The first step towards embodying the role of leader in one’s community and embarking on the path of sovereign midwifery involves excavating the Self, and claiming a life of integrity.

Foundational to the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute is our life-changing self-mastery program: an immersive, experiential redesign of your beliefs, stories, assumptions, and unconscious commitments, allowing you to unlock your potential and uplevel your success in every area of your life. 

Based on the The Conscious Leadership Institute pedagogy (and introduced briefly in The Radical Birth Keeper School), the tools of self-mastery involves a deep dive into the a reconfiguration of consciousness, giving you the skills required to become a self-actualized leader in the birth world and beyond.

Encountering the Self

Week 1 | The Road Map to the Four States of Consciousness 

Week 2 | Unpacking Full Responsibility & Living in Curiosity 

Week 3 | Body Mapping & Emotional Intelligence  

Week 4 | Learning Candor, Congruency, and Integrity 

Week 5 | Your Unique Lane of Genius: Living in Your Full Aliveness 

Week 6 | Practicing Appreciation, Play, Rest, and Renewal

Week 7 | Understanding Projection: The Four Questions of Self Inquiry 

Week 8 | Sourcing from Within: Harnessing Our Own Approval, Security, and Control 

Week 9 | Choosing Enoughness: I Am, I Deserve 

Week 10 | The World as My Ally: I Am the Solution 

Week 11 |  Persona Play: Befriending Our Hard Wired Behaviors

Week 12 | We Are Infinite: Working with Guides

The Matribirth Midwifery Institute offers a radical departure from the dominant paradigm of obstetric birth, delivering a grounded, evidence-based education in the physiology of pregnancy and childbirth supported by expert spotlight teachers, while remaining rooted in a psycho-spiritual approach that rightfully represents midwifery as service and spiritual vocation.

MMI is grounded in the commitment to birth as a sacred transformational ritual as much as it is a physical experience. When we combine devotion, knowledge, and wisdom as sovereign midwives, our work and our lives become Art.

The Sovereign Birth Paradigm

Week 1 | The Root Cause 

• The Far-Reaching Impacts of Industrial Birth
• How Midwifery has Shaped the Cult of Obstetrics (and vice versa)
• Empowerment Culture and the Myth of Informed Consent
• Ethics of the Embodied Birth Keeper

Week 2 | Introducing the Sovereign Birth Paradigm 

• Ethical Birth-Work and the Sovereign Frame
• Becoming an Embodied Sovereign Birth Attendant
• The Freebirth Revolution
• No One Can Attend a Freebirth
• The Principles of Sovereign Consciousness 

Week 3 | Knowing Birth 

• How Physiological Birth Unfolds
• Supporting & Protecting Undisturbed Birth
• The Alchemical Imprint of Physiological Birth
• Navigating Birth Culture, Legalities, & Politics
• Certifications vs Licensure

Week 4 | The Sovereign Midwifery Code

• The Cognitive Dissonance of Licensed Midwifery 
• How To Be a Grown Woman
• The 8 Pillars of Authentic Midwifery
• Traversing the 4 Stepping Stones of Sovereign Birth-Work 
• The Commitments of the Resourced Midwife 
  
  

Facilitating Sacred Postpartum

Week 11 | The First 3 Days Postpartum 

• Supporting Breastfeeding 
• The First 3 days: What to Expect for the Mother
• Supporting Postpartum Logistics  
• Trailing membranes 
• Retained placenta 
• Mother’s Postpartum Recovery
• A Fresh Perspective on Tearing
• The Thriving Newborn: Understanding the Scope of Newborn Physiology and Behavior 

Week 12 | The First Forty Days 

• First 40 days - What a New Mother Needs to Thrive and Integrate 
• Diastasis Recti, Hemorrhoids, Prolapse 
• Organizing Support & Holding Space 
• Co-sleeping
• Sex & Sexuality
• Body Issues and Yoni Changes 
• Conducting a Postpartum Debrief

Walking With Women

Week 5 | Your Lighthouse Birth Practice

• Establishing Your Integral Birth Practice 
• Deconstructing Birth Client Interviews
• Red Flags and Security 
• Wild Pregnancy: Supporting Pregnancy Outside the System
• Symptoms & Self-Healing During Pregnancy
• Case Studies 

Week 6 | Prenatal Support

• The Prenatal Connection Session
• Moving Through the Three Seasons of Pregnancy
• Using a Fetoscope 
• Palpation 
• Anemia 
• The RH Factor 
• Cholestasis 
• Pre-eclampsia 
• Prenatal Nutrition and Movement 
• Approaching the Veil of Birth
• Being on Call and Handling Back Ups
• Early Early Labor, Missing Births, & Showing Up Clean
• Working with Trauma 
• Preparing the Family: managing roles and expectations 
• Working with Single Mothers 

Week 7 | The Internal and External Energetics of Midwifery

• Sacred and Spiritual Midwifery 
• Logistics of Attending Birth
• Mastering the Energy of the Birth Room  
• VBAC
• Emergence and Newborn First Breaths 
• Placental Examination 
• Waterbirth
• Birth Photography 

Week 8 | The Unexpected

• Supporting Women Through the Unexpected
• Long Births 
• Precipitous Births 
• Preterm Birth
• Variations of Normal
• Breech 
• Twins
• Resolving Complications at Home 
• Excessive Bleeding
• The Birth of the Placenta 
• Cord Snapping 
• Bladder Challenges 
• Early Ruptured Membranes

Week 9 | Navigating Rare Emergencies

• Transfer
• Shoulder Dystocia 
• Uterine Rupture 
• Placental Abruption 
• Transverse & Positioning Issues 
• Hemorrhage 
• Meconium Aspiration 
• Cord Prolapse 

Week 10 | Death Work is Birth Work: Supporting the Full-Spectrum of Loss

• Supporting Miscarriage: Within and Outside of the System 
• When a Baby Dies in Pregnancy 
• When a Baby Dies in Labor 
• Surprise Stillbirth
• Known Stillbirth 
• Abortion: Within and Outside of the System 
• Spiritual Loss: The Seasons of Womanhood 

It is a delight to introduce within the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute program, two core MatriBirth methodologies: The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method and MatriBirth Sovereign Childbirth Education.  

The MatriBirth Sovereign Childbirth Education program is a complete training in our unique signature childbirth education curriculum, rooted in the consciousness of radical responsibility and birth liberation.

The program includes a teacher manual, sample class plans, instruction on how to teach with power and inspiration, and parent handouts, along with a module on successfully marketing your birth education classes in your community and online. 

The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method is an unprecedented leading-edge coaching program that offers a profoundly compassionate, emancipatory, and effective approach to supporting women who are healing from obstetric violence, abuse, and mistreatment.

The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method approach combines a revolutionary understanding of the root causes not only of birth-related trauma itself, but of its reverberations throughout the collective culture and individual lifelines, with a focus on integrating and resolving subconscious patterning. This module will equip MMI students with the core competencies required to begin a practice as skilled birth-related trauma debrief practitioners.   

Teaching Sovereign Childbirth Education

Week 1 | The MatriBirth Childbirth Education Curriculum 

Week 2 | Teaching Etiquette: How to Run a Transformational Container 

Week 3 | Business and Troubleshooting 

The Fundamental Elements of Powerful Coaching Virtually and In-Person

Week 4 |The Coaching Framework & Practice 

Week 5 | Assuming the Role of a Truly Grounded Coach: Power, Rightful Authority, and Triggers 

Week 6 | Business Essentials, Coaching Ethics, and Etiquette: Professionalism and Building an Internal Business Structure 

Introducing the MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method

Week 7 | Deconstructing Birth-Related Trauma 

Week 8 | Who are the women, the spectrum of readiness 

Week 9 | Conducting Birth Trauma Debriefs 

Week 10 | Asking Transformational Questions

Week 11 | Coaching with Presence, Candour, and Compassion

Week 12 | Transmuting Trauma Into Power: The Next Steps

Whether you’re brand new to the professional world of birth-work, or re-birthing an existing business, our business school will give you the tools, the action-steps, and the roadmap for not only building a successful birth-business, but for creating a life and legacy of true abundance and financial freedom. With the guidance of two of the most successful business-women in the birth-world, you’ll design and implement your business plan, face and fix your residual money-hangups, and finally raise your thermostat setting so that you can truly shift from scarcity to abundance. 

In a rapidly accelerating social landscape, more and more women are recognizing that financial freedom and self-sufficiency are the keys to collective wealth and thriving. MatriBirth Midwifery Institute’s business program is your path to creating a lifestyle that is easeful, profitable, sustainable, and profoundly rooted in love and service to motherbaby and families.

The Step-by-Step Guide to Awakening Your Birth Brand

Week 1 | Birthing Your Brand 

Week 2 | Setting Up Your Platforms and Assets and Crafting Your Offers 

Week 3 | Money: Your Relationship to Money, How to Make It, Agreements, When to Hire

Week 4 | How to Write Authentic and Impactful Copy

Week 5 | Using Social Media Without Being Used: Healthy Strategies and Perspective 

Week 6 | Expressing Your Unique Voice: Thriving in the World of AI 

Week 7 | Creating Easy Customer Funnels That Sell: Newsletters, Opt-Ins, and Campaigns

Week 8 | Doing the Work: Discipline, Consistency, Rhythms, and Flow 

Week 9 | Nurturing Your Women-Centered Business: How to Network Online and In Person in Sisterhood

Week 10 |  Integration: Action Steps for Your Continued Success 

Week 11 | Your Business Presentation with Emilee and Yolande

Week 12 | Launching Your Business into the World!

Our Monthly Workshops

 We are honored to offer an inspiring lineup of five brilliant spotlight teachers. The topics will include invaluable knowledge and skills for midwifery practice that you won't find taught anywhere else.

Nya Boucher, Hawaii
Nya is Free Birth Society’s in-house copywriter and marketing assistant. She has supported women in sovereign birth, and in marketing birth/holistic businesses online since 2021.

Isabel Greiner, Texas
Isabel is a Birth & Family Consultant. In addition to her work in sovereign birth, she also helps women navigate their complex, intergenerational families.

Amoraea O’Duir, Canada
Amoraea is a seasoned mother and multidisciplinary artist who walks with women through their autonomous birth continuum, offering in-person and virtual support as a full-spectrum sovereign birthkeeper.

Ari Stewart, North Carolina
Ari is a Sovereign Business Director and has been FBS’s Lead Operations Director for 4 years. Her work embodies the business operations side of the radical women’s liberation movement.

Erica Davis, North Carolina
Erica is Free Birth Society’s Podcast Producer, Membership Director, and an Administrative Coordinator. Erica is one of the backbones of Free Birth Society.

Bec Wild, Australia 
Bec is a Women's Self Mastery Coach and Radical Birth Keeper who intertwines science, history, psychology, and spirit to support and challenge women to take back their power.

Megan Borukhovsky, Tennessee 
Megan is an artist, mother, writer, graphic designer and the creative director of Free Birth Society. She has run a successful woman-centered business for over 7 years.

Jess Owens, Canada
Jess is a Radical Birth Keeper who walks with women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, offering in-person support and virtual coaching, while exploring their autonomous choices.

Kaitlyn Valencia, California 
Kaitlyn is a Radical Birth Keeper & Lactation Consultant who witnesses modern women re-awaken their wild and untamed hearts through birth, and their breastfeeding journeys.