Pregnancy & birth
Embodied Pre-Conception - Accompanying Pregnancy - Somatic Birth Preparation - Accompanying Birth - Somatic Birth Integration & Re-imprinting - Baby & Pregnancy Loss - Ceremonies - Birth Story Witnessing - Closing the Bones
birth keeping & the birth arts
I am a trained Birth Keeper, a name for a traditional, pre-colonial and non-medical birth attendant. I am in service to walking alongside birthing people and their families on their unique journeys to conception, pregnancy, birth and post-partum. My role is to witness your unique journey of transformation into parenthood, and to provide guidance, tools, knowledge and pathways that support your crossing of this threshold.
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​Conception, pregnancy and birth open up the space for every birthing person to claim what is theirs. Their fears, their stories, their imprints, and their power. The traditional birth arts I practice centre the birthing person at the centre of their own story. Ancient women's knowledge of the body, intuition, labour, birth, the female nervous system, and field energetics are in their resurgence. It is time we reclaim birth back to our communities an to ourselves, and allow these ancient knowledge systems of care to flourish.
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By honouring and tending to the birth portal as a sacred rite of passage and the initatory process it is for the birthing person and baby, we honour and tend to the great mystery and threshold of life itself. And nothing is more sacred than that.
how I Work
I take a somatic and integrated elemental approach to supporting you and your family, always centering your inner knowing, wisdom and experience as our compass. Only YOU know how, where and when to birth your child, and in this process, yourself. I am here to reflect back to you what you already know, and to help sift through the layers that may be clouding or obstructing you from accessing this knowing.
Conception, pregnancy and birth are initiatory thresholds that emerge from deep inner trust and a sense of safety in the body. Many of us do not trust our intuition and have been conditioned to override our needs and sensations, placing others in authority over ourselves. Most of us do not feel safe in our bodies and experience contraction, dissociation, and pain. Through different modalities I will support you to radically reclaim trust in your own body, meet your fears, unbind ancestral and karmic blockages so you are equipped to meet yourself.
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How i can support you
to find out which of my pregnancy, birth & post-partum offerings might suit your needs
embodied conception
PREPARING FOR BIRTH EDUCATION
for mothers and their birthing partners & friends
The pre-conception and conception periods create an energetic imprint that stays with parent and child forever. For most, the conception journey has become one of pressure, fear and doubt, with many women experiencing guilt and feelings of failure and mistrust in their body’s capacity to conceive. Menstrual and reproductive issues are prominent, and our wombs carry imprints of grief, stagnation and fear from our foremothers, our own birth stories, and any previous conceptions, losses, and births. I support you to re-centre yourself as the creator of your own conception journey and embody your intentions around parenthood and your life. By delving into what you are ready to shed, you are invited to envision and embody what you want to call in for conception, pregnancy, birth and beyond. You are invited to transform pre-conception into the reawakening of your own creative life force and your innate feminine power of alchemisation. I offer 1:1 work and online group containers. Email me for more information.
The way a woman is held in pregnancy affects her birth outcomes and motherhood journey. Standard doula and midwifery care is limited, and doesn't usually offer the woman the space to really feel seen and heard. I accompany you on your matrescence journey and offer somatic resourcing and care throughout your pregnancy.
Accompanying pregnancy
Taking radical responsibility for your birth means educating yourself and your birthing partners and friends about labour and birth. We have lost access to this common knowledge and
accompanying birth
When a birth hasn't gone as we wanted we can be left with dissociation and uncomfortable or painful feelings. Birth is a ceremony, and it is important anything that arises from this life-changing experience is tended to. I hold space to witness your story and honour whatever feelings have emerged from your experience. I support you to grieve what may not have happened for you, or what you may feel was taken. I offer different somatic practices and journeys that support you to process your birth emotionally, physically and energetically. I offer somatic rituals to encourage the body to release what is may have imprinted, and to energetically invite transformation. This work can begin 4 weeks after birth and only when you feel ready to engage. We can also work with a birth experience that happened many years ago, there is no time limit and this healing can happen at any time. I also support parents and children together who wish to work through their birth story.
somatic birth integration
When a birth hasn't gone as we wanted we can be left with dissociation and uncomfortable or painful feelings. Birth is a ceremony, and it is important anything that arises from this life-changing experience is tended to. I hold space to witness your story and honour whatever feelings have emerged from your experience. I support you to grieve what may not have happened for you, or what you may feel was taken. I offer different somatic practices and journeys that support you to process your birth emotionally, physically and energetically. I offer somatic rituals to encourage the body to release what is may have imprinted, and to energetically invite transformation. This work can begin 4 weeks after birth and only when you feel ready to engage. We can also work with a birth experience that happened many years ago, there is no time limit and this healing can happen at any time. I also support parents and children together who wish to work through their birth story.
CeremonY & ritual facilitation
I offer 1:1 Birth Story Witnessing sessions and group Birth Story Circles online.
1:1 sessions: Here I witness your birth story of welcoming your child earthside, or of your own birth to arrive here. I honour and witness your unique story, and can help you make sense of things that happened and feel unclear or remain undigested.
Our birth stories are incredibly generous and continue to show up as patterns through our lives and creative processes. I support you to become aware of how some of these patterns may be present in your relationships, interactions, and your body.
These sessions are a space where we revive the technology of witnessing and honouring birth and the rite of passage of becoming a Mother. Many people do not share their birth stories, and these can lay dormant for years, even lifetimes.
No matter how someone feels their birth went, whether it was a positive or negative experience, the story is worth honouring. A brought a baby earthside and birthed herself as Mother.
"We had Nina holding us a rebirthing ceremony. From the beginning when we met until the ceremony itself she was so sensitive, precise, and listening and being there in exactly the way we needed to help us have the experience we wanted.
She brought us a very dedicated presence with a big heart and pure and loving intention. She thought of all the details and healing that was needed. We felt very grateful for having her with us in our process"
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Noa & Omry
