Who is this course for?

This course is for expecting parents who want more than information — they want transformation.

Inside Birth Alchemy, you’ll learn how to trust yourself deeply, understand your body’s innate wisdom, and show up fully in your power — no matter how your birth unfolds. 

Guided by Leslie Castleberry, a birth photographer and doula, and Kayla Baker, a seasoned birth doula and educator, this online course combines practical childbirth education (like stages of labor, comfort measures, birth positions, and understanding medical terminology) with emotional and energetic preparation (like mindset, advocacy, intuition, and viewing birth as a rite of passage). Through self-paced video lessons, guided exercises, and reflection prompts, you’ll move beyond simply letting birth happen to you and instead embrace the profound transformation it offers.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    2. Reframing Birth

    3. Physiologic Birth Defined

    4. How Birth Works

    5. Birth in our Modern Culture

    6. Cascade of Interventions

    7. Birth Settings & Models of Care

    8. Terminology

    9. Review & What's to Come

    1. The System Was Never Designed for You

    2. Provider Options

    3. History of Birth

    4. When Birth Becomes a Business

    5. Choosing Your Own Path

    1. The Journey Inward

    2. The Power of Visualization

    3. Befriending Fear

    4. Mindset Tools for Birth

    5. Brainwaves and the Mind-Body Connection

    6. Integration and Looking Ahead

    1. Birth Planning as a Practice in Preparation

    2. Deepening into Self-Discovery

    3. Build Your Birth Plan, pt 1

    4. Build Your Birth Plan, pt 2

    5. Choosing Your Team

    6. Interviewing and Aligning

    7. Partner Support

    8. Integration & What's to Come

    1. Evidence & Decision Making in Birth

    2. Evidence vs Protocol

    3. Risk in Context

    4. The BRAIN Tool

    5. Consent & Your Rights

    6. Advocacy in Action

    7. Integration + Reflection

    1. The Wisdom of Physiologic Birth

    2. Stages of Labor

    3. Ice Holding Exercise

    4. Physical Comfort Measures

    5. Finding Your Center

    6. Recap + Integration

About this course

  • $247.00
  • 57 lessons
  • 6.5 hours of video content

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