What makes Nona’s trainings different
Rather than focusing only on advocacy or rote techniques, our programs emphasize understanding how the mind and body interact during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. You'll learn how to support the nervous system, recognize and respond to individual needs, and build true confidence in your ability to guide and support others — whether you're in a hospital, birth center, or home birth setting.
Who are Nona Trainings For?
At Nona, professional trainings are designed for doulas, educators, yoga teachers, mental health providers, and other birth professionals who want to deepen their skills with evidence-based, integrative approaches. These courses go beyond standard certification or continuing education; they blend neuroscience, physiology, psychology, and practical tools to support clients in a variety of birth settings.
Nona Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Nona Prenatal Yoga teachers will get specialized training in the emotional, cognitive, and physical terrain of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for a truly integrated approach.
Foundations Doula Training
Mindfulness-based, polyvagal informed: Nona birth doulas and postpartum doulas learn how to harness the power of the mind/body connection to support their clients through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
Counselor Training
Specialized perinatal counselor trainings integrating polyvagal informed and mindfulness-based strategies to support adjustment to parenting and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Advanced Trainings and Continuing Education
Advanced training to deepen your labor support and childbirth education skills.
Erica is a perinatal expert with over 25 years in the field.
Trainings are developed and taught by Erica Kroll, LPC. Erica is a perinatal counselor, doula trainer/retired doula, and has facilitated mindfulness-based prenatal yoga and support classes for over 25 years. Her unique combination of experience from attending births, teaching parents, training professionals, and providing specialized counseling to prenatal and postpartum families makes her especially suited to share her knowledge and expertise with you.
About Erica
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Childbirth
This advanced course is one of the first of it's kind to use polyvagal theory to illuminate the mind-body connection and apply that knowledge to childbirth and labor support.
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Are you ready to be an expert?
These trainings are designed to help you show up with clarity, confidence, and skill — beyond scripts or formulaic approaches. You’ll deepen your capacity to hold complexity, support individual needs, and build genuine confidence in your practice.
Questions? Contact Erica at [email protected]
