Frequently asked Questions

The Sacred Birth Path Training is for anyone who feels called to deepen their understanding of birth and support families through one of life's most transformative experiences.
Whether you're dreaming of becoming a doula, expanding your skills as a birth professional, preparing to support loved ones, or simply feeling drawn to birth work, this training offers a comprehensive and inspiring foundation.
At its core, you'll receive a complete doula education that prepares you to confidently beginyour journey as a professional birth doula. Beyond the essential skills and knowledge foundin a standard doula training, you'll also explore holistic, creative, and intuitive approaches that allow you to support birth with greater presence, confidence, and compassion in a variety of settings.
For those considering midwifery but not ready for the significant time or financial commitment of a full midwifery program, Sacred Birth Path offers an accessible, in-depthpathway into birth work—one that provides a strong educational foundation while honoring the emotional, physical, spiritual, and relational aspects of birth.
Whether your goal is to launch a fulfilling career as a doula, enrich your existing practice, or simply answer a calling to serve, Sacred Birth Path equips you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to walk alongside families with skill, heart, and purpose.
‘Sacred birth’ refers to the profound nature of instinctual birthing and the inspiring energy present when a new child is peacefully born into our world, it is not specifically religious but deeply universal.
A Birth Keeper is a doula, a midwife, or anyone with birth knowledge, training, & respect for the sacredness of birth, who encourages mothers to trust their bodies and supports women to feel safe & empowered.
Yes, you will have more than enough knowledge to begin practicing as a doula when you complete this course.
You will also have an understanding beyond what most doulas receive in their training, that is why we use the term Birth Keeper instead of doula.

As you begin to attend births, it is always recommended to have mentorship as well as a peer review process with another experienced birth keeper for the first 3 births you attend.
Once you complete our Sacred Birth Keeper course, you have 1 year to choose to earn our Birth Keeper Certification
This is a separate fee of $333 and includes completing:
Required reading of 3 books from our booklist such as:
Heart and Hands by Elizabeth Davis, Ancient Map for Modern Birth by Pam England, & Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin.
Completing 3 writing assignments on a topic of your choice from one of our course modules. expressing your passion and plan in birth work moving forward, and a list of birth and post partum resources in your community.
And a personal call with Hope Medford to assess your mastery of the course work and consultation for your next steps as a birth keeper. .
Then, You will receive our digital, downloadable badge of certification to share proof of your training and accomplishment.
Our course is a much deeper dive into the feminine, creative, holistic, aspects of birth and is more than twice as long, so there is room for a more expansive educational experience.
The DONA curriculum places a larger focus on preparing for hospital birth, and understanding medical procedures than on out-of-hospital birth options.
Sacred Birth Path courses cover all in and out-of-hospital birth options, yet the focus is clearly rooted in understanding the natural physiology of birth rather than medical interventions.
Our program is unique, because we honor the feminine approach to education as well as birth. It is intrinsic in how we work!
We nurture an inclusive learning environment, co-creating with each student who joins our community.
Our approach is holistic, engaging body, mind, and spirit with diverse educational experiences such as sound, voice, touch, movement, and journaling to keep learning interesting and to truly achieve sustainable transformational change for our students.
And, as well as graduating with a balanced understanding of pregnancy and birth, our students are engaged in their own self reflection, which enables them to expand their capacity for compassionate care giving.
Yes! You will step forward from our course with the tools and understanding to be an effective birth worker, as well as having a strong foundation for fertility awareness, yoni care, postpartum care, breastfeeding, and more.
Yes! definitely! This course is a juicy foundation to all further birth study. Its unique creative and immersive educational approach defiantly offer some perspectives that will fully support yet not be covered in your midwifery studies.
Also, the Birth Keepers Course will bring you on a journey of self-discovery that is essential to prepare you to confidently step into a birth room, and which will fully benefit you if you go on to become. a midwife.
Respecting the power of birth and honoring the authentic journey of each family is at the core of our philosophy at Sacred Birth Path. We strive to create a space that promotes education, values diversity, and fosters empowerment.
Our mission is to grow a global community of birth keepers and mamas deeply rooted in a physiologically based, holistic, and feminine approach to birth.
To support the paradigm shift of modern birth from the prevalent fear-based, sterile, over-medicalized experience, to honoring, advocating for, and protecting a woman’s authentic birth process.
To make a positive impact on the health and well-being of families around the globe.
ONLINE- It is a self paced course with LIVE class calls you have access to for 9 months!.
Certification- You will have 1 year after completing our course to complete the extra reading, writing, and coursework if you choose to earn our Birth Keeper Certification.
No worries, all classes and group calls are recorded and available to you for 6 months.
Yes! We love making our program accessible, we are happy to set up a payment plan for you, automatically as you check out!
But sorry, no refunds.