Practice overview
Dakota is a Certified Birth Doula, Full-Spectrum Doula (birth, postpartum, miscarriage, termination and loss), Placenta Encapsulation Specialist and Ceremonialist living in Lyons, Colorado. She is also a student midwife who occasionally assists a home-birth midwife in the Boulder area and provides an assortment of other offerings for the childbearing continuum like Childbirth Education, Belly Binding, Council Circles and Mother/Parent Roasting, etc.
Avidly studying birth since 2010, Dakota has always known that this was her “calling”. Through her years of doula and midwifery training in Bali, North Carolina, Vermont and Colorado, she deeply understands the importance of families feeling educated and empowered during their birthing experience and the impact that can have on the newborn child’s life, the family unit as a whole and the wider community.
Dakota fiercely advocates for her clients in all birth settings and holds a larger vision of birth as a transformative Rite of Passage. She is passionate about holding space for clients who are interested in bringing more intention and sacredness to their birthing journey through a variety of ceremonial offerings (mother/parent honoring ceremonies, yoni steaming and sealing ceremonies, to list just a few).
Dakota is also one of the founding members of The Mother’s Center in Boulder (www.themotherscenter.org). There, she holds donation-based council circles for pregnant and postpartum people in the community, as well as an assortment of other offerings like Kirtan (devotional chanting), meditation, community potlucks and many different types of workshops and ceremonies.
When she is not at a birth or holding space at The Mother’s Center, you can find Dakota soaking in natural hot springs around the state, dancing the 5-Rhythms, sitting in women’s circles and probably using way too much ghee when cooking!
Jesi
December 9, 2020 at 1:44 pm | Client reviewWords will never be able to express my gratitude for finding and working with Dakota. While she brings a very professional and organized platform to her business she is very deeply connected to the sacred ways of pregnancy and offers her clients some of the most incredible physical, emotional, and spiritual support I’ve ever wished for. Her knowledge and beautiful offerings inspired us to hire her on as a post partum doula as well, a tradition fairly lost in our culture but none the less imperative to the journey. She is a true gift and I pray everyone is so blessed to have her guidance and support on the magical trek of the maternity rites of passage.
Dakota
December 16, 2020 at 8:05 pmThank you so much, Jesi! It is an honor to support you through this journey! <3