Dolphin Owners

Dolphin Partners

Jennifer Wolfe – RPYT, RYT-500, CHT, CD

Founder, Partner and Trainer

Jennifer Wolfe is a Prenatal and Vinyasa Yoga instructor and trainer (RYT-500), Doula trainer, clinical and medical Master Hypnotherapist, childbirth educator, and Reiki master. She is the creator of the popular DVD’s “Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga ~ Jennifer Wolfe” and ”Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga~ Short Forms with Jennifer Wolfe“. She founded the Dolphin Yoga and Doula Center in 2002 to help birthing women and their partners have better birth experiences by providing knowledge, tools and a comforting environment for prenatal health and childbirth. In June of 2007 Jennifer expanded her business by taking on a partner, Tracy Stettner, and together they have trained many doulas in Jennifer’s cutting edge doula training techniques.

As a hypnotherapist for the past fourteen years, Jennifer has pioneered Childbirth Hypnosis, a unique methodology she developed for gentle birthing and anxiety reduction. Jennifer trains women to be doulas in the Dolphin Method and trains doulas to be Childbirth Hypnotherapists. She has prepared hundreds of pregnant women for childbirth and provided doula support in over 400 births (over 10,000 hours with Laboring women) at Mills Peninsula, Sequoia, Kaiser, Stanford, El Camino, Good Samaritan, Valley Care Medical Center, Pleasanton Birth Home, and California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) hospitals.

Jennifer has studied yoga for the past fourteen years with a variety of instructors including Doug Swenson and trains yoga instructors all over the world in Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga. She is also an educator at the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy, where she offers Childbirth Hypnosis certification to doulas and hypnotherapists.

Melissa Edling – CCHT, CD

Managing Partner – Doula Services

The birth of Melissa’s first daughter was an empowering and life-changing event after recovering from a serious horseback riding accident. The support she received from doula and mentor, Jennifer Wolfe, inspired her to provide the same support to other laboring women. As a Certified Dolphin Method Doula and Childbirth Hypnotherapist, Melissa is committed to her true passion. This passion and dedication resulted in her becoming the managing partner of the company’s doula service practice in 2011.

Melissa believes a woman’s childbirth experience is most powerful when combined with the physical, informational, and emotional support of a doula. She respects the unique characteristics of each woman, recognizing that each individual will have their own concerns, fears, and/or goals. As such, Melissa is committed to providing non-biased support to all types of births.

Melissa is a long-standing resident on the Peninsula. She attended the University of California, Davis attained a degree in Managerial Economics and previously worked in the real estate valuation industry. Melissa and her husband Jason have two amazing daughters Reese and Zoe. In her free time she likes to read, bake, dance, decorate and spend time with family and friends.

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