Holistic Doula School

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Support Pregnancy and Birth the Wise Woman Way.

Want to train as a doula in a way that’s deeper and aligned with your heart?

Do you want to offer holistic support that complements maternity care and offers what the system can’t?

If that’s a yes - this is where you start.

Our Holistic Doula Training is a trimester-by-trimester journey that teaches you how to truly support pregnancy, birth, and the transition to parenthood. Rooted in 25 years of birth work, this course blends physiology, research, and lived experience with the Wise Woman approach guiding students to work with integrity, intuition, and compassion. You’ll learn how to hold space from the very first heartbeat, support those choosing natural physiological birth, and navigate the realities of pregnancy, birth, and the maternity system.

This is more than a training; it’s a transformation, helping you build a unique, authentic doula practice that reflects your gifts, aligns with your values, and prepares you to support clients through every stage of their journey.

What is Holistic Doula Training?

Foundational Modules

Discover the roots of birthkeeping and how the Wise Woman Approach can guide you as you lay your birthkeeper roots in prenatal support and undisturbed birth. Explore your own conditioning and stories around pregnancy and birth, ready to work with clients that you truly align with to create your own authentic doula practice.

Prenatal Modules

You'll learn how to guide clients through deep inner work using my signature pregnancy journal, so they can claim their birth. You’ll explore holistic self care in pregnancy from nourishment to rest and conscious connection with baby, to deepen instinct and intuition. Plus understand how to navigate the medical model of prenatal care with your clients.

Birth Modules

Physiological birth requires us to understand the processes, demystify the journey of undisturbed labour and birth of the baby, the placenta and the mother or birthing person. And then know how we can be a presence that protects it, not disturb it. We dive into all aspects of birth - undisturbed, physiological AND how to optimise physiology when labour evolves differently such as in hospital and caesarean birth.

Doula Course Overview

  • Holistic support through the trimesters & prenatal self care

  • Use our unique Holistic Pregnancy Journal as a tool for transformation

  • Help clients navigate the maternity system: from scans and tests to policies and interventions - just because we focus on physiology doesn’t mean we ignore reality and the medical system

  • Understanding the baby’s position and supporting optimum growth

  • Honouring undisturbed birth, placenta birth and newborn transition at birth

  • Optimising labour & birth in hospital and birth centres

  • Responding to birth emergencies and hospital transfers

  • Unpack your own limiting beliefs and conditioning to step into your own power

  • How to start and grow your own authentic and sustainable birth doula practice.

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Enrolling September, December and April

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Enrolling September, December and April 〰️

What Makes This Doula Course Different?

  • Optimising Healthy Pregnancy

    Learn how to support holistic wellbeing in pregnancy and undisturbed physiological birth at home primarily and across all settings.

  • Transformative Birth Planning

    Use a powerful Holistic Birth Preparation Pathway to help clients discover their inner power and claim their natural birth.

  • Navigate the Maternity System

    Learn from my 25 years of midwifery experience, through the lens of risk, safety, and sovereignty — so you and your clients feel truly prepared.

  • Start Working As A Doula

    Create your unique thriving doula business while you are learning so you can get out there and make a difference to someone’s pregnancy & birth experience.

Doula Training with Me In Cornwall

OPTIONAL: In Person Training Weekend

🔸Supporting birth at home and in water
🔸Belly mapping to build connection and reclaim insight into positioning in the womb
🔸The physiology and wisdom of placenta birth
🔸 Navigating the unexpected and holding your ground in birth emergencies
🔸 Real-time scenario work, sharing and discussion

We will gather in a home in West Cornwall over a long weekend to bring the theory alive.

Residential and non residential places available. Details to be confirmed.

Student Reviews

  • I am loving it. It is everything I hoped it would be. I really enjoy the balance between information/ explanation, reflective questions, video content & resource materials.

    Zara F

  • Evony is such a beautiful soul that teaches from a deep well of experience and love inside of her . With this program she fostered a feeling of community, of respect for each other and deep honouring of childbirth as a rite of passage.

    Micheline , Birthkeeper.

  • Evony is a true wise woman, she is a wealth of knowledge and experience and her way of working and understanding birth resonates so well with what feels natural and right to me. I found the course really engaging both as becoming more educated and informed, but also as a personal journey sharing and witnessing with the other students.

    Sophie Jenna, Mother and Birth Artist

  • it is a gentle and safe space in which to discover more about yourself and also be amongst like minds under the guiding light of Evony whose knowledge is so valuable. The content is vast..

    Caroline, Birthkeeper

  • I found your holding, Evony, and guidance just invaluable. I loved the way you took on board all of our different paths and strengths, and your course was never, ever prescriptive. You gave us all space to simply be and explore ourselves, and to learn from each other. And the wealth of resources are there for whenever we felt called or ready to explore them.

    Leonie, Doula

  • I think that this is one of the safest reflection spaces that I’ve ever experienced.

    Verina, Doula and Trainer

A Different Kind of Doula Training

  • Non dogmatic balanced approach rooted in over 25 years in birth work

  • Start practicing as a holistic birth doula while still learning

  • Have our Holistic Birth Pathway as a tool for PRENATAL support

  • Insider knowledge of the system so your clients can navigate the medical model with instinct not fear

  • Be ready to offer intelligent wise woman support through pregnancy and birth.

Where science, wisdom, and real birth experience come together to prepare you to walk confidently alongside families.

What next?

If this training speaks to you, I’d love you to join me on this journey. You can dive deeper into my writing below, or grab the course guide up above if you haven’t already. Find me on Instagram too and send me a DM if you have any questions.

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What is a Birthkeeper?
What is a Birthkeeper?

A birthkeeper holds space for the unfolding of birth as a natural, physiological, and spiritual experience. Birthkeepers draw from ancient wisdom, intuition, and practical skills to provide holistic pregnancy and birth support that nurtures the whole person ; mind, body, and spirit, and offer a ‘wise woman’ presence during labour and birth.

The Wise Woman Doula
The Wise Woman Doula

In 1999, as a student midwife, I read two books that changed everything for me: Wise Woman Herbal  for the Childbearing Year by Susun Weed, and Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin. Alongside these were the works of anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd who named the technocratic model of care in which I was learning and the holistic model that I strived to practice. These each created a foundation for the midwifery that resonated in my bones and their words gave shape to an approach that still anchors my work today: the Holistic Wise Woman model.

What’s the Difference Between a Midwife, a Doula and a Birthkeeper?
What’s the Difference Between a Midwife, a Doula and a Birthkeeper?

A midwife is a registered medical professional who monitors the wellbeing of women, birthing people and their babies during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. A doula is a non medical support who offers education and advocacy for those usually engaging with the medical system. And a birthkeeper is a non medical, holistic support, who often works with those choosing a ‘wild pregnancy’ or freebirth.