Britt Fohrman is a doula, embodiment coach, birth educator and photographer. For more than two decades she has been holding space for women standing at the threshold of life’s most profound transitions: becoming a mother; healing from illness, injury or loss; stepping into sexual power and opening to new beginnings.

She weaves her training as a VITA Method Sex, Love and Relationship coach with her extensive training and experience in yoga, meditation, Hypnobirthing, Buddhism, Tantra, Shamanism, plant medicine, dance, and holistic healing to guide her clients to live aligned with their desires, inner knowing and authentic values. Her premier online course, Preparing Your Vagina for Birth offers a transformative and feminist approach to the childbearing time.

Highlights:

Having given birth recently at the age of 49, Britt shares insights of her phenomenal journey to motherhood.

Learn how ceremony is the reason she is well and joyful even while moving through much adversity. Ceremony supports her capacity to traverse life’s big portals and rites of passage. Britt shares how ceremony is her way of praying, her language of healing.

How her Jewish upbringing introduced her to the experience of stepping into holy space and feeling a connection to her ancestors.

Britt’s choice to work with Ayahuasca; how it facilitated her connecting with healing energies, helped her find her power and recover from a decade of debilitating Lyme disease.

Yoni Shakti, the Power of the Circle, and getting what you need.

Maritday Rodriguez is a Doula, Maven, Ceremonialist, and Keeper of Ancient Ways, she walks the path of her Taino ancestors, embracing their indigenous heritage and practices.

For over 25 years, She has immersed herself in teachings and practices related to women’s empowerment, nutrition, energy and herbal medicine, holistic skincare, natural health, and reproductive wellness, specializing in Life Cycle Doula services covering Fertility, Ante-Partum, Prenatal, Birth & Post-Partum aspects.

I had the pleasure of meeting Maritday and experiencing her wisdom and love of life when she attended my Birth Spirituality and Healing Coach Certification training in NY. She lives in New Paltz, New York in the beautiful Catskill Mountains. Her websites are www.amaritday.com and www.mhvdoula.info.

Maritday’s interview:

• Inspires us to trust and use our intuition to support the family dynamic’s health in perinatal couples with her amazing stories
• Recognizes how land and ancestors affect our perinatal experiences and their need for recognition
• Shares ways of applying spiritual Armor and protection to keep ourselves renewed

Ariela Sharon is a spiritual childbirth coach and ritualist, living in Jerusalem. She brings a deep understanding of the divine feminine and Judaic spiritual wisdom to her birth work. This interview contains many nuggets of practical ways to integrate spirituality and ceremony in our birth work and lives. Each of us, podcast hosts, has a Jewish blood lineage and it was very precious to learn more about the jewels in our history. At the time of this interview, Ariela was 6 weeks postpartum from a beautiful home birth.

The following are some of the nuggets of this Interview:

• Birth is Ceremony and we can infuse it with ritual
• We need birthworkers like Lael who is spiritual and loves women. Spirituality is touching our souls with our bodies
• In the Jewish traditions, the number one quality of women who support birth was faith
• How to pray: you don’t care how you look when you pray or when you birth. It doesn’t matter if you are crying or screaming, your prayer is yours, different than tradition, it is another type of prayer, a spontaneous prayer.
• Birth knowing is a woman’s world. we can’t make rituals for them, it’s the woman who knows best. It the woman needs to break shabbat to give birth, she can, she can do whatever she wants. it’s a duty for her to know about it,, it’s not ok to hand it over, she has the responsibility, she has to know about her body, physiology, emotionally, a lot of women haven’t been socialized to take responsibility.
• How can you connect what you are feeling in your body with what you are feeling in your spirit. What’s connecting me to the creator universe for me?! Not someone else’s prayer
• I bless all the women listening to this to have someone in their lives can hold space for them. When someone really has faith in you, there is a total shift in the birth.

Website: https://www.arielasharon.com/