The Spirit of Birth: An Intuitive Ritual Series
is a gentle yet powerful 9-part video series paired with reflective writing prompts, and crafted to guide you through the profound identity shifts that come with the journey from Maiden to Mother. Whether this is your first child or you're expanding your family, you may notice changes in how you relate to yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you. This series creates a sacred space to explore these tender transitions, offering the support and recognition that are often overlooked in the whirlwind of pregnancy and parenthood.
This Ritual Series is divided into three transformative phases—Severance, Threshold, and Incorporation.
Each session is designed to nurture a deep connection between you and your baby. You’ll be guided to tune out external noise and tap into your own intuitive wisdom, embracing the subtle yet powerful changes happening within.
This course helps you release limiting beliefs around your body, empowering you to trust your own expertise rather than seeking answers elsewhere. Alongside this, you'll receive gentle guidance in creating a support system that truly resonates with your unique family dynamic.
The rituals within this series honor the monumental rite of passage that pregnancy, birth, and parenthood represent. You’ll receive doula-like care and support at your own pace, in your own space, allowing you to deeply honor the emotional and spiritual work unfolding within you. Having personally walked through these practices during the pregnancies of my own children, I can speak to the transformative power of trusting your feminine wisdom during this sacred time.
Whether you’re already receiving birth support or just beginning to prepare, this course complements and enhances your experience. It invites you to become a clear, open vessel—letting the spirit of motherhood move through you in its unique and perfect way.
Severance
Where we are asked to let go of the identities we’ve carried and step into the liminal space of the unknown.
Threshold
Where we do the deep work of surrendering, trusting our bodies and intuition, and allowing ourselves to be transformed.
Incorporation
Where we come into motherhood, where we learn to carry the wisdom and gifts of this journey back into our lives and communities.
You will receive:
Deep Emotional Support: Pregnancy brings about immense emotional and identity shifts. This course provides a space to explore and honor those changes, helping women feel supported and validated during a transformative time.
Connection with Inner Wisdom: Modern pregnancy advice can be overwhelming and external. This course encourages women to tune into their own intuitive wisdom, giving them the confidence to trust their bodies and instincts throughout pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.
Holistic Birth Preparation: Unlike standard birth preparation, which often focuses on the physical aspects of birth, this course also addresses the emotional and spiritual side of pregnancy, helping women prepare mentally and spiritually for the journey ahead.
Flexibility and Personalization: With a self-paced approach, the course fits seamlessly into your schedule, allowing women to engage with the material when it feels right for them, from the first trimester to the final days before birth.
Complements Other Birth Support: Whether you're working with a doula, attending prenatal classes, or seeking medical care, this course complements existing birth support, deepening your understanding of yourself and the unique experience you’re having.
Rituals for Self-Care: The course’s rituals offer time and space for self-care, something often overlooked during pregnancy. These rituals help women nurture their connection to themselves, their babies, and the unfolding of motherhood.
Empowerment and Healing: By addressing and dismantling limiting beliefs about women's bodies, the course empowers mothers to reclaim their power and cultivate a healthy, aligned perspective on pregnancy and motherhood.
Honoring the Rite of Passage: Pregnancy is more than a physical process; it’s a sacred rite of passage. This course honors that, offering a pathway to acknowledge and embrace the depth of the transformation occurring.
What You Will Experience:
A Deep Connection to Self: Through guided reflection and embodiment exercises, you’ll tap into your inner wisdom, foster a strong connection to your own intuitive voice and body. This self-intimacy supports both the physical and emotional aspects of pregnancy.
Emotional and Spiritual Exploration: The course provides a safe space to explore the emotional shifts and spiritual transformation that come with pregnancy. You will experience the journey from Maiden to Mother in a way that allows you to process feelings and embrace change with clarity.
Personalized, Ritual-Based Practices: You will engage in thoughtfully crafted rituals designed to nurture and honor your pregnancy journey. These rituals offer a grounding way to move through each stage of pregnancy, preparing for birth not just physically but emotionally and spiritually.
Release of Limiting Beliefs: By confronting and releasing societal expectations and limiting beliefs around your body, you will gain a sense of empowerment. The course helps clear away negative mental clutter, allowing you to approach birth and motherhood with confidence and trust.
A Sense of Support and Guidance: Even though the course is self-paced, it mimics the supportive care of a doula. You will feel guided through the process, knowing you're not alone as you explore the deeper layers of motherhood and self.
Time to Reflect and Integrate: With writing prompts after each session, you will have the opportunity to reflect on your experiences, processing each stage of your journey. This reflective practice allows you to integrate lessons and insights into your everyday life.
A Calmer, Centered Approach to Birth: By connecting deeply with yourself and your baby, and embracing the changes happening within, you will likely experience a calmer and more centered approach to birth and motherhood. You'll feel more prepared mentally and emotionally for what's to come.
Healing and Transformation: This is a container for profound personal healing. By working through unresolved fears, doubts, or emotional baggage, you can enter motherhood with a clearer, more aligned mindset, allowing for a transformative experience.
Empowerment Through Feminine Wisdom
At its core, this course honors the power and wisdom inherent in every woman. Rather than relying on external advice or rigid protocols, the series helps women reconnect with their own intuitive voice. The rituals and reflective prompts guide participants to trust the innate intelligence of their bodies—something that’s often overlooked or undervalued in today’s birth culture.
Celebrating the Feminine Mystique
The course is built on a reverence for the mystical and magical aspects of the feminine experience. It speaks to the heart of what it means to create life, celebrating the feminine body as a powerful vessel for creation, transformation, and spiritual growth.
Focus on Emotional & Spiritual Growth
Unlike many birth courses that emphasize physical preparation, The Spirit of Birth digs deeper, exploring the emotional and spiritual journey of becoming a mother. It honors pregnancy as a rite of passage, offering rituals that nurture not just the body but the soul. This holistic focus supports women in reclaiming their personal power, helping them feel confident and spiritually aligned as they move through this transformative period.
A Return to Self-Expertise
Designed for women seeking to break free from the external pressures and "shoulds" of pregnancy and motherhood, this course is a powerful invitation to embrace self-expertise. Instead of relying on outside opinions, women are encouraged to explore their own knowledge, instincts, and truths. It helps clear away the noise and empowers participants to make decisions from a place of confidence and self-awareness.
Rituals That Honor Feminine Cycles
Each session is a journey through the feminine cycles of change—Severance, Threshold, and Incorporation—mirroring the natural rhythms of life, birth, and transformation. These rituals invite women to harness their feminine power, guiding them through letting go of old identities, stepping into the unknown, and fully embodying their new role as mothers.
Reflection and Integration
Through writing prompts and guided reflections, participants can process their emotions, thoughts, and experiences. This reflection deepens their understanding of the shifts they’re going through, empowering them to integrate these changes with intention and grace.
About me, Demitra
My name is Demitra Carter, and I’ve been drawn to birth and motherhood support roles since I was 23 years old. One of the pivotal moments that set me on this path was witnessing a dear sister in a tipi, breastfeeding her child while tending to others and holding space through the night. That moment awakened a vision of what’s possible in the village way of raising children—a vision of deeply connected, communal care. I also saw the necessity of tending to ourselves as we raise our children, recognizing how essential it is to nurture whole, stable families for the well-being of present and future generations.
This realization guided me further down the ceremonial path, where I became a dedicated student of space-holding for mothers and families. My work has always centered on rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony, as these are the anchors of my beliefs and offerings. However, it wasn’t until I became a mother in 2019 that I truly embodied the wisdom I had learned from my mentors and sisters who became mothers before me.
Between then and now, I’ve explored countless ways to serve my deep-rooted prayer: that all mothers are held—not just by their loved ones but by themselves—on this profound journey of motherhood. My journey has included:
- Childbirth preparations with local and distant families,
- Birth and postpartum care rooted in traditional principles,
- Prenatal massage,
- And my own transformative experiences of birthing two children, with my second pregnancy involving profound inner work.
These experiences have culminated in a unique offering that feels like a channel for a message meant to be shared: the power of honoring birth as a rite of passage and motherhood as a sacred journey.
I want to take a moment to honor my teachers, T’Karima Ticitl and Whapio Diane Bartlett. These extraordinary midwives, birth keepers, and wisdom-holders have paved the way for me as a birth worker. Through their generous teachings in traditional and holistic wisdom, they helped me refine and trust my intuitive knowing in the realm of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care.
I also want to thank my children for trusting me to be their mother and for guiding me into the depths of birth as a rite of passage. Lastly, I am deeply grateful to my husband, Phil Gomez, for his unwavering belief in the feminine and for always lifting me higher than I ever imagined possible.