Beyond Antenatal Classes: The Village Mama Approach
Supporting and honouring women from pregnancy through postpartum.
🌿 Are you craving a different approach to motherhood?
A more soulful way to prepare for the most profound rite of passage in your life?
When women embark upon the truly transformative journey of motherhood, they seek guidance, support, and reassurance throughout pregnancy. This can come in many forms, from books and blogs to advice from peers; but one of the first places many women turn to for support is the NCT (National Childbirth Trust).
NCT has been a trusted name for decades, offering antenatal classes that prepare parents with practical knowledge about labour, birth, and newborn care.
For many, this is a wonderful starting point. But for women like myself, I was looking for something that delved a little deeper - something that resonated with me on a soul level and acknowledged the ancestral wisdom our bodies hold on this sacred journey.
🕯️ The Becoming of a Mother
Village Mama recognises the becoming of a mother as a soulful initiation and honours this as the sacred threshold it truly is.
This is why Village Mama offers a different path.
🌸 Where Village Mama Is Different
Village Mama isn’t an antenatal class in the traditional sense. It’s a soulful alternative for women who want to prepare for motherhood in a different way.
Instead of focusing only on what to do in labour or how to care for a newborn, Village Mama celebrates the mother’s journey- the emotional, spiritual, and life altering transformation that unfolds in pregnancy and postpartum.
✨ The Village Mama Approach
Connected Pregnancy Circles
For women from 28 weeks onwards. Together we share, explore, celebrate, dance, create, meditate, and prepare not only for the birth of your baby, but the birth of the mother.
Connected Postpartum Circles
A space for the mother to return with her baby, to be honoured, nourished, and supported through ceremony, gentle movement, and sacred rite of passage.
This is your home from home. This is the rebuilding of the village.
Blessings and Rituals
Mother blessings and baby blessings that honour these sacred thresholds of life, an echo of ancestral memory, weaving back a sense of reverence and community that so many of us long for.
🤍 Why Choose Village Mama?
Because you’re seeking care, not just classes.
Because you want to be part of a community, not just a course.
Because you long to be celebrated, not just prepared.
Village Mama is rooted in care, community, and celebration.
It’s about rebuilding the village that mothers have lost over time - a place to be cared for, celebrated, and connected.
🪷 Final Thoughts
If what you’ve read has landed in your soul and awakened your curiosity to deepen your journey, then Village Mama may be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
This is an alternative way - a space that blends movement, ceremony, connection, and deep remembering.
This is not a class.
This is a remembering.
A contribution to something bigger.
✨ Let’s rebuild the village. ✨