The Team

It was through our desire to learn more, connect with others and take a deep dive into self-care that our paths crossed many years ago. Soffía and Mirjam originally met through a rebozo workshop. Mary and Soffía met in Poland at a European Doula Network meeting and Mary and Mirjam met at a Midwifery Today conference in Bad Wildbad.

We all have a passion for networking, learning and laughing and know nothing more empowering than being surrounded by like-minded women. We enjoy each other's company so much and wanted to find ways of spending more time with and learning from each other so the idea of Bella Doula Retreats was born!

We have nearly 60 years of combined experience walking beside and holding space for birth workers, birthing people and young families and we are absolutely thrilled to have created a nurturing space where you too can learn more to enhance your doula practice and to form deep supportive friendships with a people who are just as passionate about birth as you are! 

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We look forward to spending time with you!

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"Isn't it wonderful that from the need to spend time together, the three of us turned this into an opportunity for a much bigger group of women to meet each other and perhaps love each other as much as we do! When you share love it multiplies."

-- Mirjam de Keijzer