Aubrey Bamdad’s body of work bridges the fields of Ayurveda, yoga and their corresponding Vedic technologies with traditional Amazonian medicine and the shamanic realms.  She is a mother, writer, teacher and visionary, as well as an Ayurvedic practitioner, yogini, and contemporary vegetalista with decades of immersive experience in these respective wisdom traditions.  She has founded and directs the Sacred Motherhood Blueprint, the Eleusinian Mystery Field School, Qori Inti Amazonian Herbals, for which she also formulates and creates their product lines and co-directs Yacumaman Sanctuary for Integral Shamanism with her husband Dionisio Santos.  Aubrey is a sought-after and well-respected teacher the world over.  Her approach to Integral Shamanism is completely unique to her and stems from her experiences, studies and the result of a life passionately and spontaneously dedicated to interfacing different esoteric systems.  Aubrey and her husband Dionisio birthed their beautiful daughter Nahal Devi, at home, in the water, under a full Amazonian moon.

Homebirth midwife, salt of the earth mama, herbalist, plant whisperer, and temple priestess are a few of the ways in which Sunshine Tressider expresses her essence. Sunshine has been practicing midwifery for over twenty years; facilitating the miracle of birth around the world from Haiti to Indonesia to Peru. She believes each family teaches a unique story about love and truth, and is an honored devotee to each and every sacred birth story she has experienced.  She incorporates massage and craniosacral therapy into her midwifery practice, which is located in a small rural community in Northern California. Sunshine is mother to two grown sons whom she birthed naturally on the land, and has lived off-grid in the Redwoods for over two decades. She considers the land, seasons, and moon cycles some of her greatest teachers. Sunshine offers sacred space to women during each new moon in her garden sanctuary, and is an ordained minister who has performed over 23 weddings.

Dona Judith Alva de Falcon is an elder Amazonian birth keeper who has attended thousands of home births over the course of half a century!  She is very excited to join us for two days during the Ceremonial Doulaship Immersion to share some of her wisdom and experience with us.  She is humble, open like a book and so willing to transmit her legacy to other women who also share her passion of conscious caregiving.  She will regale us with stories as well as her knowledge of folk techniques for pregnancy, birth and postpartum including massage and herbal medicine.