Celebrating 10 years!!
A special round of the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner Training
If you support families in the journey through pregnancy, birth and postpartum (or want to) I invite you to..
BECOME AN ECSTATIC BIRTH PRACTITIONER™!
Do you...
Want your clients to experience birth as the natural and ecstatic rite of passage it was meant to be?
Desire new tools to elevate birth experiences and outcomes, so mothers have empowering and joyful experiences?
Feel committed to revolutionizing birth from fear and victimization to a sacred and liberating portal?
Join the only practitioner training program
to focus on YOUR embodiment of the most holistic birthing tool there is: PLEASURE
YOU FEEL CALLED TO THIS WORK.
Deep in your womb you know and honor the
power and significance of childbirth as a sacred
rite of passage. Thank you.
But it can, quite honestly, feel DRAINING and DEPLETING to witness the widespread pain and trauma currently prevalent in birth over and over and over again.
In a culture where women are still fighting to reclaim autonomy and safety in our own bodies, where fear dominates our options and guides our decisions, and our religious and cultural inheritance maintain that women should suffer in birth, transforming the culture of birth is no small task. It is not enough to hold the vision for highest outcomes. It is not enough to have the support skills.
You must tend to YOU and your body to be truly effective in your transmisssion.
We are overdue for a change. And NOW is that time.
Become a part of the global movement to elevate consciousness and experiences in childbirth.
There are Ecstatic Birth Practitioners in 25+ countries.
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Curriculum Overview & Timetable
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"Sheila, it is you and your contemporaries who have caught the torch that I have been holding high since I was 22!!! It's nice to rest my arm a bit now - and see the torch shining even brighter!!!"
Dr. Christiane Northrup
Women's Wellness Advocate, NYT Best Selling Author, OB/GYN
Special 10 year Anniversary Edition of the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner Training
Potent amplification in learning, embodiment & leadership
The curriculum is desined to be both professionally and personally transormative. You gain powerful skills to better help your clients experience birth as the natural and ecstatic rite of passage it was meant to be, while simultaneously nourishing your own body through your embodment of bliss, pleasure and ecstasy.
Each month you receive a new module of materials available online, on demand, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, and body practices.
You personally do all the practices and embody the gifts of pleasure so that you can be truly effective when you share them with your clients. embodying th while you support your clients rather than draining it.
To support your fullest integration, there are weekly integration and coaching calls with Sheila for each module as well as monthly community connection calls with graduates of the program.
beginning in January 2025
The Feminine Flow of Creation
Why does birth hurt?
There are many answers to this question from the personal to the societal, but at the core of them all is the same disconnect:
We do not honor the FEMININE in the flow of creation. This is the fundamental gap between the widespread experience of traumatic birth and our innate design of an ecstatic birth.
In this trimester we will learn how to reclaim and honor the feminine design and body in each stage in the flow of creation from conception to labor, postpartum and beyond as it pertains to physical childbirth AND to birthing your business, your programs and creative projects and visions.
What you Get:
- A new orientation to support clients in each stage of their journey to motherhood and beyond
- Ability to recognize well worn pathways that lead to struggle and rewire and create new pathways that are full of FLOW, joy and liberation
- Tactical support in birthing your business and programs aligned with your body and feminine flow
- Expand your capacity to be a spiritual midwife and doula in the birthing of dreams and desires
curriculum outline
session 01 / desire
What do you want to create? What stands in the way of your full bodied YES? We tease out your most destructive patterns and create the fertile soil for your desires to finally take root.
session 02 / conception
We explore how to gestate and breathe life into your dreams and desires from the earliest days of conception: Gently, Lovingly, Patiently and always with PLEASURE.
Module 03 / gestation
We learn to dance with contractive moments rather than run or numb, leaning on pleasure to consciously flow through to the expansion that is awaiting you on the other side
Module 04 / labor
We zone in on the raw vulnerability that comes with bringing your creative idea into the world ("I can't do this anymore") and create supportive structures to help you flow to the other side with ease and pleasure because you are so close.
Module 05 / Transition
We explore the part of the process where all your energy and all your attention are focused on bringing your idea through to completion. We drop in even deeper connection with your body so that you can ride this wave efficiently, effectively, and with pleasure.
Module 06 / Crowning
When the intensity of all of your attention and focus reaches its peak, it can feel like a burning fire. We magnify turn on as we approach this crowning moment to experience this climax with a full bodied, ecstatic "Oh YES!" (rather than "ouch!").
Module 07 / Placenta
We celebrate all the gifts you have received in your journey as you expand and become who you need to be to carry your creation into the world.
Module 08 / Postpartum
Even in the fourth trimester, your work is not done! Will your creation survive or THRIVE? We revel in replenishing ourselves and our bodies, and nurturing that fertile soil from which your next desires will take root and blossom!
"Wise, joyful, and sensuous are the words that flow as I think of Sheila sharing her writing and wisdom on Ecstatic- Birth! I love her insights as she guides us to reconnect with our feminine power, knowledge and intuition."
Debra Pascali-Bonaro
Director and Author, Advanced Doula Trainer, Chair of International Mother/ Baby Childbirth Initiative
Begin as soon as you register!
Guest Teachers Masterclasses
Not any one of us can transform the culture of birth alone. We stand TOGETHER as women, leaders and visionaries in transforming and elevating the experience of birth for future generations. Enjoy community connection calls and an online forum to integrate the and discuss the wealth of wisdom shared by our Guest Teacher Faculty.
Our training features trail-blazing, thought leading and highly experienced experts in over 50+ on demand lessons, masterclasses and workshops.
Sheila Kelley
Body Connection through Movement
Sarah Buckley
Oxytocin, Birth & Ecstasy
Sheri Winston
Pleasure Anatomy & Trance States
Debra
Pascali-Bonaro
Orgasmic Birth & Sex after Baby
Aviva Romm
Nourishment in Pregnancy & Beyond
Mama Gena
The Power of Pleasure in Creation
Ina May Gaskin
The "Mother of Midwifery" discusses natural birth
Saida Desilets
Cultivating Energy & Omni-Orgasmic states
Christiane Northrup
Transforming the Culture of Birth
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova
Conscious Conception, Pregnancy & Birth
Nekole Shapiro
The Body and Oxytocin
Akal Kaur
Kundalini Energy & Childbirth
Hari Kaur Khalsa
The Sacred Spiritual Nature of Woman
Laura Shanley
Birthing without Fear
Jaiya
Preparing for my Ecstatic & Orgasmic Birth
Alison Serour
Visualization & Vocalization for Pain Free Birth
Casey Aksoy
Anti-Racism & Birthwork
Christina Morassi
The Dark Feminine
Cori Neilson
Divine Feminine & Reiki reBirth
Crystal Gordon
Creating a Thriving Foundation for Health
Devla Mahler
The Erotic Divine
Erika Alsborn
Preparing your Sexual Body for Birth
Eva Louise Williams
Gates of Ecstasy
Gena McCarthy
Weaving your Sacred Basket of Wholeness
Kendra E. Thornbury
Wealth Consiousness
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Call of the Wild
Maha Al Musa
Every Mother is a Midwife
Michelle Alva
Dissolving Stress into Pleasure
Sokhna Heathyre Mabin
Nurturing the Seeds of Life
Stephanie Larson
Dancing for Birth
Jenny Adams
Meet the Goddess: Orgasmic Activation
Dr. Jenny Martin
Cervix: The Power and the Pleasure
Special Bonuses!
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, I'm including these incredible bonuses for the first time ever!
it's all about YOUR PLEASURE at the forefront of transformation
Hear it from the Grads
What will you get from the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner Training?
"So much!!! So much inspiration, expansion, release. I learned what it means to truly love myself, to reclaim my pleasure, to focus on living from a state of turn on.
The knowledge I've received + embodiment I've learned has not only helped transform my life, but will also help the countless birthing women and mamas to whom I'll pass this on to."
Jenny Braxton
Birth Visionary, Community Leader & Educator Oregon, US
"No longer seeing women as victims in the labour wards. That is HUGE for me. I am understanding that all I need to do is embody the alternative I believe in. And that can only be pleasurable.
This training is also encouraging me to pleasure the other aspects of myself. Not just the doula but the creator and the mover. Which I am so thankful for."
Samara Concepcion
Birth Doula, Somatic Movement Specialist London, England
"Clarity. Understanding that I am responsible to nourish my soul and listen to her. Listen to my body and honor that as opposed to doing what I think I should do based on outer expectations or a belief in something that doesn't resonate with my deepest truth. Speaking up more about what's possible for birth and what my truth is."
Debra Samadhi Woods
Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator Vancouver, CA
"The knowledge and the skills to further elevate the experience of birth for my clients all the while maintaining my bliss and pleasure throughout the peaks and valleys of childbirth!!
As a woman, I feel an even greater sense of love, passion, admiration, appreciation, and respect for myself and my body as well as of those of other women."
Sharon Arazi
Birth Doula and Midwife's Assistant New York, US
AND even more of the amazing results and practical applications our students are bringing to Families all over the world....
"My Clients don't Describe their Births as Painful!"
Samara Concepcion
Doula, UK
"My Clients really appreciate it"
Jada Wilson
Doula, USA
Sheila stands at a threshold, inviting us into our deepest pleasure, where bliss lives in us. Who doesn't need more of that??
Our work together has taken me into a place of ever deepening relaxation, of being in and feeling real pleasure. As a woman, I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to share in this exploration.
As a Doula, this work goes even deeper for me. I end up talking about pain (or rather people talk to me about their fear of pain) practically every day all day long. To break its pervasive hold, I needed to immerse myself in a conversation where pleasure can be a major part of the birth experience…of our life experience! Sheila has a gift in opening that door!
Catherine Stewart-Lindley
Labor Doula, Lactation Counselor, Holistic Health Counselor, Childbirth Educator New York, NY
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are a few answers to our most common questions
I hear you and I want you know that this program was created to fit within the pace of your life, not despite it! Every Sunday you will receive an email with the course materials and relevant links for the upcoming week. The weekly commitment to go through all the course materials and attend live calls is a maximum of 3 hours. All the body practices, which I recommend you do at daily are less than 8 minutes long. I am a big believer that small practices done consistently create monumental change!
The truth is, you make time for the things that are important to you. I suggest putting all the live call dates in your calendar upfront and blocking three hours/ week to really engage with the material. That said, I get it. Sometimes life takes over. We will have several integration weeks to give you a chance to catch up if you fall behind.
We will offer the Trimester 1 core curriculum in the Fall of 2025. Live integration sessions are generally Tuesdays, weekly at 1pm ET. There are also bonus practice sessions offered Mondays at 10am and monthly Community Connection Calls which rotate times. If you are unable to make it live, I've got you covered. You'll be able to pre-submit your questions so I can answer them on any Q+As that you are unable to make live. All sessions are recorded and posted for easy access in our private online space.
Yes! You can pay in full or via a payment plan. The earlier you register the longer the payment plan and more accessible the monthly payments.
I have intentionally kept the price of this program low even though what you actually get is easily worth more than ten times as much. I want this to feel like an easy YES. If you feel the YES in your body, but still feel stumped by the financials, consider these Qs:
What is the cost of NOT doing the program? What if you are to continue on the path you are now, fully immersed in the pain game of childbirth? What is the cost to your body? To your optimism? To your ability to stand for the vision of what you know is possible? To your ability to serve your clients?
You are worth the investment. As are your clients.
I do reserve a number of seats in the program at adjusted price points. Please contact me if you live in a country where the currency is significantly devalued against the US to receive Purchase Price Parity consideration. I also offer a limited number of partial scholarships for women who are actively doing birthwork, particularly in underserved communities, but are unable to pay full tuition. Please email me (sheila@ecstatic-birth.com) for consideration.
I do not offer full scholarships as there is a foundational amount of resource required to be successful in this program.
For sure! The breadth and depth of wisdom here and the unique integration of pleasure and body practices into birth work is not available anywhere else on the planet. This course is just as great for someone just getting started as it is for someone who has been working for years because you will all be getting exposed to this material for the first time.
Yes, I stand by the quality of this program. It comes with a full, 7-day money back guarantee from the date of your registration. While the live component of this training begins in Septembr, upon registration you get access to a significant amount of course content. If you determine it is not a good fit for you, you will receive a prompt and courteous refund.
Yes, the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner Training has been approved for 59 CEUs through the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA). ICEA credits are honored by most certifying organizations, but please do check with yours.
Special Bonuses!
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, I'm including these incredible bonuses for the first time ever!
it's all about YOUR PLEASURE at the forefront of transformation
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary
of the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner training,
I'm offering the most comprehensive and integrative round to date,
weaving many Ecstatic Birth programs and layers of support from the personal to professional, a transformative reBirth on every level.
Included in
previous trainings
Core Curriculum
Guest Teacher Masterclasses
Core Curriculum
Guest Teacher Masterclasses
Feminine Flow of Creation
Own your "O"
Kundalini Activations
3 Months in the Grad Community
For the same price! why?
While the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner training on its own is powerful and wildly transformative, I've witnessed grads that have stayed connected to the community, devoted themselves to their sensual expansion, and applied principles of Ecstatic Birth into birthing their programs, dreams and desires... these grads FLY.
They become an unstoppable force in their elevation and transformation of birth, a gift to their clients, and unshakable leaders in their communities.
In celebration of this 10 year anniversary and all I have co-created with the incredible women in our circles, I want to make this accessible to us ALL.
Our grads are bringing this important work to Mamas all over the world:
Ecstatic Birth is the
way of the woman.
"It's been a very natural progression to infuse all that I've learned through my Ecstatic Birth Practitioner Training into my work with clients…and not just my pregnant clients but all my women clients.
This is because at the core of Ecstatic Birth is the vibration of love and joy, pleasure and expansion, connection and alignment..
Through Sheila's Ecstatic Birth Practitioner Training I've developed skills to guide clients to their truth, to what feels good to them and how to deepen their awareness of their body intelligence.
The training has equipped me with a language that speaks to a woman's heart because, despite a culture of misinformation, disempowerment and fear around birth, deep inside every woman is the knowing that birth is her super power. I believe women are so ready to receive and awaken the confirmation of what they already know deep inside. Ecstatic Birth is the way of the woman."
Dr Peta Elmer
Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Labor Doula Victoria, Australia
It starts with us!
"The Ecstatic Birth Practitioner training is near and dear to my heart not only because I am passionate about transformation childbirth in the U.S., but because it truly brought me healing and clarity that I will be forever grateful for. What I was not expecting to get out of the Ecstatic Birth Practitioner training:
Coming home to my own body. Knowing that I am safe. Feeling love and bliss inside of myself. Experiencing the richness of this human experience. My senses are now experiencing things they had never experienced before.
You may be wondering what this has to do with birth!!! Well, it's everything!!!!
Being present in your body and feeling pleasure is the thing that will allow the labor hormones to flow and will allow you to feel and trust the process. It starts with us!"
Krystina Sloan
Doula, Childbirth Educator, Certified Lactation Counselor Scottsdale, Arizona
Go for it!
"When I began this training, I had recently given birth to my second son. My birth was beautiful, ecstatic and orgasmic, just as my first son's birth also was, and all I wanted was to share this with the world, to make it know that it is SO possible! I lived it twice!
But I felt I needed a strong background to do it. My own experience was not enough. I did a doula training, but it didn't go deep in this direction. And, in fact, I didn't know WHY I had such orgasmic experiences, as I also previously thought it was a matter of good luck! When I discovered this training, I knew it was for me, and I knew it would change my life. But it totally exceeded all my highest expectations. I reconnected to my own body, integrated the body practices in my life in a way that at the end of the course, my nervous system was more regulated than ever before.
I started applying the deep knowledge around pleasure since my first doula client, since the very first modules of this journey, and improved my ability to connect and offer this pleasure to my clients more and more as we moved on. And the best thing was that I finally connected the dots and discovered why and how I did get to have two orgasmic ecstatic births. I tracked all the reasons. I discovered how I had been practicing my whole life, the exact things that would allow this experience.
So it demystified the idea that only some women can experience this. Actually, now I see that all women who experience this kind of birth "spontaneously" had actually already integrated these practices in her life, somehow. And for sure any woman can start during pregnancy, and not only transform the way they birth, but also the way they live. And even a woman who already had pleasurable births can immensely elevate her next birthing experience by applying the Ecstatic Birth Prep by turning these intuitive natural practices into something conscious and intentional.
I strongly recommend anyone interested in this course to just GO FOR IT. It delivered me so much more than I could imagine, and now I feel deeply deeply informed about pleasure and ecstasy in birth, and completely able to offer this pathway to my clients. It is the most incredible revolution someone could do in the Birth World.
Clara, Doula and childbirth Educator, Brazil
changed my life
"My second go around with this training and it was even JUICER! It doesn't matter if you've been in this work for years or are just beginning to dip your toe, there are always more layers to unfold in this never ending treasure chest of Ecstatic Birth. I love how much this work has not only changed my life, but the life of my clients and those around me!"
Lauren, US Nurse Practitioner
pleasure affects everything
"Hi my name is Jacqueline and I'm a midwife from Austria. When I first heard about the Ecstatic Birth Training I was curious, because I've never heard something like this. I'm so grateful that I signed up for this program because it changed many parts of my life. I see the experience of birth in a different light and I've learned many things about myself and how pleasure affects everything in your life. For me it is also key to be authentic and speak your truth."
Jacqueline Kien, Midwife, austria
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i cannot recommend this course enough
"I cannot recommend this course enough! It is rich in high quality information from many of the world's leading-practitioners in Ecstatic Birth in digestible bite-sized pieces. There is a beautiful emphasis on community where one will not feel alone in their journey deeper into themselves, birth and life. I have felt supported, celebrated and accounted-for through this whole journey, and continue to reach new layers and depths within myself and my life."
Lucy Forrest, UK Nurse
dedicated and passionate integrity
"I joined the EBPT after meeting Sheila on a Sacred Sexuality Coaching program. I loved the material she was sharing via email and the conversations to transform birth. I listened to many as I prepared to birth my second son. My birth experience was out of this world, ecstatic and orgasmic...I knew after this I wanted to support women to experience the elevated bliss possible in this powerful initiation and where better to go for support in that than to Sheila who had been doing this sacred work for over 10 years.
Sheila has the most dedicated and passionate integrity to her mission and that comes through in every aspect of this training. Her live calls are so beautifully held, so very nourishing. The way she has crafted the training is very multifaceted and easy to integrate with life as a mama, and supportive of life as a mama. The practices are gorgeous and really amplify pleasure and presence in our body and lives. The lectures are so inspiring with some incredibly inspirational teachers.
Sheila goes above and beyond when it comes to supporting you on your personal journey and as birth worker.
This work is SO very important and we can't do it alone so if you're wanting to bring more pleasure into your life and your work sign up! If you show up for what is being offered you will certainly elevate your own experience and hopefully the experience."
Charlotte
expanded my body-mind connection
"In my certification Pelvic floor program, I was studying the theory and practice of how to help women to experience non-traumatic and pleasurable birth. The pelvic floor program was based on physical exercise and knowledge of pelvic floor anatomy, so when I started the course, I was aware It was possible.
Yet my experience was so tiny.
When I started Sheila's training, I can say that regular practice, meditation, support of the community, webinars, and providing information about other women's Ecstatics birth experiences opened me so much, and I have expanded my body-mind connection to a different level.
This course is MASTERPIECE ABOUT OUR MOTHER NATURE GIFT -PLEASURE. Every woman must get to know and experience it.
I am so grateful to Sheila for creating such a fantastic course for women; she is a knowledgeable, radiant, and attentive teacher.
THANK YOU SHEILA,"
Nadiya Williams, sexologist and pelvic floor therapist
i transformed deeply
"When I started my EBPT I knew I had to be part of this movement but I didn't know why my soul so badly wanted me to be part of this training. Now I know: this training brought me in a deep connection with myself, my wonderful body and my deepest desires.
I learned to listen to my deepest desires and my pleasure first as this is the way my soul is communicating with me. I am sooo alive now, I feel that I transformed deeply as a feminine and that I was able to integrate my whole feminine self, which is soooo healing. Naturally this has all to do with birth, as birth is the cumulation of live, of being alive.
I just loooove to be part of this wonderful like minded community and although I know that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done, it feels so absolutely amazing to start (and continue) my travel with EB."
Marlene Tagwerker, Doula, Austria
i am beyond grateful
"The Ecstatic Birth Practitioner training that Sheila has birthed into being has been such an amazing experience and I am so excited to bring more of this work to my clients and community. It has been one of my favorite trainings so far and I can’t wait to have more time to dig in even deeper into the All that Is this training! It is well organized, has an amazing flow and Sheila is such a gifted teacher. It has opened me to experience so much more joy in my life and my practice. I am beyond grateful."
Jen Ballew, full Spectrum Doula
i've learned so much
"This course has been truly eye-opening regarding the possibilities for pleasure in birth, and in life! The guest teachers are all experts in their field, and Sheila does a wonderful job pulling it all together. I've learned so much and have a huge stack of reading material to go deeper. This course really will change the way you view birth and its transformation of women, as well as connect with your own body and inner wisdom so you can better support birthing families."
Meagan Noble, Doula And Childbirth educator, Texas
"Incorporating body exercises that I learned in Sheila's training into my routine with my clients helped me to see how being in the body is an important component of ecstatic birth preparations. I started to feel a sparkle in my eyes and feeling more joyful, by making sessions shorter and giving my clients multiple points of reference for pleasure they could experience here and now and bring into the birth room
If you are birth practitioner that is intrigued by the idea of helping women in creating their Ecstatic Birth experience, I highly recommend you to start your journey by taking this training. It will transform your perspective, your connection to your body, bring you into a sisterhood with other practitioners and give you a lot of pleasure!"
Ekaterina Baranova
Russian birth doula and birth educator, Guatemala
"Sheila stands at a threshold, inviting us into our deepest pleasure, where bliss lives in us. Who doesn't need more of that?? Our work together has taken me into a place of ever deepening relaxation, of being in and feeling real pleasure. As a woman, I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to share in this exploration.
As a Doula, this work goes even deeper for me. I end up talking about pain (or rather people talk to me about their fear of pain) practically every day all day long. To break its pervasive hold, I needed to immerse myself in a conversation where pleasure can be a major part of the birth experience…of our life experience! Sheila has a gift in opening that door!"
Catherine Stewart-Lindley
Labor Doula, Lactation Counselor, Holistic Health Counselor, Childbirth Educator New York, NY
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