Birth Keeper

My name is Michelle Palasia and I live in Brisbane, in a little fishing village by the water, on Gubbi Gubbi country. While titles don’t define me, they may give somewhat of a closer idea about me…I’m a mother, stepmother, grandmother, and birth keeper.

My first birth experience was an initiation into being silenced. Quite literally told I was being “too loud” and that I would “scare the other women”. I birthed again, in a cloud of silence. It wasn’t until I moved through menopause that my throat cleared and my voice was free. Full circle, through rites of passage, and the power of my blood, my voice returned.

I’ve worked in the birth space for many years, as a birth photographer, doula and now as a birth keeper. I’ve supported hospital births, home-births and free births. I’ve witnessed the difference in each, not only in the energy but the outcomes. I’m not here to tell women how to give birth, I’m here to remind them that they already know. I don’t tell women what to do or where to go. I don’t impede and I don’t know better than them.

I am a gatekeeper in the sacred space of birth. I trust women. Womb-to-womb, I hold you here in the density of earth. I trust birth. More and more, I’m observing women being activated, men being initiated and babies born completely, wholly into themselves, as nature intended, with their energy fields undisturbed. Birth is a sacred process, a gateway to expanding consciousness so humanity can evolve and I’m witnessing this with every single woman who freebirths.

I’m seeing women reclaim their power, step into their sovereignty — surprised, elated, re-born, all, honouring their innate abilities, remembering who they are.These sacred moments, these sacred observations serve as a reminder of who we are. These reflections remind us of the conditioning and programming that exists and that which is being re-written. The era of activation and rebirth is now and I’m here to support it.