I’m a certified holistic birth doula and ceremonialist with 3+ years of experience attending dozens of births around Boulder County. I offer Yucatec Maya Healing work, Closing of the Bones, and Blessingway Ceremonies in the Yucatec Maya Tradition. I love working with women from preconception to postpartum, from menarche to menopause.

I believe every woman deserves respectful touch, spiritual connection, and support navigating the mysteries of the feminine experience.

Learn more below.

“I appreciate the reverence Emily brings to both the work she does and to me as a woman. She is so clear on what she has to offer and receiving this loving support has been a gift. This isn’t the typical care that I’ve found most doulas offering. It’s deep, deep wisdom and true healing on physical, energetic, and spiritual levels.”

- Paige D., former client

Offerings

All offerings include a free consult call to check our vibes together

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Closing of the Bones Ceremony

a client wrapped in rebozos in closing of the bones ceremony in Boulder, Colorado

In this beautiful ceremony, which typically occurs at least 40 days postpartum but can happen anytime a new mother needs it, the mother receives traditional Yucatec Maya healing work and is then swaddled and wrapped in a cocoon of rebozos (scarves), physically sealing her body/womb, and restoring her energy centers. Friends and sisters of the mother are welcome to attend to support this ceremony. This is a traditional postpartum ceremony to help Mama come back to herself and close the portal after birth. It is a rite of passage that blesses, honors, and nurtures the mother. Physically, your bones widen to let your babies through. There is also a vast opening that happens spiritually, emotionally, and mentally during the pregnancy and birthing process. Your spirit travels to the edges of the universe and back to bring your baby into the world. The closing of the bones ceremony is a potent way to close the portal and anchor in your new reality as a mother. It also brings you back to yourself as a strong and capable woman. Closing of the Bones can also be performed after miscarriages, abortions, or for moments of big life transition. The ceremony takes 2.5-3 hours.

Yucatec Maya Healing

I offer Maya Healing Sessions inspired by the teachings of traditional Belizean healer Ms. Beatrice Torres Waight. I have been studying with Ann Drucker for the past 2 years in this beautiful women’s healing tradition, and studied energy and birthwork for many years prior. Sessions can include: 

  • Shamanic work with your compassionate helping spirits

  • Plant brushing and healings

  • Ceremonial, hands-on healing/bodywork

  • Reiki / energy work

  • Mayan abdominal massage 

  • Herbal foot bath or spiritual plant bath (seasonal)

About Miss Beatrice

Beatrice Torres Waight was born in the caul on January 18th, 1948 in the village of Santa Familia, Belize. Her family migrated from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico during the caste war in the late 1800’s. 
In Yucateca Maya culture, being born in the caul (amniotic sac) is the sign of a healer. As far back as she could remember, Miss Beatrice was connected to the spiritual world and always interested in healing plants. Her Grandmother and her mother were Maya midwives from whom she learned herbal remedies and massage. Her father was the village curandero. As mother of nine children, she was a traditional village healer in Santa Familia. She relieved the physical, emotional and spiritual pain of those who came to her Healing Hut. Miss Beatrice also taught her Yucateca Maya healing ways to students from all over the world. She truly believed earth-centered healing benefits all people. Miss Beatrice raised her children to believe in themselves and be proud of their Yucateca Maya heritage. Her radiant smile, outrageous sense of humor, vast wisdom, deep strength, keen intuition and enormous heart are still cherished. Miss Beatrice passed away on October 3rd, 2010, but her love and teachings are forever alive.

Blessingway Ceremony

A Blessingway Ceremony, or Mother Blessing, is a celebration of pregnancy and becoming a mother that focuses loving attention and intention on the mother-to-be. During a Blessingway, a group of the mother’s close friends will gather to honor her pregnancy and journey into motherhood. They will offer words of wisdom around preparing for birth and postpartum and often include a ceremony to mark the occasion. Blessingways are also incredibly powerful prior to marriage. I facilitate Blessingways by bringing together your circle of women, crafting the flow of the ceremony (with input from you), and holding sacred space through altar creation, song, plant blessings, prayer and invocation. (2-3 hours total.)

Birth Consulting & Education

For women and families seeking information and tailored support.

Do you have questions about birth but don’t know where to start?

Are you seeking support in choosing the right type of provider for you?

Do you feel overwhelmed by all of the information directed at new mothers?

Are you curious about hiring a doula but unsure if you want to fully dive in?

Do you need help understanding interventions and other birth options, or crafting a birth plan?

Birth Consulting & Education is an hour-long coaching call where I hold and support you in preparing for your birth, postpartum, and beyond. I offer education and warm inquiry to help you uncover what you need to have an empowered, positive birth experience.

Birth Doula Support

Please note: I offer a very limited number of spots for expecting mothers each year. I work with women planning births outside the hospital—birth center or home—and who are excited to work together in the Yucatec Maya healing tradition as well. If you think this might be you, please reach out! I do not assist free births.

Pregnancy

  • Unlimited phone, video, and text support upon hire til baby arrives

  • 2 Prenatal visits including emotional, spiritual and physiological support + education

  • Herbal and nutritional recommendations

  • Support with preparing birth preferences/birth plans, and cultivating questions for providers

  • Reviewing medical interventions, options, risks and benefits

  • Planning for tough moments and decision-points during labor 

  • 24/7 on-call starting 2 weeks prior to your EDD and for 2 weeks after

  • Education/options for achieving a physiological birth

Labor & Birth

  • Support and guidance on comfort measures for labor 

  • Emotional and psychological support for mom and partner 

  • Nonjudgmental and evidence-based care for hospital, birth center, or home births 

  • Continuous presence throughout the birth

  • Photos during labor and birth

  • Communication and collaboration with medical providers re: birth preferences to protect your family’s birthing space

Postpartum

  • 1 postpartum visit 

  • Telling the birth story, looking at photos, space held for processing the birth experience

  • Hands-on Reiki, meditation for healing and nurturing the body, if desired

  • Support in making a postpartum plan and setting up your postpartum sanctuary

  • Reiki + guided meditation

  • Herbal and nutritional recommendations for postpartum body and psyche

  • Resources and introduction to birth professionals in our area