February–October 2026 • Limited to 8 students
Luminous Birth Mentorship
A nine-month initiatory rite of passage into the heart of birthkeeping.
Why Birthkeeping Matters Now
Victoria Rose
“A mother’s sense of safety, belonging, and her beliefs about being loved do more than shape her own experience — they become the very fabric of her baby’s development. A baby grows inside the emotional atmosphere of the mother, absorbing her coherence, her tenderness, her fears, anxieties, and her truth. These earliest imprints form the child’s lifelong capacity for trust, confidence, connection, resilience, and love.
As each child grows to shape families, communities, and culture, these prenatal foundations ripple outward — meaning a mother’s inner reality quietly becomes the fabric of humanity itself. As birthkeepers, we hold a great opportunity to positively impact the lived experiences of mothers — and therefore — our living planet.”
Meet Your Guides
Together, Victoria and Barbara bring over six decades of combined experience in pre- and perinatal wisdom, conscious birth, and lineage-based healing. Victoria has been apprenticing under Barbara’s guidance for the past seven years, honoring her as the elder and mentor who has shaped her path as a birth keeper. In this collaboration, they model the essential generational support that every family needs and innately deserves — the very foundation upon which Luminous Birth is built.
Barbara Essman, MHDFS
Co-Founder & Director of the Sacred Birthing School
With over 25 years experience in early childhood education and 30+ more years working as a birth-worker,
Barbara is an elder, mentor and teacher dedicated to preserving birth and family wisdom. She teaches various transformational trainings at The Sacred Birthing School including the 18- week Birth Doula & Preconception Course, Level II Doula Course, Men’s Role in Birthing, MotherBaby Massage, Birthing The Next Generation, and a Death Doula Course.
Victoria Rose, PPNE
Founding Visionary of Luminous Birth
With a decade devoted to supporting women and couples through the child-bearing continuum, Victoria Rose authentically weaves pre- and perinatal psychology with sacred birthing wisdom. She’s developed several high-impact programs—including Transform Into Birth and Luminescence—that invite parents to heal their own birth imprints, honor the father’s role, deepen compassion for the baby’s experience, and strengthen the couple’s relationship as the foundation for flourishing family life.
Our Partners
Words From An Alumni
Ashley Amritage, R.H.N Holistic Nutritionist, Postpartum Care & Traditional Birth Witness, Ayurvedic Abhyanga Massage
I entered this mentorship by pure faith and soul-driven magnetism to begin the journey of becoming a Traditional Birth Witness; embracing the unknown; approaching the threshold, the feet of The Mother
Throughout the course we dove to the depths of the psyche; not just learning but embodying & enacting the wisdom for ourselves; lived experience, not just textbooks and literature.
I am ever grateful to be part of this momentous transmission of the Divine Mother - this mentorship is a revelatory initiation, still unfolding in so many ways.
The opportunity to bear witness to the DEVOTION that the Family deserves through Victoria’s mentorship has been nothing shy of a miracle; her voice, her passion, her servitude all coalesce - humming the living resonance akin to the Queen Bee.
This mentorship has reawakened & nourished a deep knowing; a deep reverence and compassion for Babies, Mamas and Papas. It has revealed the depths to which society REQUIRES this way of life to sustain and thrive again; to restore the familial reverence; to realign the Heart and open to the conception of LOVE.
I endeavour to step forth with the dedication, devotion and sensitivity that Victoria so gracefully instilled into every breath of this mentorship.
What This Mentorship Is
A lineage-based, trauma-informed apprenticeship embodying ancient original birth wisdom and frontier pre- and perinatal sciences.
A generational transmission between elder and apprentice — restoring what modern culture has lost.
A three-trimester journey designed to deepen presence, self-awareness, sovereignty, emotional capacity, and attunement to the needs of mothers, babies and families.
Words From An Alumni
Matisse Williams, Mother, Transpersonal Psychology, MA + Equine Facilitator
Completing the Luminous Birth Mentorship felt less like finishing a course and more like remembering something ancient within myself. Each lesson was a lantern, illuminating the path back to wisdom, intuition, and the quiet knowing that birth is a sacred threshold where life reveals its deepest truths. The program brought me into the tapestry of the feminine village in a way that is essential for the times. What could be more important than supporting families as they usher the new humans into our collective evolution?
This journey softened me and strengthened me all at once. I learned to listen—not just to the rhythms of the birthing body, but to the spaces in between… the breath, the stillness, the unspoken prayers. I learned to hold space with reverence, to witness without interfering, and to trust the innate brilliance of the mother and baby’s bodies and spirits.
The community woven through this training felt like a circle of souls remembering why we are here: to serve, to support, to protect the light of new life entering the world. I leave this experience feeling both grounded and expanded, carrying a renewed sense of purpose and a heart wide open. Luminous Birth didn’t simply prepare me to be a birth keeper—it initiated me into a deeper way of being. For that, I am endlessly grateful.
What You Will Learn
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Understanding the sentience, communication, and early imprinting of babies.
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Internal exploration and lineage repair through transcribing and integrating the living memories of your own birth, pre-birth, conception and pre-conception experiences.
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All models of care (medical, midwifery, and free birth — empowering freedom of choice based on knowledge of all alternatives; relational dynamics, and energetic attunement.
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Learning practical skills to support the father, the couple, the whole family system.
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Embryologic development, birth physiology, imprint prevention, mother-baby-family bonding, physiologic postpartum needs birth integration and healing, trust-building.
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Restoring the place of elder wisdom, sacred rites of passage, ceremony, and reweaving community.
What Makes this Mentorship Different?
The full continuum, woven together:
Preconception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are taught as one unified arc — not fragmented into separate courses.
The conscious baby at the center:
Babies are honoured as conscious, sentient participants from preconception onward, shaping how we support mothers and families.
Fathers and birth partners honoured:
The father’s influence on birth outcomes, bonding, and family coherence is fully recognised and emphasised.
The couple’s relationship as a core pillar:
Support for the parents’ partnership is central, knowing their dynamic forms the emotional atmosphere the baby develops within.
Beyond skills — into true presence:
This mentorship develops emotional capacity, sovereignty, coherence, and deep attunement — not just technical and theoretical knowledge.
A lived initiation:
Apprentices move through personal transformation, shadow work, and integration of their own birth and pre-birth imprints.
Intimate and highly personalized:
Capped at eight women, ensuring deep individual support, reflection, and true mentorship.
Guided by two skilled practitioners:
Over six decades of combined experience between Victoria and Barbara support and shape each apprentice.
The birth of the birthkeeper:
Each participant emerges as a new woman — grounded, embodied, and ready to confidently serve families with presence, confidence, and love.
Words From An Alumni
Sophie Roy, Mother of 3
The Luminous Birth Mentorship was such a transformative and heart-opening experience. I deeply cherished the connections formed with other sisters, the shared stories, the deep listening, and the feeling of being truly seen and held in a sacred space.
I love how we learned through real, lived experiences. There was so much wisdom shared not just from Victoria, but from the many mentors and elders who joined our calls. Victoria carries such a deep presence and care for mothers. Her support is genuine, grounded and continues far beyond the mentorship itself.
Even now, as I walk with my first client, I still feel Victoria’s guidance and support woven through my journey. This mentorship is not just a program, it’s a sisterhood, a remembering, and a true initiation into birth-work that honors both the sacred and the real.
Who is this for?
✔ Women who have a soul’s calling into birth-work
✔ Those who want to serve families with emotional and spiritual presence
✔ Holistic practitioners craving deeper roots and embodied awareness.
✔ Women desiring true elder mentorship
✔ Women who want to show up for families in a way that will truly make a difference.
✔ Anyone feeling the call to restore generational health
✔ Anyone who was born
✔ Women and birth-keeper’s who value a holistic, physiologic, and conscious approach to birth
✔ Women who value sovereign family advocacy and are committed to equipping parents with comprehensive knowledge of all alternatives, empowering true freedom of choice.
✔ Those who thrive in intimate, small-group mentorship where every voice is heard and supported
✔ Individuals willing to self-reflect, meet their own prenatal shadows, and grow through inner transformation.
What’s Included
• The Birthkeeper Handbook
A comprehensive companion guide filled with complementary resources, integration practices, articles, and selected publications to deepen and support every teaching offered throughout the mentorship.
• 18 Live Interactive Classes (2 hours each)
Immersive learning with Victoria Rose & Elder Barbara Essman, held in a small, intimate circle to ensure each woman is seen, witnessed, and actively guided.
• Ongoing Mentorship Between Classes
A private, live chat mediated by Victoria Rose, offering continuous support as you integrate the work, craft community offerings, design workshops, and step into leadership within your own sphere.
• Bonus 3-Day Workshop on Admiration Therapy
A powerful advanced training in couples coaching, aligned with the ethos of Luminous Birth, taught by Dr. Stuart Sovatsky— award-winning spiritual teacher, author, expert in Kundalini-based psychology, and founder of Admiration Therapy.
• Personalised Private Session w/ Victoria & Barbara
An individualised session before the mentorship begins to attune to your unique story, lineage, gifts, and goals — ensuring you receive the deepest, most aligned support throughout the journey.
• Certification as a Luminous Birth Mentor
Upon completion, each woman is recognized with the Luminous Birth Mentor Certification, honoring your readiness to serve families, communities, and future generations through this sacred lineage of birthkeeping.
Tuition
The full tuition for the 9-Month Luminous Birth Practitioner Mentorship is:
€5,449
Not all applicants can be accepted.
This mentorship is intentionally limited to 8 women to preserve the depth, intimacy, and level of support that this work requires.
Early-Bird Enrolment
Applications submitted by December 21st qualify for a €900 early-bird reduction, bringing your tuition to:
€4,549
Payment Options
To support accessibility while honoring the depth of this work, the following payment structures are available to accepted applicants:
✔ Pay-in-full
€4,549 early bird
€5,449 regular tuition
✔ 3-Month Plan
3 monthly payments after acceptance
✔ 6-Month Plan
6 monthly payments after acceptance
✔ 9-Month Plan
9 monthly payments aligned with the length of the mentorship
Next Step
This is an intimate mentorship and acceptance is by application only.
If your application is approved, you’ll receive instructions to secure your place.
Commitment Fee
Due to the intimate nature of this mentorship and the exclusive group size of eight women, a non-refundable commitment fee of €750 is required upon acceptance.
This fee secures your place in the 2026 cohort and is applied toward your total tuition.
You will have 72 hours from the time of acceptance to submit your commitment fee.
No payment is required to apply.
The Curriculum
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(Months 1–3)
• Foundations of Birthkeeping Lineage: principles of gentleness, sovereignty, and the original blueprint of physiologic birth
• Personal Imprint Work: meeting your own prenatal, birth, and early life layers as the ground of your initiation
• The Conscious Baby: understanding conception, gestation, and birth from the baby’s perspective and restoring original memory of connection
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(Months 4–6)
• Hands-on Birthkeeper Skills: attunement, nervous system regulation, intuitive assessment, protecting the hormonal field
• Relational & Community Support: guiding couples, holding family systems, facilitating emotional coherence in birth preparation
• Developing Your Birthkeeper Presence: shadow work, boundaries, clarity, empathy, voice, and leadership as lived embodied qualities
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(Months 7–9)
• Applied Birthkeeping & Case Integration: reviewing real scenarios, deepening discernment, and navigating complex birth landscapes
• Community Offerings & Professional Pathways: designing workshops, circles, and offerings that align with your lineage and gifts
• Stepping Into Your Role: claiming your unique expression as a Luminous Birth Practitioner/Mentor and preparing for certification
How We Gather
Live Bi-Weekly Zoom Calls
2 hr interactive classes with both Victoria Rose & Barbara Essman.
Ongoing Support via Group Chat
Victoria mediates a private group chat where mentees receive continual guidance, reflection, and encouragement. This space supports both personal process and practical application — from navigating imprint work to shaping community offerings.
Ceremony + Ritual Woven Throughout
Ritual and ceremony are interwoven into the mentorship, restoring the ancestral ways of honoring transformation, transition, and the inner unfolding of each apprentice.
Words From An Alumni
Frances Goodall, Holistic Health Coach, Internal Family Systems Therapist, Family Constellations Practitioner
I really enjoyed being a part of this mentorship after the birth of my second son. It has been such a profound journey as we explored all things birth & how best to support the birthing mother’s innate needs and desires. It has sparked a deep longing to serve all mothers on the continuum of childrearing, especially Postpartum. I truly look forward to the thresholds life provides since receiving this wisdom and training.
The depth of wisdom shared by Victoria, Barbara Essman and Dr. Stuart Sovatsky has been profound; and the women in the container have been a full circle of support throughout the 9 months together.
Birth-keepers are the True Guardians of Planetary Health
In a world where birth has been forgotten, where elders are few and tradition has faded, we are being called home — to remember what it truly means to midwife life, lineage, and love.
Mothers, babies, and families are moving through life’s greatest thresholds without the steady presence of true elders — without the embodied wisdom that once protected pregnancy, skill-fully tended birth, and held parents as they crossed into new life chapters of identity and relationship.
Without this continuity of care, we see the consequences everywhere: rising pregnancy complications, traumatic births, postpartum depression, strained partnerships, and families struggling to grow through life’s challenges without support.
Information alone cannot correct this.
Families need — and innately deserve — something much deeper.
They need emotional support.
They need spiritual care.
They need true presence.
They need to be authentically witnessed and unconditionally loved as they welcome new life — by someone who’s deeply remembered the true nature of birth.
~ Who’s aware of the history we’re emerging from, personally, culturally, collectively.
~ Who knows themselves at the deepest possible level.
~ Who’s capable of empowering true sovereignty
~ Who’s committed to upholding freedom of choice through genuine knowledge of all alternatives.
~ Who honors the baby’s experience as conscious and sentient.
~ Who can recognize when a brand new story is unfolding and protect the space needed for it to emerge as fully and completely as possible.
Birthkeeping restores the ancient thread — the lineage of women who serve not through ideology or authority, but through presence, humility, coherence, devotion, and love.
Birthkeeping matters now because it brings back what our world has lost —
Because world peace begins with the health and wellbeing of Mothers.
Her sense of safety, belonging, and beliefs about being loved becomes the fabric of her baby’s development — and ultimately, the foundation of humanity.
Our work is to Mother the Mother.
FAQs
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Women who feel called to serve families from preconception through postpartum with presence, integrity, and deep coherence. This program is ideal for birthkeepers, doulas, practitioners, therapists, healers, community guides, and women walking a path of inner initiation.
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The mentorship is limited to eight women.
This ensures true intimacy and allows each participant to be fully seen, supported, and guided throughout the nine-month journey. This training models the care every birthing mother needs and inherently deserves — you will experience the same level care you will then deliver to the families you serve.
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No prior training is required.
What matters most is alignment, willingness, resonance with the ethos of Luminous Birth and Sacred Birthing, and a genuine devotion to serving mothers, fathers, babies, and families.
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The mentorship is held entirely online, with live interactive classes, integration spaces, and an ongoing mentorship forum. Participants join from around the world.
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You can expect:
• Two live classes per month (approximately 2 hours each)
• Ongoing mentorship and community dialogue between sessions
• Optional reading, reflection, and integration practices
This is a steady but spacious rhythm designed to support deep transformation without overwhelm.
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The mentorship is rooted in the principles of pre- and perinatal psychology, adult imprint integration, conscious conception, physiological birth, and relational coherence. Both Victoria and Barbara are lineage-holders in this field.
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Tuition is €5,449. Early applicants (through December 21st) receive a reduced rate of €4,549.
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Yes.
Accepted applicants may choose from:
• Pay in Full
• 3-Month Plan
• 6-Month Plan
• 9-Month Plan
A 10% instalment fee applies to all payment plans.
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This mentorship holds a strict no-refund policy.
Because the group is limited to only eight women, each place in the cohort is significant. When a seat is accepted, it is reserved for the full nine months, and another woman is turned away.
The non-refundable commitment fee and the no-refund policy are in place to protect:
• the integrity of the container
• the intimacy and continuity of the group
• the depth of transformation each woman undergoes
• the energy and preparation required to guide an initiatory mentorship of this nature
We enter this journey with mutual commitment.
We ask that applicants apply only when they feel fully ready to honor the entire arc of this nine-month rite of passage.
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The journey runs from February 4th to October 7th, 2026, moving through three trimesters that mirror the sacred arc of conception, gestation, and emergence. -
All classes are recorded and made available inside your private student portal.
You are encouraged to attend live whenever possible to receive the full benefit of the mentorship container.
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Yes.
Many women find that this mentorship beautifully supports pregnancy, conscious conception, and early motherhood. Your lived experience becomes a profound part of your learning.
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Women who complete all requirements will receive a Luminous Birth Practitioner Certification, honoring their devotion to this work and their readiness to serve families through the childbearing continuum.
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Your application will be reviewed with great care.
If there is alignment, you will receive an acceptance email with your next steps and the link to submit your commitment fee. No payment is required at the time of application.
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Click any of the “begin your application” buttons on this page to submit your application.
If you feel called, trust that call.
