Ruth Ehrhardt is the mother of 4 home-birthed children, a South African traditional birth attendant as well as a Certified Professional Midwife, the author of a book called The Basic Needs of a Woman in Labour (which has been translated into 15 different languages), and a birth and midwifery teacher.

She is the daughter, granddaughter, and niece of midwives, so it seems this work was in many ways predestined from birth.

Ruth has an innate love and trust for birth, women’s bodies, and babies’ intelligence. In her teaching and work, she mainly focuses on guarding and protecting the environment for pregnancy and birth, as opposed to guiding or facilitating the actual birthing process.

You can read more about Ruth and here work here

 Samara is a grandmother, elder, and traditional birth keeper and women's health practitioner who has spent more than three decades supporting women, mothers, and families through pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood as the founder of WellMama (wellmamaworld.com)

Samara has guided hundreds of mothers & families through the journey of the childbearing year and beyond, curating, facilitating and presenting training programs for families and maternal health care providers around the world. Her work is rooted in ancestral wisdom, weaving together land tending, herbal lore, lay midwifery, and rites of passage supporting women through the seasons of womanhood.

With experience across three continents, Samara embraces cultural diversity and believes in nurturing the well-being of women and families through reciprocity, relationship, and the remembrance of ancestral traditions, rites, rituals & ceremonies.

Alexandra, Alex, is passionate about birth after she gave birth unattended to 2 daughters in rural Africa.

She feels a deep connection to the sacred circle of women she is committed to serving. She worked for 15 years as a doula assisting midwives and traditional birth keepers in South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and Portugal where she now practises holistic midwifery, empowering the local community in the field of pregnancy, birth and postpartum care. 

Along with her path as a birth keeper, and devoted mother, she is an experienced body worker, eco community co pioneer, crafter (produce placenta remedies and natural skin care), dancer, holder of rituals around the sacred child bearing years and beyond. (Blessings ways and Closing of the bones) 

She lived in Africa for over 10 years and many other countries in the world which gives her a multicultural honouring of women and their different realities.