What Makes Nona Trainings Different
Nona’s professional trainings are designed for doulas, educators, yoga teachers, mental health providers, and other birth professionals who want to deepen their skills through evidence-based, integrative approaches.Â
These programs emphasize how the mind and body interact during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. You’ll learn to support the nervous system, recognize and respond to individual needs, and apply neuroscience, physiology, psychology, and practical tools to guide and support others in any birth setting.

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.

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Childbirth
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
Advanced Trainings
Explore current and upcoming advanced trainings and continuing ed for doulas and birth educators
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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]