Reconnecting women with the truth of who they are. Metabolizing Mother. Healing our wounds. Quantum birth evolution. Deeply held in the bosom of the earth.
Hi, I’m Kayla
I hold space for women who are ready to surrender to deep transformation– the processes of birth, death, & metabolization, on all levels.
I work with women who are on a wildly empowering, intimate & vulnerable journey to embody the wholeness of who you are.
Carrying new life, birthing in truth, grieving what is lost or never was, and cutting ties with ancestral traumas, we descend into deep waters.
To the source.
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“I worked with Kayla for the majority of my second pregnancy, and postpartum, for a total of almost two years. Her first offer was a birth processing session, during which she became the first person to genuinely understand and have empathy for the birth trauma I was carrying.
We journeyed on together for months, whether through speaking, movement, art, or ritual, and she supported me through my own healing – a labor I had deemed unthinkable before meeting her.
Kayla was with me during another transformative time: my second birthing experience – an out-of-hospital VBAC that felt like yet one more impossible dream before her. The safety, joy and beauty she brought to it are beyond compare. (Furthermore, and on a more tangible level, the thoughtfully personalized meals, massages, salves, and meditations she creates are too!)
The closing of the bones ceremony Kayla held for me was deeply nurturing space to express so much that I was still holding on to, and reaffirmed how powerful ritual can be when the right person is guiding it. She and the other doulas worked with such love and synchronicity; it was wholly cathartic.
Choosing to work with her was the best gift I could ever have given myself and my family – she helped me save my own life and she will be a part of me forever.”
– Emilie Poulin
Work with Kayla
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Strategy Session
8 years of experience tending to women and their families through the childbearing continuum. Sit with me for 1 hour and receive information, recommendations, space held for you in your process. Walk away feeling more informed, connected, and at ease.
Pregnancy, Postpartum, Freebirth, Doulaing, Birth Keeper, Sexual Trauma, Womb Care.
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Birth Story Integration
Whether you are planning to birth again, and wanting support to make sure it goes differently this time, or looking to honour your birth experiences as a mother at any stage, these sessions are deeply healing.
Walk away feeling lighter, more connected, and more whole, having integrated pieces of yourself and your life back together.
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Postpartum In-Home Care (Toronto)
I support women to connect deeply with their own knowledge and intuition. To be the arbiters of positive change in their lives. Harnessing the potency of this transformative time to your own ends.
I also bring densely nutritive meals, my hands for in-home body work/ massage, and an aptitude for lightness, joy, and ceremony.
Women of Earth is a call to remember our true elemental nature.
In the modern worldview, we may try to separate ourselves from nature, but we cannot deny we are literally made up of plants, water, animals, bacteria—
We ARE the earth.
We contain all the elements.
And we are inseparable from where we live, what we consume, and what we give.
We also carry within us the wisdom and strength of our great, great grandmothers.
Who often out of necessity, lived in deeper connection with the land.
We are all descendant from a woman.
She carried water, beat hard things into flour, and knew the plants & gathered them.
She birthed in her home, and bled with the moon.
There are women alive like this today.
Do we remember?
It is time for us to acknowledge and heal the wounds of war & displacement that have been passed down through generations of mothers and children.
That are ongoing.
These wounds manifest in our bodies and in our lives, but we have the power to release & heal them.
By doing so, we learn to embody a deep sense of peace and pleasure that is given within.
No longer must we strive in existential want or self-destruction.
We can return to our true baseline— rooted & connected in our bodies, and our relationship with the great cycle.
Let us remember our true elemental nature and embrace the healing journey that awaits.
The walk into the wholeness of who you are.
Metabolizing Mother
This has become a catch all phrase for what I am doing with my life’s work. Metabolizing myself as new mother. Tending to mothers in community– new, bereaved, and further along. My relationship with my own mother, and hers, and hers. The culture wounds. The mother line. Tending to our connection with the great mother of all, the earth.
It is also a ceremony I have led for a group of women at a festival/gathering, contact to book.
Closing of the Bones
The Closing of the Bones massage, ceremony, or wrapping practice represents basic postpartum care that has been forgotten across many mother lines. Now we look to those cultural lineages that are today to some extent intact for the teachings, and build a modern cultural foundation out of remembering, grieving, honouring, and newness.
Please reach out to inquire about booking me for a Closing of the Bones ceremony.
Womancraft
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Line Drawing Prints
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Bespoke Adornments
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Herbal Preparations