HI THERE!

I'm Janalee and I'm the biggest motherlover of them all.

I get asked all the time,
"Why did you become a doula? How did you end up doing this kind of thing?"

​and it's been quite the wild ride, that's for sure..

But there's nothing else in the world that means more to me than doing this work.

Born + raised in Brampton and a proud Laurier Golden Hawk, I somehow found myself in Peru three days after writing the last exam of my undergrad -- 
I decided I was going to eat seafood, surf and soak up the sun for a year.

Four years later I was working full-time as a middle + high school teacher in Venezuela and had opened up my own yoga studio;
​I found my place in the world.

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Power yoga classes were full and there was wild demand for prenatal yoga too.
​Classes were full, business was booming, and everyone was happy.
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Soon after offering prenatal yoga though, I desperately wanted to learn more and be better because when I connected with the new mothers following their birth, they either said, "My birth was awful," or "My birth was amazing."
I thought being a better prenatal yoga teacher would help them have consistently better births.

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So I flew to Vancouver to take a prenatal yoga course over summer break and I met a doula.
And I couldn't believe that this was a thing.

I instantly knew becoming a doula was the next piece of my puzzle.

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​"My birth was awful," or "My birth was amazing," I could hear them say.
And regardless how the birth went, the next line was always,
"I wish you would have been there."

Fast forward a few years, and here I am.

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A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME

         If I'm not with a client or at a birth,
         ​I'm training for my next competition.

​And if I'm not training, I'm probably dancing my heart out in my living room.

And if I'm not doing any of those,
​I hope I'm on a beach somewhere.

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READY TO MEET ME FOR REAL? BOOK IN A CHAT HERE

COURSES + CREDENTIALS

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Most doula trainings (DONA, CAPPA, Bebo Mia) etc. are a three-day in-person weekend course with about 24 contact hours; in June of 2017 after one of those weekend classes I became certified + registered with the Association of Ontario Doulas.

Then I spent a week of July 2017 in NYC studying with the bad-ass, radical doulas of Carriage House Birth + became certified through them.
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Then I packed up and moved to Victoria, BC for a four-month, full-time holistic doula program -- the most comprehensive certification course out there. Herbal medicine, acupressure, lacation help, qi gong, doula ethics, aromatherapy, thai massage, rebozo use, family support, trauma training --
​You named it, I studied it over those 270 hours.

I'm also a certified childbirth educator with Lamaze too!
Interested in taking classes that truly prepare you for whatever labour has in store?

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