Our Services

The Atabey Birthworkers are a collective of practitioners offering care across fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and reproductive transitions. Our work is guided by Atabey’s Birth Path, a traditional framework rooted in ancestral knowledge, ceremonial practice, and time-honored rites of passage surrounding birth and womanhood.

Each birthworker brings their own training, lived experience, and area of focus while working within this shared approach. Care is offered in a way that honors birth not only as a physical event, but as a sacred transition, supported through ritual awareness, embodied presence, and holistic practices passed down through generations.

Together, we provide grounded, whole-support care that integrates practical birthwork with ceremonial intention; supporting women and families through preparation, birth, recovery, loss, and transformation with respect, integrity, and cultural reverence.

Holistic Birthkeeper (Doula) | Traditional Midwife | Educator

Founder of Atabey’s Birth Path

BriAnkh-Ka I-Shanti is a Holistic Birthkeeper (Doula), Traditional Midwife, and educator with years of experience supporting women and families through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and reproductive transitions. Since beginning her path in 2017, she has guided countless families through sovereign, holistic, and culturally rooted birth experiences.

Her work is grounded in ancestral wisdom and ceremonial practice, blending traditional midwifery, herbal care, spiritual awareness, and intuitive support. BriAnkh-Ka approaches birth as both a physiological process and an ancient rite of passage, honoring the body’s innate intelligence and the sacred nature of the reproductive journey.

She offers full-spectrum maternal support from conception through postpartum, with a focus on natural birth. Her practice includes homebirth, water birth, freestanding birth center, and hospital support, working alongside medical providers while centering bodily autonomy and informed choice. BriAnkh-Ka supports unmedicated and low-intervention births and emphasizes upright, gravity-assisted, and instinctive birthing positions such as squatting, hands-and-knees, and free movement to support physiological birth.

In addition to birth support, BriAnkh-Ka provides placenta encapsulation services, honoring the placenta as sacred postpartum medicine that supports nourishment, recovery, and restoration.

Beyond client care, BriAnkh-Ka is a dedicated educator, writer, and retreat facilitator. Through Atabey’s Birth Path, she has taught hundreds through courses, workshops, and immersive retreats focused on womb wellness, holistic reproductive health, traditional birthwork, and ancestral remembrance. Her educational work centers culturally rooted, decolonized approaches that support both mothers and birthworkers.

As the founder and guiding force behind Atabey’s Birth Path, BriAnkh-Ka holds space as a steady presence, protector, and wisdom-keeper; supporting first-time parents, postpartum families, those navigating loss, and aspiring birthworkers with care that is grounded, intentional, and empowering.

Birth Ritualist | Ceremonial Birthworker

Ina Maka is a Ceremonial Birthworker and Birth Ritualist who centers spirit, ritual, and ancestral ceremony within the birth and postpartum experience. Her work supports women and families through sacred rites of passage that honor the womb, restore balance, and prepare the energetic field for birth, healing, and transition.

Ina’s offerings include Closing of the Bones ceremonies, a traditional postpartum practice using rebozo work, herbal compresses, and gentle binding to support physical recovery, womb restoration, and emotional integration after birth. She also offers womb sweeping and Indigenous womb massage, practices focused on clearing energetic stagnation, supporting circulation, and realigning the uterus for fertility and postpartum recovery.

In addition, Ina facilitates womb steaming using intentionally selected herbal blends to support detoxification, hormonal balance, and emotional release. Her Blessingway ceremonies create sacred space for mothers to be honored and spiritually supported before birth through prayer, ritual, drumming, and communal intention.

Beyond direct womb care, Ina prepares and protects birthing spaces through house sound therapy utiizing singing bowls for healing, blessings and spiritual clearings, ensuring environments are energetically aligned for labor and postpartum recovery. She also creates custom ceremonial keepsakes, including dream catchers woven with a baby’s umbilical cord, dream satchels, and protective items designed to support mother and baby throughout pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

Through her ceremonial work, Ina Maka honors birth as a spiritual and ancestral rite of passage. Her presence offers grounding, reverence, and intentional care, supporting women in reconnecting with the womb as a sacred portal of transformation.

Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Support Doula

Andora Pyatt is a Holistic Doula specializing in mental, emotional, and spiritual support throughout the reproductive journey. Her work centers on supporting women before, during, and after pregnancy by creating safe, intentional space for emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and inner healing.

As a certified Reiki Practitioner and intuitive guide, Andora offers care that supports emotional balance, spiritual grounding, and self-awareness. Through practices such as guided meditation, breathwork, womb-centered dialogue, and energy work, she helps clients navigate fear, anxiety, grief, and emotional overwhelm in preparation for birth and postpartum integration.

Andora’s support is especially valuable for those experiencing prenatal anxiety, processing previous birth trauma, navigating pregnancy after loss, or seeking deeper emotional alignment during the maternal journey. Her presence is steady, affirming, and compassionate; meeting clients where they are without judgment or urgency.

At the core of Andora’s work is the understanding that emotional and spiritual well-being are essential components of birth and postpartum care. By supporting calm, clarity, and emotional regulation, she helps create space for a more empowered, conscious, and supported birth experience.

Holistic Birthworker | Doula & Birth Advocate

Takeda Starr is a Holistic Birthworker, Doula, and Birth Advocate specializing in high-risk pregnancies, hospital births, surgical births, and emergency transfers. She is known for her steady presence and her ability to provide grounded support in complex and high-pressure birth environments.

Takeda works closely with low-income families and families utilizing insurance-based care, supporting access, advocacy, and informed decision-making within clinical systems. Her work centers on ensuring that all families regardless of income or circumstance , feel respected, supported, and empowered throughout their birth experience.

She offers care for planned hospital births, scheduled cesarean births, and homebirths that transition to hospital care, ensuring families feel heard, honored, and actively involved in each stage of the process. With a strong understanding of hospital systems, policies, and birth protocols, Takeda serves as a bridge between clinical care and holistic support.

As a trusted backup doula within the Atabey Birthworkers Collective, Takeda provides reliable support when unexpected changes arise. Her advocacy work emphasizes informed consent, bodily autonomy, and compassionate care particularly within systems that can feel restrictive or intimidating.

Takeda’s work affirms that even within medicalized birth settings, families deserve dignity, presence, and support. Her role within the collective reinforces the belief that birth is a meaningful and transformative experience, regardless of setting or circumstance.

Community Elder | Herbalist | Land Steward

Mama J is a Community Elder and lifelong Herbalist whose work is rooted in land-based knowledge, physical vitality, and ancestral living practices. Known for her strength, athleticism, and disciplined care of the body, Mama J embodies the connection between movement, nourishment, and long-term wellness.

She is the steward of her own farm and apothecary, where she grows, harvests, and prepares herbs used for womb health, postpartum recovery, and overall vitality. Her relationship with the land extends to tending gardens, raising chickens and ducks, and maintaining a lifestyle that reflects sustainability, self-sufficiency, and respect for natural cycles.

Mama J’s herbal work focuses on foundational healing; supporting the body through nutrition, herbs, and daily practices that promote strength, balance, and longevity. Her guidance emphasizes prevention, consistency, and listening to the body rather than quick fixes.

In the later stages of postpartum care, Mama J also shares practical wisdom around physical recovery and restoration, often referred to as “snap-back” knowledge. This guidance is rooted in patience, movement, nourishment, and honoring the body’s natural healing timeline, rather than pressure or unrealistic expectations.

Within the Atabey Birthworkers Collective, Mama J serves as a living example of ancestral wellness in practice—demonstrating that true healing comes from daily relationship with the land, the body, and time-tested ways of living.

Massage Therapist | Prenatal, Postpartum & Preconception Care

Saadia Belle is a skilled Massage Therapist specializing in preconception, prenatal, and postpartum bodywork. Her work focuses on supporting physical comfort, circulation, and relaxation throughout the reproductive journey, offering hands-on care that helps the body prepare, release tension, and restore balance.

Saadia provides massage therapy designed to support the changing needs of the body before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and in the postpartum period. Her approach emphasizes safety, intentional touch, and body awareness helping to relieve muscle tension, improve mobility, and support overall well-being.

During pregnancy, Saadia’s prenatal massage work supports comfort, relaxation, and physical ease as the body adapts to growth and change. In the postpartum phase, her care supports recovery, grounding, and restoration as the body integrates after birth. She also offers preconception massage to support circulation, stress reduction, and physical readiness for pregnancy.

Within the Atabey Birthworkers Collective, Saadia’s work complements holistic and ceremonial care by tending to the physical body through therapeutic touch; supporting women and families in feeling more connected, relaxed, and supported throughout each phase of the journey.