Become conscious of how you were born and how this imprint affects every creative effort you undertake…
Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy
What is Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy?
This is a one-day workshop for women who are PREGNANT or planning to be, for BIRTHWORKERS and birth keepers, and for people BIRTHING THEMSELVES & their lives in whatever form!
How do you birth?
What is your Birth Story?
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Reflect on your birth imprint and how it affects how you birth your life, your projects, your art, your babies and yourself
- Understand and nourish your fertility, embodiment and generative capacity
- Understand the current culture around birth and how to navigate it
- Let go of fears, anxiety and inner obstacles
- Journey deep within to meet your baby, soul babies, your Inner Goddess or your creative Self!
Why Birth?
Birth is our first Rite of Passage, and initiates us into our Self. It is the start of our life cycle, and therefore influences how we are in the world, every moment of every day.
So, how we choose to birth our children is of vital importance, a sacred experience that will influence the rest of their lives, and our own.
In this Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop, we reclaim Birth in all its forms, as the Rite of Passage into Motherhood: the moment when we step into our full creatrix power.
Whether you are birthing a human baby or supporting those who are, whether you are birthing a new version of yourself, a project or career or work of art, this workshop will help you understand your generative, birthing process as not just a physical transformation, but an emotional and spiritual one, as well.
In this workshop, we learn from each other’s stories, reframing birth as a normal, natural and healthy process in which we can trust.
By bringing consciousness to the birth process – our own and those of our children – we deepen our understanding of ourselves. We look for these themes and patterns playing out in our lives, and from this position of awareness, we have the opportunity to reframe our experience and learn the lessons we need to learn in order to empower ourselves in the future.
“"At menarche a young woman enters her power, throughout her menstruating years she practices her power, and at menopause she becomes her power.””
Native American Saying
Workshop Structure
- 1. Safe Space
- 2. Birth as a Rite of Passage
- 3. Letting Go of Fear Ritual
- 4. Meet Your Baby/Creation/Self!
The Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop begins with the creation of a safe container – a cauldron of love and intimacy to hold us throughout the day.
We hold each other and listen with the ears of our heart to our sisters and ourselves speaking. We pool our embodied wisdom.
In this sacred space we allow ourselves to feel our feelings and be with whatever is arising, offering compassion and love to ourselves and each other, as we share and reflect on the various faces of our birth experience.
The major theme running through the day is birth, and we reflect on how and why birth has become so medicalised and for so many, traumatising. We look to feminine birthing wisdom, what has been lost and what is being reclaimed.
We reinstate birth as a powerful, trustworthy and natural rite of passage.
Our own Birth is the beginning of our life cycle and is thus a powerful imprint or story of how we do creativity, and birth things in the world.
In this Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop, we bring consciousness to our own birth story and the births of any children and projects.
We identify patterns and themes through self-reflection, sharing in pairs, and sharing in circle (and of course, all of these processes are entirely invitational and voluntary).
In undertaking this important work, we open ourselves to new possibilities and clear the way for our inherent and abundant creativity.
In current society, we are taught to fear birth, and to mistrust our own body’s wisdom and knowing. This generates fears around the birthing process and our own capacity to bring our children/projects/selves into the world.
Within the loving container of our workshop circle, with consciousness of our own birth stories and all we bring to birth from our red thread/mother line, we acknowledge our own fears and the fears around us.
We dig deeper here and uncover the beliefs we have that enable that enable these fears and begin the process of examining these beliefs. We ask of ourselves, do we even believe the belief required to have these fears?
We co-create a beautiful ritual to release these fears, and to once again trust our body’s capacity to birth.
We reclaim our feminine wisdom and intuitive knowing.
Drum Journey
The drum is a powerful tool and you can travel via the drum beat to the deep pools of wisdom within and without. In this drum journey you connect with your baby in your womb, your soul baby (babies you have ‘lost’ or who are yet to come) or your inner goddess/ shaman. Birth is a collaborative effort!
Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy Teachers
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Witch • Hearthkeeper of the SSW • Doula • Mother •
Sequoia is a Mother, a Witch, a Shamanic Craftswoman, a Doula and a Hearthkeeper.
As a Teacher with the SSW she brings her presence and skills to witnessing and supporting transformation, creating safe spaces and supporting women to find their inner knowing and reclaim their power.
Sequoia is the founder of The Wild Witch, supporting women to claim their inner witch and live a wild and wonderful life. She offers in-person workshops, online courses and 1:1 support.
She holds workshop in her community, at conferences and festivals, on Blood Magick, Reclaiming our Wild Selves, Honouring Women and Menstruation, Drum Making, and Seasonal Sabbats. She has co-created and held Red Tentsand women’s spaces around Australia
She lives in the forest on Bundjalung Country in the Byron Hinterland with her family and animal companions, connecting daily with the earth and all the wild creatures she shares her bush home with.
Sequoia holds the vision of the healed sisterhood and is dedicated to living in service to the Goddess.
Listen to Sequoia on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 5 – Blood ~ Safety and Connection
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage •
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
Journey to Avalon Immersion
Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
Frame Drum journey work
Student Midwife Support Circles
Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Listen to Judy on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 12 ~ Priestess Wisdom ~ Maga, Honouring our Transitions
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Witch • Hearthkeeper of the SSW • Doula • Mother •
Sequoia is a Mother, a Witch, a Shamanic Craftswoman, a Doula and a Hearthkeeper.
As a Teacher with the SSW she brings her presence and skills to witnessing and supporting transformation, creating safe spaces and supporting women to find their inner knowing and reclaim their power.
Sequoia is the founder of The Wild Witch, supporting women to claim their inner witch and live a wild and wonderful life. She offers in-person workshops, online courses and 1:1 support.
She holds workshop in her community, at conferences and festivals, on Blood Magick, Reclaiming our Wild Selves, Honouring Women and Menstruation, Drum Making, and Seasonal Sabbats. She has co-created and held Red Tentsand women’s spaces around Australia
She lives in the forest on Bundjalung Country in the Byron Hinterland with her family and animal companions, connecting daily with the earth and all the wild creatures she shares her bush home with.
Sequoia holds the vision of the healed sisterhood and is dedicated to living in service to the Goddess.
Listen to Sequoia on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 5 – Blood ~ Safety and Connection
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage •
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
Journey to Avalon Immersion
Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
Frame Drum journey work
Student Midwife Support Circles
Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Listen to Judy on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 12 ~ Priestess Wisdom ~ Maga, Honouring our Transitions
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Homebirth Midwife • Perinatal Educator • MIPA teacher • PLYM Teacher • Mother •
Noemi is a Homebirth midwife, Saluto physiology midwife, a wife and mother. She is a teacher of the Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops, and a perinatal educator. Noemi is also a MIPA teacher and PIyM teacher.
She offers Midwifery and shamanic support for girls approaching menarche, and in pregnancy and postnatally.
Noemi offers Sex education, Homebirth care and bereavement support.
She works with women in one to one sessions or group workshops.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess • Astrologer • Circle Facilitator • Creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal • Scrybe Witch •
Grace is a priestess, ceremonialist, astrologer and seer, as well as teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is the creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal, a year-long self-reflection tool based on menstrual, seasonal and lunar cycles.
Grace offers astrology and Tarot readings, as well as hosting various circles and ceremonies. Each year, she and her husband host a Wilderness Solo, singing up transformation through relationship to self, others and nature.
She is passionate about intentional living and deepening into radical self-trust.
Grace lives with her husband and three children outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nourished by a big vege garden and the great expanse of prairie sky above.
