Fertility!

Spring Solstice marks a time when the light and darkness are equal. It brings new life and oppurtunity for fresh beginnings. This is a wonderful time to sew seeds in your own life, dream big! Make stuff happen! Yes you can. Plant seeds in your imagination, let them grow into reality. Plant Love. Plant Life. Start Living.Out of the darkness and into the Light.

what is a doula?

The word, "doula," comes from the Greek word for the most important female slave or servant in an ancient Greek household, the woman who probably helped the lady of the house through her childbearing. The word has come to refer to "a woman experienced in childbirth who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to the mother before, during and just after childbirth." (Klaus, Kennell and Klaus, Mothering the Mother)


I learned to doula as it were a sacred art. I am trained in labor and chilbirth, basic anatomy, physiology, sexual wisdom, normal newborn, breastfeeding as well as herbs and homeopathy.

I believe that all women have the intrisic knowledge to birth and mother their babies, and that their experience is transformative and sacred. I will hold the space for you.

Blessingway Ceremonies. . . .

Blessingway: a term deriving from the Navaho culture and language. A ritual done to honor, bless, celebrate, and emphasize any signifigant life changes in a true and meaningful way. To lend "good hopes" to a person facing a great shift.

A Blessingway is a wonderful way to fortify and inspire the mother to be with love and courage on her journey. It is a celebration of the coming of her baby and ofourse, the mother making itself. In our culture, the tradtitional form of this ceremony is the baby shower. While this ritual has potential to shower the expecting mother with love and encouragement, inspiration and confidence, it often turns out to be a bland exchange of gifts that have small value on in the realm of birth and motherhood.

This can be swapped for a shower of blessings on the mother. The blessingway is not a ritual partial to any faith. The main purpose is to create a safe and supportive atmosphere for the woman who is about to become a mother for the first time or the fourth. Poems can be shared, music played, songs sung, anything that inspires a fierce and loving spirit that is necessary for any mother. It is lovely to create a tranquil atmosphere, allowing the woman to relax and prepare for labor. Food should be shared, and gifts would be nice. Something homemade is always rich with thought and love. Something personal for mom for after the baby is born, a gift for the baby, even a promise of several meals or helping hands with older children or household duties.

Create a scared space that invites peacefulness, comfort, contemplation and warm vibrations. Sing. Groom and affirm the mothers beauty. Write down wishes for the mother. Have each guest bring a bead to infuse with the wish to be later strung on a neclace that will hang around the womans neck for her labor. Revel in life and its wonders. The beauty of the woman as a vessel. The miracle of the light inside her.

Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I'll meet you there -Rumi

While studyng to be a doula, i was introduced to so many new ideas. Invited to view the world and our places in it, in a fresh way. And when discussing labor and birth, my mentor Whapio always said this

"Ideologies are suffocating. Ideas are liberating."

Nothing is "right" and nothing is "wrong" about birth. Every woman carries, births, mothers her child in her own unique way. Aside from right and wrong there is however, truth.