Meet our team

We are all very different, but we are all united in our desire to help and support you on your motherhood journey.

Alina

I moved to England from Moscow in 2011 with my husband. I gave birth to my children in London in maternity centers in 2012 and 2014.

We live in Southwest London in the Wimbledon area. Living in Wimbledon inspired me to take on tennis, but I love all kinds of sports and being active. Walking, cycling through London parks, yoga, Pilates and meditation are an integral part of my life. I get great pleasure from attending various cultural events like exhibitions, museums and theaters.

Whilst my professional life started with career in finance, I knew nothing about doulas before I had my children but I have decided to become one following the transformational experience during my labour.

My journey began with attendance of doula courses, meeting colleagues, interacting with pregnant women to allow me to develop a better understanding of my role and how I can work with my future clients. In 2017, I completed a doula course in London.

I am constantly learning and actively using the acquired knowledge and skills such as rebozo massage, breastfeeding consultation, HypnoBirthing, aromatherapy, support with postpartum recovery and postpartum closing.

I confess that it is a real happiness for me to connect to pregnant women and new mothers, listen to them, support them, share experiences and instil confidence in them.

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Anastasija

I am a 33 years old mother of four and the founder of the project “Home birth. Conscious choice.”

I was born in Vilnius. In 2010, after graduating from university with a degree in marketing, I decided to do Film Studies and moved to live in England. However, the Universe had other plans for me.

My first son was born in 2012 which started my path of motherhood. The birth of my third baby in 2017 gave me a transcendent experience that changed my whole life. Many years of meditation has not given me such an awareness, unity with nature and the feminine, a state of love and trust when compared to the orgasmic freebirth of my daughter. It became clear that I wanted to help women prepare for childbirth.

My husband, an astro-psychologist, also confirmed that my mission is to pass on this knowledge and serve children. Constantly developing, expanding my horizons, learning, and then sharing experience, combining seemingly incompatible things is one of the tasks of my soul.

I believe that ‘destiny’ starts to form from conception as mother’s reactions shape the baby’s view of the world. Labour is a transition, a moment of self-knowledge. The more harmonious is the mother, the better she tunes into her essence, the easier she surrenders to the flow, revealing the best childbirth scenario.

A gift from above for me is to be a medium holding the space, going through pregnancy and childbirth with a woman, preparing and supporting her, maintaining trust in her strength and feminine nature; without judgment, accepting every choice.

I am a woman of the world, falling in love and rejoicing like a child, I see potential in everyone, I trust the flow, but I think through millions of scenarios, and I admire how the challenges unfold in our collective reality. I perceive the world as a single organism in which everything is interconnected.

Although I dream that every woman has the experience of ecstatic childbirth, I understand how much more complex and diverse our lives are, appreciating each and every experience as is.There is NO ideal childbirth, there are only our reactions and attitude towards it.

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Я очень рада, что смогу с тобой поработать.. Ты можешь написать мне сообщение, или оставить номер телефона и я обязательно позвоню тебе. Если мне нужно будет связаться с тобой в конкретное время, пожалуйста укажи это в сообщении. Надеюсь, что смогу быть полезной

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Vera

I learnt the alternative approach to health back in my childhood when I was collecting herbs and preparing potions with my grandfather. Esoteric was a normal way of being, magic was everyday currency. As a sickly child, I’ve gone through my paces from traditional to alternative, and this is when yoga entered my life to stay. The magical world collapsed when the USSR ceased to exist, and I flew from Kazakhstan to England to study dry and cold subjects of Finance and Economics.

29 years later and I am still here with my wonderful husband, my children and my dog. A lot of water has flown under the bridge since then, including 21 years in Finance in leadership positions. But the universe was kind to me, and I continued to meet amazing people, who guided and supported me in my search for the Truth on my yogic path: Sylviane Gianina, Burgs, Francoise Freedman, Angelina Martinez, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Anastasiya Ivanova to name a few.

The birth of my children was life changing experience that inspired me to become a doula with a desire to help other women to feel the joy and embark on the path of motherhood with confidence and calm.

I am an “incorrigible bookworm” and I have unquenchable thirst for learning. I won’t mention the number of my financial diplomas, but in alternative field I have spent over 2,500 hours in training as a yoga therapist, doula, and holistic health practitioner! It gives me confidence that when I help women, I have a solid academic base behind me, backed by countless practical experience supporting women and babies. And now I entered the new stage on this journey by passing on my knowledge and experience through mentorship and supervision.

Following from a successful career in Finance, my focus is in supporting women’s health from conception to postpartum, using among others yoga techniques, Mizan therapy, Ayurveda, Bach flower remedies, hypnosis, homeopathy …

Having supported over 100 births to-date, I continue to marvel at the uniqueness of this experience and totally humbled when I am offered an opportunity to be present there. Doulaing is my calling and my role is to create the environment where woman’s choices are honoured and positive and rewarding memories are created regardless of circumstances.

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Я очень рада, что смогу с тобой поработать.. Ты можешь написать мне сообщение, или оставить номер телефона и я обязательно позвоню тебе. Если мне нужно будет связаться с тобой в конкретное время, пожалуйста укажи это в сообщении. Надеюсь, что смогу быть полезной

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Milana

I was born on Lake Baikal, in the Amur region, but two years after my birth, my family moved to the Urals, where I spent the rest of my childhood and youth.

My graduation gift was a vacation of my choice and by chance I ended up in the UK, where I decided to stay and study English.

After 18 months of study and part-time work in London, I met my Czech prince and for the last 15 years we are together, raising our seven year-old son Daniil. After his birth, I have undergone a complete reassessment in my perception of the world – a spiritual transformation and out of it came the decision to follow the path of the doula.

I like to spend my free time with my family, friends, travel and gain new knowledge. I get great pleasure from connecting to other women through women’s circles, tea parties, going to sauna and simply spending time together. I treasure new experiences gathered at trips and visits to new places. I enjoy experimenting with healthy and delicious recipes. I love creating beauty with my hands.

How can I be useful to future parents:

– by sharing the understanding of the physiology and biomechanics of labour;

– by creating birth preferences, which will take into account all their wishes under different scenarios;

– by having unbiased acceptance of their choices.

– Whilst working with me, we practice soft hypnosis and deep relaxation, diving into the inner world and connecting with the baby.

– I share the secrets of a smooth entry into the “fourth trimester” by practicing the ritual of postpartum closing which restores the balance in the body, magically and gently returning the woman after childbirth to her true self.

– I help to establish the breastfeeding, even when the mother lost all hope by providing support and knowledge to restore the lost confidence. I actively use

– rebozo massage during pregnancy and labour, as well as in the closing ritual.

 

How can I define my role?

– a doula is a woman/sister/friend/mother, each expectant mother will feel it in her own way;

– she helps to reveal the potential of a woman, faith in herself and her own strength;

– she provides full and unbiased support.

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Yulia

I was born in Chernobyl and grew up in Kyiv, where I finished school and graduated from the University with medical degree. I also got married there and shortly after my husband and I moved to London, where my husband was offered a very interesting job. I followed him and postponed my medical career, as we really wanted to start a family. Both of my daughters were born in London. And when the youngest grew up, I became a doula. This is a very short version of a very long story.

I really love pregnant women, babies, photography, a good laugh and mandalas in all of their manifestations. I see childbirth as an opportunity to meet myself and discover the incredible power that lies within us. Naturally, I would like all women to give birth easily, quickly and in ecstasy, but it varies for every woman. There are no good or bad, right or wrong births. There is the miracle of birth itself and the acquired experience. And this experience is invaluable, whatever it may be, if you look at it as an opportunity for growth and development.

Like many doulas, I provide more than just support during labour. I offer a full-fledged childbirth preparation for a woman and her family regardless of the type of birth she has chosen from HypnoBirthing to planned Caesarean, in-person or remotely. Being a breastfeeding counsellor, I help to prepare and organise breastfeeding and resolve any issues. I also show parents how to give massage to their babies.

I am professionally involved in Aromatherapy, Bach Flower therapy and body work – from relaxing massages to working with emotional trauma through interaction with the body. I happily massage both pregnant and postpartum women as well as doing postpartum closing ceremony, which helps women recover, complete their experience and start a new chapter in their lives.

Finally, I draw mandalas – @miya_mandalas, conduct women’s circles, meditations and art classes. My big love is healing through mandalas. I use various mandala therapy techniques to help women open up, understand themselves better and close what is often difficult to let go in order to live happily ever after.

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