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Birth Prep Classes and Workshops

There is little in this world you can truly be prepared for, but how you feel during your labour and delivery is bigger than knowing what will happen first, then and last. 

In my classes, I aim to use my holistic, inclusive, evidence-based approach, to support those on their birth journey. Utilizing my own experience, training with Birthing from Within and years as a professional birth attendant, to aid participants with understanding birth is not just a primitive experience like those ancestors who birthed before us, but an experince with Modern supports, and personal desires and needs. It is time to bring birth back as a ritual rite of passage, while honouring the best practices that those bringing baby earth side wish for.

Class options (private and group) include:

Birth Preparation

Birthing from Within

Vaginal Birth After a Cesarean

Cesarean Preparation

Sibling Prep

Nurturing Newborns

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Upcoming  Classes

Embracing Birth Class

What you will learn
First Class - Embodying Birth

- Embracing Birth as a Rite of Passage

- The Anatomy, Physiology and Biomechanics of Pregnancy and Birth

- Utilizing Comfort measures and coping strategies, both when alone, and with the support of a partner, no matter where you're labouring


Last Class - Personal Knowing

- Immediate postpartum recovery

- Infant feeding including breastfeeding, bottle feeding and challenges with feeding 

- Basic Infant care

- Understanding Postpartum Mood Disorders, both for the person who just delivered, and their partner

Second Class - Modern Knowledge 

- Gain a sense of making informed decisions, your Rights as the Birthing Person, and how to make decisions based on Modern understanding, Primal instincts and Personal Preferences

 -Navigating the medical system, including birthing with midwives and home births

- Medical Interventions in labour; the Evidence for using them as a labouring tool, and not using them

Investment : $175 for two people
(pregnant person and a partner).
Next date to be announced

Bi-Monthly Birth Chats

​Classes are online
Link will be provided 24 hours before class, once registered

Join me every second month for a short class about a specific birth and/or postpartum prep topic.

Time : 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Sunday, February 9th - Sibling Support prep
Sunday, April 13th - Cesarean Births
Sunday, June 15th - VBACs

Investment : $50.00 for two people
(pregnant person and a partner)
Asha's Doula Clients are Free

Online and In Person Private Education Classes

Monthly Pregnancy Circle


Time : 6:15 pm apx 90 - 100 min in length

January 26th, 2025 - Online

February 23, 2025 - Online
March 30th 2025 - In Person

Dates subjected to change in the event of a complication. A confirmation email will be sent within  week of each event, but feel free to check in.
Online sessions will have a link sent within the confirmation email, as well as a list of supplies required.
In person location offered at the the time of registration for in person events.

Investment : $20.00 for one session
$75.00 for unlimited circles
Asha's Doula Clients are Free
(pregnant person and a partner)
Asha's Doula Clients - FREE

Prenatal Yoga Classes

Nest Integrative Wellness- 10608 124 St
Tuesdays from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

I, Asha Thomas, am a third generation settler, native of Bukovina Ukraine, currently residing on stolen land.

I acknowledge that my practice is situated on Tready 6 territory,  in amiskwacîwâskahikan ( ᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ Beaver Hills House in Cree); ti oda, (Many Houses as per Nakota Sioux); and Amakowsis, or omahkoyis (Big Lodge from Niisitapi), more recently referred to as Edmonton, AB. It is possible too that the fort was known by other names as well, in languages which have yet to be revitalized. This land is the traditional lands of the First Nations, including nêhiyaw, Cree, Dené, Anishinaabe Saulteaux, Nakota Isga  Nakota Sioux , and Niitsitapi  Blackfoot peoples, Métis’ homeland and the home of one of the largest communities of Inuit, South of the 60th parallel.  I call upon the Canadian Gov't to continue to work with the 94 call to reconciliation, and continue to personally do my best work to be a better ally and care taker of this land, while committing to support the agency and autonomy of Indigenous peoples in revitalizing and participating in traditional, contemporary, and future manifestations of their heritage and culture.

I strive to offer a family practice, inclusive of all people, with equity, inclusion and diversity offered and honoured. These priorities include, but are not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical ability or attributes, religious or ethical values system, national origin.


If you identify as a member of the 2SLGBTQ and/or BIPOC community please let me offer you an appropriate exchange of services / fee for the services I offer, with the above acknowledged as a way to thank you..

Edmonton, AB, Canada

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