SoundBirth

🌿 SoundBirth Practitioner Mentoring – 3 Places Remaining 🌿

The next SoundBirth Mentoring cohort begins next week, and I’m intentionally keeping this intake small - maximum 5 practitioners.

There are currently 3 places remaining.

This mentoring is for:

• Sound healers
• Doulas
• Midwives
• Birth workers with their own professional insurance

who would like to:

✨ Prepare expectant couples to use voice confidently in labour
✨ Teach vocalisation and nervous system awareness
✨ Run SoundBirth workshops
✨ Integrate SoundBirth into existing services
✨ Attend births using SoundBirth tools (if already qualified & insured as a birth worker)

📅 Wednesdays
⏰ 9:00–10:00am (Perth time)
💻 Live via Zoom
🗓 8 weeks

Over the 8 weeks we cover:

• Vocal physiology & labour
• Bowl technique & safety
• Co-regulation in the birth space
• Professional scope & insurance boundaries
• Business structure, licensing & marketing
• How to confidently offer your first session or workshop

This is not just training - it’s stepping into licensed practitioner status within the SoundBirth Collective.

Past SoundBirth Students

If you’ve trained with me before, you’re invited to:

• Become licensed for $95 for your first year (normally $195)
• Attend this mentoring free as a refresher

A beautiful opportunity to step into the updated practitioner structure and receive all new resources.

If you’d like the Information Pack, comment below or send me a message.

More info: https://soundbirth.com.au/soundbirthmentoringprogram

Nicole
Founder, SoundBirth

Your voice is one of the most powerful tools you have during birth.

But most of us were never taught how to use it. Or were shamed for using it.

Here are two simple grounding tracks -
Didgeridoo and Tambura -
that you can tone along with to:

• calm your nervous system
• drop into your body
• practice low, open sounds
• prepare for labour in a natural way

They’re free.

Perfect for pregnant women, birth partners, doulas, and anyone wanting to explore vocal toning.

You can download them here: https://soundbirth.com.au/

Nicole xx

This research on voice shame explains so much about why people - especially women - struggle to use their voices freely.

It’s not about ability.
It’s not about technique.
It’s not even about confidence.

It’s about shame:
• fear of sounding “wrong”
• fear of being judged
• fear of taking up space
• fear of losing dignity
• fear of being “too loud” or “too emotional”

And if this shows up in singing or speaking…
…it also shows up in labour.

Many women suppress their instinctive birth sounds because they feel embarrassed - even though vocalising helps reduce pain, regulate the nervous system, and support cervical opening.

SoundBirth is a gentle pathway out of vocal shame.
The bowl gives a safe anchor ("Shame-management tool").
The sound gives permission.
The voice becomes an ally.

Your voice matters - in birth and in life.

Join the "SoundBirth Mentoring Program" in Jan - gain access to Info Pack by sending PM.

I'll be having a chat with Kris about her research soon! Her experience resonates SO much with me and many stories I have heard from other women.

Impolite Birth: Explorations into the Benefits of Theatre Voice Training for Childbirth – Penn State Arts & Design Research Incubator Impolite Birth: Explorations into the Benefits of Theatre Voice Training for Childbirth March 8, 2021March 8, 2021 Tara Caimi By Kris Danford Associate Professor of Voice and Speech You’re walking along and suddenly you stub your toe. Without thinking, a howl of pain comes out of your mouth. You s...

I LOVE how there is research now on the importance of finding your voice before the birth, so you feel more at ease with releasing your natural sounds during labour! Access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/J6AGS3D4P4AW9XZA4ZJM/full?target=10.1080/23268263.2022.2137970

We need to change the culture around making sounds during labour, so that support people know how to create a safe space for women, who generally don't feel comfortable expressing their RAW sounds.

Adding a bowl and/or vocalising WITH the woman during contractions is one way to support them.

Find out more in the link below about the upcoming SoundBirth Mentoring program if you would like to share this message with expectant couples too! https://soundbirth.com.au/soundbirthmentoringprogram

Go ahead and scream: Theater-based vocal training may be useful in childbirth vocal training that may be used to help women with pain management during childbirth. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been studying the application of the Fitzmaurice vocal technique, originally developed by a U-M alumnus for actors, to help women have a more positive birthing experi

My "SoundBirth Baby" Kira.

Just had to share coz it's cute!

I recommend you supervise 100% when kids are near your bowls! Help them to tap the bowl GENTLY. Make sure they don't drop the striker into the bowl. Ensure they don't play too loudly. No putting head in the bowl!

Probably best to keep them in cases away from your kids! Especially little ones under age 6.

Bring them out only for special occasions and when you are there to watch them closely.

My 7- and 9-year-olds sometimes played the SoundBirth Bowl for me during contractions, so this age is okay if they have been taught how to play it ... and still supervised.

This seems like yesterday ... but it was 15 years ago!
My third daughter, Kira napping on my lap.

I'm loving watching my eldest daughter nurture her little baby at the moment. She's a natural mum, that's for sure.

ALL of these Mummy memories are constantly flooding back in as I move more and more into my grandmother role.

Overcoming, or at least being aware of the shame that prevents labouring women from using their natural voice, will help break this pattern of silencing.

SoundBirth was created to give women permission to use their voice, and one way to support them is by playing a resonant crystal singing bowl in time with their contractions.

You can share this message if you are a birth pro, sound healer, wellness practitioner, or yoga teacher by joining the SoundBirth Mentoring Program in January.

https://soundbirth.com.au/soundbirthmentoringprogram

PM me for an information pack!

Calling all birth workers, sound & wellness practitioners!
My next SoundBirth Mentoring Program begins in January.

This 8-week training will teach you how to integrate sound and voice into your pregnancy, birth and postpartum support in a safe, trauma-aware, evidence-aligned way.

You’ll learn:
SoundBirth Bowl techniques
Vocalisation support for labour
Trauma-informed sound practices
Partner involvement tools
How to confidently guide women to use their voice
Scripts, guidelines & practical resources

Team/Clinic group pricing is available, and private mentoring can be added if needed.

Comment “INFO” or send me a message and I’ll send you the Information Pack.

When planning a homebirth where siblings will be involved it’s important to get them used to the sounds you might make so they know it’s ‘normal’ and important when birthing a baby.

My girls were very prepared as you can see!

I found this beauty drawn by my second daughter Oceana when she was 7 years old and excited about her third sister being born soon…

Now she’s 20 and excited about her big sister about to have her first baby at home!

Lots of change about to happen at our house!

Stay tuned!

I'm working on my book again today. I wrote the content when I first started sharing SoundBirth in 2011, and now I can add your birth stories!

I'm looking for a few sentences from birth workers and parents who used a crystal singing bowl and/or their voice as a tool during labour.

Adding real-life stories will inspire and encourage new parents in the future to use their voice, too!

If you have a story to share, to make it easier, I have created a Google Form with questions for you to answer.

Here's the link: https://forms.gle/PexMn429gLXw7YBP7

For those who submit a story that ends up in my book, I will send you a copy when it is completed!

Thank you for your support!

Nicole x