Serena Oliveira
You are moving boulders in terms of bringing forth your creativity and dreams. I help people to breathe deeply and offer a glass of water as they birth humans into the world. I bring people together to embrace and feel more supported in their roles as intergenerational and cross-cultural powerhouses. My goal is to help others trust their deepest instincts and womb as their ultimate GPS. No biggie.
We’ll crack jokes while also honing in on practical research. I’m here to witness your visions and predictions while holding space for that deeper remembering that has been lost with the tribes and languages that once held the power of visceral instinct. I believe this knowledge still resonates strong inside every single one of us-within our deepest belly laughs, love filled gazes and when we can remember our dreams.
Through my own journey of embodied wisdom via awkward fumbling into motherhood 16 years ago and into the world of traditional childbirth (I took my first Doula training in 2007, I’m a former outdoor preschool educator and I’ve been running weekly postanal support groups non-stop since 2017)- I now connect the dots of intuition, culture and research and how they impact our everyday lives and times of important decision making. I help to sustain folks as they wander into fears and rise into their own best defined version of freedom in their mind, body and heart…without taking things too seriously…because holding our mental health and sense of freedom means learning new ways of relating to each other.
My role is to proactively and holistically help to heal and recognize diverse needs and connections to our natural state through educational and support services. I provide classes and private coaching for the seasons of adolescence, pregnancy and beyond to help uncover and nurture your leadership roles.
We are LGBTQ+ twin spirit welcoming-and however you identify on your journey, we believe at Honey Womb that to build a strong community and sense of self-reliance, we each hold a visceral responsibility to listen deeply to what we ultimately want to bring forth as we give birth to ourselves, our ideas and projects in a way that our grandmothers dreamt for us.
As a professional birth wisdom keeper, Serena bridges the universal, traditional & transformational experiences of life cycle changes.
In other words, I’m the chill one in the room when someone’s having a baby, while there’s a black bear on the porch.
I was born calm, in a room with 3 older siblings, and so I was named Serena for my demeanor.
When you’re super exhausted I’ll help to recharge you. If your baby is fussy I’ll help you to troubleshoot. If you’re 9 months postpartum and anxious + isolated, we’ll make a solid game plan and I’ll hold you.
Serena is:
She/Her
Mama, partner, sister, daughter, womb bestie
Doula: modern + traditional birth alchemist
Fertility, Pregnancy & Postnatal somatic massage practitioner
Yoga and dance student since the age of four (thanks mom!)
Ethnographer
Yoni & pranayama (breathwork) educator
First gen Desi/Canadian
Fourth gen Irish/French/Can
Bilingual (English/French)
Postpartum specialist
Birth photographer
Cross cultural safety advocate
Guide, gardener and herbalist
Poet, researcher and scribe
“the People’s Strawberry”
I’m a cheerleader for new beginnings and many creation stories are about strawberries.
In our reproductive health community I readily send offshoots of bright inspo & also come from a long lineage of abundantly sweet knowledge keepers. Like you, I grow easily beside others. In that old school & ageless kind of way, my resilient roots hold abundantly rich fruits mixed with clearly seen & glowing seeds.
I’ll find room to grow on mountain sides or in a homegrown garden. I am sisterly. I alchemize and rise through the rich lessons of birth & life to simply share what the world needs more of: LOVE
My friends call me
