Women’s Life Transitions & Postpartum Support
We support people through life’s meaningful and sacred thresholds: moments of change that ask us to slow down, listen deeply, and tend to what is unfolding both within and around us. If you’re seeking grounding, nourishment, and a space to be gently witnessed, our offerings are here to support your process.
We also offer personal and professional development for practitioners who accompany others on these transformational journeys.
Offerings
Hi, I’m Samantha
Hi, I’m Samantha
I’m a mum of three, a UK-registered nurse, postpartum midwife, and experienced researcher and educator. I come to this work with a deep commitment to gently supporting people through life’s many transitions and threshold spaces.
Drawing on three decades of global nursing experience, and my own lived journeys through loss, healing and transformation, I weave the sacred and scientific. My background in yoga and ancient wisdom traditions supports a grounded and soulful approach to care that is practical, attuned, and deeply human.
I create nurturing spaces where meaningful connection, deep reflection and renewal are gently invited and can naturally unfold. I love a list, I don’t like smalltalk, I’m a grounded dreamer, a sociable introvert and an imperfect and messy human, doing the best I can.
I’d be honoured to hear your story & walk alongside you on your journey.
Workshops
The Practitioner’s Path
Grief Literacy & Embodied Tools for Those Who Support Others
As practitioners, teachers, and space-holders, we’re often called to accompany others through tender times of grief and transition.
This immersive, in-person workshop offers a grounded and nourishing space, and invites you into a day of learning, reflection, and embodied practices to deepen your grief literacy and strengthen your ability to hold yourself and walk alongside others with presence, compassion and care.
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
Blending knowledge, reflection, and presence to enrich how we care in times of loss
This workshop offers space to pause and reimagine what meaningful support can look and feel like during a loss. Whether you’re a birth worker, other health professional, therapist, yoga teacher, or someone else drawn to be of service in this space, you’re warmly invited to join us.
Together, we’ll explore pregnancy loss and perinatal bereavement care through unique lenses, practice personal reflection & journaling, and learn some nervous system regulation exercises that can help us to stay grounded during challenging times. In this nurturing space we can also become more curious about our personal and professional experiences of grief & loss, and take a deeper look at how these can inform how we care for others.
Of Earth, and In-Between
Exploring Life Transitions and Liminal Spaces
Life’s transitions- the endings, the shifts, and the moments in-between can leave us feeling unmoored. This workshop offers a nurturing space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. You’ll be gently guided to turn inward, tend to what’s present, and connect with practices that support your mind, body & heart.
Through reflection, group learning, ritual and embodied movement, you’ll find ways to ground yourself and navigate change with compassion and presence.
Mother
The most humbling and expansive role of all – raising 3 daughters.
Nurse and Researcher
Blending clinical expertise with evidence-informed enquiry.
Passionate Educator
Sharing knowledge in ways that are supportive, effective, and spark curiosity.
30 Years Experience
Three decades of hands-on care, learning, and supporting others through change.
Grounded Spiritual Approach
Intuitive, simple and deeply human.
Published Author
‘Birth on the Checkered Cloth’ with Ibu Robin Lim in ‘Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier’
What Our Clients Say
Sam’s workshop was generously offered in a beautiful environment with thoughtful attention to every detail. The program content was articulated clearly with the added benefit of stunning visuals and music that were both illuminating and healing. I would recommend this worship to anyone who wants to meet themselves where they are at with more compassion, patience and understanding.
Sam allowed us to experience a very deep, serious subject in a gentle, loving and beautiful way. She was present, and also sensitive, connected and held the space incredibly with strength and gracefulness. I loved the different exercises offered to add rhythm in the teachings and allow breaks and reflection. I loved the mix of book and teachers references and personal experiences. I would recommend it to every human.
Sam’s workshop on holding space for pregnancy loss is an invitation to go within, to reflect on our own experiences and bring awareness to our relationship with death and holding space for grief in its many forms. I think this workshop is a must for birth workers as birth work is death work, and we all encounter it, or will eventually do so. Sam has managed to touch a very sensitive topic with love and care; it’s a very nice container, and it was beautiful to be a part of it.
(Attended Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss in-person workshop)
Sam guided me through two pregnancies and births, the last one from a distance. She also held space for me as I navigated the grief of a divorce at 20 weeks pregnant. She gave me a safe haven to just be, and from where I could forge a new path of what life could look like. Sam knows how to listen in a way I feel heard and supported, and encourages me to hear my own voice too. I highly recommend working with her if you have the chance.
Sam's workshop offers a heartfelt and authentic teaching in ways to create personalised rituals and how to companion others through grief and loss. This gave me fresh insight into how grief dwells in all our lives and the value of shining a light upon it in a compassionate way. I found Sam to be an authentic facilitator so would recommend her as a trusted voice.
I thought I had already processed my grief. Then I entered the ritual - candles lit, women gathered, and the moment Sam looked into my eyes the tears started flowing. I didn’t even know I had more inside me. I went through waves of grief, tears, stillness, gratitude. To be held in my pain was so powerful. It reminded me of the power of rituals. It gives us a container to feel, to mark the transitions that would otherwise pass silently. It doesn’t have to be complex. It just needs intention and presence.
(Attended Closing of the Bones ceremony
Sam holds space like few women I’ve ever met. There’s an authenticity and warmth in her presence that immediately dissolves any sense of guard or pretension. You just exhale and know you’re safe. The rituals she creates are pure magic - beautifully crafted containers that invite both reverence and release. I would wholeheartedly recommend Sam to anyone ready to meet themselves more fully, shed old skins, and step into the new with grace and fire.
(Attended 3 containers I facilitated as part of my ‘practitioners path’ series)
You have a beautifully grounded way of facilitating Samantha. Makes everything so easy to digest.
(Attended what is now Of Earth, and In-between)
Sam’s workshop was generous and nuanced. Her embodied presence is a balm to those of us supporting and experiencing grief.
(Attended Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss in-person workshop)
I have experienced multiple pregnancy losses and two very traumatic births; both of which have left me with residual anxiety. Sam explained the origins of the ceremony and talked in depth with me before and after our sessions. It was a wonderfully calming and soothing experience that I wish I had known about sooner after giving birth. Sam is a sensitive and caring therapist and I thoroughly enjoyed my treatments.
(Attended Closing of the Bones)
For me the ceremony was quite profound. You are doing such amazing work with so much grace and presence. Thank you.
(Attended 3 containers from my Practitioner’s Path series)
Samantha brings an incredible depth of wisdom, knowledge, and compassion within her presence and in her role as a teacher/facilitator. Those that interact with her are blessed by her lived experience as a nurse, her world travels that include residing in various cultures, and her great understanding of the value of ritual. Samantha is also someone who it feels safe to share your deepest grief and shame with.
(Attended Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss teacher training partnerher training partner)