Rachelle is a midwife, teacher, and founder of Innate Traditions. Drawing upon the modern sciences of Epigenetics, Psychoneuroimmunology, Pre and Perinatal Psychology, the Primal Continuum, Womanist Physiology and Anatomy, and Body-based Psychology, INNATE’s trainings teach that which the world’s postpartum traditions have always known: Postpartum care is a necessity and not a luxury for women’s LIFE-LONG health and well-being. 

I apprenticed with Constance Miles at her Women’s Ways homebirth practice in Sonoma County, CA. With much generosity, she shared her skills, wisdom and philosophy with me. 

As founder of the Dhyana Center, DeAnna has shared so much wisdom with me about tending to postpartum mothers, to the lymphatic system and to reproductive health.

Jackie Davey and I created the Early Weeks Postpartum Prep classes. I work with her through Birth Realm Postpartum Care Company, which matches families in the Bay Area with the perfect doula for their needs.  We also offer sleep consultations, classes, and sacred tending.

I am certified as a Fertility Awareness and Holistic Reproductive Educator through The Well. Sarah teaches women and practitioners fertility awareness, and body- and eco-literacy online and in-person in OR.

I apprenticed and attended births with Ibu Robin Lim in at her birth center Yayasan Bumi Sehat in Bali. I was especially moved by how integral sacred ceremony is for families in Bali, including during their gentle births.

I participated in Pati’s Shodhini Women’s Researcher cervical self-exam workshop series and took her Cesarean scar tissue remediation class. She is currently working in Pomona, CA as a reproductive social justice worker and midwife with Gracias A La Vida Midwifery.

As a stepping stone in my education in women’s health, I took Elizabeth Davis‘ Heart and Hands Midwifery Intensives and enrolled in the National Midwifery Institute.  Elizabeth is an author and teacher about women’s life passages.

Shiela at Comadres Midwifery was the midwife for the homebirth of our daughter. She is a badass guardian of the sacred rites of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Sheila owns Brigid’s Well, a local community center where prenatal care is fun, birth preparation is sacred, reproductive wisdom is vast, intuition is revered & community is nurtured.

I studied biodynamic craniosacral for infants with Gary, who founded the STAR Institute. Gary teaches settling touch for calming the nervous system, deep healing, and remembering our essential balanced nature.

She took me to my first pro-choice rally when I was in elementary school and has always encouraged me to show up for feminist causes and what I believe in. She is a teacher, an artist, and I am endlessly grateful for her support and love. Her uplifting art can be found at seethegood.net.

Kitty is a perceptive and gifted somatic psychotherapist.  She sees private clients, teaches workshops and mentors new therapists. She has helped me become more authentic, embodied and self-compassionate.

Britney is the founder of the Original Instructions School of Traditional Medicine and Practical Skills.  I took a Traditional Uterine Massage and Well Womb Care training with her. I appreciate the way she weaves together sacred ancestral wisdom with evidence-based and practical education.