Eva Bay Greenslade
Doula Support, Celebrant, Shamanic Healing, Drum Making, Tutor of Shamanic Practices
Shamanic Birth Keeper Training
Shamanic Doula Training - Earth Path Sacred Drum and Ceremony Practitioner Training
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Earth Path Birthkeeper Practitioner Training
Sacred Drum and Ceremony for the Birthing Year
Earth Path Sacred Drumming and Ceremony Birth Keeper Practitioner Training' is a course that guides the birthkeeper / student in supporting birthing family clients in a deeper way drawing upon the shamanic gifts within. Connecting with the gifts of mother earth, through ceremony, safe shamanic drum journeys, safe grounding energy work with the drum, and grounding ritual. We explore the UKs 'Celtic' concepts and roots of Shamanic/Seerhip for Birth space holding.
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As a doula, you are a gatekeeper, a space holder. The birth keeping path opens many doulas to more than the physical nature of birth.
You will be working with your clients in supporting them through their birth as the rite of passage it is for them.
This course aims to help you feel space holding in a deeper way, seeing beyond the physical yet with your feet firmly on the earth.
This is a course for birth keepers who are familiar with supporting birth. It will be just under a year, and includes mentoring through shamanic practices and ceremony.
You will be a certified Shamanic Birthkeeper and Ceremonialist for the Birthing Year once the course is completed.
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It is a certified course with CMA – Complementary Medical Association, The College of sound Healing, approved by Doula UK.
Student Testimonials
Amanda Raphael
I joined the Earth Path Birth Keeper course in early 2024, after making a drum with Eva a few months earlier. I really felt drawn to the course in a way I can’t easily explain, even though I had done nothing like it before. What I learned from Eva’s teaching can only be described as a completely new way of being. It has helped be develop a new and profound connection to my own intuition, to nature, and to the cycles and rhythms of life on this planet Earth. The course has given me knowledge of ancestral traditions, rituals, and practices around birth, and I now feel confident enough to offer healing rituals, drum journies and ceremonies to clients throughout their birthing year. In addition to all of this, I have been completely amazed by the deep and loving connection I now have with the other participants. It’s been so healing, sitting in circle together, sharing sacred space
This has been an incredible year of learning, healing, growth and personal development, and I am so grateful I took the leap of faith last year and joined the course!
Victoria Greenly
I began the first Earth Path Birthkeeping Course in Jan 2024 because I knew that deepening my practice in a more connected way was the path I needed to follow. As an experienced birth and postnatal doula, who has supported multiple parents, I wanted to move my support in a direction that honoured the rite of passage parents take when they birth and become new parents. I feel that modern society has lost its way around how sacred and special the birth of a baby is and I knew this course would put me on the track of reinvigorating this belief.
I wasn't disappointed! Eva includes so many ways to honour pregnancy, birth and the postpartum with the foundation of shamanic drumming interlaced with so many ideas for rituals, ceremony and celebration. She introduces modalities for energy clearing and healing as well as shamanic and meditative journeying.
All the content is accessible for those new to a more spiritual practice and delivered in an easy to understand way, guided by Eva's warmth, calm demeanour and intuitive support. There are lots of opportunities to integrate the practical exercises, grow confidence in using a drum and interweave the ideas in your everyday doula practice. Eva goes above and beyond with all her content to ensure you have so much understanding about all the different ways you can support your clients.
And most surprisingly, I underestimated my journey of self development and spiritual growth. The course was so special and bonding with the other attendees and we have become deep supporters of each other as people and our calling! Eva shares so much of her life long learning and her own knowledge from her journey that this course will have a longlasting ripple effect on us as practitioners, the parents we support and even our wider community. I have already secured a client who is benefitting significantly from this practice I have learned.
What I also found very special, important and unique about this course is the way it is deeply rooted in the lore and wisdom of this country's lands and traditions. We can appreciate the learning from different cultures but it is important that we don't appropriate practices not gifted to us or understood on a deeper level ancestrally. As a result, I feel more connected to lost wisdom in a truly bonded way.
I am so deeply grateful that I got to experience the gifts that this course brings and I am so excited to share my new offerings with my future clients. Thank you, Eva.
Zoe Carletide
I was blessed to have had the unique experience of becoming pregnant at the very start of this course, and therefore had the chance to not only imagine but to experience shamanic drumming for healing and reflection with my birth clients and for myself. The magnitude of the impact of the tools, training and simple yet profound act of sitting in circle and ceremony with Eva and sisterhood of birth workers has transformed my approach to my doula offerings, as well as renewed my sense of purpose and my own identity as a mother