Become a Doula and Sacred Birth Prenatal Yoga Teacher / Stefanie Antunes and Julia Forest

Choose between our two most popular programs and study as a Full Spectrum Doula or a Prenatal Yoga Teacher+Birth Doula between Jan 24-31, 2026, in partnership with Doula School International and Awakened Spirit Yoga

Option#1 – Full Spectrum Doula Training Join us for the beginning of your new career as a Full Spectrum Doula. You will learn birth and postpartum doula roles in-person during your weeklong retreat. You will also gain bonus access to our Fertility Doula and Infant and Pregnancy Loss courses as live virtual and self-directed content to do at your pace. This intensive training course goes beyond traditional classroom learning, offering hands-on birth support training while you’re immersed in a culture that has revered midwifery and birthing wisdom for thousands of years. Our detailed curriculum will cover everything you need to know to begin your career as a doula and start supporting clients in your community.

Option#2 – Sacred Birth Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training + Birth Doula Yoga and holistic birth support are potent therapeutic tools to empower the birthing journey from pregnancy to parenthood. This internationally recognized Yoga Alliance approved training program will ignite your journey to support healing and transformation during pregnancy and beyond. Our Sacred Birth PYTT + Birth Doula training focuses on nurturing conscious pregnancy and parenthood while addressing the medical, political and spiritual considerations of birthing. Through a combination of our time together in-person and some self-directed content to work on before and after the training you will leave confident accommodating pregnant people in your regular classes, as well as be equipped to teach prenatal, couples workshops and postnatal yoga classes.

Become a Doula and Sacred Birth Prenatal Yoga Teacher : What’s Included ·

• 50+ hours of learning ·
• 7-day training including all classes, workshops, and training manual, as well as some self-directed learning ·
• Group Mentorship ·
• Daily Meals ·
• Team bonding activities ·
• Access to 6500+ alumni community

Not included:

Transportation costs, accommodation paid separately

After you secure your spot by paying the tuition on this page, we will share a link to complete your accommodation payment (accommodation is due 45 days prior to the training date).

**Does not include flights or transport to the retreat center. To learn more or sign up, please email info@doulaschool.com

Stefanie Antunes

Stefanie is one of the leaders in the doula field, having spent the last 20+ years working with parents, newborns, teaching birthworkers, and mentoring the next generation of doulas. She has been a Lamaze® Educator and doula since 2002, after the birth of her second son showed her how important it is to be prepared for birth and have strong support.

She founded Ontario’s first doula agency, created the province’s only hospital doula program, helped obtain insurance for doulas, and is the President of Doula School. Over the years Stefanie has maintained a love for teaching and connecting directly with future doulas. This training retreat at Villa Sumaya is one of her favourite events of a year.

An incredible curriculum, amazing people, all against the backdrop of three towering volcanoes, crystalline waters and earth’s primal energy from Lake Atitlán.

Julia Forest

Julia is an international yoga teacher, birth doula, women’s health advocate, and closet artist who is passionate about health, environmentalism and empowered birth. She is co-creator of the Sacred Birth Yoga & Doula Training, is founding director of Awakened Spirit Yoga and co-founder of the Wellkind Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on community empowerment and wellbeing through the lens of permaculture.

During the past 20 years, Julia has been practicing and studying with extraordinary teachers in North America and in India and deepened her practice in several lineages such as classical hatha yoga, mindfulness meditation, vinyasa, Scaravelli inspired, yoga therapy and kundalini. A solo journey to Spain sparked a 10 year pilgrimage to Rishikesh India, where she taught and studied yoga and meditation in ashrams and monasteries.