Lineage of Light Doula Support
Pre-Conception to Postpartum
1:1 Mentorship Pre-Conception
-The Path of Pre-Conception-
Fertility is a frequency. Coming into alignment with that frequency requires us to dig deep and tap into our relationship with our life force. How are we? Are we in alignment? Connected to the subtle messages that our body is sending and communicating with? How is our vitality? Our nervous system health? Our sleep? Our service? Our relationships? What is our relationship to understanding, healing, forgiving, and being at peace with our lineage? We stand at the threshold of those who came before and those who are yet to come, it is our responsibltiy to re-grid the consciousness of our wombs, to attune to the highest frequency possible, so that, our womb becomes a temple of and for the divine.
The Path of Pre-Conception is a 6 week journey curated to take us deep into our own origin, our own beginning to witness, see, hold, love and complete any incompletions that are ready to be integrated in order to create space to receive this incoming soul at a new frequency.
With the support of this container you are invited to walk deep into your lineage to understand the gifts, messages, missions, mothers and fathers, to feel and heal the grief of that which has been ungrieved and unclaimed. Together we hold space for the re-membering of your families story and the awakening of the prayers of the ancients and the prayers that are living inside of your own heart.
Through this we begin to open space to hear the song of those yet to come. My teacher and mentor Sarah Soliel told me that it is those yet to come with our highest timelines in their interest. When we begin to call upon them to sit at the center of our circle, center of our prayer, our lives begin to align with the highest path forward with ease. What if we are here to create the dream of our heart so our children remember that life is but a dream and we are here to listen, support, and tend theirs as we walk each other home. This Path of Pre Conception is a deep dive into cleaning up “our side of the street” so to speak as we prepare to weave our lineage into union with another to create a new vibrational path forward. It is a curated and guided container that invokes and invites you to dive into the depths of your root, your relationship to yourself, your service, your joy and pain, your own beginning and relationship to your family system. It is an invitation into the deepest parts of the work, in order to prepare to weave your spirit baby into form from the highest vibrational place available in that moment in time.
You are already whole, you are already ready to conceive. However, there may be protectors (energies) that are asking to be worked with, a unique sequence is necessary to bring forth this next timeline. Together we dive into deep listening and exploration. As we travel into these energetic realms where imprinting and lineage work lives, we begin to unravel the blocks and gently dearmor the protectors. We work with breath, sound, movement, journaling, art, ritual, the elementals, and plants to support us on the journey.
I spent 4 years living in the Highlands of Guatemala studying and apprenticing with my teacher Mariu Gobbato, and the Indigenous Mayan Midwives who so graciously opened their heart and shared their teachings with me. Through walking my own path of pre-conception/conception, with their guidance and support I received many transmissions, downloads, insights and direct teachings that have informed how I steward this gate and this work. I look forward to danicng in the mystery with you.
We work with breath, sound, movement, journaling, somatic embodiment practices, plant medicine, and Earth ritual to create a pathway for liberation.
Birth Doula Support
“Birth is not neat and fast and quiet: it's gritty and primal. But it's nothing to fear unless you also think we ought to fear women crying when they are sad or laughing when they are happy.”
–MAYIM BIALIK
Katie sees birth as a right of passage, a ceremonial journey that deserves to be held and tended with sacred reverence and absolute presence. Her pre-natals are held in ceremonial containers, weaving in ritual, intention setting, meditation, embodiment practices and a full range of support outlined below. Her packages are curated to each individual and family, as your desires, needs and visions for your pre-natal-postpartum period are all unique.
Katie offers complimentary 30 minute phone consult and one complimentary face to face meeting where we co-create a contract that works for both of us!
Doula Consultation - 30 minutes
Let's connect and see if it's in alignment for us to come together during your birthing journey. This session will go over my current packages and availability. At this time I will answer any questions you have about me and working together!
* This is not a time to ask me questions about birth or pregnancy. I have a separate session for birth planning and "picking my brain" about birth education if that interests you!
Birth Support Includes
Phone and email support from the first to the last visit with a 48 hour response time
On call availability, 24/7 three weeks before your due date & until you deliver
Guaranteed back-up when needed
Assistance crafting birth plan and questions answered along the way
Deep Emotional Check in/ Relational Support
Mother Blessing Ceremony Facilitated for Mama and chosen community and family
Biweekly prenatal visits from (30 weeks- this can be negotiated if hired prior to or after this time) through delivery to create space and time to be present with the energetic and emotional layers coming up. This time can be used for meditation, breath work practices, pre-natal yoga, guided somatic processes etc, journaling and integration etc. It is a biweekly commitment to spend time in dialogue, presence, embodiment and listening to yourself and your baby. Once you hit 37 weeks, we begin to meet weekly.
Continuous support during labor and delivery
Immediate postpartum care for up to two hours at your place of birth
2 PostPartum Visits 3 hours each
Final closing of the bones ceremony on Day 40
~ Testimonials ~
“"This was the most powerful experience of my life. Katie was an integral part of it. Her understanding around alignment within and the firm holding of integrity to the spiritual rite of passage inherent in birth made my experience perfect for me. I felt held, seen, honored, on so many planes.” Jen W
“To Say Katie was a huge asset to our birth is an understatement. Katie impressed the entire birth team with over 50 years of experience. Katie is more giving and generous than anyone I have ever met. She takes time to prepare herself and make space for others, instead of jumping in with emotions. She is a safe haven on this journey. She helped me physically more than anyone at my birth. She was there during each and every contraction helping me and compressing my hips. When it was time for the birth she was brilliant enough to catch it on film! She has an intuitive nature around everything in life, and that serves in birth. My husband and I are forever grateful.” Michaela Miller
Ceremonial Postpartum Birth Support
We are generationally at a point of re-visioning how we birth and how we tend post-partum.
Traditionally, a period of postpartum retreat has been a global practice. In Japan it is called ‘Sango no hidachi’, in Korea as ‘Samchilil’, which means ‘21’. In China, Zuoyuezi, “the sitting month” In Latin American countries it is called La Cuarentena, 40 days. Here in the US we seem to have forgotten the sacred time of recovery and bonding, and how to tend and honor it with ceremony and ritual.
It has been the greatest gift of my life to apprentice and study with the traditional Mayan Midwives in the highlands of Guatemala, where I was initiated into a lineage of tending women from pre-conception-postpartum.
I incorporate Herbal Support, Yoni Steams, Maya Abdominal Massage, Breathwork, Somatic Birth Integration Support, and Closing of the Bones Ceremony to support the new mother and give her the support she so deeply deserves.
So many Mothers I work with say that this period of time feels otherworldly, not here, not there, an in-between. Closing of the Bones Ceremony can serve as an integration moment, an intentional space created to reflect on the emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual journey that is birth. There is an invitation to share the birth story, to process emotion, to be nurtured and tended, and to have the energetic and physical portal tended to and closed so that the next chapter can begin. I would love to share this beautiful ceremony with you.
Current Postpartum Offerings
Closing the Bones +Maya Abdominal Massage Ceremony
Sacred Postnatal Ritual Honoring Your Birth as a Rite of Passage
Half Day Ceremonial Experience
The above is an overview of my offerings, however, each birth/doula client and package is unique and custom tailored to fit your unique desires, needs, prayers. Let’s connect to discover what is the best option for you.
More Ceremonial Offerings
for Mothers
Mother Blessings
An intentional, ceremonial alternative to a baby shower, cocooning the Mother-to Be- in community support. This sacred and uniquely personal ceremony offers an opportunity to pause, reflect and make the precious mother-to-be the sole focus and truly shower her with love, support, and affirmation as she prepares to birth her baby.
Maya Abdominal Massage
An ancient and highly effective healing modality that is used for a wide range of pathologies and brings balance back to the body: physical, emotional, energetic and mental. It is used for men and children as well for any menstrual/reproductive disturbances and specifically for women after giving birth, to help the uterus contract back to its original position and size. The abdomen is our power center, during this massage there is an invitation for deep integration of the pregnancy and birth journey as well as an invitation for the energy of the mother to return to the center after expanding into the cosmos to retrieve the soul of her child. Following the massage Katie shares the ritual of closing the bones, a closing of the energetic and physical birth portal. Using Rebozo’s and Faja’s from her teachers in Guatemala, this ceremony holds space to honor the massive right of passage that the mother just journeyed through.
Testimonials
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"This was the most powerful experience of my life. Katie was an integral part of it. Her understanding around alignment within and the firm holding of integrity to the spiritual rite of passage inherent in birth made my experience perfect for me. I felt held, seen, honored, on so many planes.”
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“To Say Katie was a huge asset to our birth is an understatement. Katie impressed the entire birth team with over 50 years of experience. Katie is more giving and generous than anyone I have ever met. She takes time to prepare herself and make space for others, instead of jumping in with emotions. She is a safe haven on this journey. She helped me physically more than anyone at my birth. She was there during each and every contraction helping me and compressing my hips. When it was time for the birth she was brilliant enough to catch it on film! She has an intuitive nature around everything in life, and that serves in birth. My husband and I are forever grateful.”
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Katie has changed my life, and continues to do so. She has been one of the most profound souls I have ever met. If you get the opportunity to work with her, to meet her, to just whiteness her power, I beg of you to show up. The universe has orchestrated paths for us to cross multiple times and in multiple forms. Each time peeling back another layer to my highest self.
Our paths first crossed in the Virgin Islands, but I wasn’t ready; maybe we both weren’t ready then. She moved down after meeting one of my childhood best friends, who I convinced to move down, and began SUP yoga (two connection points there). Fast forward to me living in dallas years later (where she was raised, another connection), I began my 4 year journey to motherhood.
After my second miscarriage, in late 2020, I was shattered. I reached out to a good friend who knew grief on a soul deep level. She told me I should work with Katie. She just so happened to be opening her Awaken the Sacred container, so I signed up. It was the best decision I could have ever made for myself. I can say that enough.
She taught me what it is to be a women- truly. The connections to earth and the cosmos, our history, mothering in every direction and form, our transformations, our bodies, our power, our healing. I was blown wide open. She is so soft in her teaching, yet like a lion roaring with her messages. We did breath-work, and i hated it to be honest. I hated it because I needed it.
Every session I released, mentally and physically- my body would shake, tense up, I would cry, scream, get nauseous, and then clear downloads.
I felt like I had met the new me. I was building my tools and Katie was helping me pick them out.
Then my mom got sick and I was faced with my mother wounds HARD. I moved home to grieve what I thought would be the last moments I got to spend with my mom. Three months later, I was pregnant. It’s be a whirlpool of life!
Katie has continued to support me through my birth, postpartum, and overall understanding of this transition to motherhood. I wouldn’t be who I am, and I truly feel, I would not be a mother with out her. She is a soul sent from realm to be here on earth to heal, if you get the chance, she can change your life too - if you’re lucky!