Birth Foundations is a comprehensive, heart-centered birth education workshop designed to help you feel informed, confident, and supported as you prepare for birth and the postpartum season.

This is not about one “right” way to give birth.
It’s about understanding what truly shapes your experience, honoring your intuition, and making choices that align with your values  so you can enter birth feeling grounded rather than overwhelmed.

Whether you’re planning a home birth, birth center, or hospital birth, this workshop offers essential foundations that apply to every birthing mother.

What We’ll Cover

In this workshop, we’ll explore:

• Birth environment and support team shape 
• Working with pain, discomfort, and intensity 
• Your nervous system in labor and birth
• Fear: why it’s normal and how to meet it 
• Consent and boundaries
• The importance of postpartum planning 
• Advocate for yourself while staying flexible 
• Preparing emotionally for birth and motherhood

You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of your options, tools you can actually use, and a stronger sense of trust in yourself.

 Who This Workshop Is For

Birth Foundations is for women who want to approach birth feeling informed, grounded, and supported not rushed, fearful, or overwhelmed.

This workshop is especially supportive if you are:

Pregnant for the first time and unsure what to expect

Preparing for another birth and wanting a more empowered experience

Feeling curious, cautious, excited, or anxious about birth

Wanting education that honors both your intuition and your intellect

Seeking practical tools without fear-based messaging

Planning a home birth, birth center birth, or hospital birth

Wanting to feel more confident in making informed choices

Looking for guidance that includes postpartum preparation, not just labor and delivery

Hoping your partner or support person can feel more informed and involved

About the Facilitator

Amanda Alappat is devoted to the wellbeing of women, children, and families, offering grounded, heart-centered support across life’s most sacred transitions. She has been a birth doula for over ten years, supporting more than 50 births, and provides preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum care rooted in lived experience and embodied wisdom.

Amanda is the founder of Spark Nature, a forest school connecting children to nature while building life skills, collaboration, and a deep sense of belonging, and the stewardess of the Red Rose Temple, where she has been holding women’s circles and ceremonies for almost three years.

A former personal trainer and champion boxer, she is also a certified yoga teacher with pre- and postnatal training. Mother of three homebirthed children, breastfeeding for close to 100 months, devoted wife, and world traveler, Amanda also leads immersive women’s retreats centered on ritual, rest, emotional release, and transformation. Through all she offers, Amanda creates spaces where people feel seen, supported, and deeply held.

What You’ll Leave With

By the end of Birth Foundations, you won’t just have information — you’ll have integration.

You’ll leave with:

• Greater trust in your body and your inner knowing

• Clear language around consent, choice, and advocacy

• A deeper understanding of how to work with your nervous system

• Tools for meeting fear, pain, and uncertainty with steadiness

• A framework for postpartum planning that feels realistic and supportive

• A felt sense of preparedness not because everything is predictable, but because you are resourced

Most importantly, you’ll leave feeling more connected to yourself and more confident in your ability to navigate birth and early motherhood in a way that aligns with your values.

Sunday, January 25th

12-3pm 

Everlight Collective

612 Main Street, Stroudsburg, PA

Suite 216

$65 per woman

$100 per couple

Register below OR Venmo @amandaalappat 

How you give birth can influence how you recover, how you bond, and how you step into motherhood.
Being informed and supported is not a luxury — it’s foundational.