PreNatal Care
PreNatal Care
Comprehensive in home visits
Childbirth Education Classes
“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
Consultation - 30 minutes
Let's connect and see if it's in alignment for us to come together during your birthing journey.
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
Blessing Way Ceremony held for Mom. A gathering of your closest sisters/aunts/Mother/women who support and uplift you on this journey. A half day container, anchored in ceremony, supported by ritual, celebrating and honoring you.
Biweekly prenatal visits from (30 weeks, weekly starting at 37 weeks.
Continuous support during labor delivery and immediate postpartum.
4 PostPartum Visits 2 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
“Childbirth is a rite of passage so intense physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, that most other events in a woman’s life pale next to it. In our modern lives, there are few remaining rituals of initiation, few events that challenge a person’s mettle down to the very core. Childbirth remains a primary… initiatory event for a woman.” –Maren Hansen
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.
Katie apprenticed with the elder Nana midwives of the Guatemalan highlands. It was here that she was initiated into Maya Abdominal Massage and the practice of “Closing the Bones.” Traditionally a Mexican postpartum ritual, this ceremony creates intentional space to assist the mother in integrating spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Katie incorporates herbal support both through tea and tincture as well as yoni steams and sitz baths. She believes that a fully supported postpartum supports a regulated and grounded family nervous system.
Current Postpartum Offerings
Closing the Bones +Maya Abdominal Massage Ceremony
Half Day Ceremonial Experience
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!