Pregnancy & Postpartum Care

Kellie found a passion for Doula work while in nursing school in Grand Rapids Michigan. From there she went to her first Doula training with DONA in 2008, followed by extensive postpartum Doula training, lactation training, and childbirth education. Training with DONA, the state of Michigan’s WIC (women infants and children) program, Gail Tully with Spinning babies, and hands on training with homebirth and CNM’s (certified nurse midwife), and ProDoula. Kellie feels she has a well rounded pregnancy and postpartum expertise to offer families non- judgemental, informed care.

Autism resources

Kellie’s elementary school aged daughter was diagnosed with severe non verbal autism at age 3. After the initial shock wore off, Kellie sprung into action mode. Searching for answers and treatment options. Today, her daughter is thriving in a neurotypical classroom environment, and enjoys life. Kellie loves passionately sharing resources, and personalizing strategies that work for the whole family.

 

Yoga

Kellie took her first training in prenatal training at Kripalu in 2008 after discovering how her Doula clients benefited from yoga. In 2009 she began to teach children’s yoga at Gilda’s club to help give children tools to manage cancer diagnoses. Her work with children deepened after her daughter was diagnosed with autism in 2013. Now yoga has become a part of both of their daily lives.

In 2016 Kellie graduated from Bloom’s 200 hour teacher training. Though classically Hatha yoga trained, Kellie’s style is one that gathers intelligence from many schools of yoga. She enjoys cultivating body acceptance, building strength, facing fears, and overcoming obstacles with her practice.

Kellie practices a non-judgmental philosophy in her teaching, and strives to meet you as you are. Kellie enjoys sharing yoga with bodies of all shapes, sizes, and capabilities, and feels passionate about sharing yoga with expectant and postpartum mothers and children of all abilities.