Who you are
You wish to feel supported by women you can trust and who deeply trust you. You value your sovereignty and acknowledge that birth is a natural part of life. You consider the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of bringing a new life into the world and are excited to take this journey with your baby!
You want to feel private, safe and unobserved during your most intimate and powerful life events. You want your baby to be treated as the sacred being they are - touched by only your family at the time of birth, held skin to skin, as they nurse for the first time.
You want to be treated with the same reverence, and want your space to be held as sacred.
These are you and your baby's birth rights.
I promise to support you in reclaiming them.
Who I am
Hello, my name is Lauren Ashley.
For myself, the path to birth-work was a long and winding one. My journey has taken me from Holistic health (TCM & Ayurveda) to bodywork and trauma healing, from Hospice Nursing to empowerment coaching. Much of what I have learned from all these branches of study and experience I still use now, in birthkeeping.
I see birth and death as the portals to and from of this realm, and not surprisingly, there are many similarities between them. I consider both to be times in our lives where the veils are thin, a time when much is able to be discovered, processed and transformed.
I believe our bodies know how to birth our babies and that too often this sacred right of passage is needlessly taken from women, or worse, never presented as an option to begin with!
Instinctively, women know what is best for their bodies and their babies.
I find, more often than not, when women are informed of physiological birth, the reasons for interventions, as well as the risks; they opt for the kind of birth that nature so beautifully designed.
My intention is to give you the tools needed for your best chance at experiencing birth in this way.
It is an honor holding space for the souls coming Earthside to have as sacred, safe and connected experience as possible. I believe our birth experience has a great influence on not only our life path, and our relationships with others, but also our ability to trust ourselves and our higher power.
Credentials
Professional Birth Consultant and Family Advocate - The Matrona
Doula - Indie Birth Association
Spinning Babies Workshop attendee
Registered Nurse - Cypress College
Holistic Lifestyle Coach - CHEK Institute
Reiki Master - Huntington Beach Reiki
Myofascial Release Practitioner - John F. Barnes MFR
Massage Cupping - ACE Massage Cupping
Breathwork Practitioner - Jon Paul Crimi
Current Studies:
Quantum Midwifery - The Matrona
What services are available?
“When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.”
-Marie Mongan