How do we work – countries coordinators
The essence of our work is to think globally and act locally on building a postnatal community. We are a platform of connecting the family’s search for helpers and a helper looking for a place to serve. Therefore we encourage to set up local networks in towns and villages which possess the knowledge of how to mother the mother. Please let us or your national coordinator know if you are interested in setting up a local network.
There are currently national coordinators active in some countries in Europe.
Agnieszka Bera
International Coordinator
info@shaktidoula.dk
www.shaktidoula.dk
Kundalini yoga teacher, pregnancy and postnatal yoga
teacher, doula and mother. She works for women and couples preparing them for a conscious pregnancy and childbirth and postpartum time.
Ingrid Bal / Charankamal Kaur
Coordinator for Netherlands
charankamalkaur@ingrid.bal.com www.ingridbal.com
Kundalini yoga teacher, post-natal doula, PSN trainer and coordinator in the Netherlands. She gives training in postpartum care and yoga teacher training. Her experience and skills have been formed by being a mother of two boys, a yoga teacher and previously work as director of PSN. She is also a very passionate gardener.
Mónica Santos
Coordinator for Portugal
Ever since she was a child, Art has surrounded her life: Music, Yoga and Ayurveda, arts and crafts. When her first boy chose her to be his mother, she discovered a new path: to serve and support new mothers and their families, especially during the postpartum period. Through active listening, her hands and warmth, gifts of foods and herbs, she holds space for the mothers to be.
Amina Merabet
Coordinator for Spain
www.madre-selva.com
amina@madre-selva.com
Mother, Doula, Lactation
Consultant, Body and Systemic Therapist, Red Tents, Women’s Circles facilitator, Obsidian Yoni Egg Guide. Gratitude was the energy that I felt after had been supported in my second motherhood. So, I want to be involved and do my best to make other women to experience what it is like to be fully supported and nourished after childbirth.
Elsa Martineau
Coordinator for France
Solène Bourgeois
Coordinator for France
coach and women circles facilitator. Solène trained at the
yoga-doula.eu, as well as PSN. She cares for the flourishing of
empowered mothers and conscious couples by informing and co-creating
better experiences during pregnancy, delivery and post-natal period. Her
love of singing Mantras brings some nice melodies to the ears of futur
babies!
Sofiya Henrietta Angelina Bonde
Coordinator for Denmark
Kundalini yoga teacher for pregnancy and post-partum, doula,
anthropologist, mother and bonus mother. As my own mother passed away
only two weeks before I found out I was pregnant, I have experienced on
first hand the importance of having care and support during pregnancy,
labour and post-partum. As a doula, my ultimate purpose is to provide
care and support for the woman and her partner in this transformational
time and guide her towards her own inner power and knowledge.
Magalie Beantpal Kaur
Coordinator for Switzerland
I am Swiss, living in a small village near Geneva. I am the mother of a 3-year old boy and the wife of a Colombian man. I spend most of my energy for our family and now I am opening more space for teaching Kundalini Yoga, offering Doula services, teaching women about menstrual cycles and being involved in PSN as a coordinator. Being part of PSN makes sense to me and fills my soul. I hope the Swiss network will grow as flowers with lots of colours!
Catherine Tuchschmid
Coordinator for Switzerland
As a yoga teacher, yoga-doula and massage therapist, trained in postnatal support, Catherine is happy to offer her presence and support to mothers and couples during this beautiful and intense period of becoming and being a parent, and to accompany them in welcoming their child on our planet Earth. Catherine lives Vucherens, a small village between Lausanne and Moudon. She is the mother of a 9-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy.
Patsy Gormley-Steele / Sat Prakash Kaur
Coordinator for UK
Sat Prakash (Patsy Gormley-Steele) is the third eldest of nine siblings and growing up in London was a family effort with grandparents living next door who played an important role in raising the younger family members. This naturally continued on into her own adulthood as she continued to support sisters in raising their children including household jobs like cooking and cleaning. After training as a Kundalini
Yoga teacher in 2008, she was blessed to train with Satya Kaur on ‘The Mothers Journey’ and was invited to join the Post Natal Support Network in supporting women during their first 40-day journey as a mother. She is a mother to a 10-year-old son and continues to enjoy supporting women in the Steiner School Community as well as home school parents and friends living in Norfolk.
Vesela Genadieva
Coordinator for Bulgaria
Hello, my name is Vessy and I am a mother of 2 boys. I am passionate about maternal wellness during pregnancy, labour and postpartum. I am a birth and postpartum doula, lactation consultant, and currently certifying as a Birth Healing Expert. I am also part of the Association of Bulgarian doulas. My deep desire is to support mothers and help them create a new culture that allows them to thrive and self-actualize during postpartum.
Yanitsa Karamarkova
Coordinator for Bulgaria
I am a mother of 2 and also birth and postpartum doula, lactation consultant, yoni steam facilitator for birth and postpartum, currently certifying as childbirth educator and part of Association of bulgarian doulas. I’m very passionate about women’s journey to motherhood, my own mission is to help them have their empowered birth. I support women and their partners during pregnancy through birth and into their postpartum period.