Healing Birth Services
Limited bookings per month: Our birth program is full for January - March ‘22
“Birth is an opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through birth.”
- Marcie Macari
Shanoaleigh Marson
She/Her/Hers
I document life. I capture our raw beautiful moments that happen on a daily that we want to hold on to forever or look back on to heal. This is your story! And I would be honored to hold space and tell your story through my lens in your most empowered and vulnerable moment.
Photographer | Filmmaker | Certified Reiki Practitioner
Josephine Miller
She/Her/Hers
I have long loved noticing and exploring the sanctity of human experiences and processes — relationships, embodiment, joy, love —and I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to come alongside those who are laboring and birthing and loving and taking care of themselves and their families.
Bringing together these passions—birthwork, embodiment, relationships, & photography — brings me the uttermost joy.
Doula | Photographer | Filmmaker
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Birth Doula
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Postpartum Doula
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Birth Photography
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Birth Film
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Reiki Healing
We are drawn to the birth space because of all that it can offer - beauty, challenge, change, and embodiment.
Our hope is that the services we provide will act as an avenue for healing for our clients.
Our desire to serve the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities in the greater Twin Cities area has led us to offer reduced rate birth services to these communities, including birth photography and film, birth doula support, Reiki healing, and postpartum doula care.
Let’s Connect
This is your story! And we would be honored to hold space for your most empowered and vulnerable moment.
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Birth Doula
Virtual support from the time you sign your contract
Two in-home prenatal visits, to answer questions and talk through anything and everything leading up to labor and birth
On call from the time you reach 38 weeks
Labor and birth support - I will come to you whenever you feel like you need me, and likely stay until about 2 hours postpartum
Two postpartum visits where we debrief your experiences and process anything you need
Postpartum Doula
In-home care including: meal prep, cooking, light housework, care of older children, caring for your baby while you rest, massage, relaxation exercises, and more.
Birth Photographer
Coffee talk at 35 weeks to chat about your vision and preferences.
24/7 on-call status from 38 weeks of pregnancy (based on you EED)
Continuous photography from the time I arrive until 1-2 hours after delivery.
2 edited sneak peek (sized for web) images within 48 hours
Birth Filmmaker
Coffee talk at 35 weeks to chat about your vision and preferences.
On call 24/7 from the time you are 38 weeks of pregnancy (based on your EDD)
Professional videography coverage from active labor until up to 2 hours after birth
5-10 minute birth film digitally delivered within 6-8 weeks of the birth
Reiki Healing
Services provided virtually or at home
Pregnancy
Postpartum
Womb healing post miscarriage, birth, or abortion.
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Pure Love and light ✨ Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.
Reiki is a form of gentle energy transmission administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that unseen “life force energy” flows through and what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we awe meow capable of being happy and healthy.
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A doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a birthing person before, during and shortly after childbirth to help them achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible. They can also support the birthing person’s partner, offering knowledge, encouragement, and insight into how they might best come alongside their pregnant partner.
Having a trained doula with you during labor and birth has countless benefits, regardless of your goals or desires for your birth. Research has shown that the presence of a doula can decrease the need for pitocin, decrease the likelihood of a cesarean birth, decrease the likelihood of use of pain medication, and increase the likelihood of birthing people rating their birthing experience as positive.
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
— Virginia Woolf
Pay-It-Forward Offering
In an effort to alleviate financial barriers, these funds go towards reduced rate birth services, including birth photography and film, birth doula support, Reiki healing, and postpartum doula care.
Let’s Connect
This is your story! And we would be honored to hold space for your most empowered and vulnerable moment.