Traditional Birth Work
for Modern Times
We aren't just doulas.
We're community healers.
Learn from a deeply experienced birth worker with over 15 years of supporting families through their most life-altering moments. With a strong foundation in traditional midwifery, herbalism, and full-spectrum doula care, this training blends time-honored wisdom with the evidence-based knowledge.
We emphasize the importance of reconnecting with your birth roots while equipping you with the skills and confidence to provide individualized support. No matter where or how families choose to birth, you will be prepared to meet their unique needs with compassion and expertise.
Reclaim and redefine the birth experience—your clients don’t have to be a statistic. Train to be a transformative force, ensuring every family receives the care they deserve.
Start your journey to making a lasting difference in this world. Your community needs you.
What You'll Learn...
The Rhythms of the Body: A deep dive into the anatomy and physiology of the pregnant body, the pelvis, the hormonal cycles, and how they all work together to support conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery.
Understanding Due Dates for What They Are: How to actually calculate EDD while honoring the natural variation of gestation and the colonization of the "due date".
Birth as an Organic Process: How to support birthing people in different environments—home, hospital, and birth center—while ensuring their autonomy and choices remain centered.
Birth and Culture: How to recognize and navigate cultural perspectives on birth, including the impact of colonization, medicalization, and traditional birthing practices.
The Art of Nurturing: Supporting pregnant people with holistic care that includes emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.
The Baby’s Journey: Understanding fetal positioning, the mechanics of the pelvis, and how babies navigate the birthing process.
Labor Unfolding Without Interference: How to recognize and support the physiological flow of labor and the ways to hold space without disruption.
Birth Choices & Options: Exploring different caregivers, water birth, positions for labor and birth, and how to truly advocate for informed decision-making.
The Cervix & Its Wisdom: Understanding dilation and effacement, cervical lips, membrane sweeps, and the medical scoring systems used to justify interventions.
Controversies in Childbirth: A critical look at ultrasound, induction, artificial rupture of membranes, Group B Strep, cord clamping, newborn jaundice, and more—so you can support families in making informed decisions.
Healing Modalities for Birth Work: Traditional and modern approaches to support birthing people in reclaiming their power, autonomy, and self-direction.
The Sacred Placenta: How to honor, tend, and offer Placenta Readings for those who seek deeper insight into their birth journey.
When Birth Takes a Different Path: How to navigate challenges with wisdom and create solutions that respect the birthing person’s needs, values, and experiences.
The Doula as a Pillar in the Community: How to confidently position yourself as a skilled and knowledgeable birth worker who uplifts and strengthens the families you serve.
This training is designed to equip you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to be the kind of doula our communities deserve—rooted in ancestral wisdom, backed by evidence-based science, forever centering autonomy.
Why The Better Birth Worker?
Because we're better. Our full-spectrum ancestral doula training is rooted in the reclamation of birth as a sacred, physiological, and intuitive process, and grounded in the reality that sometimes plans must shift.
In a time when maternal mortality rates—particularly for Black, Indigenous, and marginalized communities—are unacceptably high, we stand as guardians of safe, supported, and autonomous birth. We support all variations of birth in all environments and respect the variables that can alter the course of this journey. Through ancestral wisdom, evidence-based knowledge, and a commitment to holistic, full-spectrum care, we equip doulas to challenge systemic disparities, empower families with informed choice, and restore the sanctity and joy of birth as a fundamental human right.
This work isn't about survival—it's about thriving, about bringing life into the world with dignity, strength, and deep reverence for the generations before us and those yet to come.
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