Welcome to the new paradigm of birth-work.
The MatriBirth Mentor Institute is the first of its kind.
MMI is a high-touch online intensive birth-work mentorship school. Our 10 month program is a powerful accelerator that will take you from the sidelines into the professional birth arena.
We are the only birth-work school that fuses independent birth-work, holistic health & healing, a full childbirth education curriculum, birth-coaching and trauma debrief training, and a transformational self-mastery program, all in the context of a high-level business catalyst.
Becoming a MatriBirth Mentor puts you at the forefront of birth-work, offering an in-depth training that will provide the knowledge, skills, and professional support required to create a thriving business while doing the most important work on the planet. →
The MatriBirth Mentor: Pioneering the Freebirth Movement for the New Era.
MMI is everything you need to fully up-level yourself, your life, and become the coach, leader, and freebirth educator you’re ready to become.
Introducing the MMI program:
The 10-month MatriBirth Mentor Institute experience includes four distinct quarters of study concentrated on four core areas of knowledge:
Quarter One
October 6th - December 19th
The Tools of Self Mastery
The first step towards embodying a leadership role in one’s community and embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work involves excavating the Self, and claiming a life of integrity. Foundational to the MatriBirth Mentor Institute is our life-changing self-mastery program: an immersive, experiential redesign of your beliefs, stories, assumptions, and unconscious commitments, allowing you to unlock your potential and up-level your success in every area of your life.
Based on the The Conscious Leadership Institute pedagogy (and introduced briefly in The Radical Birth Keeper School), the tools of self-mastery involve a deep dive into a reconfiguration of consciousness, giving you the skills required to become a self-actualized leader in the birth-world and beyond.
Quarter Two
December 20th - March 6th
The Art of The MatriBirth Mentor
The MatriBirth Mentor Institute offers a radical departure from the dominant paradigm of obstetric birth, delivering a grounded, education in the physiology of pregnancy and childbirth. Our curriculum is supported by expert spotlight teachers, while remaining rooted in a psycho-spiritual approach to birth-work that rightfully represents MatriBirth Mentorship as both a service and spiritual vocation.
The MatriBirth Mentor Institute is anchored in the commitment to birth as a sacred transformational ritual as much as it is a physical experience. When we combine devotion, knowledge, and wisdom as sovereign midwives, our work and our lives become art.
Quarter Three
March 7th - May 22nd
Childbirth Education & Coaching
It is a delight to introduce within the MatriBirth Mentor Institute program, two core MatriBirth methodologies: The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method and MatriBirth Family Sovereign Childbirth Education.
The MatriBirth Family Sovereign Childbirth Education program is a complete training in our unique signature childbirth education curriculum, rooted in the consciousness of radical responsibility and birth liberation. The program includes a teacher's manual, sample class plans, instruction on how to teach with power and inspiration, and parent handouts, along with a module on successfully marketing your birth education classes to your community and online.
The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method is an unprecedented leading-edge coaching program that offers a profoundly compassionate, emancipatory, and effective approach to supporting women who are healing from obstetric violence, abuse, and mistreatment. The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method approach combines a revolutionary understanding of the root causes not only of birth-related trauma itself, but of its reverberations throughout the collective culture and individual lifelines, with a focus on integrating and resolving subconscious patterning. This module will equip MMI students with the core competencies necessary to begin a practice as skilled birth-related trauma debrief practitioners.
Quarter Four
May 23rd - August 7th
Building Your Lighthouse Birth Business
In a rapidly accelerating social and economic landscape, more and more women are recognizing that financial freedom and self-sufficiency are the keys to wealth and thriving. MatriBirth Mentor Institute’s business program is your path to creating a lifestyle that is easeful, profitable, sustainable, and profoundly rooted in love and service to motherbaby and families.
Luminaries in the business of birth, Emilee and Yolande bring the full measure of their complementary strengths in entrepreneurship and innovation to the MatriBirth Mentor Institute Business school. Fusing heart, soul, and ethics with strategy; the mindful implementation of tools and tech; and the timeless principles of preeminence, MMI’s business curriculum provides the roadmap to success.
Whether you’re brand new to the professional world of birth-work, or re-birthing an existing business, our business program will give you the action-steps for not only building a successful birth-business, but for creating a life and legacy of true abundance and financial freedom. With the guidance of two of the most successful business-women in the birth-world, you’ll design and implement your business plan, face and fix your residual money-hangups, and finally raise your thermostat setting so that you can truly shift from scarcity to abundance.
As seen in:
Yolande Norris-Clark & Emilee Saldaya
Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark (Maieutic, LLC) are the dynamic power couple of the sovereign birth world.
As leading voices in their fields, with over 40 years of combined expertise, Emilee and Yolande are blazing the trail of the birth liberation movement as it proliferates across the planet. With a passionate dedication to teaching women and birth workers everywhere how to step forward and co-create what they have coined as The Sovereign Birth Paradigm.
Their professional relationship (and best friendship) began in 2017 and quickly evolved into collaborating on creating the bestselling online course The Complete Guide to Freebirth. Released in 2018, the Complete Guide to Freebirth has reached over 10,000 women and families, and remains the most popular and comprehensive childbirth education program available.
In the wake of the epic success of The Complete Guide to Freebirth, the two women immediately saw the need to share their knowledge of authentic birth keeping more widely. The launch of The Radical Birth Keeper School in 2020 finally offered aspiring independent midwives an integral, effective container and training program.
Women flocked to the RBK School from every corner–including medical midwives, OB/GYNs, institutional doulas, and those new to birth-work–all eager to learn and implement the skills required to support their sisters with integrity, and to take their place in the professional realm of independent birth. Since its inception, the RBK School has sold out every round, and there are now over 850+ graduates from 30 different countries walking the path of sovereign birth-keeping.
Constantly innovating, Emilee and Yolande are continuously building new opportunities for sharing the transformation available when women step into true devotion to their individual power and the power of sisterhood.
"I felt a deep desire to serve mothers and babies in sovereignty for years but I didn’t find a program that aligned with my soul until MMI. Emilee and Yolande have created a curriculum with essential self-mastery tools and practical skills that have guided me to serve women with humility, curiosity, and grace. The roadmap they’ve laid out continues to call me onward and upward in my own journey of self-actualization, encouraging me to take full responsibility for my life. All of this was nurtured within a wholesome sisterhood, delivered through an online portal I never imagined could feel so genuine and supportive.After completing MMI, I now have the confidence, skills, and courage to serve mothers and babies with integrity. If you take this program, you will come away changed for the better. If I could take MMI every year for the rest of my life, I would. I wholeheartedly recommend this course to every woman who feels called to work in the realm of birth and postpartum."
-Michaela Lee @innersanctumbirthkeeping
"The MatriBirth Mentor knows how to feel fear and untangle it from thoughts, facts, and stories. The sovereign birth-worker isn't bound to the rules and regulation of her government, she is committed exclusively to the agreement she has made with and to the mother - and will serve in her highest integrity."
- Emilee Saldaya
"Our philosophy is rooted in the elemental belief that a mother’s body is always revealing to her, and us as her birth keeper, the most profound truth about her birth, that the birthing woman’s physiological responses are the primary indicators of the quality of her environment, of her support system, of the energy she is absorbing and reflecting, all of which have the most impact on how her birth will proceed."
- Yolande Norris-Clark
The MatriBirth Mentor Institute offers 10 months of study and mentorship.
School begins in October 2025 and runs for ten months. →
Each of the four quarters are 11 weeks in duration. →
The 4 live classes per month run for 3 hours each. →
Enrollment includes access to a private community student network for the duration of the program.
Each student will be placed in a mentorship pod consisting of 10 students and a skilled mentor.
In addition to the live classes, the program includes an incredibly robust curriculum of pre-recorded material.
MMI Mentorship Pods: An intimate container for integration and growth.
Your mentorship pod will consist of 10 students, and will be led by a skilled and experienced mentor working in the professional world of birth. During the monthly pod meetings, your mentor will support you in integrating course material, navigating questions and challenges, and guide you on your journey through MMI. They’ll also monitor and review your homework assignments, and provide thorough feedback on your business assets as you begin to build your very own birth brand.
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Welcome to the Birth Revolution.
"The best birth attendants understand they are not needed. The best birth attendants serve from love, not fear. The best birth attendants celebrate money, purpose, power, and freedom. The best birth attendants live in enoughness, not scarcity. The best birth attendants do not seek to dominate and control. The best birth attendants are loyal to the mother and her dream."
- Emilee Saldaya
"We honor mothers as the sole authority of their bodies, their babies, and their birth processes, and we are dedicated to teaching the next generation of sovereign birth-workers as women who know themselves, and who own themselves, and who stand in power and right-relationship, answerable to only herself and no external authority other than the mother, who is truly, and in practice, the decider over her body, her birth, and her baby."
- Yolande Norris-Clark
Free Birth Society LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company, is not a licensed medical or midwifery practice. None of the educational materials, courses, coaching, mentorship programs, or testimonials provided on this website constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Participation in our offerings does not establish a provider-patient or clinical relationship. Titles such as “MatriBirth Mentor” or “FBS Certified Guide” indicate completion of private educational programs only and do not imply licensure or authorization to practice midwifery or any healthcare profession. Testimonials and stories reflect individual experiences and are not guarantees of results. All content is for informational and educational purposes only. For questions, contact [email protected] . To review the full disclaimer, https://www.freebirthsociety.com/disclaimers
