Julie Sanders, Awakening Mother LLC

Full Spectrum, Reproductive Health & Wellness Doula Care
Supporting people through the transformative journey of pregnancy, birth, and the sacred postpartum
window, Julie (she/her) is a holistic birth and postpartum doula, movement and birth-prep specialist,
yoga and meditation teacher, circle facilitator, sound healing practitioner, rites-of-passage celebrant,
and an awakening mother.

Julie is also a mom to two creative and neurodiverse kiddos, now in their early teens. Her challenges
and triumphs in and through motherhood inspire her to provide a mind, body, and soul-centered
approach to supporting families interested in a conscious and informed path to conception,
pregnancy, birth, early parenthood, and beyond.

When she is not actively supporting an aspiring, expectant, or new parent, you can find Julie with her hands in the dirt while gardening in her backyard in Boulder, practicing yoga, meditation, and vibrational energy medicine, hosting a circle gathering, or seeking knowledge and inner wisdom as a channel into the Aquarian Age. She also loves attending her son’s baseball games and her daughter’s theater performances. Otherwise, you might catch her at the dog park or hiking with her partner, Steve, and their mischievous Beagle named Moon. Julie is creatively inspired, a planner, and a producer. These are skills acquired from her early years as an advertising art producer with The Martin Agency before passionately pursuing her calling and supporting this transformative journey into and through motherhood.

Julie is a DONA International™ certified labor and birth doula and Ayurvedic Mamas® postpartum care
specialist. She is a certified Body Ready Method™ and Body Ready Birth® active pro and is working on
her childbirth educator certification with the International Childbirth Education Association® (ICEA).
She is also a certified MotherCircle® facilitator, Yoga Alliance™ registered and certified pre/postnatal
yoga teacher through Khalsa Way®, and Aquarian Teacher of Yoga and Meditation certified through
the Kundalini Research Institute® (KRI). Other credentials include Heartsaver® CPR AED (updated
2023), Hypnobabies™ hypno-doula (2019), Fertility Doula and Menopause Doula, trained through
Doula Canada® (2020/21), Spinning Babies® 7 hr. EDU (2023), Dynamic Body Balancing, Level 1
(2022), LGBTQ+ Concepts & Skills for Perinatal Practitioners (2023), Ongoing sonic practitioner
experiences and training(s), BS Marketing, Bentley University.

With a deep understanding of the physiology of childbirth, Julie is a birth detective, applying her
intuitive sense and experience to support the birth process, knowing the baby talks to us through the
body of the birth giver. Actively preparing her clients to develop their unique and individual labor flow
state is a central component in her prenatal prep, exploring inner work, communication, and
childbirth education for a more empowering and positive birth experience.

Through her postnatal planning, care, and support, Julie applies a comprehensive approach to
maternal health and well-being, and her ​philosophy​​ ​is​ ​based​ ​on​ empowering​ ​the​ ​family as a whole
and​ ​helping​ birthing people​ ​physically,​ ​emotionally​, and​ ​spiritually​ ​connect​ ​with​ ​their​ ​body,​ ​their
baby,​ ​and​ ​their​ inner wisdom. She sees parenthood as an opportunity to re-arrange old ways to make
way for the new in an ongoing and self-renewing process.
As part of her trauma-informed approach to care and support, Julie also recognizes the importance of
reflection in our unfolding story as a process for our personal growth and potential. Understanding
that in ritual and ceremony, we pause to reflect on and honor the rites of passage through the many
phases of our human experience. In the transformation into and through motherhood, Julie believes
“how we begin is how we proceed” and finds joy in collaborating, facilitating, and creating a safe
container for open exploration into shared learning, growth, and connection. “Baby blessings, mother
blessings, closing ceremonies, and circle gatherings are sacred portals that can help us process, heal,
and transform so we may individually and collectively cast a vision for a new mothering experience
that embodies the deep wisdom of our ancestors and the intuitive wisdom of our times.” You can learn
more about Julie through awakeningmother.com