Somatic Birthways
Denise, She/They
Birthworker, Healing Practitioner
Working around the globe
About me
Greetings, I’m Dee, the heartbeat of Somatic Birthways.
I believe birth can be ease. In a world that tells us to brace for pain, I bring the steady rhythm of a drum — grounding, unwavering, reminding us that the body knows what to do when it feels held. My role is to create that rhythm so you and your family can soften, exhale, and trust what is already within you.
Pregnancy revealed to me how deeply we need to be held in this threshold. What draws me to birthwork is the knowing that something else is possible — that birth can be supported, sacred, and alive with gentleness. Each time I witness that kind of ease, I feel how it ripples outward. It settles the birthing body, steadies the baby, and reshapes what gets carried forward. Birth doesn’t end with one moment; it imprints the generations to come.
This is why somatic care is at the heart of my work. Our nervous systems carry the echoes of those before us — love, fear, joy, abandonment, safety, survival woven into our DNA. Birth is a chance to write something new. When you are held in ease, the nervous system opens instead of braces. Babies enter into calm. Families begin new rhythms. Generations are rewritten in the very cells of our body.
Herbal medicine joins us in this rhythm, because pregnancy is not separate from the cycles of the earth. To carry life is to move with nature’s seasons — expansion, surrender, renewal. Plants know this rhythm. They carry wisdom that grounds and restores, and in my care they are both practical and sacred. Teas to nourish, tinctures to ease, compresses for labor, soups and sitz baths for postpartum, gentle remedies for babies. Herbs soothe muscles, balance hormones, help with sleep and much more. But they also remind us that we are not apart from the earth. Their medicine roots us back into connection, carrying us through the thresholds of pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
With Somatic Birthways, we walk this path together. I bring doula care, somatic healing, and herbal remedies, and you bring your own wisdom, your body, your story. We prepare together with listening, grounding, and trust. We stay steady — breath, touch, advocacy — so you can lean into rhythm instead of resistance. We return for integration, to hold recovery with the same care, so nothing is rushed and everything is honored.
For me, birthwork is sacred. It is where body and spirit meet, where lineage is tended, and where new life enters a space of love. My role is not to fix, but to hold. To drum a rhythm that lets you rest back, be carried, and remember what your body already knows.
At Somatic Birthways, you are not alone. You are cared for. And you can know: birth can be ease.
Asé,
Dee (she/they)
Am I Ready?
Choosing a Birthworker is a lot like preparing for birth itself — it’s a threshold. It can bring up excitement, questions, and even hesitation about letting someone step into such an intimate space. That’s natural. The truth is, doula care works best when there is trust, readiness, and openness to walk the journey together.
Here are some reflections that can help you assess if you’re ready to commit to doula support with Somatic Birthways:
R – Ready to be held.
Doula care is about being carried through one of life’s most sacred passages. Are you ready to allow someone into your circle of trust, so you don’t have to hold it all alone?
E – Ease is possible.
Many of us were taught to expect only pain or fear in birth. Doula support invites ease — in your body, in your breath, in your family’s rhythm. Are you open to the idea that birth doesn’t have to be bracing, but can be softened?
S – Somatic presence.
My work involves body-based practices, breath, and nervous system support for you and your family. Are you willing to lean into these practices, knowing they can shift not just your birth, but what your baby and future generations inherit?
T – Togetherness.
Birthwork is not a solo path. It’s about creating a web of support. Are you ready to walk this journey together — you, your family, your baby, and me — as a team?
If your heart and body is being called to flow together, then you are ready to begin. Birthwork offers relief in a time when so much is asked of you. Are you ready to share the weight, to rest into support, and to let someone tend to the details so you can focus on your body and your baby?.
“When a birthing person feels safe enough to rest, the baby feels it too. That calm becomes their first inheritance”
“Birth is not a cerebral event; it is a visceral-holistic process which requires all of your self — body, heart, emotion, mind, spirit.”
“My contract is with the babies... for them to come through and the parents be in harmony.”
“Being pregnant taught me what it means to carry grief and life at the same time. Birthwork is where I transform that knowing into care.”
