Shamanic Birthing Support: A Holistic & Inclusive Alternative to Antenatal Classes

Artwork by Lisa Nelson

Looking for antenatal classes that go deeper than just medical facts and hospital protocols?

This unique birthing support process is a soul-centred alternative to conventional birth preparation courses. It combines spiritual guidance, emotional care, nature connection, and inclusive support for birthing people, their partners, and their chosen families.

More than a birthing class. Deeper than a checklist. This is a supported initiation into the sacred transformation of becoming.

Whether you’re seeking antenatal classes that honour your emotional and spiritual journey — or you’re simply yearning for something more than the clinical path — Shamanic antenatal classes support you in preparing for birth in a way that is deeply personal, sacred, and affirming.

You may already have a midwife, doula, or obstetrician. My role is different but deeply complementary.

As a shamanic practitioner, relationship coach, and ceremonial guide, I walk alongside you through your pregnancy, helping you prepare not just your body but your soul, relationships, and spiritual field for the profound rite of passage that is birth.

I offer an alternative to traditional birthing classes for those who want a more intuitive, soulful, and energetically aligned approach. And for those attending antenatal classes, I provide a layer of depth that integrates spiritual tools, emotional processing, ancestral healing, and relational support.

Most antenatal classes focus on the biology of birth — what happens to your body, when to go to hospital, and how to breathe. While this information is important, it often leaves out the emotional, spiritual, and relational transformation that birth brings.

This shamanic birthing process is a whole-person alternative to standard antenatal courses — one that centres your inner world, honours your unique path, and offers deep support before, during, and after birth.

You’ll still learn about breath, the nervous system, and preparation techniques — but within a ceremonial, trauma-informed, and intuitive container that supports your entire being.

A Note on Inclusivity

This offering is open to all birthing people — including women, trans men, non-binary and gender-expansive parents — and their families.

I work from a queer-affirming, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive framework. My practice is body-positive and rooted in respect for relational diversity and cultural sovereignty.

Whether you’re a solo parent, part of a queer or polyamorous constellation, or preparing to co-parent with a supportive partner, you are welcome here.

I also offer support to non-birthing partners, co-parents, and secondary caregivers — helping them prepare spiritually, emotionally, and relationally for this sacred transition.

This is a safe, inclusive space for your unique journey to unfold with honour and care.

A Sacred Approach to Birth: Shamanic Antenatal Classes

In many traditional cultures, birth is held within ceremony and spirituality. Among the Navajo, the Blessingway honours the mother as she prepares to cross into the realm of motherhood. In Mayan communities, midwives are chosen through dreams — called by spirit. Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, birth is supported through songs, symbols, protection rituals, and the guidance of ancestors.

These traditions remind us that birth is not something to “get through.”It is a portal. A transformation. A becoming.

My approach to Shamanic Birthing draws inspiration from these ancestral roots while honouring your personal, intuitive knowing. We weave together ancient and modern, physical and energetic, personal and collective.

You do not need to belong to a specific tradition to experience your birth as sacred.You already belong — to the earth, to the lineage of birthers, to life itself.

What is Shamanic Birthing Support?

This offering is a guided process for birthing people and loved ones who wish to prepare for birth in a way that honours the soul, not just the body.

It includes:

Symbolic and Ritual Practice

You’ll be invited to create your own birth altar, work with sacred objects, and mark key points in your pregnancy with ceremony. Together, we may engage in ancestral healing rituals, chakra clearing, forest bathing, or energy extractions that help you call your power home. These are not performative rituals — they are spiritual technologies for grounding, embodiment, and deeper connection.

Dreamwork and Inner Guidance

Pregnancy often opens the dreamtime. In many cultures, dreams during this phase are believed to offer messages from the baby’s soul or the spirit world. You’ll be guided to keep a dream journal, honour symbols and animal guides, track emotional and spiritual themes, and let your dreams shape your birthing intention.

Breathwork and Embodied Practices

We explore a sequence of yogic and shamanic breaths aligned to the stages of pregnancy and labour. You’ll learn:

• Humming Breath for grounding

• Ocean Breath for rhythmic labour

• Golden Thread Breath for fear release

• Birth Wave Breath to ride contractions

• Candle Flame Breath for transition and pushing

• Gentle Kundalini activations to awaken the sacred inner fire

Your breath becomes a tool, a prayer, a way home.

Kundalini & Sensual Awakening

Birth is not only physical — it’s energetic. It can be painful, powerful, tender, and even ecstatic.

In this approach, we honour birth and sexual energy as two expressions of the same life force. Your womb is not just a biological organ; it’s a spiritual gateway. The same energy that creates life can also bring deep pleasure, bliss, and connection during birth.

Through subtle practices like breathwork, sound, visualisation, and gentle energy work, we explore how to awaken and move Kundalini — the coiled life energy at the base of the spine — in a way that supports your birthing experience.

For some, this may open the possibility of orgasmic birth — where waves of sensation are experienced as pleasure, power, and spiritual awakening rather than only pain.

You don’t have to “aim” for orgasm during birth. This isn’t about performance. It’s about opening to what is possible when you feel safe, supported, and fully present in your body.

This work supports:

• Bliss states during labour, including the potential for orgasmic birth

• Deepened body connection and trust in instinctual movement

• A reclamation of your sensual, erotic power as sacred and life-affirming

Orgasmic birth is not a fantasy — it’s a possibility. And even if your birth is not ecstatic, the practices we use can help you feel more connected, empowered, and embodied through every stage of the journey.

Connection with Nature and Animism

You are nature. Your body is the earth, your breath is the wind, your womb is the cave of creation. We reconnect you with:

• The elements

• Plant and animal spirits

• Moon and cycle wisdom

• The wild instinctual body

From barefoot grounding to forest bathing, your bond with the living world becomes an ally in your birth.

Holding Your Relational Transformation

Pregnancy doesn’t only transform the body — it reshapes the relational field. As a relationship coach trained in counselling psychology, I hold sacred space for the emotional and interpersonal shifts that often arise during this time.

Together, we tend to:

• Changing partnership dynamics and communication patterns

• Navigating evolving roles in co-parenting relationships

• Shifts in sexual connection, desire, and embodied intimacy

• Boundary setting and reconfiguring your support network

• Emotional intimacy and attachment pattern awareness

• Healing family-of-origin wounds that resurface during pregnancy

• Relational anxieties and fears about becoming a parent

• Coping with unmet support or lack of attunement from loved ones

• Claiming your evolving identity within chosen family or community

• Processing grief around disconnection, change, or old relationship cycles closing

• Making space for joy, ritual, and celebration within your partnerships

• Preparing support parents and co-parents to meet this transition consciously

We bring love, clarity, and spiritual presence to all your evolving connections.

An Alternative to Traditional Birthing Classes

This offering is ideal for those who:

• Feel out of place in clinical or mainstream antenatal spaces

• Want a more soul-centred, nature-connected, and spiritual preparation

• Crave meaning, embodiment, and emotional safety over rigid instruction

• Are seeking not just knowledge — but transformation, presence, and trust

• Want continuity of care that supports the emotional, spiritual, and relational aspects of pregnancy and postpartum

While traditional birthing classes often focus on timelines, stages of labour, and breathing techniques in a medical context — shamanic birthing support focuses on preparing the whole self: your nervous system, your energy field, your baby(s), your relationships, and your connection to the unseen world that’s also guiding this birth.

You may choose this work instead of a typical antenatal class, or as a complementary support that brings spiritual and emotional depth to what you’re already learning elsewhere.

How We Work Together

Think of me as your sacred support guide — not replacing your medical team or doula, but walking with you in the spaces they may not tend to.

• I help you prepare your inner landscape through ritual, breath, visualisation, and energetic practices

• I support your relationship shifts and emotional transitions with counselling-informed coaching

• I accompany you to birthing classes (if desired) and help you integrate them in a soul-aligned way

• I co-create ceremonial milestones with you to honour key moments in pregnancy and postpartum

• I continue supporting you after birth, with grounding, integration, and nervous system tending

Whether you’re planning a home birth, birth centre, or hospital experience, this is a layer of support that reconnects you to the sacred, intuitive, and wild intelligence of your body and spirit.

Who is This For?

• Birthing people of all genders who want to experience birth as a sacred transition

• Queer, trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive parents

• Partners and co-parents seeking to deepen their spiritual and emotional preparation

• Those who feel out of place in medicalised or mainstream antenatal spaces

• Parents planning home, birth centre, or hospital births who want to honour the soul

What Our Sessions Include

Each session is tailored to your needs and may include:

• Guided rituals and ceremonies

• Breath and body practices for each trimester

• Dreamwork, symbolism, and visualisation

• Energy clearing and trauma integration

• Kundalini and sensual awakening (if this interests you)

• Nature-based assignments and grounding

• Ancestral work and spirit ally connection

• Relational support and inner transition work

• Birth altar creation and postpartum closing rituals

A Word About Birth Outcomes

This work is not about scripting a perfect birth. It’s about moving through your birth with trust, presence, and spiritual resilience.

Whether your path involves natural birth, intervention, caesarean, or something in between — this work helps you meet it with awareness, reverence, and grounded inner power.

You are the altar. You are the ceremony. You are the priestess and the passage.

Ready to Reclaim Your Birth?

You are not alone. You are held by the wisdom of your womb. By the spirits that walk with you.By the deep rhythms of the living world.

If this offering speaks to you, I invite you to begin this journey with me.

Let’s prepare not just your body — but your soul — for the sacred threshold of birth.

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