Lotus Fertility combines a Yoga & Midwifery approach to the arts of women's health & self-healing. Preconception, Prenatal, and Postpartum Yoga classes and consultations, as well as full range Doula services. Mary Ceallaigh is a Kundalini Yoga teacher and Doula.

Intuitive Doula services for Labor & Birth are provided on a case-by-case basis, and consist of a "Continuum of Care" that includes:

3 Prenatal Sessions in your home,

On call late pregnancy support,

Home Labor doula care,

and continuous care through Birth to several hours Postpartum, with a one-week Postpartum follow-up visit.

The services as a package contribute to creating a therapeutic relationship.

Mary also offers independent full-range Postpartum Doula services for families who are not L & B clients, including a 40 Day services package. Postpartum care includes specific nutritional counseling, whole foods cooking, and light housekeeping.

Please go to www.LotusFertility.com, "Services" page for detailed descriptions of Intuitive Doula services and Women's Yoga classes.

My great-grandmother was a traditional Midwife, and like many folks, I am proud to have midwifery in my heritage.



I have 15 years of life experience as an Intuitive Doula and Midwifery Assistant, attending births in homes & institutional environments, throughout the course of my own personal development.

My self-healing Midwifery apprenticeship over these years has resulted in a repertoire of knowledge through working with diverse clients throughout the childbearing cycle, inter-disciplinary research, assisting midwives, birth activism, and last but not least, receiving the stories that women seem to spontaneously share with me once they learn of my vocation.

In recent years, my focus around birth has turned towards more Preconception and Prenatal work, facilitating the innate intuition of women clients, and the empowerment of couples' own intuitive wisdom when they are mutually and consciously committed.

YOGA BACKGROUND: I began Yoga studies in 1988 with Yogananda Kriya style, and continued with an occasional home practice of simple Hatha Yoga. I began Kundalini Yoga studies in 1998. I completed Kundalini Yoga training in 2003, and began a daily personal practice (Sadhana), which took my health & healing philosophy to a whole new level, and have also attended 5 days of WT intensives(a large group practice where Yogic postures are held for super-extended periods of time and enormous energy is moved). I LOVE practicing and teaching Yoga.

Some professional highlights:

Member, IKYTA(Int'l Kundalini Yoga Teachers Assn.) 2002 - Present

Member, IAYT (Int'l Association of Yoga Therapists) 2003 - Present

Member, Hygieia College, 1995 - Present

Typist: "Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth"

by Jeannine Parvati, published 2002

Co-Director, California Assn. of Midwives

"Midwifery & Childbirth Awareness Project" 1998-2000

Co-Author of NOW's 1999 "Resolution to Expand the Definition of Reproductive Rights to include Homebirth and the Midwifery Model of Care."

National Secretary, AIMS (Assn. for Improvement in Maternity Services), Steering Committee, Scotland 1996

Bachelor of Arts, Human Development,

Pacific Oaks College, 1991

Lotus Fertility honors the 7 energy centers of the Body-Mind, and the full bloom potential of human development within the Heart.



Lotus Fertility is deeply rooted in 4 ancient values of Yoga:

Ahimsa (non-violence)

Ananda (joyous fulfillment)

Moksha (emotional liberation) and

Rasayana (juiciness).

"The only time a mother truly teaches her child is when they are in the womb" - Yogi Bhajan.



KEY CONCEPTS:

"Birth begins before Conception."

"Lactation Begins Before Birth."

"Every Woman is her own Midwife. Intuition is an the Inner Teacher."

"Like the Lotus, We are Born to Bloom."

For more information:

www.LotusFertility.com

Local specialized women's Yoga classes & workshops as well as private Yoga coaching & consultations are ongoing, please contact Mary for more information on the Austin, Texas schedule.

Lotus Fertility phone and in-person consultations are available for booking usually within a week. Consultation fee is a minimum of $60/hour, minimum payment requested in order to book services.

Birth Doula services and Postpartum Doula services are further described and fees listed at my lengthy personal website: www.LotusFertility.com, "Services" page

Focus topics are diverse: Menstrual Health Restoration and Cycle Balance, Preconception Yoga & Healing Creativity, Prenatal Yoga,Abuse Recovery, Fertility Awareness, Healing Past Pregnancy/Relationship Losses & Negative Birth Experiences,Prenatal Bonding,Becoming a Mother: Dying to the Old Self,Yogic Birth: Lotus Birth, Instinctive/Ecstatic Birth Physiology,Empowerment of the Birth Partner,Postpartum Yoga

For women who feel they have an independent, vocational calling and also have completed higher education, apprenticeship, and/or formal healing arts training, Intuitive Doula training & mentorshiop is available to facilitate your path as a birthworker.Please go to www.lotusfertility.com, Trainings & Community page, to read the "Treatise on the Intuitive Doula" and find out more about application details. For Doulas who feel they are already practicing as an Intuitive Doula on a vocational path, and who are not attracted to, or want something more meaningful than what the minimum certification paradigm represents, please contact me to join the community list. Blessings!