She loves hot pink + turquoise (sorry we told her it didn’t match the other brand colors & it hurts our eyes too)

When she was old enough to receive her first heart surgery (at the age of 13 months), understanding the influence and intricacy of ethereal, emotional and physical healing has been an amazing source of curiosity and learning for her.

Serena’s father was born in the year of India’s independence, in the province of Gujurat and as a hippy brought up in a British boarding school he immigrated to a remote northern Canadian community in his 20’s. This accompanied his stories of the impacts of assimilation, which sparked her research career to study how colonialism has affected childbirth practices and families around the world through a process of sustained observation and participation. Serena received her first birth attendant training in 2007 with indigenous & traditional midwives in the Interior-Salish Secwépemc (Shuswap) unceded territory. Serena does not practice as a midwife as the role has changed a lot in the last 20 years. She fills gaps in maternity care as a soulful birth guide, certified birth coach and intuition power-ups mentor- aka Honey Womb Doula.

Serena’s parents offered gentle and strong guidance on living freely, the importance of spirituality and resiliency. From heritage + cultural event organizing and work place networking, they taught her the importance of community building on a grassroots level.

At the age of 15 she began organizing benefit community music for local charities and volunteered as a weekly co-leader for Calgary Food Not Bombs. She came to the West Coast at 18 to pursue her Anthropology studies and continues her ethnographic research to this day.

Becoming a mom in her early 20’s she has since become the Vancouver Island chapter leader for the International Cesarean Awareness Network, and has served 100’s of birthing parents with a specialty in postpartum support. She has attended c-section births, homebirths and waterbirths both as a photographer and practicing traditional birth attendant for the last 17 years.

Her lengthy career has held all of the potential outcomes and family arrangements with a scope of practice centered around natural birth and bridging gaps in funding and community support. As a certified coach and educator she also provides prenatal and reproductive health classes. As a former childhood educator she weaves her practical knowledge into fun sessions with kids who are also about to become big siblings.

She loves her personal practice of running on trails barefoot and *old school yoga (mega fan of meditation and breathwork- warrior pose is cool too). Serena incorporates the importance of belly dance and movement for somatic sensuality, pelvic floor health, prenatal preparation and energetic connection with her clients- She even coaches grandparents!