Meet Virginia
Qualifications
- Midwifery degree university of Milan, Italy 2009
- Art of midwifery: how to facilitate undisturbed home birth, Bergamo, Italy 2011
- Awakening the sacred feminine: midwives, the wise women, Bergamo, Italy 2012
- Craniosacral therapy training Bali 2012, Cat Kabira
- Yoga teacher training 200 hrs, Goa, India 2012
- Reiki level I and II, Cambodia 2013
- Closing the Bones Cambridge 2016
- Placenta remedies specialist – PRN Placenta Remedies network, Brighton, 2016
- 3-Step Rewind Phoenix Well-being Training 2020
- Biomechanics for birth, Brighton 2021, Optimal birth
- Aromatherapy for birth Brighton 2021, Expectancy
passions
Conscious conception, sacred midwifery, Women’s rites of passage, home birth, energy healing, placenta honouring and remedies, attachment parenting, perinatal trauma support, embodied yoga, Rituals and ceremony, Foraging, wild remedies, moon wisdom, Shamanic practices, sacred feminine.
Virginia Rowan
I first started working with women in 2009 when I became a Midwife; I’m passionate about Shamanic wisdom, placentas and all you can do with them, and Ceremonies around motherhood and parenthood. I’m also a birth physiology nerd. Everything unfolds so beautifully when we observe – it’s alchemy blended with physics, chemistry mechanics and of course magic!
When I’m not a midwife I spend time with my amazing husband Matt and our children: we have Ikey who is four and our baby Forest who is one. I love motherhood ever so much! We walk in the woods, throw rocks in the sea, collect sticks and other treasures, bake cakes, grow strawberries and visit lots of playground at the moment!
I used to love yoga and making natural remedies and lots of other stuff that my mum brain has now temporarily forgotten! (hopefully). I love writing, and I still do that; look at my blog to read all my stories.
As well as Midwifery consultation, I offer Intuitive Healings that include various knowledge learned through different trainings and passions. I believe your body has an innate capability to heal itself; you have that power within. I love to witness the journey through opening and healing.
I offer Birth Trauma release using 3 STEP REWIND METHOD, a gentle and safe way to work with difficult emotions; I also completed MAKE BIRTH BETER birth trauma training.
Midwifery is my calling, I serve women and people who birth and their family.
I stand back most of the time, but I also use my hands when I feel moved by my intuition to do so. I have knowledge and skills, and I use them if necessary. If you see me in silence in a corner at your birth, it means that all is well.
One of my mottos in life is to be true to myself and my practice; that’s the main reason I became an independent midwife.
I believe “life is an offering, “ and so here I am, offering my whole self to families who choose me to be by their side. That’s a true honour!
Birth is embodied work, is your most life-creating and life-changing moment. That very moment is the only chance you have to birth your baby so I want you to live it fully, with joy and awareness.
I keep showing up to change the birth culture at every birth because birth should be about love and not about control.
Every day, I see healing happening on earth through birth.
Midwifery is a sacred work
Contact virginia
virginia@risemidwives.com
Phone
+44 07460 239108
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