Explore how your birth imprint, rites of passage and Red Thread affect childbirth, and every creative endeavour you undertake.
Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy
What is Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy?
This is a one-day workshop for women who are PREGNANT or planning to be, for BIRTHWORKERS and birth keepers, and for people BIRTHING THEMSELVES & their lives in whatever form!
How do you birth?
What is your Birth Story?
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Reflect on your birth imprint and how it affects how you birth your life, your projects, your art, your babies and yourself
- Understand and nourish your fertility, embodiment and generative capacity
- Understand the current culture around birth and how to navigate it
- Let go of fears, anxiety and inner obstacles
- Journey deep within to meet your baby, soul babies, your Inner Goddess or your creative Self!
Why Birth?
Birth is our first Rite of Passage, and initiates us into our Self. It is the start of our life cycle, and therefore influences how we are in the world, every moment of every day.
So, how we choose to birth our children is of vital importance, a sacred experience that will influence the rest of their lives, and our own.
In this Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop, we reclaim Birth in all its forms, as the Rite of Passage into Motherhood: the moment when we step into our full creatrix power.
Whether you are birthing a human baby or supporting those who are, whether you are birthing a new version of yourself, a project or career or work of art, this workshop will help you understand your generative, birthing process as not just a physical transformation, but an emotional and spiritual one, as well.
In this workshop, we learn from each other’s stories, reframing birth as a normal, natural and healthy process in which we can trust.
By bringing consciousness to the birth process – our own and those of our children – we deepen our understanding of ourselves. We look for these themes and patterns playing out in our lives, and from this position of awareness, we have the opportunity to reframe our experience and learn the lessons we need to learn in order to empower ourselves in the future.
“The Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop invites women into a deeper understanding of the sacred and transformational nature of pregnancy, birth and our generative creative energy.”
Jane Hardwicke CollingsFounder
Workshop Structure
- 1. Safe Space
- 2. Birth as a Rite of Passage
- 3. Letting Go of Fear Ritual
- 4. Meet Your Baby/Creation/Self!
The Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop begins with the creation of a safe container – a cauldron of love and intimacy to hold us throughout the day.
We hold each other and listen with the ears of our heart to our sisters and ourselves speaking. We pool our embodied wisdom.
In this sacred space we allow ourselves to feel our feelings and be with whatever is arising, offering compassion and love to ourselves and each other, as we share and reflect on the various faces of our birth experience.
The major theme running through the day is birth, and we reflect on how and why birth has become so medicalised and for so many, traumatising. We look to feminine birthing wisdom, what has been lost and what is being reclaimed.
We reinstate birth as a powerful, trustworthy and natural rite of passage.
Our own Birth is the beginning of our life cycle and is thus a powerful imprint or story of how we do creativity, and birth things in the world.
In this Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshop, we bring consciousness to our own birth story and the births of any children and projects.
We identify patterns and themes through self-reflection, sharing in pairs, and sharing in circle (and of course, all of these processes are entirely invitational and voluntary).
In undertaking this important work, we open ourselves to new possibilities and clear the way for our inherent and abundant creativity.
In current society, we are taught to fear birth, and to mistrust our own body’s wisdom and knowing. This generates fears around the birthing process and our own capacity to bring our children/projects/selves into the world.
Within the loving container of our workshop circle, with consciousness of our own birth stories and all we bring to birth from our red thread/mother line, we acknowledge our own fears and the fears around us.
We dig deeper here and uncover the beliefs we have that enable that enable these fears and begin the process of examining these beliefs. We ask of ourselves, do we even believe the belief required to have these fears?
We co-create a beautiful ritual to release these fears, and to once again trust our body’s capacity to birth.
We reclaim our feminine wisdom and intuitive knowing.
Drum Journey
The drum is a powerful tool and you can travel via the drum beat to the deep pools of wisdom within and without. In this drum journey you connect with your baby in your womb, your soul baby (babies you have ‘lost’ or who are yet to come) or your inner goddess/ shaman. Birth is a collaborative effort!
Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy Teachers
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
Jane was a Registered Practising Homebirth Midwife for 32 years (1984–2016) in the NSW Health System, Australia.
SSW teacher, Workshop Teacher, Earth Woman Mentor, NonLinear Movement and Wild Woman Facilitator, Astrologer , Transformational Coaching.
I am a Mother, Grandmother and a lover of the ocean and wild nature.
I facilitate rites of passage, circles, and workshops for women — weaving together archetype work, embodiment, somatic and shamanic practices into a living, breathing container for transformation. I also offer Soul Journeying with the Divine Feminine through astrology using the language of archetypes to illuminate your unique path.
My work is grounded in the wild, the sacred, and the cyclical — honouring the natural rhythms of a woman’s life and the deep wisdom that lives there. Whether you are in a season of transition, awakening, or simply longing to come home to yourself, this work meets you where you are.
I work with groups and privately in 1:1 sessions.
At the heart of my work is a passionate belief that every woman deserves to know her ecstatic birthright — and to live her fullest, most radiant potential.
Born Kristan Lee Read in 1969 by the Brisbane River, Kristan spent her childhood travelling the globe.
Her early childhood years campervanning around Europe, her primary school years on Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) and adventures in boarding school on the Gold Coast. A move to the USA meant high school in both the Midwest, Indiana and Northwest of America, Seattle and University in the deep South, Atlanta! In 1994, she wove her way home.
Kristan completed her training as a Steiner Teacher in 2000, her training as a Holistic Remedial Educator the following year and her Bachelor of Education in 2003.
In 2024, Kristan completed her Masters in Social Work.
In 2010, Kristan began her Four Seasons Journey with The School of Shamanic Womancraft and then went on to apprentice, intern and become a teacher of the program, graduating in 2016. In 2019 Kristan co-taught her first Four Seasons Journey in the Blue Mountains and is a Facilitator of the online course, Earth Woman, offered by the School.
Kristan has completed her training as a teacher and facilitator of the one day workshops offered by the school, Moonsong, Becoming a Woman, The Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest Queen.
In 2013, in collaboration with Jane Hardwicke Collings, they developed Project Pomegranate, a project that began with the intention of reframing Eating Disorders as another symptom of the wounded Feminine of the Patriarchal Culture and offer a ceremony for healing.
Kristan has participated and presented at festivals and conferences within Australia and Internationally. Her work has been published in the Squat Birth Journal, BettyMag, Birth Matters and Midirs.
Kristan is a founding member of the Huon Women’s Health Collective, on mission to support the women of Southern Tasmania to thrive. She offers her support to the Cygnet community through regular Social Work Support Sessions and Women’s Circles.
Kristan shares her work in the wider community and globally, one-on-one, through the modality of Shamanic Womancraft, both in person and online.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Transpersonal Art Therapist • Menstrual educator • Yoga Teacher • Birth Keeper
I am a Mage Woman, a Grandmother, a Birth & Earth Keeper, an Educator of Women’s Sacred Blood Mysteries, Ceremonialist, Medicine Woman, Visionary and Community Weaver.
I teach BodyMindSpirit awareness and healing pathways through Yoga, Transpersonal Art Therapy & Women’s Blood Mysteries.
I offer workshops, circles and modalities that support wellbeing & womb wellness throughout the transitions of menarche, pregnancy, birth, menopause and beyond.
It brings me great joy to introduce girls and women to the power of the menstrual cycle so they learn to trust the wisdom of their amazing bodies, practice more self care and arrive at the ‘Altar’ of each life transition more prepared for the gifts that await them.
I hold space for ceremonies that honour and celebrate these Rites Of Passage, Sacred Marriage and Seasonal Sabbat Gatherings
It was she the girl within… who stood alone…. at the sacred altars of womanhood that led me on this quest to remember, rewild and restore, so that I may share what I that I have learned.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
- The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
- Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
- Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
- Journey to Avalon Immersion
- Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
- Frame Drum journey work
- Student Midwife Support Circles
- Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft • Workshop Teacher • Artist • Mother • tarot reader
Angel Goulter Randall is a Shamanic Birth Worker and Craftswoman. Having personal experience birthing both within the medical system and free birthing at home, she is fiercely passionate about women’s rights to birth where, how and with whomever they choose.
She is a mother to 5 children and part time foster carer to others.
Angel is a crafter of many ceremony and medicine tools including Drums, Rattles, Shakers, Talking Bowls, Medicine Pouches, Fans, Crafted Totems and other Altar Pieces.
Since joining the school in 2018, Angel has found herself at home amongst the healed sisterhood and sitting in circle with other awakening witches is what really lights her up inside.
She is also a tarot reader, toy maker and lover of all things natural, cyclical and magical.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner • Workshop Teacher • Birth and Postpartum Doula
Heidi is a Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner, an experienced Birth and Postpartum Doula, a Mother of three young children and a Naturopath. She believes passionately in the huge value that empowered births can create for women and their families.
Heidi began her career in 2005 as a Naturopath and began an early focus on women and children’s health. As she began her own family and raised her children Heidi studied with the School Shamanic Womancraft which inspired her to train to become a Doula and then further her studies with the school to become a. Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner.
As a Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner, Heidi offers 2hr sessions to women of all ages. During these sessions, she guides the participant to explore their own birth imprint, rites of passage and inherited patterning from their red thread (mother line), along with the wisdom they have gained from significant milestones/ births in their adult life. With this information, an empowered way forward is woven, to step into the future.
Heidi is passionate supporting women through the profound rite of passage of birth and motherhood. She offers in-person support throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Australia. Heidi supports birth at home or in hospital, and in any range of family circumstances. Heidi also offers birth debriefs, both online and in person.
Heidi loves spending time with her partner and three children on their small acreage. She enjoys riding and spending time with their horses, a home cooked nutritious meal with friends, or swimming in the ocean and generally being in nature.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner • Becoming a Woman Facilitator • Doula • Menstrual Educator
Fiona is a mama of 3, a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator and shamanic womancraft practitioner.
She teaches our workshops, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy, and co-teaches the Becoming a Woman workshop alongside Jaz.
Fi has also completed the Praxis training so is ableto offer the 1:1 Shamanic Womancraft Sessions (which can be excellent birth preparation). Fi also worksclosely with our not-for-profit arm Hygieia Health, a charity with the mission to prevent and heal perinatal (birth) trauma.
Naturopath, Nutritionist, Herbalist, Doula & Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner
Anna-Maria works with women across all life stages, with a focus on preconception, pregnancy, postpartum and hormonal health. Her approach integrates clinical nutrition, herbal medicine and metabolic health with a deep respect for cyclical living and the inner transitions women move through.
Alongside her clinical work and birth support, she facilitates rites of passage ceremonies, women’s circles and workshops. Her intention is to offer spaces that are both informative and restorative, where women can feel supported, resourced and connected to themselves and their lived experience.
Her work is known for being both practical and intuitive, bridging modern healthcare with traditional and shamanic perspectives.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Homebirth Midwife • Perinatal Educator • MIPA teacher • PLYM Teacher • Mother •
Noemi is a Homebirth midwife, Saluto physiology midwife, a wife and mother. She is a teacher of the Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops, and a perinatal educator. Noemi is also a MIPA teacher and PIyM teacher.
She offers Midwifery and shamanic support for girls approaching menarche, and in pregnancy and postnatally.
Noemi offers Sex education, Homebirth care and bereavement support.
She works with women in one to one sessions or group workshops.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess • Astrologer • Circle Facilitator • Creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal • Scrybe Witch •
Grace is a priestess, ceremonialist, astrologer and seer, as well as teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is the creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal, a year-long self-reflection tool based on menstrual, seasonal and lunar cycles.
Grace offers astrology and Tarot readings, as well as hosting various circles and ceremonies. Each year, she and her husband host a Wilderness Solo, singing up transformation through relationship to self, others and nature.
She is passionate about intentional living and deepening into radical self-trust.
Grace lives with her husband and three children outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nourished by a big vege garden and the great expanse of prairie sky above.
