Holistic Doula Training

Become a Doula the Wise Woman Way.

A doula training in Cornwall and online, for those called to support pregnancy and birth with a holistic, physiology-centred approach - weaving evidence, intuition and conscious connection into every step.

Four truths that quietly change everything.

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Doula Course Options

  • Doula Training in Cornwall

    A 3 day training to immerse yourself in pregnancy and birth, into the wisdom of the body and the work of the birthkeeper.

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  • Online Doula Training

    Self study modules and live calls for when this work calls but you need an accessible online option.

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THE FIVE PHASES OF THE SPIRAL PATH

A Wise Woman Journey into Birthkeeping

This journey will change you.

Each step takes us through theory, the knowledge passed down to me and my own experience in this work through midwifery and birthkeeping.

Awakening the Birthkeeper

This phase is the outer circle of the spiral where your journey begins. We start with the culture of birth in which we currently exist. And then what pregnancy and birth can look like walking a holistic path.
You turn inwards, towards yourself and what you bring to this work.  You look at the beliefs, stories, and conditioning you carry, and you start to understand how they’ve shaped your relationship with birth, power, and authority.
This is where you remember what drew you to this work, and what parts of you are ready to expand, soften, or be reclaimed.
Awakening is where you begin.

Learning the Craft

In this phase, you gather knowledge and tools: to support the journey of pregnancy and help illuminate the path to claiming our birth.This is where your understanding deepens. This phase grounds you in the living intelligence of pregnancy and birth. You learn to read the body, to understand the rhythms of the growing womb, and to support wellbeing with nourishment, rest, and real daily tools.


Walking Beside

This is the relational heart of the path.
Here you learn how to support clients by walking with them, holding space for their own inner authority to rise. You learn how to plan your meetings, help clients vision their births and how to support partners in their own journey.  This phase teaches you that doula work is not just about what you know and do, but who you are in relationship with the client.

Entering the Birth Space

This is the threshold - the deeper spiral where theory becomes embodied reality.
In this phase you explore what it means to hold presence in intensity, uncertainty, and transformation.
You learn how to read a room, stay grounded around fear, navigate medicalised environments, and support sovereignty without overstepping your scope. This phase strengthens your capacity to stay steady, intuitive, and walk the wise woman path.

Becoming the Birthkeeper

At the centre of the spiral, everything comes together.
Integration is where you reflect on your experiences, anchor your learning, and understand who you are becoming in this work.
You learn how to debrief births, support yourself emotionally, build a sustainable practice, and move into your role with confidence and integrity. This phase honours the truth that birthkeeping is not simply a set of skills - it is a lifelong path of growth, reflection, and service.

What You’ll Learn in the Holistic Doula Training

  • Explore how we arrived here today in the medical model of birth and how we can be walk a holistic path that weaves both science and wise woman tradition

  • Reflect on your own stories, conditioning, and beliefs so you not only understand your gifts and shadows but honour your individual path into this work

  • Learn how to support clients holistically trimester by trimester through pregnancy

  • Birth preparation methods you can use in your sessions - from mindset to biomechanics to intuitive practices.

  • In depth exploration of physiological labour and birth, welcoming the baby and supporting undisturbed birth in practice

  • Placenta birth, lotus birth, optimal cord clamping and the precious first hours

  • Boundaries, scope of practice and how to hold your integrity across all settings.

  • Understanding and working alongside healthcare professionals while staying aligned

  • Discover the inner work that transforms birth planning

  • When birth takes a different path: supporting clients through interventions, transfers and unexpected outcomes.

  • Exploring freebirth and wild pregnancy and how to support clients safely within your scope of practice.

  • Listening skills, holding space, and reading the unspoken including approaching sensitive topics with care.

  • Self-care and honouring your own nervous system as a birthkeeper

  • Creating: fees, finding clients, marketing, networking

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Enrol for a FREE insight inside the Holistic Doula Course with a selection of lessons, including the Wise Woman Approach and the Medicalisation of Birth.

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Student Reviews

  • 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

  • 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

Your Guide

I’m Evony Lynch, former NHS and independent midwife in Cornwall. I’ve walked the path of birth since 1999 when I began my midwifery training, and slowly peeled back the layers of conditioning and myths around pregnancy and birth that have become embedded in our society and our psyche.

I studied with Michel Odent and my experience includes homebirths, often ‘out of guidelines’, hospital midwifery; even being part of the ‘safety & risk’ governance team. Since 2022 as a doula in Cornwall supporting planned homebirths and freebirths. I believe in our right to safe physiological birth supported by wise midwives. But also that birth is unpredictable and medical support is a privilege and sometimes needed.

This is sacred work.

Soul deep.

Join me if you are called.

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 Makes This Doula Course Different?

  • Close-up of a pregnant woman wearing a teal long-sleeved shirt and matching pants, gently holding her pregnant belly with both hands, outdoors in a natural setting.

    Optimising Healthy Pregnancy

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

  • A painted landscape of a coastal scene with cliffs, a sandy beach, and a pathway leading to the ocean.

    Transformative Birth Planning

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

  • Healthcare professionals in surgical attire delivering a newborn baby in an operating room.

    Navigate the Maternity System

    Learn from my 25 years of midwifery & doula experience; from intuitive knowing to safety and risk so you feel prepared to support your clients to make conscious choices in their journey.

  • Two women sitting on a beach, one holding a baby doll and the other holding a baby, with sand, grass, and a pelvis prop nearby.

    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.

Your Next Steps

If this training speaks to you, I’d love you to join me on this journey. Choose your pathway below. Find me on Instagram too and send me a DM if you have any questions.

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