Oak & Rose Birth

Holistic Birth and Postpartum Care for Mothers and Families

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Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.

Oak and Rose Birth was born from my own mothering and the birth of my daughter. This work found me through my own lived experience of being held and supported through my pregnancy, and ultimately seen, witnessed and honoured inside my own birth process. What emerged was a sacred calling, an unanswered prayer, full of purpose which lead me to the realms of birth.

My foundations inside this work allow me to trust the necessity of it as a means to support mothers, fathers, families and our youngest citizens of Earth - the children. My service within it stands as a high privilege in this life - to support you in your becoming.

This work takes courage.

It takes resilience, and we are here, together.

The threads of wisdom that have found me follow the lineages of women who have sat endlessly before the altars of birth. I offer up my services humbly, knowing we will grow together in our work. I give great thanks to all of my teachers and offer the deepest bow to my daughter, for birthing this path from within me.

Oak & Rose Birth honours all forms of families. This is a deep commitment and one that acknowledges holistic healthcare to include any and all identities, orientations and our unique cultural and spiritual needs. Birth is sacred, and so too is your experience inside it. Our birth experiences leave life-long imprints upon us and deserve to be protected, uplifted and honoured. Birth breathes life into everything we know and it is with gratitude and privilege that we collaborate, work and welcome new life on these lands, the traditional and ancestral territories of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.

Oak & Rose Birth also collaborates with The Doulas for Aboriginal Families Grant Program (DAFGP). The Doulas for Aboriginal Families Grant Program is offered by the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, Provincial Health Services Authority, and the BC Ministry of Health.

The goal of this program is to increase healthy birth outcomes for Indigenous families by removing cost barriers to accessing doula services.

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Alli is a mama and longtime practitioner of the healing arts. For over a decade she has served a teacher of yoga and embodiment and this path of spirituality greatly informs who she is today. Her journey into birth and postpartum care emerged with the birth of her daughter and inside this continued living prayer of mothering, she recognizes the necessity of holistic tending and community care throughout the childbearing continuum. 

Alli has studied alongside traditional birth and maternal health luminaries including elder midwife Whapio Diane Bartlett of The Matrona Foundation, Certified Professional Midwife, Rachelle Seliga of Innate Traditions, Midwife-Partera, Maria Maldonado of Seed to Body Care, Lactation Consultant, Luka Barba of Deeply Rooted Healing Traditions and Latham Thomas, maternal health advocate and the creatrix of Mama Glow.

Alli is a certified INNATE Postpartum Care provider and a holistic birth doula. She supports mothers and families inside the totality of their experiences throughout pregnancy, birth and the postpartum time.

"Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have."

— Ibu Robin Lim, Midwife and author of Placenta: The Forgotten Chakra