Verana is the owner of Embody Your Birth in the San Francisco Bay Area. She serves as a full-spectrum doula, childbirth educator, Archetypical Astrologer, and creativity ally. She is also a poet, dancer, songwriter, and traveler of the globe. Her work as a doula and astrologer are deeply interconnected. Guided in her work by the collective dream for whole and healthy relationships in our families, communities and with our Mother Earth, she is committed to walking beside her clients and students, whether in the labor room, classroom or exploring the natal chart to create safe and brave places where empowerment, capacity and deep inner trust can emerge.

Website: https://www.veranafaye.com or follow her on Instagram @verana_faye

Highlights:

• How Verana was introduced to the practice of ceremony at a young age in connecting with her Jewish heritage.
• All our ancestors lived in ritual; the importance of bringing ceremony and ritual to birthing womxn. Hear how ceremony transformed her and strengthened her commitment to her path with birth after a very impactful birth in Brazil.
• Learn how her travels and exploration with plant medicine in Latin America have informed her work.
• Verana shares her unique relationship to the Cosmos through Archetypical Astrology, and how these energies inform both birthing mother and baby.

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.

Website: https://www.brittfohrman.com

Instagram: @thejuicyladies

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