Conscious Birthing • Mamas • Birthkeepers

Conscious Birthing • Mamas • Birthkeepers Traditional Birth Wisdom Keeping and Doula Support, accredited Training and mentorship.

Raising the next generation in consciousness and loving awareness, together 🌀 DOULA TRAINING COURSE WITH CONSCIOUS BIRTHING

Our in-person courses run from Monday to Friday and we offer our lived experience of over 50 years (between us) in the form of story-telling, shared information and varied media, offering you the opportunity to begin to unpack your own story, collaborate in the learning experience and be supported as you find your best version of this role. We ‘Doula’ you as you birth your inner Doula, we share evidence-based research towards best practice, we consider the role with you, through it’s history to current day stance and we support you to find your best version of the role/

Our Doula training is fully accredited with Doula UK. Please visit our website on www.doulatraining.co.uk for more information.

12/03/2026

What if our deliberate slowness is the Resistance? 🫧

Watch the pace of this moment:

No rushing.
No urgency placed upon her body.
Just a mother *choosing slowness* 🤲🏼

Deliberate. Certain.
Trusting the timing of birth ✨

Allowing baby the time,
the calm, the slow ease
into Life 💗

It’s something we have forgotten:

✨Birth has its own pace ✨

…And that pace should not be hurried.

For women of this age
Slowness is the Resistance 🔥

Resistance to the culture of haste.
Resistance to systems that treat birth as something to manage and expedite.
Resistance to the quiet pressure that tells mothers to move faster, finish sooner, hand over control.

But birth does not belong to the clock 🕰️

It belongs to us, to women.

To choose slowness here
is to claim something profound 🤲🏼

The right to move at the natural pace of emergence.
The right to greet our babies without urgency.
The right to begin motherhood in presence rather than panic 🫧

And perhaps it is more than that.

Perhaps this is the pace we want to offer our children too 🙏🏼

A life that begins without rush.
A nervous system welcomed gently into the world 💗
A lineage remembering that calm is powerful 🕊

No rush. No haste.

Just the deliberate rhythm of life beginning ✨



Mother:
Photographer:
Via

Do you feel the quiet pull toward birth? ✨To be present.To hold the room steady.To witness a mother discovering the dept...
11/03/2026

Do you feel the quiet pull toward birth? ✨

To be present.
To hold the room steady.
To witness a mother discovering the depth of her power 🔥

This is the path of the birthkeeper and doula.

Standing at the edge of creation.
Guarding the sanctuary of birth.
Trusting women deeply enough to let physiology lead 🕊️

It is ancient work.
Women alongside women.
Holding. Watching. Remembering.

If you feel the call to walk this path…

Across 2026 we are offering a range of Birthkeeper & Doula trainings:

~ In person and online 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾💻

~ For those ready to begin or deepen this work 🌀

~ Immersive, beginner-friendly trainings. Fully accredited ✅

✨ Explore the upcoming course dates above ✨
with full details & booking via the 🔗 in our bio

This path is walked together 🤲🏼

We look forward to welcoming you
and doulaing you into this work 🫧

Something important is happening right now in the UK 👇🏼And our voices are needed.In case you haven’t heard already:For t...
09/03/2026

Something important is happening right now in the UK 👇🏼

And our voices are needed.

In case you haven’t heard already:
For the first time in a long time, there is a national investigation gathering real experiences of maternity and neonatal care 🗣️

Not statistics, not policy language, but the lived truth of women and families.

All of it…
The positive moments.
The neglect.
The level of care received.
The traumas.

The moments of deep support…
and the moments where something went terribly wrong 💔

👉🏼 Our maternity system is in desperate need of change 👈🏼

Too many women have left birth feeling dismissed.
Too many families have left carrying trauma.
Too many stories have been minimised, buried, or quietly endured.

And meaningful change cannot happen until those stories are heard 🕊

Baroness Amos is leading the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, and a public Call for Evidence is now open for women and families across the UK.

This is an opportunity for the truth of maternity care to be spoken collectively 🔥

Not as isolated experiences.
But as a pattern that cannot be ignored.

Two surveys are available:

•⁠ ⁠One for women and people who have been pregnant to share their experiences of maternity and neonatal services.

•⁠ ⁠One for partners, fathers, family members, friends or support people who supported someone through pregnancy and birth.

If you feel able to share your story, your voice, your experience matters.

And your words may help shape the recommendations that guide the future of maternity care in this country.

But please only share if it feels safe and supportive for you to do so 🤍
Your wellbeing comes first.

If you do feel the call to speak…

this is a moment where your voice may ripple far beyond your own story.

🕊 The Call for Evidence is open until 17 March 2026

You can find the link to participate in our stories

The future of maternity care must include the voices of the women and families who lived it.



Photography: .birthphotography

💖 Big love to each and every woman in my world. 👊🏻 Big respect to every working woman in the world.🙏🏼 Big prayers for al...
08/03/2026

💖 Big love to each and every woman in my world.
👊🏻 Big respect to every working woman in the world.
🙏🏼 Big prayers for all women to have safety, equity and freedom, across the world, today and every day.

We are not free until we are all free 🙏🏼 and every single day I keep working towards that in some way. Even here in Costa Rica, where I am blessed to be travelling.

05/03/2026

Imagine a world where *this* is the norm ✨

Where a first-time mother lifts her baby from the water
and awe is the only thing in the room 🫧

No fear.
No disbelief that she did it.
Just a deep knowing.

Imagine a culture where women grow up expecting this 🙏🏼
expecting to trust their bodies,
expecting to birth in safety,
expecting joy to meet them on the other side 💗

Where partners kneel with them in reverence.
Where babies are received in warmth.
Where the first touch is love, not urgency 🤲🏼

This is not fantasy.
✨ It is remembrance ✨

And imagine being part of the women working to restore it 🌀

Imagine holding the space
so a mother feels safe enough to open.
Safe enough to roar.
Safe enough to meet herself in the act of creation 🔥

To stand at the root of this collective shift
this return to physiological birth,
this reclamation of trust 🙏🏼

If something in you stirs watching this… 🌀

✨ JOIN US THIS MONTH ✨
March Birth & Postnatal Course

🗓 March 23–27
📍 Goddess House, Glastonbury 🌙
With Samsara 🌸

A fully accredited, immersive, beginner-friendly week
guiding you into the Birthkeeper you’re here to become 🤲🏼

Or join us for:

🖥️ our Online Deep-Dive Course
🗓 March 29 – June 21 | Sundays 10am–12pm
13 weeks exploring birth & postnatal doula work, TIDE included

Birthwork is heartwork ❤️
It asks us to unlearn. To remember.
To walk beside women as witnesses and guardians 🕊

If your body recognises this path…

Find the 🔗 in our bio.
We’d love to welcome you ✨



Mother:
Midwives:

The sisterhood of motherhood 🌸We’re seeing something ancient in these images…Women gathered not to lead,not to fix, not ...
04/03/2026

The sisterhood of motherhood 🌸

We’re seeing something ancient in these images…

Women gathered not to lead,
not to fix, not to take over,

No, this is a remembrance,
of how women gathered
🤲🏼 to HOLD 🤲🏼

To witness a mother as she opens 🦋
To steady her when the waves rise
To look into her eyes and say, without words,
I see you. I trust you. I am here 🕊️

This is what it means to be of service ❤️

Yes, there are nourishing meals.
Herbal milky tonics.
Warm oils and steady hands.
Soft music. Subtle scents.

But beneath what can be photographed
is something quieter.

Devotion.

Meeting a mother exactly where she is 🙏🏼
Listening more than speaking.
Asking the questions that return her to her own knowing 🌀
Holding space for the unraveling
for the tears, the tenderness, the becoming.

This weaving of physical and energetic care
is not indulgence.

🔥 It is FOUNDATIONAL 🔥

Because how a mother is held
ripples into her baby,
into her family,
into her home,
into generations she may never meet 🌿

And to be trusted at this threshold?
It is no small thing.
To be welcomed into the most intimate unfolding of a family’s story
leaves its imprint on a woman’s heart.

This is the sisterhood of walking ‘with woman’ 💗

Strong. Soft. Attuned.

Women beside women.
Holding the mother
so she can hold the world 🤲🏼🌎

And if you feel something beckoning to you as you read this caption… 🌀

If you feel the quiet pull to sit beside mothers in this way,
to be the steady presence, the soft strength,
the guardian of the space where she unfolds 🦋

✨ JOIN US THIS MONTH ✨
for our March Birth & Postnatal Course

🗓 March 23–27 |📍 Goddess House, Glastonbury 🌙
With Samsara 🌸

A week-long, immersive, beginner-friendly, fully accredited training ✅
Rooted in physiology.
Steeped in reverence.
Guiding you to the Birthkeeper you’re here to become 🤲🏼

Find the 🔗 in our bio to this and our ✨ONLINE✨ course for those unable to join us in person 💻

We would be honoured to walk this path with you 🌀



Photography:

23/02/2026

Behind the camera, a birthkeeper holds this moment sacred 🤲🏼

As she roars down her maternal lineage
As he holds her, in awe of her
Her body opens with ancient certainty 🔥

And the birthkeeper?

She stands at the edge of this creation
Witnessing the depth of this mother’s journey.
Guarding her field.
Protecting the sanctuary.
Trusting her, and Birth, completely 🕊️

It is an extraordinary privilege
to witness a woman as she brings life through her own body.
To feel the air change.
To feel the room bend around her power.

This is not modern invention.
This is ancient design 🌿

Women alongside women.
Holding.
Watching.
Remembering.

Something old is waking up again.
Not new knowledge
but remembered truth 🌀

To witness a mother in that roar
is to remember who we have always been 🔥

Do you feel the call to walk with women in this way?
Train with us to become fully certified
and begin your journey on this extraordinary path of remembrance ✨

🔗 in our bio, we’re excited to hear from you

Mother:
Birthkeeper:

09/02/2026

When a mother is held in loving affirmation... 🫧

His words don’t seek to advise
Nor to control.
Not even to influence.

He witnesses her power 🔥
He honours her dedication 🤲🏼
He holds space for her experience 🫧

This is the difference when a mother partners with a supporter who truly knows her.

He knows the desires of her heart,
He guides baby through with foreknowledge of the mother’s wishes.
He knows her language, and he feeds her soul,
with words of gentle encouragement, adoration and affirmation ❤️

In the safety of his love:
She can rest 😌
She knows who she is, as he tenderly reminds her ❤️
She can surrender so her body can do the work 🌀

This is the power of true support.
It allows a woman physiology to soften,
to open, to do the work.
✨This is what safety looks like ✨

And this could be her partner…
But it might also be a dear friend, a relative,
A beloved doula, trusted birthkeeper,
Or an aligned midwife.

True support looks different for everyone.
Only a mother can know how and whom
will hold her best through her birth.

To the supporters who show up with presence and devotion, thank you.
Every woman deserves to be held, affirmed, and fully supported in birth 🙏🏼

Mother: .moonstone

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