Your Council of  Birth Pioneers:

A legendary group of wise elders, midwives, birth workers, & teachers weaving ancestral & modern birth wisdom.

Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova

Elena is the founder of Birth Into Being International, a global organization dedicated to conscious evolution, healing womb imprints, and creating a loving, thriving social foundation. A visionary born in Russia, Elena has worked with water-birth pioneer Igor Charkovsky since 1982—hosting birth camps on the Black Sea where babies were born alongside wild dolphins. She directed the groundbreaking documentary Birth As We Know It (2006), translated into over a dozen languages and screened in 58 countries, which transformed the conscious birth movement  Since 2004, she’s led more than 20 international workshops annually, trained over 100 facilitators in 17 countries, and developed the evidence-based Birth Into Being Method for limbic imprint recoding—now used well beyond birth preparation.

Ibu Robin Lim

Ibu is a Filipina-American grandmother, midwife, and founder of Bumi Sehat Foundation, which maintains six clinics in Indonesia and Philippines. She is an accomplished author, teacher, keynote speaker, 2011 CNN “Hero of the Year,” and Ashoka Fellow (a prestigious award for the world’s leading social change entrepreneurs).

She is most commonly known in Bali, where Bumi Sehat’s headquarters and flagship clinic are located, as simply Ibu (“Mother”) Robin. She resides there with her husband, Wil Hemmerle, her 92-year-old mother Crescenia, and many of her eight children and seven grandchildren.

With a vision to revolutionize birth, peacefully, Ibu Robin founded the Bumi Sehat (“Healthy Mother Earth”) Foundation in 1993 to provide birthing services and heal the country’s devastatingly high maternal and infant mortality rate. Following the tradition of her own Filipina grandmother who was a traditional healer and birthkeeper, Ibu Robin became a Certified Professional Midwife and led Bumi Sehat’s community health and childbirth clinic.

Whapio- The Matrona

For over four decades, Whapio Diane Bartlett has been a pioneering force in midwifery and holistic birthkeeping. Her life’s work has centered on raising the consciousness of birth, reclaiming it as a sacred rite of passage, and transforming how families, caregivers, and communities engage with the childbearing journey.

Whapio often speaks about birth as the essential role of consciousness in caregiving. She believes that awareness, presence, and relational trust are the missing elements in modern maternal care—and that their return could radically transform birth as we know it. “The way we give birth,” she says, “is a mirror of our emotional and spiritual maturity on this planet. If we prioritize consciousness in birth, we will transform not only the experience of birth but the very fabric of how we live and relate to one another.”

Naolí Vinaver

Naolí Vinaver is a world-renowned Mexican midwife, widely regarded as a living bridge between Indigenous Mexican traditions and contemporary birth innovation—bringing heart, dignity, and scientific grounding together in a lineage of respectful, life- and love-affirming care.

With four decades of teaching and over 2,000 home births, Naolí’s ground-breaking midwifery and educational work—spanning six continents—has had a profound impact on the global birth world and earned her recognition as a revered teacher and visionary.

She is the founder of the multilingual Art of Birth – Learning Resource Center, which, through her signature workshops and online programs, reclaims and re-licenses birth as sacred, embodied, and deeply connected to our collective humanity—beautifully weaving the ancestral lineage of traditional Mexican midwifery into present-day practices.

Rooted in the energetic dynamics of vital energy and sexuality in birth, Naolí generously shares her knowledge of the Mexican Rebozo, offering deep, embodied applications throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum.

She is the author of the book Rebozo for Birth – Compendium of Techniques Applied in Pregnancy, Labor, Birth, and Postpartum, as well as the children’s book A Baby is Born… Naturally! She is also the creator of the Natural Ultrasound Method and many other original birth innovations. 

Amber Hartnell

Amber is a renowned Mystic Muse, Evolutionary Catalyst, and Creative Alchemist, celebrated for her pioneering work in ecstatic and orgasmic birth. She rose to international prominence after her powerful birth story—featuring multiple orgasms during labor—was showcased in documentaries like Birth as We Know It (2006) and on programs such as ABC's 20/20.

Amber is the founder of the Temple of Wholeness, a 501c(3) charitable organization dedicated to helping people find inner sovereignty, rekindle the sacred and help evolve the current chaos into the better world we all know is possible. As a trusted guide and mentor for Fortune 50 - 500 executives, US Special Forces veterans, world renown artists, impact makers and change agents, she supports those she works with to release the grip of outdated patterns and trauma, directly experience the fullness of their essential nature, align with their divine blueprint and embody their unique expression. 

Jane Hardwicke Collings

Jane is a postmenopausal grandmother at the sunset of my life. She is the mother of a blended family with 4 adult children and 3 grandboys. I am a former Registered Nurse, and worked in that capacity in Paediatric Intensive Care Units and Women’s Operating Theatres. I became a midwife at 26 and left the hospital system so as not to be complicit with institutionalised acts of abuse and violence on women and babies masquerading as safety. I ‘grew up’ in the homebirth world and was a homebirth midwife for 30 years in the city and then rural areas. My own births have taught me who I am and what I am capable of. My menopausal experience has taught me to focus on preparing for the great great grandchildren is a former midwife, author, and founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft. Her work centers on menstrual awareness, conscious pregnancy, birth as a transformative experience, and menopause as a spiritual initiation. Through her writings, workshops, and international teaching tours, Jane empowers women to reconnect with the cycles of nature and the deep intelligence of their bodies. 

Jocelyn Gordon

Jocelyn Gordon is a Conscious Conception Coach with over 20 years of experience supporting women on their fertility and pregnancy journeys. Through preconception parenting practices, lifestyle medicine approaches, and somatic healing, she has helped "babies" aka Ancient Wise Souls connect with their families here on Earth. Jocelyn's expertise extends to supporting women with PCOS in achieving pregnancy, and she herself overcame diagnoses of endometriosis and adenomyosis to naturally conceive her daughter at the age of 41. With a wealth of knowledge spanning from motherhood to menopause, Jocelyn is passionate about empowering women to navigate their holistic reproductive health with confidence and hope.

Corina Fitch

representing "The Farm"

Corina is a Matrescence Mentor, Certified Professional Midwife, and Registered Nurse with 30 years of combined experience in maternal and newborn care. An international speaker, podcaster, author, and mother of three, she guides women to move from overwhelm and depletion into vitality, purpose, and thriving.

Corina has witnessed and experienced firsthand the universal struggle mothers face in balancing caregiving with self-care and a deeper call to contribute. Her own humbling postpartum journey in 2007 marked the beginning of a transformational path—one that led her from midwifing births to midwifing the evolution of mothers themselves.

Corina is a Certified Feminine Power Facilitator (Evolving Wisdom) and a certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner (Dr. Sophie Brock). She blends clinical expertise with transformational tools, helping mothers reclaim their power, purpose, and radiance.

Sabrina Speich

Sabrina Speich, is a midwife from the Maya region of Quintana Roo since 1999 and a mother of eight children. Over the years of providing care, she received numerous requests to share her knowledge. In November 2013, she embarked on a journey to a traditional midwives' congress in Brazil, where she discovered through energy work that she would establish a center of care with apprentices and other therapists. She was guided by the spirit of the Bear, serving as her totem. The name "Osamayor" is derived from the star constellation, deeply symbolic among the Maya, Toltecs, Taoists, and many more spiritual paths. It is the constellation that influences human destiny, connecting it with the universe to recognize our work here and now. The worship of the Bear brings us back to matriarchy, where women's cycles and processes were central to social order. Let's inspire and invite many more women, children, and men to join our work.

Numana Marie Joy
Host & Founder of Womb Health Academy

Numana Marie Joy is a women’s health coach and founder of the Womb Health Academy, an immersive online practitioner and business training for spiritual, female entrepreneurs who are ready to transform the health industry through the power of womb healing.

Serving women since 2015 with womb healing methods, she is devoted to women healing past trauma, feeling safer and more empowered in their bodies and deeply connected to their womb’s wisdom. A byproduct of her Womb Clearing Method™ which involves somatic and emotional release, is enhanced fertility, regulated menstrual cycles, pain-free periods, and easier conception.

Sarah Bisarello
Host & founder of Self Illumination

Sarah is a mother, wife, doula and founder of Self Illumination with the mission of bringing sincere people to realign with their true essence, find their spouses and prepare for their children through simple introspection tools and by following the Self Illumination Lifestyle.

By using the practice of Self Love. inspired by the scientific findings of Dr. Emoto, this practice changes people's lives by infusing the frequency of love into our human makeup system. As a result, a domino effect begins, that percolates the frequency of love to all parts of our body, emotions, past trauma and all aspects of life, inside and out. The results are healing, self empowerment, reconnection to our true self, heartfulness and much more. This connection pre-birth and during preconception allows mothers and families to prepare accordingly for their baby's arrival.