Eyla Cuenca presents
A year-long certification program to become an Uncovering Birth Certified Birth Educator, Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula. Live, with Eyla, at real births. Become the woman in the room who knows.
Two minutes. You'll pick a time for your call right there. The Academy opens once a year. Spaces are limited and highly vetted.
Watch Eyla's video. It answers the questions people usually save for a call.
Apply in two minutes. Five questions, then pick a time for your call right there.
Thirty minutes with Eyla or a member of her team. You'll get an honest answer about whether you should do this.
Do the math
The deeply uncomfortable truth is that most of these numbers are preventable.
Sources: CDC National Vital Statistics (cesarean and preterm rates); Joint Commission NTSV cesarean measure; CDC PRAMS (postpartum depressive symptoms).
Where did we go wrong?
For most of human history, birth was community-centered, woman-led, and supported by people who had seen it many times. Then it moved into institutions, and the woman next to the mother stopped being someone who knew.
Ninety-eight percent of women in the United States now give birth in hospitals. Most of them are supported by a partner who is terrified, a nurse with six other patients, and, if they're lucky, a doula trained over a weekend to be kind. So when the room gets tense, when a monitor beeps or a doctor says the word cesarean, the room decides what happens next. The mother leaves feeling that something was done to her, and she carries it into how she mothers, how she trusts her body, and the story her daughter grows up with.
Uncovering Birth exists to change this. The Academy is where we stop accepting what we've all been told about birth and start understanding what is actually possible. For you as a woman. For other women. For families. For children.
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The Uncovering Birth difference
Your accreditation lets you be a bridge: to help a woman keep her authority inside a system that isn't going anywhere, with time-tested practice and the evidence to back it. Together we can support a culture with less trauma, more connection, and better birth outcomes.
Deepen personal autonomy
The first woman you're asked to hold space for is yourself. You'll come out of isolation, sharpen your self-awareness, work through what's still stuck, and leave a more embodied, relational woman. It changes every relationship in your life.
Support empowered outcomes for your clients
You'll help women think for themselves and feel into themselves, so they make choices they don't regret, and the whole family heals with them.
Professional mastery and a business of your own
Master the entire arc of a woman's childbearing year and serve yourself, your loved ones, your community and clients anywhere in the world, with a community behind you.
The benefits and access of certification
Hospitals are turning away uncertified doulas. Midwives are asking clients to take certified classes. Insurers are beginning to cover certified postpartum doulas only. An international, IPHM-accredited certification lets you support your clients all the way, including a transfer.
Birth work is an ancient profession you can do anywhere in the world, and as long as people are having babies, the need for your work will never run out.
Who the Academy is for
You've been circling yoga teacher training, breathwork, nutrition, some way to give back, and nothing has landed. Your friends already call you before they call their doctor. You've been doing this. You just didn't have a name for it, or a license. And if you want to take the training for your own education rather than a career, that's welcome too.
A graduate, in her words
“I first started working with Eyla when I was reconciling some feelings I had about my first birth. I have realized how valuable it is to do all three tracks. There are just so many ways to enter the realms of taking care of mothers and babies, and helping to change whole communities through mother-baby care. It has been truly life saving and really life giving to me. I'm about to have my fourth baby. She has seen me through two and a half births and postpartum experiences, and those have been completely different from my first.”
Melissa, graduate of all three certifications
Curriculum
Begin with the foundations of birth education, progress into hands-on birth doula formation, and complete your year studying postpartum care. You'll graduate with three IPHM-accredited certifications: Birth Educator, Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula.
Birth Educator Training
Welcome kickoff call: orientation and meeting your new community.
Closing call: putting it all together.
Birth Doula Training
Welcome kickoff call: orientation and connecting in community.
Closing call. Summer is practicum with real families.
Postpartum Doula Training
Welcome, kickoff call, orientation and connecting in community.
Six to eight hours of coursework a week, plus a two-hour live class. Every session is recorded. Monthly office hours at a second time for students in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East. No prior doula experience required; a willingness to learn and a passion for the work are essential.
Join our IPHM-accredited certification program
Year-long certification program and professional formation in pregnancy, birth and postpartum care. Become an Uncovering Birth Certified Birth Educator, Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula.
Payment plans available. Spaces are limited; applications close January 5.
Professional and personal development
Nothing in this program runs through AI. You'll be taught, mentored and answered by humans every step of the way.
Post-graduate community and alumnae network
Your annual certification and membership keeps your three certifications active and gives you continued education, direct support, updated teaching resources, and a place in the Uncovering Birth graduate community. Three certifications means three graduate networks: Birth Doulas, Birth Educators and Postpartum Doulas.
The Uncovering Birth Method
Dispel myths, deconstruct narratives, dismantle fears.
Physiology, birth, postpartum, nutrition, interventions, informed consent, communication. Evidence-based information alongside traditional frameworks, so families can move through the medical system without surrendering their autonomy, whether they birth inside it or outside it.
Operate confidently as a birth professional in any setting.
Teaching, doula skills, client support, case work, professional standards. You'll translate your depth of knowledge to any setting, any person, any country you live in.
Cultivate nervous system mastery and self-awareness.
Boundaries, leadership, responsibility. Work with people from every walk of life without imposing your own, and understand your own relationship to birth and motherhood.
Connect the woman, her partner and her lineages.
Reveal unconscious family patterns, free future generations from unresolved burdens, restore belonging. Meet women where they are for better outcomes, without pandering or enabling.
Support women to initiate into their power.
Evidence-based information meets time-tested tradition. Understand the history of birth and bring rituals that unite women, families and existing children.
Start working with families while you're still in the program.
Foundational business skills, authentic marketing, leadership, the ins and outs of working with clients. Unshakeable confidence in your purpose.
Graduate success stories
“Instead of just being someone who offers guidance or coaching, serving as a doula allows me to offer that supportive presence during such a transformational time for the mother and such a critical time for the baby. I realized this was the perfect way for me to serve women in my community. This training helped me grow as an individual so I could really hold space for myself, so I could show up more fully for others.”
Leigh Cameron, Uncovering Birth Doula
“Eyla is absolutely phenomenal. She not only prepares you for supporting your future clients, she also provides great insight on the business side of being a doula. I've been amazed at how quickly I've started seeing paying clients and what a smooth career transition this has been for me.”
Julianna Carbonare, Uncovering Birth Doula and instructor
“Eyla created a multifaceted container for us to learn the detailed physical science, history and energetics of pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum with curiosity and open-mindedness, and taught us how to provide support for each client's unique experience.”
Laura Lee Madigan Glazer
“I've walked away with invaluable information on my offering, as well as actionable advice on successfully growing my own business, which is already unfolding in a very beautiful way. The lessons in this class go much deeper than medical facts. It's helping me become the doula I wish I had during my own pregnancy and birth.”
Alexa Halvorssen, Uncovering Birth Doula
“Simply knowing what I know about birth is vastly different than understanding how to teach it. I am grateful for the opportunity to be guided and mentored by Eyla. I have learned that the way women live life is the way they give birth.”
April Mackert, Uncovering Birth Childbirth Educator
“The training really helped me step into who I am, and step fully into my integrity. I loved the live meetings. Being in group with Eyla and the other women, hearing each other's stories, was really helpful. We were even learning to hold space for one another.”
Samantha Stroud, Uncovering Birth Doula
“She's created such a really strong container from both medical and psycho-somatic perspectives. We are in dire need of more women to support women in this process.”
Stephanie Caruso, Uncovering Birth Doula
“Seven months pregnant with my second and this has given me a new lens and a broader perspective on birth. Eyla touches on the family dyad, attachment styles, and the dynamic of the family, and that's been really important to learn.”
Current student
Doctors' endorsements
“The enthusiasm your students bring, the completeness of your program, and the nurturing I know comes from you permeate the program and the people coming out. The women who hire these future doulas are going to be very, very happy with their results.”
Dr. Stuart FischbeinObstetrician with more than thirty years of experience
“This is a really beautiful way to be of profound service while also making a beautiful income. Eyla is world-class.”
Dr. Amanda HansonThe Midlife Muse. Doctor of psychology, speaker and author
“Eyla's program Uncovering Birth, and her community, is distinct. After working with her over several years, I fully trust the knowledge and wisdom that is taught through this program.”
Dr. Andrew Kaufman, MDForensic psychiatrist, natural healing consultant and expert witness
“I have had many occasions to work with Eyla over the past few years. What I discovered is that Eyla's approach is the most accurate, insightful, forward-thinking program concerning all of the issues surrounding pregnancy, birth and early childcare. I encourage anyone interested in these issues to seriously consider studying under the wise guidance of Eyla.”
Dr. Tom CowanPhysician and author
Instructors
Founder of Uncovering Birth · Academy master teacher · Program directorI'm Eyla Cuenca: childbirth educator, doula, birth trauma specialist, mother, auto-didact. Since 2013 I've attended over 200 births, at home and in hospitals. Since 2019 I've trained hundreds of doulas worldwide, changing the birth trajectory for thousands of families.
With a BA in Anthropology from Bennington College, I bring a grounded, systems-aware lens to my work. My time serving as a Guardian ad Litem for the foster care system deepened my commitment to advocacy, health freedom and accessible education. Underpinning my method is a passion for understanding family systems and institutional structures, with training in modalities including Dr. Bert Hellinger's family constellations and family systems therapy. The Uncovering Birth Method offers a critical yet compassionate perspective on the way women birth, heal and initiate into expanded versions of themselves.
I believe birth holds the blueprint for healing chronic disconnection, and that empowering education from conception through parenting is a basic human right. What I share inside the Academy took me more than a decade to decode, thread together and master on my own, because so much knowledge around birth has been intentionally obscured for everyone's disempowerment. Now, for the first time, all of it exists in one place. My intention is that you leapfrog my learning curve and use it to take the reins of your own life, and to care for mothers, children and families in a way that is both life-saving and life-giving.
Above all, you are not doing any of this alone. You have the support of our global community and network, and my full support to thrive here.
Welcome to Uncovering Birth.
Dr. Stuart Fischbein
MD, OBGYN, author
Dr. Thomas Cowan
Alternative medicine, author
Carly Rae Beaudry
Pelvic and womb health educator
Jules Alma
Holistic birth and postpartum doula
Melissa Skuja
Birth and postpartum wellness practitioner
About Uncovering Birth
Founded by Eyla Cuenca in 2013, Uncovering Birth is an IPHM-accredited academy, a worldwide movement, and an educational resource for families across the arc of preconception, pregnancy and postpartum.
Our mission is to restore knowledge, confidence and sovereignty to women and families while cultivating a new generation of birth professionals who are deeply educated, self-aware and committed to serving humanity. Hundreds of women have trained through Uncovering Birth, becoming certified birth doulas, postpartum doulas and childbirth educators. Our graduates build meaningful careers, establish thriving practices, support families in their communities, and create lives rooted in purpose and service.
The investment
The Academy is a five-figure investment with a monthly plan available. Apply by December 2 for early-application tuition. We go through the numbers and the options on your call, and if it isn't the right time, we'll tell you.
Apply by December 2
Lower tuition for the women who decide early. Discussed on your call.
Twelve monthly payments
Held in-house. No third-party financing, no credit check.
Two private sessions with Eyla
Added to the year for anyone who pays the tuition at once.
Applications are read by a person. Spaces are limited and highly vetted. Cohort starts January 12; applications close January 5.
Frequently asked questions
Women who feel called to support women through the entire arc of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. It's designed for complete beginners and for experienced birth workers wanting a deeper, more holistic and trauma-informed approach to care. No prior experience is required; many students begin with no formal birth work background.
Yes. Like all of the women who invested themselves fully in this training, you can make a heart-centered profit and a career in this field. A year after Eyla opened her doors as a doula she was booked out and became one of the most sought-after doulas in Miami. Inside the program she shows you exactly how she did it, with real-time, hands-on support as you start seeing paying clients.
It's important to say: with entrepreneurship you get out what you put in. Eyla gives you the roadmap and the framework. The grit and motivation to use them are up to you.
Our method blends practical doula education with emotional intelligence, nervous system awareness, advocacy, ancestral wisdom and deep mentorship. It's about becoming a grounded, embodied support person for women during one of the biggest transitions of their lives, taught live over a year by Eyla herself, with physiology first and real births in practicum.
We also preserve the biological realities and use the terms male and female, father and mother, so that we don't dilute the way we communicate with families by prescribing to political ideologies.
Six to eight hours of coursework per week plus our two-hour live calls. Those who most succeed are sparked by a love of learning and ready to dig into the material.
All sessions are recorded, so if you have a conflict you'll be able to access the module and follow up with questions in our group chat. We also hold monthly live office hours at a second time to accommodate students in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East.
Yes. Coaching on finding clients is included throughout the program, you'll have three business trainings with guest experts, and students receive visibility through the Uncovering Birth practitioner directory while enrolled in the certification membership.
Yes. After completing a rigorous accreditation process, the Uncovering Birth Doula Training is internationally accredited through the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM). Your certification is recognized internationally and may be used in any birth setting or country where doulas are legally permitted to practice, which as of now is everywhere.
Over the last decade, many hospitals, birth centers and private midwives have begun requesting proof of current certification from doulas attending births, and insurance companies reimburse only for doulas and birth educators with up-to-date certifications from accredited organizations. At the same time, Eyla believes certifications are ultimately pieces of paper; what matters most is your integrity, presence, wisdom and ability to truly support women. That's why the Uncovering Birth pathway is mentorship-based and practical, designed to keep you at the top of your game rather than just collecting credentials.
Absolutely. The training explores emotional support, nervous system regulation, advocacy, communication and holding space for women through vulnerable transitions. Safety, choice, consent and personal agency are woven throughout the whole program, as principles you experience, not just concepts you learn.
Absolutely. There is meaningful self-discovery and reflection woven through the year, always gently guided and fully consensual. Many participants experience profound personal insight. Not everyone who takes the training chooses to attend births or teach families, and that's up to you.
Birth support is the center of the training, and it's one part of the experience, because the way we birth is the way we live. You'll also learn professional practice and the business foundations for a sustainable career, and the year includes a significant personal growth component designed to support you as both a woman and a professional. It is held within a deeply trauma-informed container: safety, choice, consent, nervous system awareness and personal agency are woven through the entire program as principles you experience firsthand.
Official annual certification validity, use of the Uncovering Birth certification seal, a practitioner directory listing, the 130-page Birth Doula textbook, the continuing education library, quarterly mentorship calls with Eyla, quarterly guest expert trainings, discounts on future trainings and events, and the private practitioner community with ongoing support from Eyla and the UB team.
The Academy is a five-figure investment and Eyla says the number in the video at the top of this page. There is a twelve-month payment plan held in-house. A small number of partial scholarships exist for single mothers; ask about them on your call.
No refunds are offered, which is why we interview before we enroll. In rare extenuating circumstances, transfer consideration may be granted with documentation.
If any part of you is feeling imposter syndrome right now
Most women do not realize they are meant for this path until they're in it. I was no exception.
I encourage you to take a moment, sit in stillness, and underneath any fears or doubts, get real with yourself about what you want. The first woman who will be touched by this work, after all, is you.
We create an intentional transition from the program into the work. The community and I are here to support you every step of the way, especially as you start seeing clients, which is why we encourage you to begin working with families while you're still in the program. Every element of your year as a student and graduate is designed to set you up for the greatest success in this profession.
I love birth work because birth is one of the most profound gateways for transformation of the human experience. As you guide women into their knowing, you'll discover that you ultimately get to walk them back to themselves. They discover they already know what to do. So do you.
In support of your purpose,
Eyla
Lives transformed through Uncovering Birth
Get started today before this once in a lifetime opportunity expires.
