we birth the way we live.
the way we show up in life often shows up in our birth story.
the shape of your nervous system, the stories running in your body, the way you move with discomfort. your body is a field of knowing and constantly communicating with you.
When you pause long enough to really listen, what is it saying?
The best birth preparation has nothing to do with birth.
This journey to meeting your baby is, if you let it be, the place where you finally stop running from yourself. Over a decade and more than 200 births, I've watched the same truth reveal itself: the way we live shows up in how we birth. Every pattern you have around discomfort, control, and the things you cannot think your way out of — birth will surface them all.
Pregnancy doesn't create your patterns. It illuminates them. Which means these ten moons are not a waiting period, they are one of the most potent invitations for transformation a woman can receive. I can't guarantee your birth outcomes, just like you can't guarantee anything in life. But what I can do is help you honor your body as a field of knowing, map your own nervous system, and release the urge to manage the portal and actually enter it.
This is the heart of my work and how I work with women and their partners. I honor your body as a field of knowing, map your nervous system, and am with you as you release the urge to manage the portal and actually enter it. It's not just another birth prep course. It's The Unfolding Method — a whole-self approach to birth that asks you to take radical responsibility for who you are and how you show up and the choices you make.
Learn the tools that can help you see yourself the way sonder asks you to see a stranger: with wonder, with complexity, with curiosity and with love.
If you’re nodding your head, I’d love to meet you. Send me a note.
ATTUNE TO BIRTH — Preparation for the whole of you
The 1:1 container:
Attune to Birth 1:1 is a live, intimate container — just you and me, and your partner if you want them there. Over our time together we'll map your Birth Constellation using the Sonder Spiral, meet your constitution, and build a clear picture of the landscape you're moving through. We'll work with your nervous system directly — not in theory, but in your body, in real time.
This is where the somatic work lives. Where the questions you haven't been able to ask out loud finally have a place to land.
Offered as a single deep-dive session or a series. Pricing on inquiry.
The Birth Portal
The Birth Portal is a self-guided course & companion for the terrain of labor itself: the physiological process of labor, the milestones, the positions, the practices and resources to support physical preparation. It's designed to be returned to, dog-eared, sat with.
A grounded, unhurried study of how birth works, and how you work within it.
Self-guided. Available anytime.
A peek inside our 1:1 container
Map your Birth Constellation with the Sonder Spiral™
Something in you already knows how to birth.
This work is clearing what's in the way of that knowing. A constellation is the unique field of forces surrounding a woman as she approaches birth — her lineage, her nervous system, her unspoken stories.
The sonder spiral considers
// Your constitution = what you came in with // the original nature of your body and nervous system, the temperament you were born into, the elemental makeup that has always been yours. In Ayurvedic tradition, this is called your prakriti: the pattern you arrived as, before life shaped you.
// Your constellation = what gathered around that nature // the experiences, the lineage, the relationships, the moments that left their mark. It's not who you are. It's what you've been moving through.
Together, they form your birth field. And when we map them, something becomes visible that couldn't be seen before. This field brings awareness to why certain things feel impossible, why others feel like coming home, and what your body already knows about how to open.
60 minute virtual // $388
PDF map and digital analysis
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maternity // outdoor starting at $375
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ATTUNE TO BIRTH™
ONLINE SUMMIT
A 3-Day Global Online Event
Oct, 2026
Join over 20 experts in physiological birth, body literacy, partner intimacy facilitation, birth trauma therapy, medical unwinding and advocacy, and nervous system regulation for a first-ever holistic celebration of birth & transformative online summit.
hi, i’m hannah
Founder of SONDERBIRTH®
I didn’t set out to become a somatic birth doula.
Like many women, my own births opened something ancient and electric in me. They restructured my body and spirit in ways no book or training could have prepared me for. My first felt more like a clinical procedure I was ushered through than anything else, but was followed ten years later by the most sensual and orgasmic labor. The difference: I knew exactly who was birthing - all her shadows and self-sabbotaging habits were illuminated and transformed.
Pregnancy, birth and postpartum are all stages in an experience that is opening, revealing, and always leading you to a new women to meet in the mirror.
Honoring the vivid and complex became the foundation for Sonderbirth™, and later mapped the framework for The Unfolding Method™—a somatic, archetypal approach to birth that centers the nervous system, the unconscious, and the body’s inner intelligence. In 2023 I developed Birth Constellations™ using what I call the sonder spiral, a map of the emotional and relational imprints surrounding a woman before labor even begins—revealing that how we birth is how we live, and how we live is reflected in how we birth.
This work is about turning towards oneself and tending to the unseen so that we can birth fully present and with the rhythm of our essential nature.
I’ve walked with hundreds of women through this terrain, offering tools that support coherence in the body, self-trust in the unknown, and reverence for the full spectrum of human experience. Beyond birth, I work with corporate leaders as a brand strategist to realize the fullest potential of a business and the people that power it and teach somatic and emotional literacy to high school students through the Upward Bound program, where we explore what it means to feel safe, seen, and empowered in one’s own skin.
What I’ve learned, whether in a birth room, a classroom, or my own inner landscape—is that healing doesn’t come from fixing, it comes from witnessing, from honest conversations with yourself, and from attunement. From loving what’s been exiled. From remembering we are never separate from the sacred. We are all uniquely vivid, complex beings with stories to tell.
This is the heart of my work.
family constellations
attune to truth & restore the flow of love
Before it had a clinical name, this work had a ceremony.
The Zulu people of South Africa practiced a form of collective inquiry — a way of standing in relationship to one another to reveal what was hidden, to understand what was broken, to restore what had been lost. Decades later, German psychologist Bert Hellinger encountered this tradition and brought it into the field of psychotherapy, where it became known as Family Constellations.
The word constellation, in German, means position — the order in which things stand in relation to one another. In other words, the order of things matter ~ and when we there is disorder or entanglements in our life, we impede the flow of love that runs through life, connecting us all. Constellation work moves through the field to find where the flow has been interrupted — and restores it. When order returns, something shifts that talk alone cannot reach. What was carried can finally be set down.
In the presence of horses: I trained with Sara Fancy at Silver Horse Ranch in Ranchita, California where this work happens alongside horses. Horses feel the field directly, and respond to what's true with a clarity that bypasses the thinking mind and goes somewhere deeper. In their presence, what's been hidden becomes impossible to ignore.
Family Constellations work within the energetic field to reveal and release these inherited blockages. When we restore the proper order, the nervous system softens, the heart opens, and love flows freely once more—returning us to our truest rhythm, and merging into the sea of truth that resides in the heart.
-patterns of resistance & control
-family wounds — loss, estrangement, unspoken grief
-birth trauma, pregnancy loss, abortion
-creative blocks
Personal Testimonies
credentials
Bachelor’s in Communication & Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Master’s from ASU’s School of Social Transformation in Social & Cultural Pedagogy.
Certified Holistic Birth Doula, Whapio & The Matrona, trained by Whapio (founder & midwife).
Spiritual Midwifery, Birth Educator Whapio & The Matrona, trained by Whapio (founder & midwife).
Full-Spectrum Doula Training, Carriage House Birth
Trauma-Informed Somatic Guide, The Self Holding Method, Soma Mystica®, instructed by Sojourney Belle (founder & somatic practitioner).
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) Certification
Family Constellations Advanced Facilitator Training, Silver Horse Retreat, led by Sara Fancy (founder & facilitator).
Certified VBAC Pro, VBAC Academy
Spinning Babies® Workshop instructed by Gail Tully (founder and midwife)