Empowered, Informed, Transformative Childbirth is Our Birthright 🦋
Announcing January Childbirth Education and the future of The Birth Realm
This e-mail features:
- updates & free offerings from The Birth Realm & our peer birthworkers
- January Childbirth Education classes
- Free workshop for newly pregnant folks 1/13
One year ago I announced The Birth Realm for the first time, opening with a monthly subscription for 2 holistic childbirth classes. Beautiful babies were born while that portal was open but after a few months, the trial came to a close (I’m the kind of person learns through experience which is why you see me experimenting and shifting a lot!). From there I was able to see what was needed to really sustain this vision and I knew I couldn’t do it alone.
Dr. Kiki, the first client to trust me with their longterm, pre-conception care, was in the thick of her postpartum period, but by Summer she accepted my invitation (or as I’d put it, our ancestors’ requests) to become a co-founder and steward this vision together.
Summer 2023 marked a catalyst moment for how we want to show up in the world, and ever since Kiki and I have been in a season of deep listening for all areas of our lives, but especially around our roles in the reproductive + birth justice movements.
wrote a fantastic blog around the threats to our creative sovereignty and how she’s confronting that through her work as The Voice Doula and Co-founder of The Birth Realm.This past December, things materialized even more when we finally got to hug in the flesh after 2.5 years of virtual connecting from California to Illinois. Being together on the Winter Solstice was the perfect transitional event to mark the end of The Birth Realm’s gestational period because as our friend
says, '“long story long,” this is our announcement that CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION CLASSES ARE NOW LIVE!The Birth Realm Method: Childbirth Education
1/26: Journey to The Birth Realm — nervous system education and hypnosis-style meditation intended to prepare people for active labor and transition.
1/30: Labor Lessons — physiological and spiritual-somatic care intended to prepare people for pregnancy and labor
These classes will be offered every month and are designed for both one-time education and ongoing practice. Each 2 hour virtual workshop will weave the scientific, political, and spiritual elements from which The Birth Realm method emerged.
Click here to book or gift The Birth Realm Method class package.
The decision to slow down and let The Birth Realm emerge for almost a full year was a stretch for me personally, but it was right in line with my word for 2023: DEVOTION. Devotion to myself, my ancestor work, and to allowing my role for the collective to unfold. As a continuation of this devotion, this year’s word is HONESTY.
To allow The Birth Realm to gestate and emerge naturally, so much honesty was required around my energetic limitations, false stories of urgency, and capacity to hold mothers and queer families in these increasingly chaotic and systemically oppressive times. So now I can honestly say we’re back in motion!
Kiki and I agreed that our Childbirth Education (CBE) is the most important first offering to the collective and we’ve co-created 2 monthly CBE classes that integrate physiologic birth lessons, the context of the systemic conditions of birthing in the US, and our belief that our childbirth experiences can alter the course of not only our own lives, but our family legacies. We teach from the stance that mothering is a revolutionary act and that calls for Childbirth Education that is honest about the medical industrial complex.
Our Soul Sensitive approach expands on Trauma-Informed Care by integrating the modern and Indigenous science around the birthing body, nervous system, and hypnosis. We share this method because in my 4 years as a doula I found the most popular labor methods fell short on the socio-political context and spiritual opportunities present in the birthing room.
This year you can expect:
Childbirth Education that offer a queer and spiritual alternative to Hypnobirthing & The Bradley Method
Virtual healing workshops for more reproductive transitions including miscarriage, abortion, and grief events
Community care and spiritual healing circles for all stages of pregnancy and parenting
Training and mentorship opportunities for doulas and birthworkers to deepen their soul-sensitive skillsets.
Moving forward we will be returning Substack to its original intention of storytelling and newsletters for reproductive and birth justice. If you are currently pregnant (congrats!) or preparing to be, subscribe to our e-mail list specifically for pregnancy and childbirth offerings.
We are so thrilled to share more about why this method is so important to us and how its benefitted our budding community of Birth Realm parents and creators so far. Thank you for being here with us and wishing you all moments of rest and pleasure this weekend.
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