Do you feel called to hold space for women through
the arc of conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum?
Uncovering Birth
Doula Training
Uncovering Birth
Doula Training
An online training, certification and mentorship program.
Become a doula in five months. An intimate container with mentorship, in-depth education, and an amazing community of open-hearted women ready to step up by your side.
Let's improve birth outcomes. Together.
NOW ENROLLING FOR 2025
JOIN THE DOULA TRAININGAn online training, certification, and mentorship program.
Become a doula in five months. In an intimate container with mentorship, in-depth education, and an amazing community of open-hearted women ready to step up by your side.
ENROLLMENT IS OPEN
Expand your calling
Learn how to hold space for an autonomous, empowered, blissful birth.
There is a world of untapped potential within you.
Studies show that the supportive presence of a Doula can have an enormous impact. Women who have doulas are 60% more likely to have a non-traumatic birth experience, and continuous doula support along with birth education has been found to shorten labor.
Studies show that the supportive presence of a doula can have an enormous impact. Women who have doulas are 60% more likely to have a non-traumatic birth experience, and continuous doula support along with birth education has been found to shorten labor.
A doula can be an essential part of the birth team.
Let's zoom in...
Simply put, the term 'doula' is used to describe a non-medical, physical, and emotional support person. A doula is not a substitute for either midwife or partner but complements them, as she supports and advocates for the mother throughout the pregnancy, birth, and postnatal period.
Throughout history, doulas have come in to support women and provide them with that intangible support that is so crucial in a moment of need.
*A hand to grasp, a shoulder to lean on, a non-judgmental presence that enables the woman to stay balanced, focused, and at peace in the midst of what might otherwise be an overwhelming or distressing time.
A doula exists to hold space for a woman during a time of transition: during loss, death, birth, or big changes.
A doula can be an essential part of the birth team.
Let's zoom in...
Simply put, this term is used to describe a non-medical, physical and emotional support person. A doula is not a substitute for either midwife or partner but complements them, as she supports and advocates for the mother throughout the pregnancy, birth, and postnatal period.
Throughout history, doulas have come in to support women and provide them with that intangible support that is so crucial in a moment of need.
*A hand to grasp, a shoulder to lean on, a non-judgmental presence that enables the woman to stay balanced, focused, and at peace in the midst of what might otherwise be an overwhelming or distressing time."
A doula exists to hold space for a woman during a time of transition: during loss, death, birth, or big changes.
The presence of a doula has also been shown to decrease the perceived need for medical intervention and decrease the risk of a low neonatal Apgar score.
The presence of a doula has also been shown to decrease the need for perceived medical intervention and decrease the risk of a low neonatal Apgar score.
A LOOK INSIDE THE PROGRAM:
Uncovering Birth is a five-month program that affords you all of the tools to support women through life's biggest transitions. While we focus on pregnancy and birth you may eventually choose to hold space for conception, loss, miscarriage, postpartum, divorce, or death.
In this intimate live training and mentorship, you will learn about normal physiological birth, while also getting access to the underbelly of the birth industry and modern birthing practices.
There is no light without dark, and to authentically hold space as a doula, you must understand both.
Each student will gain knowledge of how to start or enhance their business with integrity while also learning the ins and outs of the greatest rite of passage in a woman’s life: conceiving and becoming a mother.
A LOOK INSIDE THE PROGRAM:
Uncovering Birth Doula Training is a 5-month program that affords you all of the tools to support women through life's biggest transitions. While we focus on pregnancy and birth, you may eventually choose to hold space for conception, loss, miscarriage, postpartum, divorce, or death.
In this intimate live training and mentorship you will learn about normal physiological birth, while also getting access to the underbelly of the birth industry and modern birthing practices.
There is no light without dark, and to authentically hold space as a doula, you must understand both.
Each student will gain knowledge of how to start or enhance their business with integrity while also learning the ins and outs of the greatest rite of passage in a woman’s life: conceiving and becoming a mother.
LIMITED ENROLLMENT
Join our intimate cohort of women starting
February 12, 2025
LIMITED ENROLLMENT!
Join Our intimate cohort of women starting
February 12, 2025.
Empower yourself with education
Empower yourself with education
Why this is for YOU!
The invitation
- You had a traumatic birthing experience and want to ensure other women do not have to go through the same
- You were blessed by the presence of a doula during your own pregnancy and want to hold the same beautiful space for others
- You’re a healing practitioner and want to access deeper meaning in your work as a space holder, or pillar in your community
- You’ve always known (and probably been told) that you’re a healer
- You’re a natural caretaker and love supporting women
- You’re passionate about birth or advocacy
If you have found yourself HERE, it's likely you're at a pinnacle pivot point in your life.
For a transformation that leaves no stone unturned, and opens up new avenues for you.
If you're already a healing practitioner → You're here because you know you have a deeper and richer offering that you're ready to share with your community… by acquiring deep knowledge of what it means to support birth.
Uncovering Birth is here to be YOUR guide as you learn to guide others.
What's included inside Doula Training
Nuts & bolts
Coaching & Mentorship with Eyla in an Intimate Container:
- An Uncovering Birth Doula Certificate upon program completion (after attending 1 vaginal birth)
- 20 weeks of IN DEPTH Doula Training Education
- 4 months of LIVE group mentorship calls with Eyla, followed by 1 month of intimate support. Learn how to be a Doula and get support in your process of alchemy in our 8 Bi-Weekly calls. (Each call is 2 hours and we leave no stone unturned!)
- 1 private coaching call with Eyla: Integrate everything you're learning with Eyla as your guide.
- 5 month community container. In this safe space, you can ask Eyla anything and get the support of your community as you start seeing paying clients and live into your new role as a doula & entrepreneur.
- Inspiration, guidance, and additional resources from experts in related fields including:
- Midwife Dana Gordon, CPM
- Dr. Miguel Toro – Dr. Toro specializes in Spine Health of prenatal and postpartum women as well as newborns
- Kat Martin – Wylde Voices: Healing the Cervix through sound
- Amerly Centeno – Master Family Constellations Facilitator
- Dr. Stu Fischbein
- And the Internationally Recognized 'Containment Course' as an added bonus to the training.
- Experience your own healing journey as you learn how to hold space for others.
- Complete the program ready to attend births, work with clients, and establish yourself in a new career path without limits.
- All the entrepreneurial tools you need to make birth work your vocation and work with paying clients
Topics
- Evidence-based + ancestral birth + breastfeeding education
- Basic placenta education (separate placenta encapsulation training available)
- Understanding risks & interventions in birth
- How to evaluate energetics when it comes to interacting with your community
- Uplevel your accountability and communication as a woman
- Prompts to challenge yourself and old belief systems
Bonus option
The option to continue your education & professional support by joining the Uncovering Birth Doula Membership at the end of the program.
Connect with other graduates in our closed community where you can have daily chats with Eyla and your fellow doulas, get live monthly calls, recertify every year, access a library of resources, and so much more!
(Taking the Uncovering Birth Doula training is the only way to be eligible for our Membership.)
The Doula Training modules
Module ONE
Introducing the Uncovering Birth method of Doulaship
⇒ What makes Uncovering Birth unique (vs. mainstream models)
⇒ Cross-cultural perspectives on birth
⇒ The 8 logics of birth
⇒ Share your story & meet the community
Module TWO
Supporting Low Risk Pregnancy
⇒ Limiting beliefs: looking at your limiting beliefs + those of your client
⇒ Nutrition: the myths vs. the truth
⇒ Breastfeeding: my deep + detailed insights
Module THREE
Self-regulation techniques & unlearning birth myths
⇒ Self-regulation for ourselves + within the context of pregnancy & birth
⇒ The Coach's Role (Husband's role in this process)
⇒ Birth Myths: Seeing through them. Unlearning and relearning the truth about birth.
Module FOUR
The first stage of labor
⇒ What is 1st stage labor?
⇒ Doula techniques to support the first stage
⇒ Breathing
⇒ What does partnered support look like in labor?
⇒ Transmuting discomfort during the first stage
⇒ Eyla's best practices during labor from ~ 1 decade attending births
Module FIVE
The arc of labor
⇒ What is the arc of labor
⇒ Doula techniques to support 2nd-3rd stages
⇒ 2nd stage labor
⇒ Transition
⇒ 3rd stage labor
⇒ Eyla's best practices during labor from ~ 1 decade attending births
Module SIX
Interventions in home and hospital birth
⇒ How to walk through unexpected situations
⇒ Adapting to emergencies
⇒ Eyla's experiences handling the unexpected r from ~ 1 decade attending births
Module SEVEN
Postpartum care & Parenting
⇒ Placenta & placenta encapsulation
⇒ Postpartum & Newborn care basics
⇒ Vaccinations
⇒ Attachment parenting
Module EIGHT
Putting it all together & creating your unique business
⇒ Overview of the doula’s role
⇒ Carving out your unique offering
⇒ Attracting clients
⇒ Energetics of business
⇒ Boundaries: practical & energetic
⇒ Contracts
Graduate success stories
This alchemical & expansive program was designed to hold space for you. And in turn you will understand what it is to hold space for others.
This alchemical & expansive program was designed to hold space for you.
And in turn you will understand what it is to hold space for others.
MEET YOUR HOLISTIC BIRTH MENTOR: Eyla Cuenca
"Supporting even one woman in her empowered and peaceful birth creates a ripple effect for generations to come.
This is how the fabric of our society begins to mend... by restoring the mother and her family."
Who I am...
Hey there, I'm Eyla – Childbirth Educator, Doula, health freedom advocate & birth trauma alchemist.
I connect women with empowering resources to help them practice self-reflection & self-acceptance. I act as a clean, compassionate mirror for you to step onto your path as a birthworker and empower yourself.
For nearly a decade I've worked as a birth, postpartum and loss doula as well as a childbirth educator for countless families. It's my honor to teach you what works and help you do the same.
As your mentor, I will always be very honest, and I will always be compassionate.
My work is dedicated to offering guidance that supports women and men in the process that is a return to their deepest knowing about birth, individual sovereignty, and the body’s innate intelligence.
With a BA in Anthropology and Ethnographic photography from Bennington College… I studied family systems and am passionate about helping change the conversion around the way women birth. I bring an anthropological lens to my work, with an eye for institutional critique.
I trained with the AAHCC founded by Robert A. Bradley, MD, where I specialized as a Birth Educator and Doula. My work as a Guardian Ad Litem for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida as well as attending over 200 births as a Doula – in both hospital and home settings – brought me into health freedom and advocacy work.
I thoroughly believe that it is everyone’s right to have access to empowering education from conception to parenting, and I'm excited to hold space for you as we uncover the hidden dimensions of birth, together.
MEET YOUR HOLISTIC BIRTH MENTOR:
Eyla Cuenca
"Supporting even one woman in her empowered and peaceful birth creates a ripple effect for generations to come.
This is how the fabric of our society begins to mend... by restoring the mother and her family."
Who I am...
Hey there, I'm Eyla – childbirth educator, doula, health freedom advocate & birth trauma alchemist.
I connect women with empowering resources to help them practice self-reflection & self-acceptance. I act as a clean, compassionate mirror for you to step onto your path as a birthworker and empower yourself.
For nearly a decade I've worked as a birth, postpartum and loss doula as well as a childbirth educator for countless families. It's my honor to teach you what works and help you do the same.
As your mentor, I will always be very honest, and I will always be compassionate.
My work is dedicated to offering guidance that supports women and men in returning to their deepest knowing about birth, individual sovereignty, and the body’s innate intelligence.
With a BA in Anthropology and Ethnographic photography from Bennington College… I studied family systems and am passionate about helping change the conversion around the way women birth. I bring an anthropological lens to my work, with an eye for institutional critique.
I trained with the AAHCC founded by Robert A. Bradley, MD, where I specialized as a Birth Educator and Doula. My work as a Guardian Ad Litem for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida as well as attending over 200 births as a Doula – in both hospital and home settings – brought me into health freedom and advocacy work.
I thoroughly believe that it is everyone’s right to have access to empowering education from conception to parenting, and I'm excited to hold space for you as we uncover the hidden dimensions of birth, together.
This training is a launch pad and a call to be radically honest about how you want to show up for humanity, your community, and yourself.
BECOME A DOULA IN 2025
This training is a launch pad and a call to be radically honest about how you want to show up for humanity, your community, and yourself.
Client testimonials
Client Testimonials
"In order to do better, we have to know better. We have to expose ourselves to the authentic energy of empowerment, wisdom, and lived experience of another who is walking the path before us, who has awakened from the myths and deception, and who is able to offer lucid guidance. Eyla Cuenca is a birth worker of the highest order. Her doula training and birth class are my go-to referral resource for any professionals and clients looking to crystalize the truth about childbirth...that it is the most sacred portal to our divine power available to us, and that contact with this power resolves fear forevermore.
Eyla is brilliant, eloquent, intuitive, deeply resourced in all topics related to empowerment, integration, and healing, compassionate, and with a truly holistic commitment to creating conscious space for these ancient teachings. If you're reading this, take this as your sign to align with this woman so that you can align with yourself..."
- Kelly Brogan, MD
"In order to do better, we have to know better. We have to expose ourselves to the authentic energy of empowerment, wisdom, and lived experience of another who is walking the path before us, who has awakened from the myths and deception, and who is able to offer lucid guidance. Eyla Cuenca is a birth worker of the highest order. Her doula training and birth class are my go-to referral resource for any professionals and clients looking to crystalize the truth about childbirth...that it is the most sacred portal to our divine power available to us, and that contact with this power resolves fear forevermore.
Eyla is brilliant, eloquent, intuitive, deeply resourced in all topics related to empowerment, integration, and healing, compassionate, and with a truly holistic commitment to creating conscious space for these ancient teachings. If you're reading this, take this as your sign to align with this woman so that you can align with yourself..."
- Kelly Brogan, MD
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