Hi, I’m Lauren!
I’m Lauren Shields - a yogic and Ayurvedic full spectrum doula and mother of three.
I’ve supported over one hundred families as a birth and postpartum doula, and taught thousands of hours of prenatal and postpartum yoga since 2016.
I created Intentionally Embodied Birth because I’ve lived the experience of feeling disconnected to my body and my knowing during the pregnancy and postpartum transition. I’ve also learned how different it can feel when you’re grounded, supported, and present with yourself on your journey.
My care is based in yoga, Ayurvedic, and ancestral traditions and infused with my own personal touch. Your care is intentional, personalized, and designed to support you and your growing family every step of the way.
My birth philosophy:
Birth is sacred, it is a rite of passage for both parents and the baby(ies). Birth is the ceremony, postpartum the integration. The goal is not to merely survive the birth experience, but to witness deeply, who we are, and what we are capable of as women, as humans. I approach birth utilizing mindfulness and movement as tools to prepare, process and heal though this journey. We must not only connect deeply to the body but truly embody the wisdom of the divine feminine surrendering, flowing, and maturing into the wise mother.
Offerings
Total Price: $2100 (50% nonrefundable deposit of $1050 due to secure services. Balance due at 36 weeks or prior to doula attending birth, whichever happens first.)
Package includes:
-Text/Phone Support Upon Paid Deposit
-One hour Prenatal Visit: prepare your birth plan, discuss options, desires, and concerns.
-One hour Prenatal Visit: Couple or Single Energy, Breath, Movement work session to prepare you for your sacred transition.
-Labor Support: in-person starting at active labor, up to 15 hours.
-Postpartum Support: up to 2 hours post birth to assist with first latch, processing, clean up, and taking photos of your new family.
-One hour Postpartum Visit: home visit to reflect on birth, assist with postpartum healing, organization, and any other concern. Doula who attends the birth will attend postpartum visit. The doula who attends your birth with perform first postpartum visit within 1 week of birth.
SESSION 1: Getting to Know YOU. We identify YOUR constitutional type, your specific fears, your birth vision and your postpartum needs. Your unique starting point—not generic advice. SESSION 2: Building YOUR Essential Birth Plan Week-by-week roadmap to your birth. Understanding your preferences and how to communicate them. Practices to prepare for both you and your partner. Key nourishment. Affirmations for late pregnancy and birth. What matters most for YOUR experience. SESSION 3: Building YOUR Essential Postpartum Plan Week-by-week roadmap. What to expect. Key nourishment. How to support your partner. What matters most for YOUR recovery.
PLUS: Email support between calls for quick questions.
Five personalized sessions where we build YOUR complete postpartum plan—customized for YOUR body, YOUR constitution, and YOUR specific postpartum journey.
Five personalized sessions where we build YOUR complete both birth + postpartum plan—customized for YOUR body, YOUR constitution, and YOUR specific journey.
What you'll actually get:
SESSION 1: Getting to Know YOU. We identify YOUR constitutional type, your birth vision, your specific fears, and your unique postpartum needs. Not generic advice. Your specific starting point.SESSION 2: Your Ayurvedic Postpartum Pantry + Herbal Protocols. Exactly what to buy, when to buy it, and why it matters for YOUR body. Grounding foods, healing herbs, spices that support YOUR constitution. You'll have a prepared pantry before postpartum hits. Plus herbal protocols customized for your needs. SESSION 3: Breath Work and Nervous System Regulation Techniques. Learn the breath work that grounds Vata and supports confidence + healing. You'll get a personalized oil blend and daily grounding rituals that reconnect you to your body. SESSION 4: Your Personalized Birth + Postpartum Plan. A complete birth plan ready to print and share with birth team, with language to help you best advocate for your needs. Week-by-week roadmap to your birth. Understanding your preferences and how to communicate them. Practices to prepare for both you and your partner. Key nourishment. Affirmations for late pregnancy and birth. A complete personalized postpartum plan utilizing the Postpartum Planning Kit, and specific week-by-week roadmap for healing, rest, and integration in the first 40 days. SESSION 5: Partnership, Integration + Emotional Support. What your partner needs to know. How to communicate what you need. Managing emotional shifts. Identity integration. Grounding practices for anxiety. How to stay yourself while becoming a mother. PLUS: Email support between calls for quick questions.
This is the deepest level of preparation. Eight personalized sessions where we build your complete Yogia and Ayurvedic birth + postpartum protocol—customized for YOUR body, YOUR constitution, and YOUR child birthing journey.
What you'll actually get:
SESSION 1: Your Pregnancy and Postpartum Foundation
We identify YOUR constitutional type, birth vision, and specific birth + postpartum needs.
Not generic advice. Your specific plan.
SESSION 2: Your Personalized Birth + Postpartum Plan
A complete birth plan ready to print and share with birth team, with language to help you best advocate for your needs. Week-by-week roadmap to your birth.
Understanding your preferences and how to communicate them. Practices to prepare for both you and your partner. Key nourishment. Affirmations for late pregnancy and
birth.
SESSION 3: Your Ayurvedic Postpartum Pantry
Exactly what to buy, when to buy it, and why it matters. Grounding foods, healing herbs,
spices that support YOUR body. You'll have a prepared pantry before postpartum hits.
SESSION 4: Prenatal Yoga Class
Explore a prenatal yoga class tailored to your specific needs and goals. Learn movement, breath work and relaxation techniques to support your pregnancy and
birth by grounding you into your body wisdom. All levels, including beginners, benefit from this movement.
SESSION 5: Partnership, Integration + Emotional Support
What your partner needs to know. How to communicate what you need. Managing emotional
shifts. Identity integration. Grounding practices for anxiety. How to stay yourself
while becoming a mother.
SESSION 6: Breath Work and Nervous System Regulation Techniques
Learn the breath work that grounds Vata and supports confidence +
healing. You'll get a personalized oil blend and daily grounding rituals that reconnect
you to your body.
SESSION 7: Postpartum Recovery + Pilates Foundations
Step-by-step Pilates progression for early postpartum recovery. Plus, pelvic floor awareness, abdominal restoration,
and how to rebuild your body safely.
SESSION 8: Integration + Long-Term Support
How you're actually doing. What's working. What needs adjusting. How to transition
from intensive postpartum care to sustainable, lifelong nourishment practices.
PLUS: Full email support between all calls for quick questions.
This package includes:
two-hour prenatal planning and organizing session
36 postpartum hours (ideally for the first week after birth), three sessions, four hours each
includes all meals, snacks, herbal tea blends, herbal sitz bath tea, and warming massage oil
Doula provided in home services for families post birth designed to nurture, support, organize, and comfort the birthing person and their family.
A postpartum doula supports a family in the transition of welcoming a new baby. A postpartum doula does:
2 meals per visit, snacks, and herbal teas for the week
Guided breath work and gentle yoga/pilates movement appropriate for the postpartum body.
Healing modalities for birthing parent: nurturing touch for sore shoulders and feet, herbal sitz bath
Empower the new parents by helping them to feel balanced, rested and supported to be the parents they want to be to their baby
Keep everyone fed and well hydrated
Advise the family on how to make the most of the support they have on offer
Help to process the experience of giving birth regardless of whether it went “as planned”
Provide breastfeeding support: getting a good latch, various positions, advice on what is “normal”, tracking diapers, identifying possible serious issues and provide appropriate referrals
Making healthy snacks to the parents while nursing and help advise on healthy breastfeeding nutrition and self-care
Help set up nursing stations and diaper changing areas throughout the home
Home organization and functional flow of space to support parenting
Offer evidence-based advice on a range of normal newborn care issues
Give a great foot rub
Assist with the learning of baby carriers
Help the family get rest
Prepare meals and tidy up the home
Help the partner find practical ways to support the birthing person
Set up meal trains
Sibling care and transition for families welcoming a second child
Helping to run errands or accompanying the family to the pediatrician or other appointments
Referrals to specialists in areas of need that present themselves whether it be support groups, therapists, acupuncturists, babysitters, pediatricians, community events, household services, classes etc
Phone and text support
At least 2 hours must be used for prenatal meeting in home to prepare the family and doula for the postpartum transition.
Postpartum visits must are completed in 4 hours in sessions.
These hours do not include overnight hours.
Services/hours expire 6 months post birth.
Deposit or Paid in Full must be purchased to reserve your spot on our schedule. Remaining balance due at 38 weeks gestation or prior to first postpartum service.
*Deposit is nonrefundable.
In this three-hour session, Lauren will come to your home, and work out your postpartum plan with you. This includes organizing your nursing/diaper stations, pantry, freezer, and more. Lauren provide education on postpartum healing practice and observations, as well has help you to develop a plan for visitors and support. This session can be designed to meet your specific postpartum needs.
This package includes:
two-hour prenatal planning and organizing session
24 postpartum hours, three sessions, four hours each
includes all meals, snacks, herbal tea blends, herbal sitz bath tea, and warming massage oil
Doula provided in home services for families post birth designed to nurture, support, organize, and comfort the birthing person and their family.
A postpartum doula supports a family in the transition of welcoming a new baby. A postpartum doula does:
2 meals per visit, snacks, and herbal teas for the week
Guided breath work and gentle yoga/pilates movement appropriate for the postpartum body.
Healing modalities for birthing parent: nurturing touch for sore shoulders and feet, herbal sitz bath
Empower the new parents by helping them to feel balanced, rested and supported to be the parents they want to be to their baby
Keep everyone fed and well hydrated
Advise the family on how to make the most of the support they have on offer
Help to process the experience of giving birth regardless of whether it went “as planned”
Provide breastfeeding support: getting a good latch, various positions, advice on what is “normal”, tracking diapers, identifying possible serious issues and provide appropriate referrals
Making healthy snacks to the parents while nursing and help advise on healthy breastfeeding nutrition and self care
Help set up nursing stations and diaper changing areas throughout the home
Home organization and functional flow of space to support parenting
Offer evidence based advice on a range of normal newborn care issues
Give a great foot rub
Assist with the learning of baby carriers
Help the family get rest
Prepare meals and tidy up the home
Help the partner find practical ways to support the birthing person
Set up meal trains
Sibling care and transition for families welcoming a second child
Helping to run errands or accompanying the family to the pediatrician or other appointments
Referrals to specialists in areas of need that present themselves whether it be support groups, therapists, acupuncturists, babysitters, pediatricians, community events, household services, classes etc
Phone and text support
At least 2 hours must be used for prenatal meeting in home to prepare the family and doula for the postpartum transition.
Postpartum visits must are completed in 4 hours in sessions.
These hours do not include overnight hours.
Services/hours expire 6 months post birth.
Deposit or Paid in Full must be purchased to reserve your spot on our schedule. Remaining balance due at 38 weeks gestation or prior to first postpartum service.
*Deposit is nonrefundable.
This package includes:
two-hour prenatal planning and organizing session
12 postpartum hours (ideally for the first week after birth), three sessions, four hours each
includes all meals, snacks, herbal tea blends, herbal sitz bath tea, and warming massage oil
Doula provided in home services for families post birth designed to nurture, support, organize, and comfort the birthing person and their family.
A postpartum doula supports a family in the transition of welcoming a new baby. A postpartum doula does:
2 meals per visit, snacks, and herbal teas for the week
Guided breath work and gentle yoga/pilates movement appropriate for the postpartum body.
Healing modalities for birthing parent: nurturing touch for sore shoulders and feet, herbal sitz bath
Empower the new parents by helping them to feel balanced, rested and supported to be the parents they want to be to their baby
Keep everyone fed and well hydrated
Advise the family on how to make the most of the support they have on offer
Help to process the experience of giving birth regardless of whether it went “as planned”
Provide breastfeeding support: getting a good latch, various positions, advice on what is “normal”, tracking diapers, identifying possible serious issues and provide appropriate referrals
Making healthy snacks to the parents while nursing and help advise on healthy breastfeeding nutrition and self care
Help set up nursing stations and diaper changing areas throughout the home
Home organization and functional flow of space to support parenting
Offer evidence based advice on a range of normal newborn care issues
Give a great foot rub
Assist with the learning of baby carriers
Help the family get rest
Prepare meals and tidy up the home
Help the partner find practical ways to support the birthing person
Set up meal trains
Sibling care and transition for families welcoming a second child
Helping to run errands or accompanying the family to the pediatrician or other appointments
Referrals to specialists in areas of need that present themselves whether it be support groups, therapists, acupuncturists, babysitters, pediatricians, community events, household services, classes etc
Phone and text support
At least 2 hours must be used for prenatal meeting in home to prepare the family and doula for the postpartum transition.
Postpartum visits must are completed in 4 hours in sessions.
These hours do not include overnight hours.
Services/hours expire 6 months post birth.
Deposit or Paid in Full must be purchased to reserve your spot on our schedule. Remaining balance due at 38 weeks gestation or prior to first postpartum service.
*Deposit is nonrefundable.
This three-hours in-person birth prep with Lauren Shields, doula with 10 years’ experience and 100 births attended, is held in her home studio, The Mutha Den, and covers:
Physiological Birth
Comfort Measures
Labor and Pushing Positions
Understanding Interventions
Writing Your Birth Plan
Communicating with Medical Providers
Planning for Postpartum
includes take home birth guidebook you can take with you to birth.
Once purchased, you will receive a call to schedule your session.
This ancestral ceremony is a physical and spiritual way of honoring, acknowledging, and closing the birth portal and early postpartum journey. Widely used by a multitude of cultures around the world, this ceremony is performed in the home, and includes belly massage, energy work, and wrapping of the body using scarves. We’ll start with an herbal foot soak, while checking in and sharing your birth/postpartum story. You’ll then lie down on a prepared space on the floor, where Lauren will perform belly massage with oil to support organ health and the return of energy to the mother’s creative center. This massage includes the use of herbs to warm the womb and belly. Next, we’ll find alignment and a light stretch through the entire body as we begin wrapping the body starting at the feet. Gentle sound bowls and aromatherapy will be offered as mams rests in her cocoon. After the ceremony, cacao is shared with the entire family to close the circle.
Ceremony takes about 2-3 hours and take place in Lauren’s home studio, The Mutha Den.
Family is welcome to attend and assist with wrapping and childcare.
Once purchased, you will receive a phone call from Lauren to schedule.
Mother Blessing Ceremony is a celebration of the sacred rite of passage that is birth and postpartum. This three (3) hour group session honors the mother’s journey through ritual, circle, and connection. Each ceremony is designed specifically to the mother’s desire, but may include:
cacao ceremony
oracle card pulls
guided sharing in circle
creation of affirmation cards
herbal foot soak for the mother
written love notes for postpartum
beaded bracelet for the mother
nurturing touch from the circle to the mother
assistance writing your invitation
No food or drinks will be supplied by the facilitator. Space limited to 15 people or less.
Price $400 ($150 deposit due upon scheduling, balance due the day of the ceremony)
In this six-month program, you’ll have an opportunity to develop your niche, problem-solve for new offerings, get focused and aligned with your true purpose, and synthesize your vision into reality. Private sessions with Lauren Shields, are designed to meet your specific needs, goals, and vision for your wellness business. This program is for birth workers, yoga teachers, or studio owners.
Session Includes:
12 Bimonthly 60 minute 1:1 virtual calls with Lauren
Topics may include, but not limited to:
ethics and decolonizing your practice
branding
finding your niche
contracts and boundaries
pricing your offerings
self-care and spiritual hygiene
holding community
shadow work
building workshops
growing your offerings
working with private clients
building partnerships
so much more!
All virtual calls will be recorded and accessible within 24 hours after the session.
FULL PRICE $888
The postpartum body deserves movement training specifically designed to bring strength, repair, and awareness back after birth. In this package, you receive eight (8) sessions, each one curated to your needs utilizing yoga asana, breathwork, mat Pilates, and reformer Pilates. Babies are welcome in all sessions.
This program will prepare to get back to your favorite pre-pregnancy workouts feeling stronger and confident in your body and movement.
Sessions focus on:
exploring the post birth body
reconnecting to pelvic floor and lower abdominals
abdominal strengthening and reintegration
back strength and mobility
pelvic floor strength, mobility, stability
nervous system regulation through meditation and breath work
back and hamstring flexibility
relieving back pain through flexibility and mobilization techniques
All sessions are held at The Mutha Den, virtual sessions also available.
Access to Intentionally Embodied Birth library of on demand yoga, Pilates, and barre classes.
Once you purchase, you will receive a call to schedule and get started!
Expires 12 moths after purchase
Instead of just telling our pregnant student to “listen to their body,” can we, as yoga teachers, offer more specific and nurturing guidance that feels fluid to both us and the student?
Guiding the Birthing Body is written for yoga teachers, fitness trainer, and anyone who desire more tools and knowledge when pregnant and postpartum students walk into their general yoga classes.
This book offers you important information on your students’ needs physically, emotionally and energetically trimester by trimester. You’ll find anatomy and changes to the body and function with each trimester, essential guidelines and modifications, easy transitions, and affirmations to support your students with presence and integrity. Explore the Eight Limbs of Yoga as they apply to the childbearing journey, how to hold mothers and birthing people with compassion and awareness, and a guide to connect with birth professionals in your area.
***Customers receive a secure link to the file lasting 24 hours after the first download.
This birth planning book is designed for every mother, birther, or birth worker who wants to enhance the pregnancy and birth experience through knowledge and nourishing practices. Birth is not a master test that you need to learn every bit of information and remember perfectly in order to have a beautiful experience. It is an initiation into learning yourself more deeply: your energy, your body, your boundaries, your dreams, and practicing living in that truth and wisdom. My intention is to give you framework to guide you through the process of preparing for your birth as a sacred rite of passage for you, your partner, and your baby.
PDF Digital Download available up to 24 hours after purchase.
40 pages
Although postpartum is forever, this planning kit has been designed with love to help you prepare your home, your family, and expectations for the first 40 days post birth. Inside, you'll find printable worksheets for resources and organization of your life and home. I recommend that you begin preparing while you are still pregnant, as you'll have so much other work to do healing and bonding once baby arrives. It’s a great idea to sit down with your support system to review expectations so everyone is ready for action without you having to do the mental work of delegating tasks.
This kit is solely focused on care of the birthing person and does not cover newborn/infant care. This is intentional as one may find many resources on caring for baby, but very few as it pertains to healing + support for the birthing person.
PDF Digital Download available up to 24 hours after purchase.
36 pages
including printable worksheets and affirmation cards
Not sure where to start?
Let’s chat! Book a consultation with me, and we can discuss the services that best fits your needs.
Booking a virtual consultation gives us space and time to get to know each other and help me to understand your personal needs.
