DTI is a professional membership and educational body certifying birth professionals around the globe. United as birth advocates DTI has a heavy focus on reproductive justice in an effort to work towards closing the gap in maternal and infant disparities. Becky’s role at DTI includes curriculum design and mentoring the mentor.

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PAX Programs Incorporated was founded by Alison Armstrong and Joan McClain in 1995 as a mission-driven company passionate about transforming the way men and women relate to themselves and each other. PAX focuses on educational products and programs illuminating predictable conflicts between genders, and provides innovative ways to resolve these conflicts with principles of partnership. Best known for Understanding Men online course, The Queen’s Code book, and In Sync with the Opposite Sex audio program, PAX has affected millions of people world-wide.

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Karen Atkins helps people uncover their latent potential for optimum energy and fulfillment through transformational tools like BodyTalk, Qi Gong, Essential oils, Music, Nourishment, and other Therapeutic Practices. Karen has been featured on Ted Talks and Good Morning America. Her music has been in multiple feature films and won several awards. In her award-winning Vital Qi TV series, Karen provides practical tips and solutions to generate lasting vitality and fulfillment and create the lifestyle of your dreams.

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Debra Betts started her nursing and acupuncture practice in New Zealand in 1989. For over 2 decades, she has been teaching acupuncture courses to midwives. By 2006, she’d published several articles on the use of acupuncture and acupressure in obstetrics practices and her book, The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Pregnancy and Childbirth. Debra completed her PhD on the use of acupuncture in threatened miscarriage in 2014 and is currently the Director of Postgraduate Programs at the New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is also a clinical supervisor at a New Zealand hospital antenatal acupuncture clinic.

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Ms. Bolds was raised by southern born parents; she carries her culture and heritage of healing into her doula practice. Denise chose the name ‘Selah’ apart of her business name for it’s meaning. Selah is a mysterious word of a sacred space where God and man meet. Denise has supported over 102 births, she believes when a birth giver labors and births; they enter Selah.

Denise is recently elected as Regional Director, Northeast USA with DONA International as of January 2017. She is a author of a self-help book for single black mothers raising their children: “Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son.” This book is sold on Amazon. Her blog; ‘The Audacious Black Woman’ is raw and real on today’s provocative topics. ‘Awake In Birth’ is the Internet radio show Ms. Bolds hosts/produces reflects her passion in maternal health disparities awareness and equality in birth work.

With the constant, chronic statistics of black women having the lowest/ poorest birth and maternal health outcomes, Denise believes the world of doulas have much work to do. Her one word for the doula profession is: ‘Awakening.’ Ms. Bolds’ goal is to leave a legacy of birth work that breaks down maternal health disparity.

Britt has had a thriving, sustainable doula practice in San Francisco for nearly 2 decades. Her work and her life have been deeply supported by her practices in yoga, bodywork, Buddhism, hypnosis and shamanism. She is passionate about teaching and practicing deep, mindful self care while creating a safe and loving container for her clients. Britt supports the process of claiming one’s own power, embracing pregnancy and birth as a conscious rite of passage, while having fun in the process.

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Dr Sarah Buckley is a family physician (GP), trained in family physician obstetrics. She is the author of the internationally best-selling book Gentle Birth. Gentle Mothering and the scientific report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing, published with Childbirth Connection (US) in 2015.

Sarah is also the mother of four children, all naturally born and naturally raised, now in their teen years and beyond.

Sarah’s work supports parents and professionals to be well informed, and to listen to their hearts and instincts. She acknowledges parents as the real experts in their bodies, babies, and families.

Sarah is currently combines mothering with her work as a writer and lecturer on pregnancy, birth and parenting, and is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. See www.sarahbuckley.com and www.gentlenaturalbirth.com and her Hormonal Physiology report at http://transform.childbirthconnection.org/reports/physiology/

Cathy is a physical therapist who has worked with special needs children over the last 30 years. She is founder, designer, and president of BirthWorks International. BirthWorks International offers certification programs for childbirth educators, birth doulas, and postpartum doulas, as well as a combo ACED (Accelerated Childbirth Educator Doula) training. Our curriculum is comprehensive and includes exploring beliefs about birth, pelvic bodywork, Optimal Pelvic Positioning, physiology of birth, and grieving and healing. Cathy is author of Birthing in the Spirit- a human values approach to childbirth, and Doulas of Love and is co-author of the BirthWorks Childbirth Educator Manual, and the Doula Journal Workbook. Cathy facilitates childbirth education and doula workshops in the USA and overseas. She is a certified Maya Abdominal Massage therapist, is certified in pelvic bodywork and optimal pelvic positioning.

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Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D, and Physical Therapist, has taught yoga around the world since 1971. She is a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, CA, as well as the worldwide known Yoga Journal magazine. Judith trains teachers all over the USA and at international yoga conventions. She is president emeritus of the California Yoga Teachers’ Association as well as the author of 9 books and numerous articles on yoga and health for nationally recognized magazines. Her most recent book is Restore and Rebalance: Yoga for Deep Relaxation.

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Dagmar Khan is women’s confidence and sexuality expert, trained as top 1% sex specialists in the world. She is the founder of Sexy Confidence, a global programme that fills the critical gap to offer sexual healing & integration for women after #metoo movement.

Sexy Confidence approaches sexual trauma with an integrated holistic system, that addresses very deeply both the body and the mind, and in fact affects the ecosystem of women’s entire life. It uses the most powerful holistic sexuality practices, deep relaxation and self-massage practices in combination with modern trauma healing and brain-integration techniques, that are designed to help women fully come back to life.

The results? Women unapologetically falling in love with their body, feeling safe around intimacy & reclaiming their full sexual freedom.

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RaShaunda is a wife of 12 years, and mother of four male children. She began her studies in 2008. Her expertise is derived from a spiritual, non-medical background. A student of Philosophy, Neurolinguistics (NLP), and Hypnosis, she facilitates space for deeper understanding of language inclusion, which creates roadmaps to progressive ideas, beginning with reproductive health. She holds multiple certifications in birth work i.e., breastfeeding, postpartum care provider, comfort measure specialist, to name a few. She is currently breastfeeding her fourth son as she recently gave birth at home in July of 2018. RaShaunda loves to facilitate trainings, classes, and workshops for aspiring birth workers and expectant families alike.

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Marie “Mickey” Mongan has spent the last 30 years directing and promoting the growth and curriculum of an expanded HypnoBirthing program worldwide. As the founder of HypnoBirthing®, the former dean of a women’s college, and a licensed counselor, she is a master Hypnotherapist, who holds several of the highest awards in hypnotherapy. She has trained thousands of practitioners around the world, and her book, HypnoBirthing – The Mongan Method, has been translated into 11 languages.

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Jessica is a passionate advocate for informed choices in maternity care. As a Family Nurse Practitioner who had both of her children at home, she found herself at a unique intersection of different cultures and beliefs. Her story, and those of her colleagues inspired her to create the documentary film, “Why Not Home, The Surprising Birth Choices of Doctors and Nurses.”

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Bebo mia is an online training organization that offers education & business mentorship to women* around the world who want to work with individuals/families during their fertility, pregnancy, birth and/or postpartum experience. Through our comprehensive & immersive trainings we connect women* to their intrinsic value and power so that they can help change the way we all experience pregnancy, birth & the postpartum period. Our students are provided with the opportunity to gain financial independence.

Bianca Sprague is the co-founder & CEO of bebo mia inc. She is a badass queer entrepreneur and mom to Graydon. She is an advocate for mental wellness for the entire family, and especially for the birthing parent, after suffering from PPD in silence and losing her father to suicide in 2012.

Alana Nugent is the Marketing Director of bebo mia inc. She co-parents her 11 year old daughter, Gray, with her spouse (and bebo mia’s CEO) Bianca Sprague. Alana has a degree in Physical Education & Health and a post-grad in Marketing.

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Peggy O’Mara is the editor and publisher of peggyomara.com. She was the Editor and Publisher of Mothering Magazine from 1980 to 2011. In 1995, she founded mothering.com and was its editor-in-chief until 2012. Peggy’s books include Natural Family Living, Having a Baby Naturally, and A Quiet Place. She has presented at Omega Institute, Esalen, Bioneers and La Leche League International. Peggy has won several awards and is and advisor on several boards of important organizations.

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Sally Fallon Morell is founding president of The Weston A. Price Foundation (westonaprice.org), a non-profit nutrition education foundation dedicated to returning nutrient-dense food to American tables. She is also the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (realmilk.com), which has as its goal universal access to clean raw milk from pasture-fed animals. She is the author of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing Traditions (with Mary G. Enig, PhD); The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care (with Thomas S. Cowan, MD); Nourishing Broth (with Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN); and Nourishing Fats and Nourishing Diets. Visit her blog at nourishingtraditions.com.

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Allison has helped thousands of people with chronic illness, digestive discomfort, and physical challenges, along with the transitions of pregnancy, birth, chronic stress, menopause, aging, grief and loss, and trauma arising from injury, surgery, and personal crisis. For over 3 decades, Allison helps people restore their body to its natural state of health.

She and her husband, Stephen Cavaliere have coauthored multiple books including, The Gut Wellness Guide: The Power of Breath, Touch, and Awareness to Reduce Stress, Aid Digestion, and Reclaim Whole-Body Health

A generous and stimulating communicator, Shalome Stone creates luscious platforms to share inspired birth wisdom, bust through birthing stereotypes, and raise the vibration around birth.

The Founder of the Rockstar Birth Magazine the Rockstar Birth Radio podcast, and the international Rock Your Birth Academy Shalome has a desire to shift the birthing scene from it’s focus on statistics and fear-mongering, to a place of respect, integrity, and woman-centered sacred encounters.

Through her own hospital and home birth experiences, Shalome came to realise that the power we need to birth does not come from a due date, or a medical intervention. It comes from deep within. From a place of stepping up to birth; of an intuitive knowing that you feel in your body; and, from the womb wisdom of the generations of women who have birthed before us.

Sharing birth stories of every flavour, Shalome crafts connections that inspire questions, agitate for change, and cause her audience to pause and reflect on their own unique birthing journeys.

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If you want to have a less painful, more manageable pregnancy and birth, where you feel excited, calm and prepared for labor, and your baby is born on their terms, Rachel is for you! Rachel will inspire you with facts, opinions, and birth stories, while saying totally inappropriate things, and providing life and relationship skills that go far beyond birth. Rachel will support you to make conscious choices about where, how and with whom to give birth, create the most loving, peaceful pregnancy and birth environment, and see the baby as a wise person whose preferences matter.

Rachel created The Yes To Birth Experience to help pregnant women and birth professionals see that there is a loving, joyful, pleasurable, meaningful way to experience birth.

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