Jen Walts

(she/her)

Jen Walts is a Certified Birth Doula (DONA) & HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator. At Sanctuary, she is regularly offering HypnoBirthing® childbirth education courses in-person. As a birth doula, Jen incorporates breathing techniques, visualization, mental preparation, and intuitive movement in her support with families navigating labor & birth.

After experiencing an empowering labor & birth, Jen, a former high school teacher from Springfield, MA, strategically pivoted to a newly flamed passion for birth work. With a Masters Degree in Teaching and 10+ years in the world of education, Jen realized swiftly how all of her work as an educator (with students, families, colleagues, & communities), prepared her to approach doula care: teaching to ALL learners/families so that their voice remains at the center of the experience.

Jen is a certified yoga instructor and well-practiced in guiding individual and group meditation. She completed her certificate in Montessori’s Early Childhood program and has a great passion for child development and conscious parenting. Breath, movement, presence, and witnessing all that ebbs and flows have been at the core of her pregnancies, partnership, parenting, birth work, life, and continued learning.

Learn more about Jen at www.windandwaterdoula.com

Credentials:

• Certified Birth Doula (DONA)

• HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator

• Yoga Alliance- RYT 200

• Masters of Arts in Teaching, Quinnipiac University