NONA® PRENATAL YOGA & SUPPORT · CERTIFIED TEACHERS
Meet the teachers
Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support is a six-week class that teaches parents to embody coping skills, building familiarity and confidence for birth. It is the emotional and embodied companion to childbirth education.
Every teacher on this page trained with Erica Kroll, who created the class, and is certified to teach the six-week series.
Abbey Bartley
FULTON · JEFFERSON CITY · COLUMBIA
Abbey Bartley is a certified Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support teacher, birth doula, and birth photographer with her Master's in Healthcare Administration. She supports families in Fulton, Jefferson City, Columbia, and the surrounding areas.
Abbey has supported families through birth since 2023 and began this work after her own first birth, when she realized that having the right support could have changed her outcomes.
Abbey teaches the six-week series in person at Awen Yoga and Wellness in Fulton, the YMCA of Callaway County in Fulton (alternating with Chelsea Lopez), and at Erica's Nona® home studio in Columbia.
Website: bartleydoula.com
Facebook: Abbey Bartley - Doula
Email: [email protected]
Chelsea Lopez
FULTON · ASHLAND
Chelsea Lopez is a certified Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support teacher, birth doula and lactation counselor in Fulton, Missouri. Chelsea has supported families through birth since 2015 as Heart of Missouri Doula.
Chelsea teaches the six-week series in person at the YMCA of Callaway County, alternating with Abbey Bartley.
Chelsea will also offer six-week sessions in Ashland at Momentum Dance Academy in early 2027.
Facebook: Heart of Missouri Doula
Email: [email protected]
DeeDee Farris
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
DeeDee Farris is a certified Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support teacher and 200-hour certified yoga instructor. DeeDee has spent more than 30 years supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.
Her background includes work as a midwife, doula, childbirth educator, and doula trainer. This work has given her a deep respect for each person’s individual experience, and she believes that everyone deserves support that meets them where they are.
DeeDee teaches the six-week Prenatal Yoga & Support series in Erica's Nona® home studio in central Columbia.
Email: [email protected]
Erica Kroll
CREATOR AND FOUNDER
M.ED, LPC · E-RYT 200 · RPYT
Erica created the Nona® Prenatal Yoga & Support class and trains and certifies the teachers who offer it. With over 25 years of experience as a childbirth educator, doula, and prenatal yoga instructor, she brings a neuroscience informed, compassionate approach to prenatal movement and birth preparation.
Erica teaches the six-week series in her Nona® home studio in Columbia.
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