Lea Blumberg is a certified hypnotist that specializes in women's issues and is the Director of the New Life Awareness Institute (NLAI). She is the former Director of the Prenatal Parenting Program^® for the state of Arizona where she has studied and practiced since 1986. Lea is a Non-Denominational Ordained Minister and holds practitioner certifications in Medical Hypnosis, Prenatal Parenting^®, HypnoBirthing^®, Hypno-Fertility^®, Professional Labor Companion, Sleep Deprivation, and NLP. Lea also is a Reiki Master Teacher and holds special certifications in Weight Loss, smoking cessation, allergy relief, hospice, cancer and related issues. In 2007 she became a Certified Sports Hypnotist, teaching young women how to use the power of their mind to achieve their goals, build confidence, self-esteem and how to apply it to all aspects of their life.

Lea is registered with the International Center of Reiki Training and a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, National Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Psychology, and Arizona Society for Professional Hypnosis.

NLAI was created from the overwhelming need for support and guidance for women going through childbirth. Programs offered through NLAI build confidence and trust in the women's body and ability to birth her baby gently. We help empower women through education about all their birth choices and options, which are normally not taught in childbirth classes or by medical staff. We want women to know they do have a voice in how their baby comes into this world. Lea and her network of professionals, fully supports women in their birth choices whether it be a home birth, birthing center and hospital.

Today it has become apparent how far we have strayed from the sacredness of childbirth. Today mothers are under a tremendous about of stress as they are being coerced in to inducing or cesareans. With all of the unnecessary medical interventions being done today, the complications and traumatic births have become more common. These traumatic births effect not just the mother, but the baby for the rest of their life's. But birth does not have to be this way. Lea, her support team and millions of others are successfully changing this birthing scenario into a peacefully, joyous, occasion no matter were the mother decides to birth.

Science knows that the stress levels of the mother and her environment has a direct effect on how the baby's brain developments. They also know the babies can hear, see and feel everything the mother is experiencing. Scientist believe that our mind and behaviors begin to mold and shape in utero. I realized that the majority of my clients life issues stemmed from their early childhood and many in utero.

On a monthly basis there are articles being written now on this subject. TIME magazine, cover June 2, 2003, "Are you programmed from birth or does life change the program? A radical new look at what makes you special." The article is titled "What makes you who you are. Which is stronger-nature or nurture? The latest science says genes and your experience interact for your whole life." The article states and I quote, "In the early days, scientists detailed how genes encode the various proteins that make up the cells in our bodies. Their more sophisticated and ultimately more satisfying discovery-that gene expression can be modified by experience- has been gradually emerging since the 1980's. Only now is it dawning on scientists what a big and general idea it implies: that learning itself consists of nothing more than switching genes on and off. The more we lift the lid on the genome, the more vulnerable to experience genes appear to be. This is not some namby-pamby, middle-of-the-road compromise. This is a new understanding of the fundamental building blocks of life based on the discovery that genes are not immutable things handed down from our parents like Moses' stone tablets but are active participants in our lives, designed to take their cue from everything that happens to us from the moment of our conception." end of quote.