Your birth experience should be special and unique to you…not just an in-and-out checklist at the hospital.
As a home-birth midwife since 2012, I have had the honor of supporting countless couples preparing to welcome a new child into their lives.
My name is Rachael Jean and I am so passionate about supporting women and families in having transformational birthing experiences that create empowerment in the transition to parenting.
If the video and subsequent questions sparked something inside you, something powerful, then it’s time to join a community of like-minded parents who want to get the most out of their childbirth experience.
And to make things even more challenging, our culture and healthcare system has failed to truly give your pregnancy and birth the honor and reverence it deserves.
Unfortunately, our medical system has reduced your entire pregnancy experience to a mere collection of physical symptoms that your Care Provider tallies on a chart. Meanwhile, our culture sugarcoats the joyousness of this event without even acknowledging your everyday struggles, and the nuances of what it takes to become a good parent…
In my 9 years of working with expecting parents, I cannot even tell you how many seemingly normal and healthy births resulted in traumatic experiences for the parents, who were facing unresolved parts of themselves during the intensity of labor and birth.
Now, had these people been emotionally and spiritually prepared during pregnancy, these challenges could have been completely avoided, giving them the confidence to step into the role of parent, and show up fully for their new child feeling resourced and ready.
After witnessing this frustrating story unfold time and again with so many expecting parents, and also seeing the immense empowerment available to parents who were given the proper tools, I can tell you the difference between the two is night and day…
And that’s exactly why I created the Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course. This course addresses the full-spectrum experience of pregnancy and birth, by exploring your own inner-workings, and how they relate to the world around you. This course also provides expecting parents more meaning and context to get the most out of this powerful experience.
Elemental Birth Rites invites you to experience pregnancy and birth as a vehicle for growth and self-development. Think of it as your pregnancy support team, but instead of giving you a checklist of action items and to-do lists, we coach you through the spiritual experience of creating life.
Together we journey through 10 online modules that provide a roadmap for reclaiming pregnancy and birth as a rites of passage. By honoring the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual layers of your experience, your whole being is invited to participate in preparing to meet you new child.
MODULE 1: Aligning With Your Journey
Welcome to your pregnancy! You are entering a very unique portal of transformation as you grow your baby and live towards your birth. You have access to the most powerful archetypes of creation during this time.
MODULE 2: Honoring The Universal Mother
In this module, you will explore your relationship to your mother; what you want to leave behind, what you want to hold on to and pass down as you step into the role of new mother.
MODULE 3: Honoring The Universal Father
Here you will explore your relationship to your father, what you want to leave behind, what you want to hold on to and pass down and how your needs for support can be directly communicated and met through your relationships.
MODULE 4: Honoring Your Heart
Explore your resistances and learn how to resource yourself. You will learn to connect to your needs and make space for the innocent, vulnerable aspects of yourself that only want to be heard and loved.
MODULE 5: Arrive In The Present Moment
In this module, you will explore the element of Air through the breath. Learn to call upon the breath to ground you into your self awareness and support you when you are triggered.
MODULE 6: Feeling Emotions As Water
Call upon the emotions to inform you of your wounding, where it lives in your body and how you can learn to flow through your emotions with presence.
MODULE 7: Grounding Into Earth
Call upon the physical body to show you where you are blocked, deliver the messages of the spirit manifested through physical symptoms, and inform you how you can treat your body as the living temple that it is.
MODULE 8: Igniting The Fire
Aligning with the Fire as a tool to call your spirit into yourself you are creating space and time for the inner fire of the spirit to be tended with fierceness and compassion.
MODULE 9: The Crystalline Vision
Call upon the Ether to guide you in your thinking, help you make choices, and ultimately determine what you say and do when you are steering the ship instead of your unconsciousness.
MODULE 10: Integration of the Journey
As you are almost upon your birth, it’s time to tie it all together and deeply tune in with the tools you have found most helpful for the upcoming birthing ceremony and beyond.
If you feel the immensity of this personal experience and want to get more out of this potent time, this course is the perfect adjunct to support a deepening through pregnancy. The tools you will learn in this journey will positively impact your personal sense of overall health and wellbeing as well as bring more harmony into your relationship.
The steps through this course will better prepare you to get the most out of the birth experience and feel more equipped for the sensitive and vulnerable time as a new parent, whether your first or subsequent child.
Don’t miss out on this powerful life changing opportunity to get the most possible personal growth and healing available to you as you prepare for your new child’s arrival. Sign up today and know that your efforts in creating a better future for your children begins with the work you do to prepare for your role as a parent.
As a midwife working with families for years, I guarantee you that treating this pregnancy and birth as a sacred rites of passage will greatly enhance your experience. No matter who your health care provider is, or how you are receiving support to prepare for birth, this course offers you a deeper experience.
Normally, my in-person clients pay $5500 to receive this type of support and guidance throughout their pregnancy and births.
This work is so important that I felt the need to offer it remotely to be able to share it more widely beyond just those who could access me locally. We now have an amazing expert team of practitioners that can support you in this work.
Our 1-on-1 Practitioner Guided Course Journey is available to support you in getting the most out of this sacred experience.
This Course Journey Includes 5 prenatal sessions, meeting for 1 hour on zoom, working with one of our Elemental Birth Rites team members as well as all the online course content and bonuses listed below. Once you sign up, you will be contacted by our team to schedule your sessions based on where you are at in your pregnancy.
Along with lifetime access to the course content, I’d also like to encourage you to participate in our community which provides the sacred container necessary to go through this work with the proper support.
BONUS #1: Private Facebook Group Membership
When you sign up for the course, you not only will receive immediate and unlimited access to all 10 modules of the course and a deep well of supporting resources, you will also be added to our private facebook group where you can connect with our community gathering around this potent work. This group is only open to course members and is directly focused on this conscious approach to pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Your membership and access to this supportive community never expires and after you are on the other side of your birth you will hold wisdom keys for those still in the process, that we hope you will share.
BONUS #2: Monthly Live Q & A Calls for all Active Course members.
Also, when you sign up for this course, you will be invited to our monthly LIVE one-hour long support group meetings with our team of midwives to help guide you in your process. These LIVE events will be structured video call meetings where you can bring shares, challenges, and questions related to the course work. You will join into a sacred sisterhood of other pregnant mamas and have an opportunity to interface with the Elemental Birth Rites midwives to receive support. This is such a valuable offering, one that you will not want to miss.
BONUS #2: Monthly New Moon Live Events!
As a course member whether still pregnant or post partum, you will be invited to our monthly LIVE one-hour long new moon circle calls with our amazing community of all those who have gone through this course community. These LIVE ceremony style events will be video calls where you can bring shares, challenges, and questions and directly interface with the Elemental Birth Rites midwives and community to receive support. We will set intentions and call in what we are hoping to nurture for the next lunar cycle.
BONUS #3: Free Access to Our 8 week Postpartum Mini Series Course.
As a course member entering into your post partum time, you will be invited to continue to integrate the work you did in pregnancy with free access to our 8 week PP mini-course. This course outlines simple rituals and shadow work contemplations to support your embodiment of the medicine you received through your recent rites of passage experience. Each module comes with a supportive short guided breathwork audio meditation to hold and nourish your self care as you journey through the first couple months beyond your birth.
This beautiful gift of life that we have been given is such an amazing opportunity to tune in and really give our full attention to our experience. The blessing of creating life and living towards your birth is so profound and can crack your heart open in all the right ways.
<<< The Elemental Birth Rites Team
We here at Elemental Birth Rites are so devoted to supporting these incoming new souls choosing to be born at this time to enter into families that are intact and healthy.
We hope this course offering will prepare parents to see their role as more than a biological imperative and to awaken to the task of ushering in a new time starting with healing our relationship to self. Our prayer for this offering is that it may support the evolution of consciousness on this planet and contribute to creating beauty and wholeness for the future generations
Your Holistic Pregnancy, Empowered Birth Course can be done from any desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone, so you get to choose the timing, setting, and environment for your experience. I’ll be right here waiting to guide you along the way.
Upon logging in, you get immediate access to all the course materials, along with your built-in progress tracker, so you can stay focused on your self-care while the website records your last completed module.
Up until now, the Elemental Birth Rites Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course has only been available to expecting parents in an in-person setting, and thanks to the amazing feedback we are getting from this work, We wanted to make these intentional rituals and practices available to any and all expecting parents around the globe.
Here’s what 3 mothers have to say about their experiences after completing the Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course
“When someone asks me for recommendations of things that really helped me in my pregnancy and birth, the first thing I mention is the Elemental Birth Rites Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course journey. I can’t even begin to articulate all of the ways this experience assisted me in my pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience. From the first module, I found myself entering such a potent guided exploration of all aspects of the journey ahead. I experienced deep healing through the different modules, working with my own inner child, the mother and father archetypes within and without, and each of the elements. As each module came along, I would notice that my life was serendipitously providing me experiences to work with the material on many levels. “
Melissa
“Moving through the Elemental Birth Rites Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course journey became a deeply powerful tool for coming to terms with my previous birth and preparing the way for my new child. I believe that I was able to stand by myself in the birthing process (and since), find my voice, and deal with pain differently because of this work. When my labor became intense I was able to use air and sound to shift the pain. When I needed support I was able to connect with (for me) water to relax and have a break. Finding places where I was stuck, raw, or powerful and acknowledging those states, gave me resources to call on. When I was tired and in pain I was able to ask for help, and I was able to be with myself the whole time.”
Morgan
“One of the biggest challenges during my pregnancy was the fear of birth and safety of my child. The fear at times felt overwhelming and although I wanted a home birth experience, I was worried that my own anxieties about my daughter’s safety would create a block during my labor. I used The Fire Transforms Fear tool I learned in the Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course daily at the end of pregnancy to help work through that fear, confronting the thoughts and focusing on redirecting my energy to the experience I wanted to have. Learning to sit with the fear instead of ignoring it and letting it fester prior to my labor helped me face the challenges that inevitably reappeared during my delivery. Throughout my daughter’s birth, I revisited the positive affirmations I had formed through art and journaling and was able to surrender and find peace with the birthing process. Although my pregnancy is over, the work learned in this course never stops as my husband and I both continue healing with the tools we received from this course. I can’t thank Elemental Birth Rites enough for creating this course and I am forever grateful for it’s part in my daughters earth side journey. “
Rachael is the creatrix of the Elemental Birth Rites Holistic Pregnancy: Empowered Birth Course journey, and has been nurturing and caring for the seeds of this project for several years. Having come to midwifery with a background in Alternative Healing through her study of massage therapy, sound healing, herbal medicine, and many other modalities, she always felt a deep call to fuse these passions.
She created a synthesis based on her personal study of ancestral healing, transpersonal psychology, and earth based spirituality, that became the basis of the Elemental Birth Rites course journey. She is so excited to have a space to share her passion for exploring shadow work for healing, personal transformation, and her deep reverence for the sacredness of birth and her role in service to the ones who are choosing to be born at this time along with the families welcoming these new spirits.
So you probably have some questions about this course, and I want to make sure that you feel good about joining our community, so here’s a few Frequently Asked Questions that will help you get an understanding of just exactly what you’re getting.
As a midwife, I wrote this course to mirror my time with families during pregnancy and in preparing them for birth over 3 trimesters so this tends to be my area of focus and how the course is set up. That being said I do not want anyone to feel that because they are late in pregnancy, still trying to get pregnant, or trying to integrate a birth that has already happened, that this work is not suited for them.
The most important aspect of the coursework is that you take time to sit with each module and really do the suggested rituals, practices, and exercises recommended to get the most out of your experience. Please do not feel rushed as the work in these modules can benefit you at anytime in life and may be a wonderful support in preparing for a pregnancy, during fertility treatment, if you are postpartum and still trying to digest what occurred in your experience, or late in pregnancy as a way to feel you have done that final prep piece to feel ready to birth.
Know that if you birth within your journey through the course and are unable to finish all the modules, you can trust the timing of your story and how it unfolded within the medicine wheel. You can pick up or return to any of the modules in the course at any time in your life to really work with the exercises and experiences suggested to get the most out of them. This course is an introduction to a new way of viewing life and its challenges and since healing truly is a lifetime journey, the benefits of this work proposed in this course truly will never expire!
Although the wording of the course addresses women’s experience of pregnancy, this work is easily adapted for expecting couples to get the most out of preparing for birth together. Our team of midwives at Elemental Birth Rites work closely with couples during pregnancy and we strongly encourage birth partners who will also be parenting this new being to also do the suggested work in this course. This work is valuable for all expecting parents to clear their fields and do the necessary healing to arrive at the initiation gateway of birth feeling resourced. This work is intended for all and we openly welcome all genders, races, and spiritual seekers to get the most out of this sacred rites of passage.
Yes! This course does not claim to substitute or replace medical care and supervision. Although our Elemental Birth Rites team includes professional health-care providers who do supervise pregnancies and births, this course is a supplement to the care we provide to our clients and to you.
This course is a great adjunct to all modalities of obstetric support, no matter where you plan to give birth and who is caring for you in your pregnancy. We are midwives that support you fully in whatever birth plan you are preparing and hope to connect you with getting the most out of this time while you are receiving the prenatal care that is best suited for you and your family. This course is focused on emotional and spiritual preparedness in birth so you can rest assured knowing that the material in this course will not be redundant to the offerings of your primary health-care provider.
If you have any other questions regarding the Elemental Birth Rites Course, please do not hesitate to reach out to me via email. I’m always happy to hear your story and answer any questions I can to help you along your journey!
support@elementalbirthrites.com
The course content is immediately available to you once you join our community and you can work at whatever pace works for you. Once you join our community, you will be contacted by one of our team members to schedule your 5 prenatal sessions based on where you are at in your pregnancy when you sign up. We will work with you to ensure you have all the tools you could possibly need to prepare yourself for a powerful and transformational experience. The potency of having one of our experienced team members to guide you along this path will deeply enhance your accountability and depth with this course material in a way that can shift your entire birth outcome.
If you need beyond 5 private sessions with one of our team members, you will have access to purchase additional sessions. If you do not complete your 5 sessions before your birth, those sessions will be available to you during your post partum integration and can be just as powerful and supportive.
Sign up for our course community and meet your personal pregnancy coach who will walk you through this incredible medicine wheel.
As a gentle reminder, here’s the listing of all the digital resources you get with this program, along with the sign-up link to join our course community.
Along with lifetime access to the course content, I’d also like to invite you to participate in our community through a few key add-ons that come with your purchase, at no extra cost.
BONUS #1: Private Facebook Group
When you sign up for the course, you not only will receive immediate and unlimited access to all 10 modules of the course and a deep well of supporting resources, you will also be added to our private facebook group where you can connect with our community gathering around this potent work. This group is only open to course members and is directly focused on this conscious approach to pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Your membership and access to this supportive community never expires and after you are on the other side of your birth you will hold wisdom keys for those still in the process, that we hope you will share.
BONUS #2: Monthly Live Q & A Events!
Also, when you sign up for this course, you will be invited to our biweekly LIVE one-hour long support group meetings with our team of midwives to help guide you in your process. These LIVE events will be structured video call meetings where you can bring shares, challenges, and questions and directly interface with the Elemental Birth Rites midwives to receive support. This is such a valuable offering, one that you will not want to miss.
BONUS #2: Monthly New Moon Live Events!
When you sign up for this course, you will be invited to our monthly LIVE one-hour long new moon circle calls with our amazing community of all those who have gone through this course community. These LIVE ceremony style events will be video calls where you can bring shares, challenges, and questions and directly interface with the Elemental Birth Rites midwives and community to receive support. We will set intentions and call in what we are hoping to nurture for the next lunar cycle.
BONUS #3: Free Access to Our 8 week Postpartum Mini Series Course.
As a course member entering into your post partum time, you will be invited to continue to integrate the work you did in pregnancy with free access to our 8 week PP mini-course. This course outlines simple rituals and shadow work contemplations to support your embodiment of the medicine you received through your recent rites of passage experience. Each module comes with a supportive short guided breathwork audio meditation to hold and nourish your self care as you journey through the first couple months beyond your birth.
Final Thoughts from Rachael & Team
This beautiful gift of life that we have been given is such an amazing opportunity to tune in and really give our full attention to our experience. The blessing of creating life and living towards your birth is so profound and can crack your heart open in all the right ways. We here at Elemental Birth Rites are so devoted to supporting these incoming new souls choosing to be born at this time to enter into families that are intact and healthy. We hope this course offering will prepare parents to see their role as more than a biological imperative and to awaken to the task of ushering in a new time starting with healing our relationship to self. Our prayer for this offering is that it may support the evolution of consciousness on this planet and contribute to creating beauty and wholeness for the future generations.