Yiska Obadia Services & Comforting Touch for Birth

These past 4 days, I mean, what a week!

From 3 days at the collaborative doula conference where I learned from extraordinary doulas of all sorts, from death doulas, to vbac and nicu specialists, doula coaches, and doula web and brand design specialists… .ca

To a stop at Niagara Falls (Canadian side) on the way back. My first time ever, perfect weather, and feeling the power of water even from miles away, let alone up close. Somehow it both blew me away and landed me in my bones at the same time.

I also 🩵 our ‘Power of Water’ art from the Wisdom of Birth deck shown here.

To this gloriously intimate women’s dinner in the Hudson valley hosted A visioning of my friend, collaborator, 💞 in celebration of the completion of our kickstarter under a glorious and powerful sky.

I arrived to the gathering on the coattails of a looooonnggg 9 hour drive with my husband to a circle of women who held me as my body collapsed onto the floor in a puddle that needed earth and to be held for just a few moments under the cozy pressure of hands and bodies and breasts to be able to release and land! Thank you! .samanthajo .inherlightmind and others.

I’m so filled up by the power of women, of the human heart, of water, of nature, of gathering and community!

And of course the card we pulled at our collective table was the 3 of cups! A perfect mirror of celebration, community and friendship. 💗💗💗

The Wisdom of Birth deck is pure magic. We can’t wait for you to hold yours! P.S. we’re accepting late pledges at the link in my bio.

I asked how can I best celebrate this moment of reaching our funding goal for the Wisdom of Birth kickstarter? Of course, music! I so love this card.

Besides the obvious role music can play in celebration and in supporting birth, it is also our King of Wands card.

offers these reflective questions to honor this tarot card pull…

What is generating within me? How might I generously offer more of this natural glow?

My answer is to keep sharing this beautiful creation with you. To invite you to help us close out our Kickstarter campaign during these last 39 hours with an even bigger bang! There’s still time to contribute!

Now is your chance to support the fullest fruition of this project. Now is the time to pre-order your deck and gain access to our digital deck experience while you wait. Now is the time to enter to win a custom digital collage with our artist .prankster

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Bonus Reward Raffle Announcement: Custom Digital Collage by Wisdom of Birth Deck Artist, Johanna DeBiase .prankster

We’re in the last week and soooo close to fully funded! Link to our Kickstarter in my bio! 🔗🔗🔗

As an extra thank you, when you back our Kickstarter at any reward level that includes a deck, and you’ll automatically be entered to win a one-of-a-kind custom artwork created by Johanna. (If you already have, then you’re already entered to win!)

The winner will meet with Johanna via Zoom for 1–2 collaborative consultations to explore the theme, vision, and feeling behind the piece. You’ll be invited to share personal imagery you’d like incorporated, from which Johanna will create an original digital collage made uniquely for you.

One revision is included to ensure the final piece feels complete and aligned with your vision.

This artwork could honor a pregnancy or birth, celebrate a personal transformation or rebirth, memorialize a meaningful experience, or become something entirely your own.

Prize value: $200

This is one more way for us to say thank you for supporting this project as our Kickstarter campaign comes to a close.

The raffle winner will be selected within 24 hours of our fully funded campaign ending and announced in a public Kickstarter update. Good luck!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support and for being part of bringing this deck into the world!

I’ve been feeling a bit haunted by a recent post I shared here of the “Your Body Is Powerful” card. Not because it isn’t true, or because the reminder isn’t something deeply welcome during pregnancy and labor, but because, like all the cards, it isn’t the full picture.

Because sometimes these words can feel painfully untrue.

A client, like others before her, recently emerged from the birth of her child feeling traumatized. A birth that had the potential to leave her with a profound sense of her body’s power instead left her feeling as though her body was somehow broken or failed her.

I’m not a stranger to this feeling. I tried unsuccessfully for years to conceive a child, but in the end, it was something my body in this lifetime could not do. Does that mean my body is not powerful? Does that mean I shouldn’t have tried?

Here is my conclusion: The Wisdom of Birth points to all of it. Inside the deck, we have the “Birth Is Messy” card and the “Grief” card as well.

Should I be unable to experience my body’s power and strength simply because she could not birth children? What about everything she does every day to faithfully sustain my life? Should women who give birth by unplanned cesareans be left feeling their bodies are somehow flawed? What about the strength it took to carry that child, to make difficult decisions along the way, and then recover from surgery?

The truth is, I don’t want to override the hard feelings either. Birth is messy, and there can be enormous grief in anything that does not go according to plan. If that is the moment you are in, and the thought of your body as powerful brings up nothing but a painful sense of contrast, then that is yours to feel. Your card at this moment might be, “It’s Alright to Cry”.

The Wisdom of Birth offers nothing if not utter permission to be exactly where you are.

And if and whenever you want to draw “Your Body Is Powerful” again, or even for the first time, she will be right there waiting for you.

Link in my bio to get your deck and support this last leg of our Kickstarter campaign.

What does your “inner doula” want you to know today?

1. Change it Up (Is it time for a change of course or direction? What might you do differently to move from a place of stagnation or routine into something that can bring new energy into your life?)

2. Catch Your Baby (This is your moment. Reach down and catch your “baby”. You’ve earned it.)

3. Permission (Please be you. All of you. Wherever you are in this moment.)

Link to our Wisdom of Birth deck kickstarter in my bio for a deck of your own and/or to gift.