupuncture Council, before moving to Edinburgh.

Helen Briggs – Helen is a Hypnotherapist, a certified HypnoFertility®  and HypnoBirthing® practitioner, and Yoga Teacher.  Helen has been practicing yoga for 20 years and has been teaching full time for over 5 years.  She is qualified to teach yoga and meditation to adults and children and has a special interest in both yoga and hypnotherapy to aid fertility, pregnancy and birth.  She seeks to take her clients on a journey of awareness, encouraging a deeper understanding of the connection between their mind, body and spirit.  Helen is the owner of Aditi Yoga Centre and Aditi Holistic Health. 

Juliet Le Page – qualified in 1989 from the Leeds College of Physiotherapy as a Chartered Physiotherapist and worked for many years in the National Health Service for hospitals and clinics throughout Edinburgh.  Her main areas of work and special interest during this time were Obstetrics and Gynaecology.  She went on to qualify as a fertility awareness practitioner using the Billings Ovulation Method.  As a member of WOOMB she supports their aims of being leaders in fertility education.  She now runs her own business, Fertility Concerns, teaching fertility awareness, advising couples and individuals on pre-conception health issues, problems conceiving and many other aspects relating to fertility whether natural or assisted conception.

Georgie McCulloch – qualified as a reflexologist from The Scottish School of Reflexology in 2001 and has been working in private clinic practice in Edinburgh since then.  She does a lot of work with clients with hormonal or menstrual problems and women trying to conceive, as well as those with mental health issues and depression.  She provides supportive reflexology treatments for those undergoing IVF or other fertility treatments.  Georgie specialises in maternity reflexology, working with women at each stage in their pregnancy through to birth and beyond. 



VENUE:

The Mull Room
Gillis Centre
100 Strathearn Road
Edinburgh
EH9 1BB


How to find Gillis Centre:

Buses: 
No 24 to Whitehouse Loan
Nos 5, 51 to Strathearn Road
Nos 11,15,16,17,23,45,47 to Bruntsfield Place

Car Parking is available at Gillis Centre and there is plenty of free parking on Whitehouse Loan




Click here to view larger map and directions to Gillis Centre



Organised by




In support of National Infertility Day Saturday 19th July 2008
www.nationalinfertilityday.com