Mind Body Birthkeepers Training
Actualize your inherent passion for birth work
Access your own inner power and wisdom as a vessel to support others in their birth experiences
Next training starts October 21st 2021
You were born to support each other through the birth portal - it was imprinted within you the day you entered this world.
You seek the confidence and knowledge to make your passion for birth work a reality.
You believe in advancing the mind-body approach that your potential clients long for.
You feel your heart is ready to take on the role of implementing a natural and spiritual birth path in today’s birth environments.
Entering into the field of birth keeper with the support of experienced and knowledgeable guides makes all the difference.
No one should go into the intensity of sacred birth work without the support of a like-minded community.
Do any of these sound like you?
✔︎ You are a newly trained doula who is eager to gain experience
✔︎ You work in the medical environment and feel ready to bring spirit into your birth work
✔︎ You have the inner knowing, the intuition and the passion, but you seek the practical strategies
✔︎ You find the complexity of birth support intimidating and the medicalization of birth foreign
✔︎ You are a healer, practicing a mindbody approach and feel called to work with pregnancy and birth
Apply for our upcoming training and step into your natural role as a birthkeeper.
INTRODUCING
The Mind-Body Birthkeeper Training
We open the door into the world’s oldest spiritual nature-based path, coupled with practical strategies!
The training provides a bridge, a harmonious relationship between the scientific medical approach and the natural spiritual approach.
The training is based on the concept that mind affects body and body affects mind.
It delivers the tools to harness this understanding which have potential to change the birth world.
This training welcomes you into a lifetime of friendship and community as birthkeepers. It is your nurturing, supportive, educating and inspiring space to actualize your birthkeeper calling.
What People Are Saying
“I feel flooded with gratitude to begin this journey into doula work with an incredible mentor. As I grow to understand the complexity of birth support and all that medicalization of birth entails, I am relieved to enter the field with someone with so much experience and knowledge as a teacher. I feel so much more confident knowing that a group of us will create a supportive space in which to learn, share and support each other!”
- Josephine Cooper || Mind-body Birthkeeper Doula In-Training
“Paula is a sage woman and a teacher who combines the rare essence of power and tenderness. She inspires my work as a doula and a childbirth educator. Paula is my teacher for life, who is available to guide me with her wide experience and knowledge. Her positive approach to life became a compass on my route to personal development.
I highly recommend Paula to anyone who seeks to support women during pregnancy, birth and beyond.”
- Renana Ophir Lotem || Doula
Birthwork encompasses the fields of psychology, science, medicine, motion, healing, anatomy, spirit, massage, business, interpersonal connection, parenting, and communication.
In this program you will walk all of these paths to become a renaissance woman of birth.
IN THIS TRAINING, YOU WILL:
✔︎ Obtain the tools and knowledge of the mind-body approaches to birth.
✔︎ Learn to create a harmonious relationship between the spiritual natural approach to birth and the medical mainstream one.
✔︎ Practice letting intuition guide you, and learn how to share that gift with your clients.
✔︎ Develop both the confidence to create a heart to heart connection with potential clients, and the calm to close the deal.
✔︎ Be guided, by experienced mentors who walked this ancient path countless times before, with a like-minded community.
✔︎ Go through a transformational journey to actualizing your calling.
✔︎ Learn the secrets of maintaining a healthy strong mind and body which will carry you through the challenges of birth lag.
✔︎ Receive a deep understanding of the female reproductive cycle based on traditional rituals, ancient wisdom, and the latest scientific knowledge.
✔︎ Feel confident with secure sources for evidence based professionalism and care.
We see you
Be held when you hold space for someone else.
Join a sisterhood of birthkeepers supporting each other as you make your way within this sacred role.
The deep knowingness is within you.
Be reminded of your connection and guided to trust it.
Find your way back home to your inner essence.
“I met Paula when I was pregnant and wanting a birth preparation class to “tick the box” on my to-do list. Her HypnoBirthing class was a huge revelation. I did not know much about birth and the most I had heard was about how lucky we are to live in a world with epidural. Her kind, reassuring and evidence-based approach taught me a lot. I reached the birthing day of my baby with so much love, calm and confidence.
With my second pregnancy, I registered for her class again. I knew that there were some things which I was simply not ready to learn and to hear the first time around, and I wanted to practice with her some of the deep relaxation techniques she had taught us. The birth was everything I could have dreamed of – easy, magical. This is when I decided to switch careers and become a doula. Paula was there to guide me and train me as a HypnoBirthing practitioner. Her knowledge is invaluable. Her patience, her capacity to listen, and her willingness to be there for you are a gift for any woman, doula, or midwife seeking good and reliable information, and a better way to welcome life in our world.”
- Olivia Franco Navon || Doula
“I met Gili when I was pregnant with my son and instantly fell in love with her, her energy, her passion, her soul, her wisdom, her knowledge and her big heart. Gili changed my life and because of her and everything she taught me, I found my lifelong passion and calling of becoming a doula. Gili taught me to trust myself and made me feel confident and secure in my practice as a doula. She has guided me and taught me about mindfulness and mind-body methods of labor and birth and the importance of it not only during labor and birth but in life in general. Gili is a book of knowledge, an incredible and passionate teacher and mentor I continuously learn from on this journey of becoming a birthkeeper.”
Allison Hirsch || RN, Mind-body Birthkeeper Doula In-Training
How it works
In depth 9-month program
Live training on Zoom
Weekly classes
60-120 minute classes
Held by a global community
You’ll Love it because, you will be…
✔︎ immersed in a hands on, live, interactive training based on the mind-body connection
✔︎ provided the tools and deep understanding how the mind affects the body and how it translates in pregnancy, birth and postpartum
✔︎ able to establish the habit of being fully present and connected with your intuition, so you can show up for your clients
✔︎ learning from masters in the prenatal holistic field
✔︎ supported, nourished by, and contributing to a beautiful community
CURRICULUM
MODULE 1
The brilliant mind-body journey to parenthood
Learn the female reproduction cycle based on traditional rituals, ancient wisdom, as well as on the latest scientific knowledge
Cycles of moon, mood and anatomy - Fertility
Conscious Conception - Getting pregnant
Going within - Pregnancy
Bringing life through - Labor and birth
Birth of a parent - Postpartum
MODULE 2
Explore the journey of a new soul into this world
The mind body approach to the baby’s mental and physical development from conception to 4th trimester
Choosing life - Conception
Time in the womb - Pregnancy
Coming earthside - Labor and birth
4th trimester
MODULE 3
Integrating mind and body
Discover how deep work with the inner mind is evidenced based in terms of how the mind plays out through the body
The biology of thoughts
Bridging science and spirituality
Mind-body streams - lean into your client’s vision and cultivate your client’s language of birth.
Develop the intuition, senses, and attunement of a mind-body centered birthkeeper
MODULE 4
YOU - a soul-centered mind-body birthkeeper
Embody self care and self awareness. Learn to listen to you!
Your why
Your passion
Your energy maintenance
Your body
Your mind
Your needs
MODULE 5
YOU - a professional mind-body birthkeeper
Embody care-provider skills and gain awareness to the needs of others. Learn to listen with your heart and soul!
Create connection with your client
Guide informed choices
Learn to translate the different care models, and transform your client’s chosen path into a celebration of life.
Doula Workflow - from first connection to closing the circle - an in depth walk through the birth doula work cycle
Engage in your holistic toolbox
MODULE 6
Relationships
You are not alone, this work is about communication on all levels
Connect and hold space for your client
Allow yourself to ask and receive support
Create harmony within the family’s inner and outer circles of care
Find your peace with the medical establishment
+ Bonuses +
Activism Module
Community Rights and Birth
Supporting LGBTQ community
Supporting clients of color
The legal rights of a doula
The legal rights of the birthing client
Giving back to the community
Weekly affirmations
39 weeks of Mantra
Each week you will receive a positive affirmation sent via email to support your Doula journey and coincide with curriculum.
Meditation Bundle
Client Package
Both recorded and shared as scripts for you or your clients to self-record.
Staying grounded
Breech baby
Affirmations for Breastfeeding
Coaching Calls
1:1 with your Mentors
Two personal private 45 minutes sessions. One with Paula and one with Gili.
Your Guides
GILI LEVITIN MSc, MBA
Doula Mentor, HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator, and Doula
Former scientist and eco-minded mom, Gili supports families during the precious time of pregnancy, labor and birth. Her passion is to help people transform their birth mindset, empower them to realize their full potential, and assist them to find the power within them. Gili founded “inher body” more than a decade ago, to inspire, educate, and support families throughout the birthing year. Her work of mind-body-spirit connection creates a bridge between the scientific medical approach and the natural spiritual approach.
When the demand for her doula support exceeded her ability to serve, Gili began mentoring young doulas in her model - a mind-body-soul approach to pregnancy and birth. To increase the circle of support she was inspired to co-create the MindBody BirthKeeper training to teach the art of integrating mind-body tools into life-transforming journeys.
Gili is a native Israeli, who currently splits her time between Manhattan and her family lake house. Her scientific background and search for quantitative evidence, led her to embrace a holistic and organic approach to life. Gili spends her quality time practicing ashtanga yoga, meditating and enjoying her husband and their 3 beloved daughters.
PAULA AJI
HypnoBirthing Faculty Trainer, Childbirth Educator, Doula and Healer
Paula is passionate about creating a world that empowers women in their bodies, instills confidence in new parents, and welcomes babies gently with joy. MindBodyBirthKeepers was born out of having trained thousands of parents and birth workers in gentle birth skills.
As a HypnoBirthing Faculty Trainer and Evidence Based Birth Educator she prepares Birth Professionals with the knowledge and experience they need to help families feel calm and secure. She is the pioneer teacher of HypnoBirthing in Israel, where she introduced the mind-body concepts of relaxation tools for birth; and was featured on Israeli television’s “The Professionals”. Her partnership at “Simply Birthing” published the Hebrew translation of the book “HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method” and the “Rainbow Relaxation” audio.
Paula’s day job is a doula and childbirth educator who guides parents to breathe and relax, and rubs the lower backs of laboring birthers. She uses her skills as a certified hypnotist and healer to help families release trauma of past births, and to turn breech babies.
She teaches Professional Trainings Internationally including the USA, China, and the Middle East. Paula brings peace, passion and playfulness to this work.
Born in New York and living in Tel Aviv, Israel, Paula’s downtime includes contemplating the mind body pleasures of chocolate, practicing qigong, cuddling with her granddaughter, and day trips in nature.
Become a Mind Body Birthkeeper
Training begins October 21, 2021
Pay-in-Full
$1500 (best value)
Payment Plan
4 payments of $425
Have Questions
Schedule a call
“It was Gili’s work with me during my pregnancy and birth experience that convinced me that the doula path was the right one for me. Observing how she brought a relaxation mindset to all aspects of birth support impressed upon me how absolutely essential the mental state is to the birth process. You’ll learn how to interview successfully, how to assist clients in their decision making, and how to be an indispensable member of the birth team. The greatest gift is learning how to help your client approach birth with the tools for manifesting a calm mental state.”
- Golda Fleischman || Mind-body Birthkeeper Doula
“Learning with Paula is the best gift you can give yourself. She brings her passion and her big heart, her extraordinary knowledge and experience to her teaching, combined with stories that leave you amazed. Her classes are always interesting and include lots of laughs.
Learning with Paula is knowing that you are learning from the best!”
- Shirli Holtzman || Doula
What's Included Recap
✔︎ Framework and practice of the birthkeeper work cycle
✔︎ Mindbody perspective of each phase of the birthing year
✔︎ Holistic birth practices, including acupressure, rebozo, guided imagery, essential oils and more
✔︎ Mindbody tools including self hypnosis and meditation to give you the calm you need while supporting clients
✔︎ Tactics to bridge between the holistic, natural approach and the medical, scientific one
✔︎ Mindbody tools for interviewing successfully and closing the deal with prospective clients
✔︎ Scientific evidence to calm the most sceptical client
✔︎ Core review of a wide variety of mindbody childbirth education brands so you can speak the mindbody language of your client
✔︎ Moon cycle charting tools so you can understand your own emotional ups and downs and guide your clients through theirs
✔︎ Hormone hacks, and self-care practices to strengthen your immune system and boost your energy level to deal with the demands of being a birth keeper
✔︎ International community of support to interact, share and consult with
“Gili has the rare ability to instantly bring about relaxation and positive energy in anyone who comes her way, so you can imagine how taking her class with my birth phobia was like winning the lottery. She knew exactly how to talk to me, how to encourage me, how to believe in me. She saw me, even though I was not the only one there. It was so life-changing, it compelled me to create my first documentary film, opening mainstream’s eyes to Hypnobirthing and its powerful impact on pregnancy, birth and beyond.”
- Liat Ron || ‘Fear and Now’ Filmmaker
“I am feeling so grateful for everything that Paula has taught me. It has been a very healing experience for me. The topics touched me deeply and gave me understanding and clarity about my own births and the births that I attend as a doula. I learned so many tools and ideas that I could use in my work with clients and also in my own life. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.”
- Ravit Levin || Mother & Doula
Frequently Asked Questions
+ What are the benefits of participating in this program?
Actualize your birth-keeper calling. General doula trainings usually provide a boost of passion to become a birth worker. However, with us you'll go deeper into the essence of being a mind-body birthkeeper, and get the tools to make this passion into your life-journey. You’ll gain the confidence, knowledge and tools to be able to support your clients in a profound and professional way. You will learn to create a heart to heart relationship with your clients, discover how to navigate the different birth environments, and understand how to bridge between the holistic, natural approach to birth and the mainstream medical one.
You will enjoy the support and extensive experience of your guides, and become a part of an incredible community of like minded birth keepers.
+ I’m new to birth work. Will this course be too advanced for me?
Put your fear aside and jump in, the concepts are made to be accessible to all. This course is a wonderful way for you to enter the birth world with confidence on all levels. In addition to the mind-body tools, you will learn about the sacredness of the female body; the ancient wisdom of pregnancy, labor and birth; as well as an in depth walk through the birthkeeper work cycle. This training is a treasure chest full of all the skills and experiences required of a mind-body birthkeeper. Instead of going through endless workshops and trainings to advance your services, from the get go of your birth-keeper path, you will start with the essence of 30 years combined experience and knowledge, sparkled with tips from the field.
+ I’ve been doing birth-work for years. Will this program be too basic for me?
Your experience in the birth world will provide you with a great opportunity to practice as you learn more about how to provide the integral mind-body-soul support to your clients. This concept is unique and can provide you with a competitive advantage as you advance your services. This course represents a different approach to birth. Birth is a mind-body-soul experience. Therefore, it requires an integrative approach that enables the birthkeeper to provide well rounded support according to the clients’ needs and wants. Taking this training will move your birth practice into the full embodiment of the holistic care giver.
+ How much time will this program take me? How much do I have to put in on a weekly basis?
We are meeting once a week, live on zoom. Average session is 1.5 hours long. The training will run for the full year (with time off during holidays). The program is divided into three trimesters. After each trimester, there are 4 weeks of implementation time. During the 4 weeks break, we get togehter for a weekly zoom call that will be dedicated to Q&A, mindset and sharing of your experiances with the new informaiton. Most of the classes do not require additional “homework”. However some of the sessions will provide you with exercises and tools to implement into your own personal growth and life. You might choose to invest additional time to walk the talk.
+ What are the dates of the program?
The program runs from October 21, 2021 to Oct 20, 2022 We are meeting every Thursday at 10:30am EST. There are no sessions during holidays.
+ What if I miss a session? Will the calls be recorded?
The mind-body birth keeper training is a real-time remote course, in which we meet once a week. Every class session should be completed before the next one, since each class is built upon the information shared in the previous sessions. We highly encourage participants to make the commitment to themselves and attend the real time meetings. We know that life in general and birth work in particular can be unpredictable, therefore all sessions will be recorded. A participant who misses a class will get access to the recorded session, and will have a week to watch it.
+ What happens after the program ends? Will I have access to it?
During your time with us you will embody the birth-keeper mindset and tools and you will be ready to go out there and practice them with your clients. The learning is deep and experiential. You will not need to watch the information again, as it will be imprinted in your heart.
+ How much support will I get?
All participants have email access to the instructors at any time, with a 36-hours response time. Each participant will receive 2x 45 minute personal sessions, one with Paula and one with Gili. You will be invited to a private WhatsApp group, in which you will share your learnings, questions, challenges and reflections with your sisters in the journey, and get the support, encouragement and empathy of our mind-body birthkeeper community.
+ When will this program be offered again?
winter 2022
Training begins October 21st
Pay-in-Full
$1500 (best value)
Payment Plan
4 payments of $425
Have Questions
Set up a time to connect