About Suyai
Born at home in Patagonia, Argentina and raised between England and France, I have travelled and lived all over the world. I was an Independent Midwife for many years and have a background in nutrition and healthy cooking. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and have recently trained in NeuroAffective Touch.
I did my midwifery training in the UK, and then spent a year working as a home birth midwife in a busy home birth practice (20-30 home births a month) serving a mainly Amish population in Pennsylvania. Here, I consolidated my midwifery skills and experience in the out of hospital setting, unpacked the medical model, had a lived experience of how unique 'normality' can be. This life and career defining experience allowed me to deepen my trust in birth and develop my practical skills in supporting birth physiology and emergencies at home. You can read about my adventures working with the Amish on my facebook blog, Oxytocin Diaries.
A graduate of Jane Hardwicke Collings's School of Shamanic Womancraft, I love helping people to connect with their own wisdom and the inner journey of pregnancy. Each pregnancy and birth journey brings its own particular gifts and challenges and part of our work together can be to uncover what these are.
I have a particular interest in birth trauma and supporting people to understand, integrate and grow from disappointing and difficult birth experiences. My work with birth healing is informed by my training with Babette Rothschild (Somatic Trauma Training), Pam England (Birth Story Medicine and Birth Story Listening), Jenny Mullan (Birth Trauma Resolution Therapy) and the work of Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing). I am also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and assist on the UK trainings. I work with ritual and ceremony and bring that to those who are interested in working in that way.
I am passionate about birth being a normal life event rather than a medical condition, supporting babies to have a gentle start, and facilitating birth physiology and women to connect with their inner knowing and instinctive birthing ability.
I did my midwifery training in the UK, and then spent a year working as a home birth midwife in a busy home birth practice (20-30 home births a month) serving a mainly Amish population in Pennsylvania. Here, I consolidated my midwifery skills and experience in the out of hospital setting, unpacked the medical model, had a lived experience of how unique 'normality' can be. This life and career defining experience allowed me to deepen my trust in birth and develop my practical skills in supporting birth physiology and emergencies at home. You can read about my adventures working with the Amish on my facebook blog, Oxytocin Diaries.
A graduate of Jane Hardwicke Collings's School of Shamanic Womancraft, I love helping people to connect with their own wisdom and the inner journey of pregnancy. Each pregnancy and birth journey brings its own particular gifts and challenges and part of our work together can be to uncover what these are.
I have a particular interest in birth trauma and supporting people to understand, integrate and grow from disappointing and difficult birth experiences. My work with birth healing is informed by my training with Babette Rothschild (Somatic Trauma Training), Pam England (Birth Story Medicine and Birth Story Listening), Jenny Mullan (Birth Trauma Resolution Therapy) and the work of Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing). I am also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and assist on the UK trainings. I work with ritual and ceremony and bring that to those who are interested in working in that way.
I am passionate about birth being a normal life event rather than a medical condition, supporting babies to have a gentle start, and facilitating birth physiology and women to connect with their inner knowing and instinctive birthing ability.
