~Kristen Rubis & Zimrayah Barnes ~
We are a team of two doulas in Olympia, Washington working together to provide compassionate, dedicated support throughout pregnancy, labor and postpartum. Both trained at the Seattle Midwifery School, we have had the opportunity to assist birthing families in hospitals, birth centers and at home. Our goal is to help you achieve a fulfilling and memorable birth experience by supporting your individual needs and birth wishes. We believe in nurturing the entire family. Our care is non-exclusive and non-judgmental. We offer our services on a sliding scale and are open to trades and payment plans. We believe that every family deserves a supported, empowering and loving birth experience.
Kristen has always been drawn to helping people, especially women and children. She feels that women’s connections to their bodies and emotions can enable them to have greater health and well-being. Supporting people on many levels, Kristen feels she has been a doula most of her life. She received her doula training from Penny Simkin at the Seattle Midwifery School in 2003. For the last ten years, she has worked with children in the field of education and since 1994, Kristen has been studying and practicing the healing arts through yoga, Reiki, massage, sound acutonics, emotional awareness and doula support. She offers prenatal, postnatal, baby and me and children’s neurodevelopmental yoga classes in Olympia and Tumwater. She specializes in maternity massage and holds her practice at Heart of Wellness in Tumwater. Kristen is dedicated to supporting women in their quest for self-empowerment and wellness in birth and in life. Visit her website at www.sacredtransitions.org for more information regarding yoga, sound acutonics and massage.
Zimryah Ayanna Jean Barnes, aspiring midwife whom recently graduated from The Evergreen State College with focus in Reproductive Rights, Women’s Studies and Ethnobotany. She is a certified Hatha Yoga teacher and Reiki Practitioner. Zim has been an active member of The Birth Attendants since September 2005. She is a labor & postpartum support doula and Birth Assistant with Around the Circle Midwifery of Thurston County, Washington. She loves conscious reggae and hip-hop music, dancing, reading, wild crafting, spending time with her child, family &friends and advocating for human rights.
She is a member of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing http://www.blackmidwives.org/
and was recently featured in YES magazine. http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1759
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