The  heart of my work 

facilitating Mother Earth’s labour

Nature Shadow

Birthkeeping the Earth is both an inspiration behind my work & the lens through which I see our time. The foundation of my offerings is rooted in my own journey of transformation & healing, and a vision I carry of humanity remembering its place within the living web of Life.

I believe, like many others, that our dear planet is going through a remarkable & rapid transformation - a great birth of consciousness As I accompany women through the profound initiation of Motherhood, witnessing the transformation that comes with birthing a child, I see clear parallels to the process of holding space for the birth of a new consciousness emerging on Earth.

A Collective Birth Conception, gestation & birth always involve a death process - of  letting go of the old, stepping into the unknown, surrendering & holding space for what is fragile & new with greater awareness and care.

Individually & collectively, humanity is going through a strong purification of old ways that no longer serve us or nature. This great death & rebirth guides us towards a way of being that is more sustainable for all of Creation, more aligned with the Spirit of our true nature. It unfolds one birth, one awakening, one returning back home at a time.

This process can be intense & painful, as we shed layers of conditioning, identifications & old belief systems. Yet, like contractions in a birth, the challenges open us into a greater expansion;  a return to our Essence, where our true light can shine through & Life can be lived more authentically

My Role: Supporting and facilitating these transitions so that the contractions can be navigated with more softness & ease, less suffering My work is anchored in human connection & in a deepening relationship with the Spirit of all Life.

I believe that greater wholeness comes through being connected to the body’s wisdom, nature connection & cultivating an embodied awareness of the Divine intelligence that breathes in everything alive.

Through somatic awareness, devotional arts, meditative practices & radical compassion, I support spaces where Spirit & body can reconnect & where we can remember our belonging to Life.

When we truly feel that belonging, we naturally begin to live in ways that serve the greater whole.

MY BACKGROUND 

    • certified in 2019
      two year education DOULA SCHOOL in Oslo

    • trained in the Spinning Babies approach

    • personal studies &
      dialogue with indigenous elders about indigenous midwifery practices (flower baths, birth ritual support, body wisdom practices)

    • initiated in holding
      ‘closing of the bones’ ceremony

    • from womb to world
      w/ anna verwaal - prenatal & birth trauma

    • KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga
      Teacher - 610 hrs training

    • 60 hrs training Vinyasa Flow

    • ongoing prenatal yoga studies

    • teaching weekly classes & guided meditations since 2018 (ongoing)

    • Certified Eco-Forest Therapist through Scandinavian Institute of Forest Therapy (2023)

      trained in the Shinrin Yoku
      model of nature connection

    • 16 years of dance & movement. trained in Norway, Copenhagen & Paris with a background in urban styles -
      choreography, improvisation, artistic exploration.

      Worked in commercial settings & dance company contexts.

      My departure from the dance scene & stepping away from my career was sharp & abrupt, a moment that marked a great transformation.

      Though the proffessional chapter closed,
      dance is my first language of expression & continues to live through me & the spaces I hold

    • A daily relationship with mantra, prayer & sacred song since 2018

    • Holding devotional song & sound circles since 2020

    • Ongoing studies in mantra, sacred chants, the science of sound, & healing potential of voice & vibration

    • My voice started opening through devotional practice & meeting the Plant Kingdom. It’s a practice that continues to be more about becoming an increasingly clear channel for presence & connection

    • Singer in female choir ‘Artemis’ since 2025

    • 10 years as a therapeutic youth worker within Norwegian residential child welfare services.

    • Supporting vulnerable adolescents (age 15-22) carrying complex trauma, emotional distress & neuro developmental differences.

    • work focused on emotional regulation/co-regulation, relationship-building, crisis support, & creating safe, stable environment for healing & development

    • 10 years of dedicated study with wisdom keepers, indigenous traditions & lineage holders across several Spiritual traditions.

    • guided by humility, reverence & people who hold these lineages with great integrity

    • teachings & ceremonial practice that continue to shape me & the way I relate to life, hold space, & understand healing

  • Reiki Master

    • initiated in Usui lineage

    • levels 1 & 2 Norway (2015/2016)

    • master level 3 Brazil (2024)

    • two years of psychoanalysis

      an in depth exploration of the psyche through words,
      silence & self-inquiry.
      This form of therapy supported me with valuable insights while its largelymind-oriented approach, with little connection to the body, also revealed its limitations for me personally & ultimately deepened my commitment to somatic & embodied healing.

    • an intensive period of trauma-focused therapy, including EMDR, offering direct experience with contemporary clinical approaches to trauma & its processing - & a valuable experienced contrast to somatic approaches to healing.

MORE ABOUT ME

Over the years, my path has unfolded into a multidisciplinary tree of work. The branches are many, but the trunk is one.
Each growing from the same devotion:
supporting our return to our true nature & the living Earth we are a part of.

Since childhood, I carried a sensitivity that rarely felt like it had a place in this world. Growing up between cultures & countries, navigating different expectations & ways of being alongside an unstable childhood & adolescence,
I became highly attuned to my surroundings - learning to adapt, suppress parts of myself & shape-shift in order to belong.

Early adult, I worked as a dancer, performer, teacher & choreographer.
Ironically, I spent years using my body a lot, while also being deeply disconnected from it. My body spoke to me, but I didn't know how to listen.

As life unfolded, my sensitivity increasingly made me aware of symptoms of anxiety & heavy depression, self-sabotaging patterns & the ways I wasn't living my life to its fullest potential.
I found myself drawn into a profound exploration of myself, my spirituality & the unseen dimensions of life.
Hungry for Truth & driven by an unshakable longing to understand, feel whole & live in deeper alignment with my essence, I immersed myself in yogic & meditation practices, prayer & ceremonial work with master plant teachers & spending years learning alongside different traditions & wisdom keepers from ancient cultures.
The fruits harvested from these encounters have blessed my life beyond what words can measure. And yet, as valuable as this path has been & continues to be, I also came to realize that some of the ways I approached spiritual practice - combined with my deeply wired strategies to cope with life, could take me away further from the very place I needed to return to: my body.
The real work became learning to bridge the two, allowing Spirit & body to meet. Through returning to the simplicity of breath, the forest, my voice, silence, authentic movement & somatic work, in my relations & daily ordinary life.

The support I offer today is,in many ways the support I once longed for myself. Although I've had extraordinary teachers along the way, there have been moments I longed for someone who could simply walk beside me through moments of contraction, deep transformation & the overwhelm it came with, like a Doula,
to help me ground what I was experiencing, rather than only understand it.

I accompany the profound transformation of pregnancy & birth with deep respect & reverence & I feel equally called to accompany the many inner births we experience throughout life; the shedding of old identities & the remembering of who we are beneath conditioning, fear & survival.

Today, my work continues to evolve, just as I do.
I still dance when music moves me.
I travel to learn from people, places & traditions that carry ancient wisdom & a deep relationship with the Earth. I sing when my heart is open. And I continue to be humbled by witnessing childbirth, birdsong at sunrise, genuine encounters between people & the quiet moments that remind me that we belong to one another, to the living Earth & to Life itself.

Contact me.

contact@aidaayani.com