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BIRTH · NERVOUS SYSTEM · SOMATIC HEALING · AUSTIN, TX
The Nervous System
Doula
Your body already knows how to give birth.
I am here to help your nervous system remember.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF SUPPORT
Birth is not a medical event.
It is a physiological, emotional, spiritual, and sexual experience.
Most women prepare for birth by gathering information, focusing on birth plans, hospital policies and maybe learning the right breathing practices.
All of it matters. But none of it addresses the most important factor in how your birth unfolds, which is the state of your nervous system.
When the nervous system feels safe, the body opens naturally. Oxytocin flows, muscles soften, and the body can move through birth the way it was designed to. But when the nervous system is braced or anticipating threat, the body tightens. Fear creates tension in the places that need to soften, and labor can become more difficult.
My work goes beyond traditional birth support. Through deep somatic healing, I help women regulate their nervous system so they can arrive at birth feeling safe, held, and at home in their body.
HOW I HOLD YOU
You are not just a body giving birth.
You are a woman going through the most profound initiation of your life.
I meet you there.
SOMATICALLY
Through gentle somatic work, I help regulate your nervous system so your body can feel safer, softer, and more supported throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. These sessions prepare your body not only for labor, but also for the deep physical and emotional integration that follows birth. Together, we create space for your body to release tension, process emotions, restore safety, and return home to itself through every stage of this transition.
EMOTIONALLY
I am deeply devoted to nourishing you throughout this journey. I become a steady emotional anchor beside you, offering my regulated nervous system, deep presence, and attunement to your needs. I hold a space where you have full permission to feel, express, soften, unravel, and be fully human in the tenderness and whirlwind this initiation can bring. You do not have to carry everything alone as you move through this experience.
INFORMATIONALLY
I am an advocate for transparency, informed choice, and your full sovereignty throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I provide grounded support and clear information so you can make the decisions that feel right for you in each moment. Whether prenatal, during labor, or after birth, I am here to help you navigate options, understand what is happening, ask questions with confidence, and feel deeply supported in your choices every step of the way.
SPIRITUALLY
Birth is a profound rite of passage that transforms not only the mother, but also the father and the relationship itself. It is an initiation into new layers of identity, love, responsibility, and devotion. I hold this process with deep reverence, honoring the emotional, energetic, and spiritual transformation that unfolds for both of you. My intention is to create a space where each of you feels supported as you walk through this life changing transition together.
"Working with me is not a dry, medical, or educational experience.
I am here to be your sister, your nervous system anchor and rock, all along the way. Here to hold you, nourish you, and help you come home to your body."
THIS IS FOR YOU IF...
You want to arrive at your birth
feeling held, safe and deeply trusting your body
✔️ You want to regulate your nervous system and release what your body has been carrying so you can enter birth feeling safer, softer, and more deeply connected to yourself.
✔️ You want your partner to feel included, prepared, and emotionally grounded so both of you can move through this initiation feeling connected and supported together.
✔️ You desire birth support that honors not only the physical process of labor, but also the emotional, somatic, and spiritual transformation that birth awakens within you.
✔️ You are seeking a space where informed choice, nervous system safety, emotional attunement, and sacred ceremony are all woven together into one deeply supportive experience.
FOR HIM, TOO
His nervous system will be the anchor of your birth
Birth is not a woman’s experience that a man simply witnesses from the side.
It is an initiation for both of you. The moment a child is born, a man’s old identity begins to fall away, and a new one shaped by deeper love, responsibility, and presence begins to emerge. That transition deserves to be consciously supported and held with care.
His nervous system in the birth room will directly affect yours. If he feels overwhelmed, frozen, disconnected, or unsafe in himself, that energy is felt in the space around you and within your body during labor.
I work with him separately and somatically so he can arrive at the birth grounded, regulated, emotionally present, and capable of being a true anchor beside you. I support him with nervous system awareness, somatic tools, and emotional grounding so he can better support you throughout the birth experience.
"Do not underestimate the power of Aline's breathwork. It may seem simple, but there is nothing simple about the otherworldly realms I traveled to. In a time when I had lost touch with my sense of self, this experience guided me back to my highest self in the most profound way."
Sara (first time mother), FBR birth integration session
THE DEEP HOLD
A mama blessing ceremony with your circle of sisters
In the premium container, I curate and hold a sacred gathering for you and your closest women. This mama blessing is created to honor the threshold you are crossing and the woman you are becoming.
This is not a traditional baby shower. It is a rite of passage and a deeply intentional moment for your community to pour their love, prayers, blessings, and presence into you before you step into one of the most transformative experiences of your life.
You deserve to feel celebrated, emotionally held, deeply witnessed, and supported by the women around you as you prepare to enter birth and motherhood.
The base of my somatic healing work
FBR "Facilitated Breath Repatterning"
"FBR" is a clinical somatic modality working at the intersection of breath, bodywork, and subtle energy work, restoring the body's natural rhythm from the inside out.
In a session, I work with your breath pattern, your nervous system, and the places in your body where tension, emotion, and old experience live. Through gentle hands-on work and guided breath, the body is invited and never pushed to release what it has been carrying.
This is regulated trauma release. Not through force or intensity, but through full permission. The body is allowed to express itself in whatever way it needs: to shake, to soften, to sound, to be still. When the body feels that kind of safety, it knows exactly what to do.
Pregnancy and birth ask your body to open completely. FBR helps it remember how.
The result is a nervous system that feels genuinely different. Calmer, more spacious, more at home in itself. More ready.
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"Among other things, there has been a real change in all of my scars.
They are all big and small and much softer since last night.
Something I didn't expect at all."
Lisa, FBR Healing Session
OFFERINGS
Three ways to work together
Every package includes my full presence at your birth. What deepens across the tiers is the somatic and ceremonial work: the nervous system healing sessions for you and your partner that transform how you arrive at the birth, the ceremonies that honour the sacred threshold you are crossing, and how you integrate it all afterwards.
THE FOUNDATION
Complete doula support
PRENATAL
2 prenatal visits: Exploring birth preferences and deeper needs, desires and boundaries, education and prep on homebirth and/or hospital, Q&A
1 partner session: Nervous system prep, education on his role in the room
Birth plan creation and advocacy coaching
24/7 on-call text and voice support from 37 weeks
AT BIRTH
Sacred Space Creation: I arrive early to make your birth space beautiful, calm and sacred
Continuous birth attendance: From early labor at home , hospital or birth center
Immediate postpartum support: Golden hour, minimum 2 hrs
POSTPARTUM
1 postpartum home visit: Digesting the experience, support plan
$1,800
Complete doula support
Book a Connection CallTHE FULL JOURNEY
Includes 4 somatic FBR sessions
2 prenatal visits: Exploring birth preferences and deeper needs, desires and boundaries, education and prep on homebirth and/or hospital, Q&A
1 partner session: Nervous system prep, education on his role in the room
Birth plan creation and advocacy coaching
24/7 on-call text and voice support from 37 weeks
1 somatic nervous system healing session with you: Subtle, non-invasive somatic session to support your nervous system, release held tension, and deepen your trust in your body before birth.
1 somatic nervous system healing session with the dad: A somatic session to release accumulated stress, build nervous system capacity, and prepare him to be steady, present, and grounded.
AT BIRTH
Sacred Space Creation: I arrive early to make your birth space beautiful, calm and sacred
Continuous birth attendance: From early labor at home , hospital or birth center
Immediate postpartum support: Golden hour, minimum 2 hrs
1 somatic integration session with the dad: Even though birth is a physiological experience for the mom, it a a profound spiritual and psychological experience for the dad too. A somatic session focused on somatically support nervous system capacity for the death and re-birth of a new identity.
$3,500
Includes 4 somatic healing sessions + sacred ceremonies
THE
DEEP HOLD
6 somatic FBR sessions & 3 ceremonies
2 prenatal visits: Exploring birth preferences and deeper needs, desires and boundaries, education and prep on homebirth and/or hospital, Q&A
1 partner session: Nervous system prep, education on his role in the room
Birth plan creation and advocacy coaching
24/7 on-call text and voice support from 37 weeks
1 somatic nervous system healing session with you
1 somatic nervous system healing session with the dad
1 couple intimate ceremony : To release what was and open to who you are becoming. Together.
Baby blessing ceremony: Curated and held with your circle of sisters
AT BIRTH
Sacred Space Creation: I arrive early to make your birth space beautiful, calm and sacred
Continuous birth attendance: From early labor at home , hospital or birth center
Immediate postpartum support: Golden hour, minimum 2 hrs
2 somatic integration sessions with the dad
1 traditional "Closing of the Bones" Ceremony with an initiated ceremonial guide: A ceremony for the end of the 4th trimester to honor the transition you went through, closing the birth portal and opening a new chapter
$5,000
Includes 6 somatic healing session sessions + 3 sacred ceremonies
YOUR SISTER & DOULA
Hi, I am Aline.
I am a clinical somatic practitioner, functional breathwork pattern and nervous system specialist, bodyworker, certified health coach, and birth doula.
You were born to do this. Your body already carries the wisdom, the instinct, the capacity. What you need is not just more information, but another woman who sees you, holds you, nourishes you, and is your rock all along the way.
What I bring to your birth is not just presence but a decade of understanding how the nervous system holds fear, how the body braces, and how to gently guide it back to safety. So that when the moment comes, you are not managing yourself. You are moving with yourself.
In over 1,000 hours of 1:1 sessions, I have worked with women and men to heal their nervous systems, release suppressed emotions, complete unprocessed trauma and come home to their bodies. For six years I have specialised in deep somatic holding: breathwork, subtle nerve work, and gentle bodywork that creates shifts no amount of talking can reach alone.
I am not just trauma-informed, I am trauma-specialised. Whatever arises before, during, or after your birth: grief, fear, old wounds, intensity you did not expect. I have the skills and the steadiness to hold it with you. You will not be too much. You will not be alone in it. I will be with you every step of the way.
At a birth, my role is to mother the mother. To co-regulate, to hold, to nourish, to support the partner in becoming her anchor. So that you can be fully present for the most sacred experience of your life.
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