Holistic Childbirth & Postpartum Preparation
Classes & Packages
Hello! I'm honored you found your way here.
My classes & packages are offered privately, in home, or in community settings.
Classes are designed to meet individuals and couples where they are,
to accommodate the needs for each unique journey.
The following is an outline of my offerings.
We can customize private classes or you can choose the preset,
specially curated "Birth Journey" package. This is a 4 part series meant to serve as a personal journey, and provides in depth, well-rounded, informative and supportive education/preparation. The package is recommended as the "basics" for preparing for your childbirth & postpartum journey.
Add-ons from the "Additional Support" page are available also.
I highly recommend incorporating some of these offerings to enhance
your level of care and support throughout your birth journey.
Connection Call
If you'd like, we can start with a free 30 min consultation to personally meet
and discuss options for education and preparation.
4 Part Series - The "Birth Journey" Package
Initial Visit
Gathering Facts, Exploring Your Birth, Creating Birth Plans - 1 hr
This time together serves as a key foundational piece to get to know you, your birthing partner
and your vision for your pregnancy, birth and postpartum. This meeting creates an intentional
time to focus and hone in on what is most important to you and to make discoveries within
yourselves, relationship to each other and baby. We will explore tools and techniques for
preparing for birth and optimal prenatal health, including nutrition and self-care.
This is a great time to reflect and explore your questions and concerns or anything else that is coming up during pregnancy. In my experience, it’s invaluable to have an opportunity to meet in this way a sit truly sets a tone for your journey. Allowing time for parents to be heard and letting organic conversation unfold, can be really empowering and supportive.
"Ritual & Preparation" - 2hrs
Creating your Labyrinth
The labyrinth is an ancient symbol, known across every continent. Every culture around the world has relied on this symbol for self-discovery and guidance through life’s most profound journeys. It represents our journey through life, the ordeal(s) we encounter, and the initiation(s) we experience as we travel and grow. The labyrinth is an incredibly beautiful metaphor for the birth journey, embodying birth and rebirth. It represents so perfectly each segment of the sacred rite of passage; pregnancy and the preparations leading up to labor, giving birth at the center of this journey, and the return back into our old world, as a new parent.
During this special, interactive birth preparation class, you’ll create your own labor labyrinth and use birth art as a tool for self-exploration and discovery. We will also incorporate breath work, mediation, affirmations, visualizations and aromatherapy into our labyrinths, so you can integrate these empowering tools into your daily preparations, and utilize these potent techniques for support during labor/birth and in the days beyond. These techniques are all based in intuition and facilitate connection to our deepest truth and inner knowing.
This experience is highly recommended to do with your birth partner or support person.
"Rite of Passage" - 3hrs
Stages of Labor: Physiological process of Labor - the Outer Journey
Gates of Labor: Emotional gates of labor - the Inner Journey
Together we will go over the physiological process of labor, known as the stages of labor.
Additionally, we will cover the emotional gates we pass through during these stages of labor.
The emotional gates highlight the inner journey we travel in labor; these gates are the initiation from Maiden to Mother. However, it is not the Mother alone who experiences this transformative
initiation. Both Parents travel together through the emotional gates of labor during birth.
Understanding this inner process is a profound way to acknowledge the unique journey of each
parent, and to empower and inform both parents throughout the labor experience.
Additionally we will cover coping practices, which are methods and techniques designed to empower both yourself and partner through labor and early postpartum.
We will practice styles of breath-work, positioning,
movements and other key hands on techniques for facilitating a positive birth experience.
(We will take a short break half way through this session. It is also possible to break the session up into 2 visits - 2hr/1hr. However, a $50 fee will be added to split this session.)
"Navigating the Return" - 2hrs
Mindful postpartum planning & preparations
Preparing for the postpartum period is a critical piece of birth education and preparation.
This time holds so much joy and magic and also many unknowns and challenges.
Setting yourself up with support and understanding of this tender and complex time can be a total game changer, and will enhance both parent’s postpartum experiences.
This is a great opportunity to gain awareness and an empowered mindset,
gather powerful coping tools, and also discover ideas for how to
celebrate and honor this time as a rite of passage.
Investment Pricing
Private, in home, Birth Journey Package is bundled at a discounted rate of $475.
Rate includes 4 in home visits, travel time, all supplies, hand out's and pregnancy journal.
Payments are required in full to secure availability.
Split payment options are available upon arrangement.
Currently payments are being accepted by cash, check or Venmo: @Seedtosoul
Please contact me directly for availability via text or email, prior to making payment.
I prefer to meet 1 time per month over the last 4-5 months of your pregnancy.
However, we can meet in whatever time frame suits you.
Meeting over the course of your birth journey allows for
more intentional opportunities to drop into this life transforming event.
Carving out & prioritizing this time can really enhance your experience and preparations.
Partners included in price and are always encouraged to join!
Curate your own birth package from the offerings above.
Cost will be determined by number of hours of education/preparation $65per hr.
An additional $15 travel fee will be added to each session for travel to SLO/South County,
except if you purchase the Birth Journey Package, the travel fee does not apply.
See "Events" page for Community Class Offerings.
Blessingways/Mother’s Blessing
I am honored to offer private Blessingways/Mother Blessing events.
Please reach out personally to learn more about this beautiful Mother Centered offering.
My background in a nut shell
My service in birth work began in 2018, as a Midwifery Assistant.
Serving families in this way has been an opportunity of a lifetime -
I am so grateful to be a part of such beautiful, purposeful work.
My time in Midwifery has been fulfilling attending prenatals, births & postpartum visits.
In 2019 I began my training in Birthing From Within as a Childbirth Educator and Doula,
and have been serving families in this capacity as well, since 2019.
I’m a lifelong plant and nature lover with education and experience in
Herbalism, Therapeutic Essential Oils and Ayurveda, specific to the perinatal period.
I'm always on the path of continued education in order to expand my services and
currently I'm preparing to embark on my Clinical Aromatherapy certification!