Whatever your ideal birthing experience, our goal is to honor your wishes for an empowered birth with medical interventions only when truly necessary. Our goal is to empower with education, strength-based techniques, and encourage a positive life experience before, during and after your birth journey.
Congratulations on your pregnancy!
Here are some truths that we live by as we help guide individuals through their beautiful pregnancy
- Birth is not a medical procedure
- Pregnancy and birth is not something to “get through”
- The process can be a highly transformative, empowering and spiritual experience.
- It is one of bonding and sacred connecting- with your baby, with yourself, and with your partner.
- It teaches you lessons of patience, gratitude, and understanding.
- It allows one to tackle fears, break generational patterns, challenges ways you interact with others and encourages letting go of some control.
- Pregnancy and birth is beautiful and magical.
- And sometimes … Pregnancy and birth can feel triggering, disempowering, fear-based, isolating and traumatic.
Perhaps you want a more sacred & connected birth journey
If you have ever...
- Gone to the doctors office and felt like just a number
- Were given procedures and forced into standard of care practices without any explanation or discussion
- Experienced “white coat syndrome” and feared questioning the doctors
- Had a previous birth where you felt that so many things were outside of your control…that it could’ve/should've been different …that left you feeling fragile, fearful and alone
- Have you felt that your partner was ignored (do doctors think they’re invisible??)
- Felt sad, disheartened, angry, frustrated about your previous birth experiences
- Felt fearful around pregnancy and birth (it does not help to hear “horror” stories from other women in our lives!)
- Have experienced non-event grief such as struggles around fertility and/or previous miscarriage - our programs dive into deep inner grief work, in a supportive community setting with providers and other families journeying together
Offerings
Hypnobirthing
A research-based, holistically integrated 5 week program that creates:
- a sacred bonding between the birthing parent and their partner
- helps release the fears around pregnancy and birth and embrace
- dives into integral education about the birthing body and process
- explores choices around procedures and best medical practices
- incorporates self-hypnosis, breathwork techniques, and visualization exercises
- provides tools for an incredible, empowered birth regardless of the setting (birth center, home, hospital)
- $375 for 5 group sessions -
~ $550 for 5 individual sessions ~
$40 material fee for both options
Birth & Postpartum Doula
A Doula is a member of your birth team whose main focus is to support you: the birthing person.
Your doctor or midwife may be attending to multiple births, your delivery nurse may need to end her shift, your partner may feel unwell or need a break - but your Doula is there to provide continuous support.
Your Doula's main focus is how to make you more comfortable and to help you in having the best birth possible - even if unexpected situations arise. Your Doula knows your birth plan, and what is important to you in birth. They can advocate for you, help you ask questions, and facilitate communication between you and your care provider.
Pregnancy Doula Services $1,200
Postpartum Doula Services $35/hr
Mother Blessing Ritual
A sacred and ceremonial way to celebrate the expecting mother. Each ceremony is personalized to support, empower, and uplift the mom-to-be. She will be honored, pampered, embraced by strength and love, and surrounded by her community. Let us take the planning and stress out for this event and allow the mother-to-be to feel beauty, harmony, wholeness, well-being, and spiritual connection. If you are looking to honor this sacred time with a ritual that goes beyond the typical baby shower, this is the ritual for you!
$150/ hr
Location options: your home (travel fee may apply)
or IL locations including Palatine, St. Charles, Chicago
Sacred Womb Healing - The Rite of the Womb - 13th Rite of the Munay Ki
There is a lineage of women who freed themselves from suffering.
This lineage of women wants us to remember:
The womb is not a place to store fear and pain; the womb is to create and give birth to life.
The Rite of The Womb was gifted by the Spirit of the Amazon to a female shaman and has been passed from womb-space to womb-space for centuries.
It has been formalized as the 13th Rite of the Munay-Ki by Marcela Lobos who practices contemporary shamanism.
She and her husband, Dr. Alberto Villoldo, have founded The Four Winds School which teaches shamanic healing and the Rites of the Munay Ki. “Munay" means “love and will“ in Quechua and “ki“ comes from the Chinese word for “energy.”
Nine rites of passage had been developed in the tradition of Munay-Ki which is based on the initiatory practices of the Q’ero shamans of Peru.
The Rite of the Womb can be received, kept, and passed by anyone whether they identify as a shaman or not. It can be received, kept, and passed, by people of any gender identity, so long as they are pure in their intention to heal their own Feminine energy, and the Feminine energy of their ancestral lines.
The transmission cleanses old patterns of shame, trauma, abuse, and fear - both forward and backwards in time. The recipient heals their ancestors and their descendants. Receiving the Rite changes the energetic structure and the vibration of energy held in the womb space/Sacral Chakra area. It can be particularly poignant before trying to conceive as a way to cleanse old energy and prepare for a baby. It is also a beautiful cleansing after giving birth (after the 4th trimester has passed) to help nurture the energies of the womb following the initiation of birth, especially if birth was difficult.
When we say “the womb is a place to create and give birth to life” it is not necessarily about childbirth (although it can be) - it refers to all our life force energy that allows us to create art, businesses, relationships, and anything else we wish to birth in this lifetime.
$150/ hr
Location options: your home (travel fee may apply)
or IL locations including Palatine, St. Charles, Chicago
Pregnancy & Postpartum Reiki
The Pregnancy Reiki system was channeled in 2007 by Nicole Lanning after performing a Reiki healing session on a client experiencing fertility issues.
Pregnancy Reiki serves many purposes - before, during, and after a pregnancy.
For couples who are experiencing fertility issues, Pregnancy Reiki can be called to aid fertility in both partners. Guided meditation combined with Pregnancy Reiki can support the clearing of any emotional blocks or fears about becoming pregnant. We can even use Pregnancy Reiki on male partners to help increase sperm count and motility.
During pregnancy, Reiki can ease emotional stress and physical symptoms in the expectant mother. The Reiki energy transfers to the baby in-utero supporting a state of calm and wellbeing.
$150/ hr
Location options: your home (travel fee may apply)
or IL locations including Palatine, St. Charles, Chicago
Baby Blessings
Loved ones can celebrate your little ones birth and take part in a sacred naming ceremony. Includes personalized pampering for the new mom, blessings and readings to honor the little one. Add on service include mini newborn photo session!
$150/ hr
Location options: your home (travel fee may apply)
or IL locations including Palatine, St. Charles, Chicago
-Add-on Newborn photo session $300
Nursery Blessings
Many parents put lots of time and energy into creating a nursery before bringing home their baby. Some parents choose not to set up a nursery and to keep Baby in their room, or perhaps set up a cozy nursery corner. Whatever setup you choose for Baby to come home to, we know you want it to be a special space filled with love.
The Nursery Blessing is a gentle ritual performed in your home to prepare the energy of this space.
The ritual generally takes place while the mother is pregnant, before Baby has arrived. If parents are living together, it can be wonderful for both parents to be present in this sacred time. If you have older children who wish to be involved, it can be a nice way to involve them in the anticipation of bringing home a younger sibling. However, if your older child/children is/are going to distract you from enjoying the ceremony you are respectfully encouraged to schedule a relative, friend, or babysitter to come over and help keep an extra eye on your older child/children while we are in the nursery.
During the ceremony, natural aromatherapy sprays will be used to clear the energy of the room (rather than smoke cleansing or incense which is sometimes used in other clearing ceremonies). We will also be sending Reiki energy to the room and to your home, asking that any energies of stress, fear, anger, or any other stagnant energy please leave the space. The Reiki provides a powerful healing to the energy of the home, and creates a bubble of love and high-vibrational energy in the nursery.
We will take some time together to discuss the hopes, prayers, and dreams you have for your child who will soon arrive, visualizing the joy and love that will soon be present in the space.
Other elements will be integrated into the ritual based on your specific preferences, needs, and desires. This ritual is completely unique to each family, and will be carefully adapted to suit you.
$150/ hr
Location options: your home (travel fee may apply)
or IL locations including Palatine, St. Charles, Chicago