About Us
We provide compassionate Doula services, childbirth education, and postpartum care to help you feel empowered and cared for throughout your journey.
Our Mission
Our practice joins the realms of the ancestral in holding space for birthing peoples. This practice joins intuitive wisdom, ancestral knowledge, and emotional embodiment in support of birthing people.
With Opal Rose Birth Doula’s services, we set intention with you to assist in facilitating a birthing experience that remains flexible while in alignment with your vision. Our services provide a unique combination of somatic techniques in support of the body through the prenatal, birthing, and postpartum process.
Providing culturally rooted care while incorporating somatic techniques in support of the body through the prenatal, birthing, and postpartum process.
The Value of Culturally Rooted Care...
Culturally rooted care honors and celebrates an individual in their entirety. Not limited to who they are now, but celebrating every member of their lineage that brought them to this moment. Celebrating the holistic traditions, that incorporate the wisdom of the stars, to assist the birthing space here in the physical.
The informed action generates safety and security in this deeply vulnerable space.
When we join in the birth space, we are witnessing the embodiment of two ancestral lineages enter earthside. Awareness of cultural support and traditions are what we carry to greet this soul for the first time. As stewards that carry the medicine of our ancestors, it is our duty to walk with purpose in how we establish right relationship with the Earth and all of her relations.
Meet your Doula
Opal Hopkins
Opal Lynn is a Birth Doula, Midwife Assistant, and Indigenous Childbirth Educator with a background in sound healing, energy work, and education.
Her connection to birth work has carried through various lines of her lineage and is rooted in indigenous, and Caribbean birthing practices.
Opal stands as an advocate and support for those she engages with while also offering a deeper perspective in reclaiming the autonomy of birthing.
Opal’s intuitive connections play a vital role in the birthing space as it invites the support and awareness of the ancestral realm to be of support in the space. In addition, they support her in building the container to honor and integrate teachings of the Sacred Mother somatically into the body.
In her time outside of birthwork, Opal serves as an Energy Practitioner and Earthkeeper honoring the medicines brought forth from being in nature, connecting with the ancestors of the lands we occupy, and celebrating the rejoining of the worlds reflects deeply into her service across communities.
Education:
- M. Ed. Higher Education Central Washington University
- B. A. of Communication University of Washington
Training:
- 25-Hour Midwife Assistant Training Center for Indigenous Midwifery
- Indigenous Childbirth Educator Center for Indigenous Midwifery
- The Rites of the Munay Ki Practitioner The Four Winds
- Herbal Self Care for Birthkeepers Center for Indigenous Midwifery
- Birth Doula Center for Indigenous Midwifery
- Embody the Sacred Feminine Course The Soulspark Mission
- Karuna Reiki I & II
What is a Doula?
A trained, community-health worker that provides emotional, physical and informational support for pregnant people before, during and after labor. Doulas give useful information on what to expect during labor and help you plan for the birth experience you want. With support from a doula, people feel more prepared for this big life transition.
Responsibilities:
- Provides physical, emotional and informational support
- Suggest birthing positions
- Explain the birth process and provide reassurance
- Help the birthing person work through their fears
- Help creating a supportive birth environment
What it is not:
- Make choices for the birthing person
- Imposes their agenda
- Gives medical advice
- Perform any medical tasks
- Catch babies
- Replace partner