WEBINAR: Intro to Mindfulness & Meditation for Doulas. August 5, 12, 26, and Sept 2, 2026.

Intro to Mindfulness & Meditation for Doulas is a four-class series designed to help birth workers build sustainable inner resources. Through accessible practices and doula-specific guidance, you’ll develop the presence, resilience, and self-awareness needed to support your clients and yourself with greater depth and ease.

Class 1: What Is Mindfulness? — Anchoring in the Breath

Discover what mindfulness really is and what it isn’t. In this foundational class, you’ll learn how present-moment awareness directly supports your work as a doula, and explore your first anchor practice: the breath. A warm, beginner-friendly introduction to a practice that will change how you show up.

Class 2: Mindfulness of the Body

Learn to listen to your body and help your clients listen to theirs. This class explores body-based mindfulness practices and their powerful applications during pregnancy, labor, and birth support. You’ll leave with tools to bring greater physical awareness to yourself, your pregnant clients, and their partners.

Class 3: Self-Care, Discomfort & Building Your Mini Practice

Birth work is demanding. This class explores how mindfulness helps you sit with discomfort, your own and others’, without being overwhelmed. You’ll also create a simple, sustainable personal practice that you can maintain even in the busiest seasons of your doula life.

Class 4: Gratitude, Generosity & Closing the Circle

In this final class, we turn toward the heart of sustainable birth work: generosity and gratitude. Explore how these qualities deepen your capacity to give, protect against burnout, and connect you to the profound meaning in the work you do every day.

Join us for live virtual sessions August 5, 12, 26, and Sept 2, 2026 from 10-11 am EDT.

Requires attendance to all 4 classes, tuition is free. No experience needed. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance that can be used as 4 CEUs (continuing education units) at Doula School.

About the presenter: Julia Forest

Julia is a doula, childbirth educator, and birth advocate whose work has touched thousands of lives across more than 20 countries. As co-founder and co-Director of Doula School International, Canada’s largest doula training organization with over 6,500 graduates worldwide, she has spent over two decades redefining what exceptional birth support looks and feels like, both for the families being served and the practitioners doing the serving. Her teaching is trauma-informed, evidence-based, and grounded in the belief that a birth worker’s inner life is inseparable from the quality of care they offer. She brings 20 years of practice in birthwork, massage therapy, prenatal yoga, mindfulness and embodied movement practice to everything she teaches.

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