Birth Humanity by Elise Bowerman | Natural Fertility and Pregnancy

A space to reconnect with self

Motherhood can be consuming when you give so much of yourself that you forget who you are outside of caring for everyone else. You'll have the space to pause, breathe, and return to the wisdom within you. Here, you are seen as more than a mother; you are honored as a whole woman. Your needs, dreams, and inner-calling matter. Through regular practice and guidance you can receive the energy to show up for yourself and your family with more ease, confidence, and calm.

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Building Yoga Teachers

To amplify our mission, champions of a peaceful humanity graduate each year from two distinct pregnancy and postpartum yoga teacher training programs.

1. As Michigan's first Registered Prenatal Yoga School (RPYS), established in 2017, you will discover Birth Humanity Certified Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teachers throughout the country.

2. To serve the whole yoga teacher community, we offer a 30-hour Yoga Alliance continuing education online course: Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Foundations, which builds a strong foundation to welcome those in pregnancy or recently postpartum to any yoga class with confidence.

Mission

To restore confidence, clarity, and calm to mothers. By blending lived experience, holistic wisdom, and traditional practices, we provide guidance and community where women feel supported, liberated, and deeply seen. Our mission is to give opportunities for mother's to plug back into their individual sense of self, and discover tools they didn't even know they needed - so both they and their families can thrive.

Vision

We envision a world where motherhood is honored as sacred, and mothers are recognized as wise matriarchs in families and society. In this world, birth is seen as the beginning of humanity - not just a medical event. Mothers have access to balanced care that blends modern and holistic practices; and women everywhere feel resourced, connected, and powerful in their role. Our vision is nothing less than the cultural shift of returning motherhood to its sacred roots, where generations heal and humanity flourishes.

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Founder
Elise Bowerman

My life's work is a living practice - rooted in experience, refined through motherhood, and devoted to restoring women's connection to their bodies, intuition, and one another.

I don't just teach this work - I live it.
What I share is shaped by the thresholds I've walked through myself: birth, loss, healing, caregiving, and ongoing becoming that comes with raising children into their teen years.

For nearly two decades, I've guided women through dance, Reiki, yoga, womb circles, Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicines, and childbirth and postpartum support. These modalities (including some not named here) have become the language through which I help women remember what it means to live in alignment - to bridge the sacred and the everyday.

We are here to live life on Earth.

I believe when we tend to ourselves, our loved ones, and hour homes is not separate from the changing the world - it is how we change the world. There's no need to wait for change to come. It begins with the life you live. Right now. Today.

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Off the Mat

My motherhood path initiated me into a deep unraveling - a call to release inherited patterns and rebuild life from truth.

My husband, Jon, and I married in 2008, and are now raising our two teens (born in 2009 and 2012). While raising our young children, I stepped into the role of being medical power of attorney for my mom after a massive stroke in 2015. Caregiving on multiple levels opened my heart to the full spectrum of human experience: grief, grace, and relience.

Rooted in Metro Detroit, we're raising fourth generation Michiganders. We are family focused and community centered.

With a background in anatomy, physiology, psychology, with a personal yoga practice of over 20 years, becoming a mother, embracing the gifts of aging - I understand the privilege and honor it is to be in the teacher seat - guiding women not from theory, but from lived wisdom.

Credentials

Integrative Somatic Yoga, level I (Lynne Jacobs, expected Dec. 2025)
Certified Womb Circle Facilitator (Usha Anandi - Womben Wellness, 2024)
Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula (Patty Brennan - LifeSpan Doulas, 2020)
Certified MUTU Pro (Wendy Powell - MUTU System, 2018)
YACEP and RPYS lead instructor (Yoga Alliance, 2017)
Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (Laurel Hicks PhD - Mindful Mamas, 2015)
E-RYT 500 (200/300-RYS, Linda Makowski, Namaste Yoga, 2008/2014)
Nutrition Response Testing Practitioner, intermediate (Ulan Nutritional Systems, 2012)
Medical Intuitive Training, level 1 (Seer Holistic Health Assoc., 2006)
Certified Feng Shui Practitioner, 2005
Reiki level II, 2004
Bachelor of Science: Pre-Dance Therapy (Eastern Michigan University, 2004)

Core Values

Our SWEET principles encourage...

Support from teachers and participants.

Wisdom of listening to the innate inner knowing.

Exploration and reflection on personal life story.

Empowerment through movement, feelings, and evidence-based education.

Thankfulness and gratitude for carving out time to care for the self.